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Norquist blasts transportation deal as a massive tax hike
It comes as no surprise that anti-tax activist Grover Norquist doesn't like the $880 million transportation funding deal reached between House of Delegates and Senate negotiators. Since early January representatives of Norquist's Americans for Tax...Tags: Frank W Wagner, Bob McDonnell, Personal Income, Executive Branch, Taxation
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Lt. Gov. Bolling asks for major compromise on transportation
Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling sent a letter Thursday to the members of the House of Delegates and Senate conference committee tasked with working out a deal on a transportation funding package, in which he asks for both sides to make major concessions. "Now is...Tags: Executive Branch, Politics, Transportation, Frank W Wagner, Travel
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Va. Senate GOP remap tactic met with dismay
A day after Virginia Senate Republicans staged a surprise reapportionment of all 40 Senate districts, it was met by ominous warnings from Democrats and nervous dismay by the state's Republican governor and House Republicans. On a party-line power play...
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Norquist opposes Gov. McDonnell transportation funding plan
Head of Americans for Tax reform Grover Norquist criticized Gov. Bob McDonnell's transportation plan which swaps out the state's gasoline tax for a o.8 percent increase in the state sales tax. "The plan as it stands now fails in its goal to prioritize...Tags: Bob McDonnell, Parties and Movements, Thomas K. Norment, Jr., James City County, Executive Branch
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House passes maps, lawmakers head home
House of Delegates lawmakers passed the Republican plan for redistricting late Wednesday over the objections from Democrats including Del. Robin Abbott and House Minority Leader Ward Armstrong. The GOP plan, put forward by Del. S. Chris Jones, R-Suffolk,...Tags: Bob McDonnell, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), G. Glenn Oder, Maryland, John Stone
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