As Election Day approaches, candidates get more caustic about their views, and voters’ tension grows as they try to figure out which candidate will make a better governor. One of the biggest issues that Virginia is currently facing is the one of transportation and how to solve such challenge. There are roads that need to be fixed, and the state does not have enough funds to pay for their renovation or construction of new roads. Bob McDonnell and Creigh Deeds, the candidates, both care about transportation, yet financial backing to fix this issue is quite different for each candidate.
McDonnell has stated on his webpage that he “will make transportation infrastructure a four-year priority” (“Transportation”). Although McDonnell believes that transportation should be one of the first focuses to be changed, it is not his most important task to accomplish. Both candidates want to fix the economic problems and McDonnell believes helping entrepreneurs is the way to start such change (Bartel). That is McDonnell’s priority, not transportation issues. Deeds, however, has made fixing transportation problems his main concern and his solution to the economic problems. “Transportation is the lifeblood of our economy and our quality of life” he stated on his website (“Transportation”). Deeds claims that the last thing that Virginians need in this economic crisis is having to spend hundreds of dollars in repairing the damages that roads in bad conditions cause on their cars. Thus, fixing the transportation issues will improve Virginia’s economy according to Deeds.
It is clear to both candidates that in order to fix the problem of transportation, funding will be needed. They also know that the state cannot give such funding. Both candidate...
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... to fix this problem. McDonnell believes that people misusing their time getting stuck in traffic when they could be with their families is a “quality of life issue” (“Transportation”). He believes Virginians should not have to deal with this. Deeds agrees with this but at the same time, he has stated that “Virginia consistently ranks in the top 20 percent of the sates having the lowest tax burdens” (Anonymous). As opposed to McDonnell, Deeds not only sees the issue and wants to take action in fixing it but he is also willing to do raise taxes, something that voters would instantly not be happy. Deeds has taken a brave stand on fixing the transportation problems and he has explained exactly where the money would go towards.
But how do Virginians feel about their plans? Both candidates are aware that citizens are willing to help solve the issue of transportation.
In this short paper, I will be discussing the Kentucky political figure, currently a sitting senator and former governor Julian Carroll. First I will discuss his background which will include his early life up to his start in politics. Second I will discuss how he started his political career and then move into talking about his how he and his administration changed Kentucky. Lastly I will discuss his current political status and how I think he made differences in Kentucky.
This paper will be focusing on Robert Casey better known as “Bob” Casey the Senator from Pennsylvania. Casey was born and raised on April 13, 1960, in Scranton Pennsylvania. Casey; “graduated from The College of the Holy Cross in 1982 and spent the following year teaching fifth grade and coaching eighth-grade basketball in inner city Philadelphia for the Jesuit Volunteer Corps”. (Senate.gov) Later on, he received his law degree from Catholic University in 1988. He married to his wife Teresa and has 4 children. In 2002 Casey wanted to follow his father into running for governor of Pennsylvania, however, he was defeated, later becoming the “treasurer” in the elections of 2004. Casey was first elected to the senate in 2006 as a Democrat, showing as one of the second highest victories since “1920” against an incumbent Senator. Later in 2012, he was re-elected becoming the first Democrat Senator into serving a full term and into being re-elected as a Pennsylvania Senator. Casey has become and followed the step of his father who was also a governor.
Throughout the book Tom Lewis goes back and forth between the good and bad that came about from building highways. While the paved roads connected our country, made travel time faster, provided recreation, and pushed the development of automobiles they also created more congestion and travel time, divided communities, and made us slaves to automobiles. The author is critical of the highways, but he does realize the great achievement it is in the building of America. Lewis said, “As much as we might dislike them, we cannot escape the fact that ...
Hendricks, David (2007). Toll roads will help local economy. San Antonio Express News, retrieved from http://www.mysanantonio.com/business/stories/MYSA092607.01E.Hendricks.2a01b15.html September 30, 2007.
...state politicians need to wake up and smell the dry aired air, and begin to work together for new laws that apply to the supply and demand of today, not yesterday.
West Virginia’s voting for state and Congressional representatives have been overwhelmingly democratic since the 1960’s. For example, the late, great Robert C. Byrd was a democratic US Senator from 1959 to 2010. His efforts to bring pork barrel spending and ear marks to benefit his represented citizens was the understood methodology of his incumbency. The West Virginia House of Delegates is current 54 to 46, with Democrats being the majority party. Twenty-eight Democrats and six Republicans (WV Constitution) fulfill the 34 seats in the Senate. The federal representatives of the House and Senate are similar, with incumbent Democrats Jay Rockefeller, and Joe Manchin, as well as two Republican, and one Democratic representative in the House. For my local region of West Virginia, Shelley Moore Capi...
As governor, Wendell Ford masterfully raised money for the state by creating a severance tax on coal, a two-cent-per-gallon tax on gasoline, and an increased corporate tax. To balance these tax increases, Ford exempted food from the state sales tax. With the large budget surplus, Ford proposed several construction projects and sharply increased funding for higher education, the public schools, and human resources. By reorganizing and combining several executive departments, creating “super cabinets,” Ford saved the state more money and made these departments more efficient. In addition, he added to the general assembly’s agenda the creation of a state...
So a vote against the Williams and Boardwalk Pipeline would save Kentuckians thousands of dollars in crops and water replacement, but it may also cost us some limited jobs and money but we don’t need 30 pieces of silver. We need to stop the pipeline from ever starting up again and funnel the money that would go into this waste of time into something that actually need the money and not something that has too much money already. Put the money into the Kentucky economy or into the Kentucky job markets, or better yet into education so all of Kentucky can live better off.
... return to New Jersey residents and businesses through federal income tax cut. This act will ultimately give tax relief to the citizens of New Jersey who have been hit hard over the past few years. The remaining money will go towards other things such as education, job training, services, Medicaid and other social services/projects. This federal money will also help create and save 100,000 jobs in New Jersey and will help resolve money deficits that are occurring within the state and local governments in New Jersey. (The Recovery Board) Therefore, New Jersey is a state filled with many different strategies in order to improve as a whole. The state government has a lot of influence on how the state survives economically and financially. Policies are created by the government and ensured through committees that will be able to establish a stable and positive state.
For the U.S. Senate race, the two major candidates are Republican Ken Pope and Democrat David Alameel. Pope believes in unifying the Republican Party with ethical standards, integrity and better communication skills. He has an aggressive stance on immigration control with a border barrier being implemented within a year of election, as well providing a fair way to receive citizenship with mandatory English writing and reading skills. He believes America shouldn’t be responsible for being “the worlds policemen” (League of Woman’s, Pg. 2) and only should be where there are areas of strong importance. He supports a small local government with less intervention from the national government. Alameel supports the control of lobbyists in Washington to avoid further actions done for personal gain. He believes a full immigration overhaul is necessary to maintaining a successful infrastructure. He has a semi-aggressive on the environment and clean energy, enforcing energy pollution standards and looking for new ways to get private investors to buy in on clean energy for the future. He believes foreign affairs should only be addressed when the US is directly involved or when our safety is at risk. There are only small differences between these two candidates. Both agree on Immigration and the restrictions that should be enforced. Alameel has a more aggressive approach to green energy than Pope does, with their major difference being that Pope wants less Washington in the senate, and Alameel wants to reconcile with the republicans and make the federal agenda work within the state.
Texas inhabitants have decisions of some sort almost every year, and at more than one cases all through the 12 months. all through biennial in vogue races, the gigantic scope of workplaces and submissions brings about phenomenally long tickets. electorate, confronted with tickets loaded down with applicant names and issues unforeseen to them, astonish why they ought to vote.
aware of the unique position these two states are in are the scrutiny of the nation as to whether
He stated that budget cut to education is not good because it will cause “our state’s future to continue to remain shrouded in instability and uncertainty.” In other words, he means education is very important and by making cut in education is it not the ways to solve our problem and get ourselves out of this crisis. O’Connell pointed out that he could not agree more with the Governor call for courageous decision making to close California’s massive budget shortfall, which pegged at $24.3 billion right now. O’Connell argued that “making education the scapegoat for California’s financial mess is not the answer.” In his views, he felt that this will not be a solution. He shows statistics that in this current school year, the governor has proposed about $1.3 billion in cuts and for the next school year, it will be another $4 billion.
Many American’s conceptualization of the country’s legislative process is based on their understanding of the actions of Congress, which comprises of the US House of Representative and Senate. For the past 8 years or so, the country has been experiencing a political gridlock occasioned by the Democrats and Republicans desire to demonstrate their superiority over each other. The spirit of compromise has seemingly deserted members of the two parties. This has resulted in a difficulty in passing laws. However, the current political gridlock was not manufactured at the federal. On the other hand, it was promoted at the state level. In this regard, the observation that although much of the blame for the current gridlock in the country falls on the U.S. House and Senate, the State Legislatures are actually more to blame for the current political climate is extremely valid.
candidates in their states. They focus mostly on current and future needs of the state. The