How do you spell Jody Wagner’s campaign theme? D-E-N-I-A-L

Jody Wagner’s latest email is making the rounds, and it shows a candidate deep in denial:

Over the past few days, Bill Bolling has begun launching the false attacks we all knew would come: He is blaming the state’s revenue shortfall on Tim Kaine and Jody Wagner.

Well, gee, Jody, it was your FY08-09 projections (which you put together just before skipping town to run for LG – Riley at VV) which were found to be nearly $4 billion too high (Jim Gilmore).  Kaine was revising them downward less than one month into the biennium.

Keep in mind, the recession began in December 2007, and even then there was talk that it would be a doozy.  Apparently, it’s OK for Democrats to believe the economy is in one state when ripping Republican presidents and an entirely different state for Governors in their own party.

Meanwhile, Brian Kirwin over at Bearing Drift noticed something else in Jody’s letter – a de facto endorsement of tax increases:

Jody Wagner’s latest email blast attacks Bill Bolling for opposing Tim Kaine’s transportation proposal.

“For the past four years, he’s put ideology ahead of governing, trying to lead the charge against Governor Kaine on everything from transportation funding…”

Remember Kaine’s transportation funding bill? a billion dollar tax increase that lost in the House 98-0 and drove Not Larry Sabato to call it a “Kaine Wreck”

Every House Democrat, Republican and Independent opposed Kaine’s transportation tax increase. And Jody Wagner attacks Bill Bolling for leading the charge against it.

Jody Wagner must be ready to lead the charge for it. A Billion dollar tax increase!

Actually, it’s even worse than that.  True, Kaine’s tax hike bit the dust rather quickly, but he made it clear to anyone who’d listen that he’d sign any tax increase that made it out of the General Assembly.

Meaning Ms. Wagner not only backed Tim Kaine’s tax increase, she would have also been happy with the hideous SB6009, which crammed nine different tax hikes into one bill.

So, Ms Wagner says we should reject Bill Bolling for challenging her pie-in-the-sky revenue projections and fighting to stop tax increases her boss desperately wanted.  If you ask me, those are reasons to re-elect Bolling.