RT Editorial on Jim "Drillmore"

By: cycle12
Published On: 7/11/2008 7:14:04 AM

Good morning, RK!  Thought you might be interested in this Thursday, July 10, 2008  editorial in the Roanoke Times entitled, "Editorial - The Gilmore campaign pumps hot air" available at this link:

http://www.roanoke.com/editori...

Please check out a few quotations from the RT editorial below the fold...
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"Senatorial hopeful Jim "Drillmore" Gilmore dropped by area gas stations Tuesday to pump up the price chatter. He dubbed it his "Virginia Working Families" tour. He's working families all right.

"Gilmore is back to his old trick: Find a pocketbook issue that pinches families and convince them that he has an easy, painless solution.

"Last time, when he was running for governor, Gilmore fooled voters into thinking he could make their car tax go away. Some, who write smaller annual personal property checks, still foolishly think he helped them. He did nothing of the sort. He simply took what was a local tax and made it a state tax. Folks still pay it, just out of a different pocket."

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"Even if Drillmore hoodwinks voters into sending him to the Senate, and even if he finds enough like-minded members of Congress and a president to agree with his scheme, and even if oil companies set right to work exploring offshore and draining ANWR, prices at the pump are not going to budge.

"But for argument's sake, let's just agree they might drop a quarter or two. People fill up again on cheaper gas and go back to their gas-hogging SUVs. In a few years, when all the U.S. oil fields are sucked as dry as he left the state's coffers -- and they will be -- what then?

"Jim Drillmore's successor will have to figure that out. Sound familiar?"
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Thanks, RT!

Steve

Comments



I like the moniker... (ericy - 7/11/2008 11:56:32 AM)

But in this election "Drillmore" is really just a distraction.  The Alan Keyes of the 2008 cycle, if you will..


These are national sentiments (Teddy - 7/11/2008 12:31:27 PM)
as well as state-level. Thanks to the Roanoke Times for explaining so well how foolish is the drumbeat for drilling everywhere immediately. Too bad this editorial cannot be published in every newspaper across the country, even with its mentioning of the local issue of car tax and Gilmore, it makes a lot of sense.

PS- Is it true, there are still some folks who think Gilmore actually saved them some tax money?  



Sadly, 'Tis True, "Teddy"... (cycle12 - 7/11/2008 1:00:52 PM)
Just go to the Roanoke Times newspaper website at http://www.roanoke.com and read some of the very recent "Letters to the Editor" there...

On the day after his (Drillmore, Killmore, Spillmore, etc.) election as governor, commissioner of revenue offices across the Commonwealth were receiving phone calls, asking for car tax refunds, etc.

Here we go again, but not for long...

Thanks!

Steve