Governor Bob McDonnell

RICHMOND, Virginia — Robert F. McDonnell was inaugurated today as the 71^st governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia here today. He subsequently called on citizens to help him reorganize the state as a “commonwealth of tax-free opportunity,” promising a government so reduced as to not be noticed by anyone, anymore.

Governor McDonnell declared that Virginia and Virginians must create opportunity where absent without funding. If opportunities are limited, he explained, citizens must expand them for all without funding of any sort.

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Stonewall Jackson memorial

Just off of Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virgina, stands a memorial to Thomas J. Jackson on the Boulevard. Unlike the other memorials to Confederate officers, the equestrian statue of Jackson faces north, for those who subscribed to the project felt that Stonewall would wish to face the direction of his enemy.

A few miles to the south of this equestrian statue, there exists another Stonewall memorial today. Really, it is a memorial to the ability of legislators to stonewall and obfuscate and so do nothing.

That is, of course, the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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Tomorrow, November 2^nd, registered voters in the Commonwealth of Virginia will elect the next governor of our state. If recent experience is any clue, less than half of those registered will vote.

Charging at Windmills, a Southern Tradition!

I’m going out on the proverbial limb here to relate my choices—and my reasons for them—for the state-wide offices here in Virginia. Simply put, I will vote for:

• Creigh Deeds (Governor)
• Jody Wagner (Lieutenant Governor)
• Steve Shannon (Attorney General)

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