Brenda Pogge to Run in 96th

Peninsula GOP activist Brenda Pogge has announced that she will seek the seat of retiring Delegate Melanie Rapp. “Bearing Drift” provides some insight.

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When Is A Tax Increase Not A Tax Increase?

Challenger Joe Blackburn appears to have slapped Virginia Senate Majority Leader Walter Stosch around like a pinata during their debate Thursday night. Sen. Stosch went so far as to claim that the $1.4 billion tax increase in 2004 wasn’t really a $1.4 billion tax increase.

The most telling comment of the night came from Mr. Blackburn:

If you put a dime in my left pocket and take a dollar out of my right
pocket, that is a tax increase. You must have to be a CPA to say that
is a tax cut.

Principle will triumph. Even if the GOP lose the majority this year, rebuilding will not be a decades long process because the RPV seems willing to clean its own house. They will be able to go back to the voters and clearly state that they belief in a set of principles while the Dems (and a relatively few GOP pols) believe in nothing, but winning a majority.

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Scalia Comes to UD!

Joker has the report on Justice Antonin Scalia’s speech at the University of Delaware.

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Leahy on… Death

Read this post from Norman Leahy of “Bacon’s Rebellion”. I don’t know how to describe it other than a piece remotely related to the Tech tragedy. It’s pretty interesting none the less.

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Tax Cutting in Tidewater

Chesapeake is leaning towards a $0.07 cut in the real property tax. This follows a $0.10 cut in Portsmouth and proposed cuts in Virginia Beach and Norfolk.

Perhaps our leaders in Salisbury might learn a lesson or two from their colleagues in Virginia.

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Here’s Why Salisbury Wants A Real Newspaper

Simply read Monday’s op-ed from Susan Parker. I though I was listening to a hack from the Clinton Administration. I can believe that some lack the reading or critical thinking skills to grasp that Salisbury police chief Alan Webster violated the city charter by speaking on the budget last Monday. I just don’t believe that Gannett hires people with such low IQ’s to serve as one of their editors.

Instead what we have is a bit of bait and switch from the ’90’s. “How can a sincere discussion about officer pay and safety be hijacked by a police chief’s apparently inappropriate input on that discussion?” It’s simple. If you don’t like the law, change it. Should the city’s chief law enforcement officer be allowed to break the law just because Susan Parker thinks so? In her mind the answer is yes, provided that the law isn’t broken while criticizing her friends in the Tilghman administration.

Of course this brings to mind a question I recently asked the publisher of “The Tilghman Times”. Other than the Mayor’s little mea culpa’s over the audit, can you name one story that the local rag has printed that is critical of the Mayor or her policies? I still haven’t received a response to that one.

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Budget Writing - Clinton Style

When Bill Clinton was President people of both parties marveled how he was able to compartmentalize just about everything. Evidently Salisbury City Council President (and former GOP committeewoman) Louise Smith has decided to try a few lessons from Slick Willie. She appears to have decided to compartmentalize the city budget. Read more

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Hypocrisy, Thy Name Is Democrat

Amen. Thanks again to GOPBloggers.

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WILBER IS WORTH EVERY PENNY HE CHARGES SALISBURY

About four cents per second (actually 4.03 cents) is what the City of Salisbury pays for Paul Wilber’s services as City Attorney, such as attending City Council meetings. Let’s do the math: $145 (his hourly fee) divided by 60, then by 60 again – or, if you’re a one-stepper, by 3,600 (60 squared). If $2.42 per minute doesn’t seem like much money, consider the following scenario.

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Obama and Comparable Worth

No one has ever accused liberals of having a fresh idea since the 1970’s. According to “Powerline”, Barack Obama has signed on to the concept of “comparable worth“.

Most of you probably don’t even know what the concept is because it was so thoroughly discredited during the Reagan administration. Basically, comparable worth means that the government will dictate how much you can be paid. Let’s say you are a truck driver. Someone decides that the job of a motel housekeeper is comparably worth the same amount. The government then dictates that both jobs have to be paid the same hourly wage. Read more

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VCAP on “Hate Crimes”

VCAP has a great post on HR1592 which adds gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender individuals to the current hate crimes legislation. My views on hate crime legislation are well known, but I believe the concern of certain folks that they won’t be able to say mean things about gay folks is a tad over the top.

Let’s face it, your right to be a bigot is still protected in this country - as long as your speech doesn’t become violent conduct. That is how it should be.

Personally, I just don’t see the thought police dragging some preacher off of the pulpit in cuffs because he or she believes that all homosexuals are going to hell.

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Does Salisbury Need A Tax Increase? - 07042901

Salisbury Police Chief Alan Webster is pimping out his own officers to keep his political bosses happy. First we saw the shameless display of the chief at last Monday’s city council meeting. Webster violated the city’s charter by speaking on a budget issue without an explicit invitation from the city council. In addition we saw Webster fill the front row of seats with fine, young officers all pressed and dressed to make an impression. This Saturday we witnessed Webster sending officers to harass some of the folks at the Salisbury Festival who were collecting signatures to take Mayor Barrie Tilghman’s tax increase to referendum. Read more

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Voter Fraud in Philly?

Of course not.

Colossus makes an urban myth out of the liberal claim that voter fraud (unless perpetrated by the GOP) is an urban myth.

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Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho, Al and Harry Have To Go!

Q and O and the WaPo’s David Broder agree on one thing. AG Alberto Gonzales and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) need to go.

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Is There A Double Standard?

GOPBloggers compares and contrasts the ethics standards of sitting members of Congress. In all fairness we’ve had our share lately (Duke Cunningham anyone?). It just seems that the Dems have always taken the attitude that their guys don’t have to give anything up until AFTER they have been convicted of at least two felonies and are on their third appeal.

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