Deeds: I have a Transportation Plan
Fairfax Democrats: No You Don't
- Deeds' Fairfax Volunteers Craft New Message In Lieu of Real One
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RICHMOND - Frustrated by the incompetence of Creigh Deeds' campaign for governor of Virginia, the City of Fairfax Democratic Committee has decided to substitute its own version of Deeds campaign literature rather than use that supplied by the Deeds campaign itself, if the Fairfax Committee and the liberal blog Blue Commonwealth are to be believed. In the stand-in hand cards, the verbiage is the same as what the people of Virginia hear from Creigh Deeds: he has no real plan for transportation, but will "craft" one if he is elected.
Witness this post from Friday on Blue Commonwealth:
The City of Fairfax Democratic Committee has produced its own hand card of talking points for Creigh Deeds. The joint effort is being printed and distributed for use in door knocking and conversations (like in the grocery store, for example). The Committee, dissatisfied with the hand cards and flyers offered by the campaign, put their heads together and the following is the result.
Deeds: No Roads Plan - Fairfax Dems Forced to Wing It
The new-and-improved hand card includes this prompt for Deeds and Democratic grassroots workers to employ to harass their neighbors while shopping:
* Transportation: [Deeds] Will assemble a bipartisan commission to craft a comprehensive transportation plan
This vague promise of gathering people at a table to assess what is on the table, while everything is on the table is exactly the sort of gobbledygook Deeds spouts on most occasions.
"Deeds has pledged to come up with a solution in his first year in office but has offered no details," opined the Washington Post.
Deeds fairly well derailed earlier this week on WTOP-AM in Washington, DC, when he was asked by host Mark Plotkin about the very topic of transportation.
Audio Can be Found by Clicking Here.Plotkin: Why do you think you're getting so much trouble about this issue? And you're accused of being duplicitous, disingenuous, fuzzy. Why don't you clarify where you are on transportation taxes, and why don't you just come right out and say, "look, the revenue needs are so great, this is the only way it could be done?" Or, is it just because candidates for political office never say during a campaign they're gonna raise taxes?
Cue: Deeds' Non-Answer Answer
Deeds' reply, was as always, as clear as mud as he attempted to answer the question without - you know - actually answering the question:
Traffic ... transportation right now is what separates us in Virginia from the economy we have and the economy we want. If we are to continue to grow prosperity where it exists, and if we're gonna grow prosperity where it doesn't exist across Virginia, we've got to address transportation, we've got to have an honest, open discussion about it. I had an op-ed in the Washington Post a couple of weeks ago that I think ... I tried to clarify my position with respect to transportation. The only approach that's worked on transportation in the last thirty years is the approach employed by Governor Baliles in 1986 and that's the approach I'm gonna take. Everything to fix transportation is on the table. And I want to bring everybody to the table to bring ... to create that solution. And I'm gonna do it next year. Everything's on the table that has a nexus to transportation.
Everybody Got That? Everything's On the Table.
"For the record, Creigh Deeds used the two-word phrase ‘the table' fourteen times in the eleven-and-a-half minutes he talked about transportation in that WTOP interview - that's an average of more than once every minute," said Republican Party of Virginia Chairman Pat Mullins. "Apparently, he's a big fan of what's on the table, who's at the table ... various things about tables. I'll tell you what people talk about around tables, and that's pocketbook issues, and Creigh Deeds means to raid those pocketbooks to pay for his undeclared roads plan."
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