RK ARCHIVE - Sign the Transportation Bill Petition

But that doesn't mean this monstrosity is dead. Not by a long shot. While we must wait until November to take significant action ourselves (i.e. kick out the Republicans who gave us this disastrous bill), there are some things we can do now to help Governor Kaine. Among the most important of those is to let him know that we, the voters of Virginia, support his efforts to stop this bill. Including a veto, even if that means no transportation bill this year.

For this important issue, it's far better to do nothing than to do it wrong. And wrong is written all over that 100 odd page bill.

With that in mind, we've set up an online petition that supports Governor Kaine's stand against this bill.

Please take a few seconds to sign the petition and let him know that we've got his back on this important issue. And after you've signed, please urge family, friends, co-workers, and anyone else to sign as well. Let's join together and show Governor Kaine that we support him and show the Virginia Republicans that we don't approve of their horrible transportation bill.

Comments

I just signed the petition (pitin - 2/28/2007 11:39:11 AM)

#3 in the 5 minutes since this was posted, not too shabby, let's keep getting signatures at that rate throughout the day.

Thanks! (Eric - 2/28/2007 11:43:58 AM)

And we've already picked up three more. I suspect the majority of Virginians are against this bill (or would be if they knew more about it).

Veto (Houdon - 2/28/2007 1:20:08 PM)

Perhaps we can plan a veto ceremony such that it corresponds to Pelosi making an announcement about defunding "the surge."

Just as national Democratic leaders have realized that scorched earth tactics leave them looking like flaccid obstructionists, so should the Governor realize the public perception problem involved in vetoing this plan. Vetoing this bill, no matter how well intentioned, will ultimately backfire. He needs to fix it, where necessary, and sign it.

Petitions and partisanship are fine for political theorists and sideliners, but the Governor needs to show results.

Results at what cost? (Eric - 2/28/2007 1:43:15 PM)

The plan is bad. Period.

Some people would prefer a bad solution over no solution but I'm one of them. If the current batch of "leadership" in Richmond is incapable of producing a good transportation plan I'll wait til next year - when we'll hopefully have new blood and a good plan.

Your point regarding public perception and a veto is well taken. If people see Kaine as the problem the Democrats will be hurting at the polls this November. And that's the point of this effort - to do our best, along with Kaine talking it up, to get voters attention and help them understand that the real problem is a horribly flawed bill. Which is the Republican's fault.

I'll be frank... (Tom Joad (Kevin) - 2/28/2007 2:09:08 PM)

email petitions and petitions in general are worthless. Go ahead and do them if they make you feel better but a well placed call to his office might be better. You can now troll me out of exsistence!

No troll rating necessary (Eric - 2/28/2007 2:32:21 PM)

That's a legit opinion and I sure hope no one troll rates you for it.

Actually, I hope people take your advice about contacting the Governor's office in addition to signing the petition.

ummmmm (noonan - 2/28/2007 4:10:20 PM)

I don't mean to rain on anyone's parade, but is anyone else concerned that the headline "SIGN THE TRANSPORTATION BILL PETITION," coupled with a picture of Tim Kaine, sounds like it's promoting a petition to try to get Tim Kaine to sign the transportation bill?

Yep, that is what I first thought (Hugo Estrada - 2/28/2007 6:29:29 PM)

but then I realized that RK would not support the transportation bill, so I read the entry more carefully, verified that it was a petition against it, and signed the petition.

Not really thrilled with the whole "pay to petition" (Catzmaw - 2/28/2007 4:44:33 PM)

concept. It's not so much that I resent being asked for money, it's that there's no way of opting out of paying money. If it's voluntary how come there is no button for "thanks but no thanks?"

Did I miss something? (Eric - 2/28/2007 5:19:21 PM)

There should be NO paying involved. This is all supposed to be for free. Please let me know if you've followed a link that tries to make you pay... and certainly do NOT pay.

I signed the petition, clicked enter (Catzmaw - 2/28/2007 6:10:36 PM)

and was directed to a page which helpfully suggested that iPetitions could use some money to keep up its good work. It had little circles with donation amounts of everything from $2 to something substantially more, and was on a default of $10. I clicked continue and it asked if it could charge it to my paypal account and appeared to have it all set to go through paypal, even the e-mail address through which I access paypal was showing. I was a little surprised. I will follow Lowell's suggestion next time and just back out or exit, but it was like being asked by a waiter if you want change for your $20 on the lunch you just bought. Presumptuous.