I got the following from the Kaine Campaign today. I'm on their email list.
At a candidate forum hosted by the Alexandria Chamber of Commerce Thursday, Kilgore made a comment that drew derision from the audience."Well, actually we didn't have a deficit," Kilgore said, answering a question about what he would have done if he'd been in Mark Warner's shoes in 2002, forced to deal with the massive budget deficit bequeathed by Jim Gilmore. "Our Virginia budget has grown year in and year out. We just, at the end of his administration weren't meeting the revenue expectations. It was not a deficit at that point."
The audience, full of business leaders, laughed at Kilgore.
As anyone who's taken a high school accounting class could tell you, when revenue doesn't match expenditures, you're going to have a deficit. And as anyone, who was semi-conscious when Mark Warner took office in 2001, could tell you, Jim Gilmore did indeed run up a huge, multi-billion dollar budget deficit.
Now, I think the Kaine Campaign is being extremely generous. Actually, I think they're being foolishly generous. The Kaine Campaign is saying that this is just Jerry Kilgore being stupid, or idiotic, or that somehow Jerry Kilgore doesn't know that Revenue - Cost = Profit.
Jerry Kilgore isn't stupid. Jerry Kilgore is lying.
Jerry Kilgore is trying to undermine the unique and fantastic work of not only the Warner-Kaine administration, but also of the broad-based bipartizan group, comprised of both Republicans and Democrats.
This is an outright and outrageous lie.
If Jerry Kilgore is going to lie to undermine the credibility of the overwhelming will of the commonwealth, WHAT WON'T HE LIE ABOUT?
Jerry, have you no character whatsoever!?
Tim, it's clobberin' time!
To hear Jerry Kilgore Lie click [here].