Even Jeff Schapiro is skewering Wagner on the budget

Jeff Schapiro’s weekend column in the Richomd Times-Dispatch has the usual barbs aimed at Republicans, but he also sends a few arrows Jody Wagner’s way.

Take a look at his description of her record as Tim Kaine’s budget cruncher (emphasis added):

Wagner, a narrowly defeated congressional candidate in 2000 who joined state government as treasurer under Gov. Mark Warner, would face incumbent Republican Bill Bolling.

Toppling an established statewide figure with anti-tax bona fides is a task made more difficult by Wagner’s potential millstone: a budget that, Democrats used to boast, they saved from the supposed excesses of Gilmore-nomics.

As Virginia’s top numbers-cruncher for more than two years — years marked by muff-ups and miscalculations — Wagner, to Republicans, is a poster child for a budget gone bad.

. . . missing revenue projections by a mile — or two or three.

Ouch!  Democrats usually can’t survive any criticism from MSM.  This could make more Dems look to the instant coffee candidate.  The rest of us, though, can just avoid these pitfalls and re-elect Bill Bolling.