Conservativa

Not making a federal case here, just pointing out - Jim Gilmore has in a mailer: “He supports using federal transportation bonds and public/private partnerships to raise the funds needed for transportation projects across the state.” Pat McSweeney, speaking for Bob Marshall, says that this borrowing mentality is a Very Bad Thing. In his speech to the 7th CD convention, said “Now I’m going to say some things about our actions matching our words… …his [Gilmore’s] solution for one of our major problems, the transportation problem, is to borrow more money. Folks, that is precisely the mentality that got us to 10.4 trillion dollars, and it must end.”

Bob Marshall apparently also spoke against borrowing money for transportation at the 2nd District convention. But Marshall’s record as delegate doesn’t seem to indicate that he thinks it’s such a bad thing:

2006, HB 1257 (Co-patron); 2005, HB 2099; 2002, HB 109 - Marshall was Patron: this one looks to me like flat-out borrowing.

There are more such bills. (And what on earth is this one, from 1994, HB 1293 - borrowing money for some Disney project? He was a co-sponsor, with Chichester and Stosch in the Senate, on this one).

I’m not an accountant. I don’t have a thoroughgoing understanding of Virginia’s budget. But those bills look like borrowing money to me. But now all of a sudden borrowing money is the worst thing ever?