Deeds Caught on Lack of Transportation Plan
- Deeds Answers Reporter Who Wondered When Details Would Come -
RICHMOND - Democratic candidate for governor Creigh Deeds once again has been exposed for having no transportation proposal for voters to consider - only a promise to raise gasoline taxes to pay for whatever it is he will dream up in the future. Speaking to reporters following the Buena Vista Labor Day parade, Deeds was pressed on the issue by a member of the press corps.
Reporter: Are we gonna see something a little bit more detailed before the debate up in Fairfax?
Deeds: You know, Jeff, I've laid out a pretty detailed plan.
Well, It Depends on What you Mean by "Detailed" ...
"Republican Robert F. McDonnell has compiled a transportation plan while Democrat Creigh Deeds curiously has declared he won't advance one until after - read, if - he gets elected."
"Deeds, on the essential subject of transportation and so far in this race, is standing at the starting blocks deaf to a starting gun that long since has sounded."
"In response, R. Creigh Deeds, the Democratic candidate for governor, has pledged to come up with a solution in his first year in office but has offered no funding plan. He vows not to, saying that any proposal would be divisive and limit his ability to bring lawmakers together to agree on a solution once he's elected."
"[Deeds'] vaunted transportation policy consists of . . . promising to build consensus, and an admission that he would sign a tax hike if one landed on his desk."
"[A]s McDonnell points out, his opponent's pla
n is so skimpy that he doesn't even list transportation as a separate menu item on his Web site.
"We, too, have been disappointed in Democratic nominee Creigh Deeds' dodge in presenting solutions to Virginia's most pervasive problem."
"Mr. Deeds, insofar as his published platform is concerned, has barely bothered to float a transportation program. Now, by stating that he'd sign a bill containing higher taxes for roads, he has at least tipped his hand."
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Creigh Deeds: No Plan for Transportation.
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Since Creigh Deeds claims to be unfamiliar with the national leaders of his party, we assembled this Public Service Announcement to lend him a hand. Deeds was specifically talking about Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
"I'm not sure I'd know either one of them if I saw them, except I've seen them on television," Deeds said of Pelosi and Reid. "I'm sure they wouldn't know me." (Washington Post, September 8, 2009)
Oh, we bet they would, seeing how the Democratic National Committee - and its Chairman Tim Kaine - is spending $5 million on the race.
"It's a very important race, for obvious reasons, for the DNC chairman (and) it's a state the president's obviously very interested in," [DNC spokesman Brad] Woodhouse said. (Associated Press, September 2, 2009)
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