Comments on: Governor’s state of the Commonwealth speech http://blog.vivianpaige.com/2008/01/10/governors-state-of-the-commonwealth-speech/ Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:19:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: HMR http://blog.vivianpaige.com/2008/01/10/governors-state-of-the-commonwealth-speech/comment-page-1/#comment-113310 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:40:05 +0000 http://blog.vivianpaige.com/2008/01/10/governors-state-of-the-commonwealth-speech/#comment-113310 A few things of note.

Not going very far:

1. Expanding pre-K from 13k to 20k slots..when the Commonwealth is short money.

The Governor talked about compromise. How about 1k new slots/year for 7 years?

2. Background checks for buying guns at gun shows.

As Ken Stolle has noted, it wouldn’t have stopped what happened at Virginia Tech. The bill dies in Militia and Police.

I was pleasantly suprised to hear the Governor push something I’ve long argued for: allowing anyone who wants to vote absentee to do so regardless of reason. You make voting SO easy that everyone will want to do it. (Okay, everyone still won’t.)

Finally, I’m happier with the proposed changes to Virginia’s involuntary commitment laws than some of what was being talked about earlier in 2007.

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