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Virginia’s Dems — Standing Up for Out-of-State Drivers Behaving Badly

Posted on July 16, 2007 by Riley

First, we had the news that Gov. Timmy! was responsible for striking the out-of-state driver provision from the abusive driving fees legislation.  Now we learn that 36 Democrats (and Russ Potts) voted against abuser fees when they applied to both Virginia and out-of-state drivers, but for them when they only applied to Virginia residents. Which legislators stood up for the interests of abusive out-of-state drivers?

Delegates

Kris Amundson
Ward Armstrong
Bill Barlow
Dan Bowling
Bob Brink
Adam Ebbin
Al Eisenberg
David Englin
Frank Hall
Bob Hull
Jennifer McClellan
Don McEachin
Brian Moran
Bud Phillips
Ken Plum
Jim Scott
Jim Shuler
David Toscano
Roslyn Tyler
Shannon Valentine
Jeion Ward
Vivian Watts

Senators

Chuck Colgan
Creigh “Dirty” Deeds
John Edwards
Mark Herring
Edd Houck
Janet Howell
Benny Lambert
Henry Marsh
Yvonne Miller
Russ Potts
Phil Puckett
Toddy Puller
Roscoe Reynolds
Patsy Ticer
Mary Margaret Whipple

On the flipside, there were 9 legislators, all Republicans, who voted for abuser fees when they applied to both Virginia and out-of-state drivers, but against them when they only applied to Virginia residents.

Delegates

Kathy Byron
Jack Reid

Senators

Ken Cuccinelli
Emmett Hanger
Charles Hawkins
Steve Martin
Steve Newman
Mark Obenshain
John Watkins

Filed under: 2007 Elections, Transportation, Virginia General Assembly, Virginia Politics

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2 Responses

  1. Two-Faced Chuck Colgan « Virginia Virtucon, on July 27th, 2007 at 12:44 pm Said:

    [...] driver fees are and how they should be repealed and people be reimbursed, blah, blah, blah.  Well, where was Chucky when this legislation was going [...]

  2. Desperate Dems - Part 4 « Virginia Virtucon, on August 22nd, 2007 at 2:50 pm Said:

    [...] on addressing illegal immigration and their votes against applying the abuser fees to everyone but for only applying them to Virginia residents, have decided to try and tie these two albatrosses together in order to take [...]

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