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- Title: Democratic Dominion: The Decline and Fall of the Virginia Republican Party (Politics)
- Author : The American Conservative
- Release Date : January 03, 2008
- Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 57 KB
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FORMER CHAIRMAN of the Virginia Republican Party Patrick McSweeney says he "knew [his] party had a long-term problem when [he] watched Mark Warner on 'Meet the Press'" in 2004. The Democratic governor was being questioned on his proposed $2 billion tax increase, one that would make up for budget shortfalls left by his Republican predecessor, Jim Gilmore. McSweeney noted that normally "this would be a great opportunity for Republicans" to paint Warner as a tax-and-spend liberal. But Virginia's Senate Republicans had squandered that chance when they proposed their own solution--a $3.7 billion tax increase, nearly double Warner's. The Democratic governor turned to Tim Russert and said, "Heck, we've got the Republican Senate now. I'm the conservative alternative." It was a line that Warner would use over and over throughout the state, and one that made McSweeney boil. "We did it to ourselves," he says ruefully.
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