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The press release is below the fold.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: press@jodyforva.com
August 15, 2008Virginia Beach – Citing her record of helping to put Virginia’s fiscal house in order, and the need to keep Virginia on the right track, former Virginia Treasurer and Secretary of Finance Jody Wagner today announced her candidacy for Lieutenant Governor in 2009.
Wagner announced her bid in a web video that was emailed to supporters and featured on her campaign website – http://www.jodyforva.com .
“I’m running for Lieutenant Governor because as a mom and a small business owner, I know that we need steady, proven leadership in Richmond,” Wagner says in the announcement. “Leaders who keep Virginia’s fiscal house in order. Leaders who understand how to help Virginia’s small businesses thrive. Leaders who know that investing in education is the way to make sure our children succeed.”
Wagner also drew a contrast with current Lt. Governor Bill Bolling.
“Unfortunately, there are too many politicians in Richmond – including our current Lieutenant Governor – who disagree with this commonsense approach. At a time when Virginia continues to face tough challenges, they want to turn back the clock to a time when politics and ideology stood in the way of progress.”
A twenty-five year resident of Virginia Beach, Wagner served as Virginia Treasurer from 2002-2006, and Secretary of Finance from 2006-2008. She and her husband, Dr. Alan Wagner, are small-business owners and have raised four
VIVIAN J. PAIGE | All Politics is Local 
If the Republicans are going to harp on bad financial projections, they had better pause and take a look at the economic reality. Every state government, Wall St bank, and the Fed itself (let’s not forget that Bush appointed the Chairman of the Fed) got their projections wrong.
The real *success* for Wagner is that her staff was less wrong than pretty much everyone else. That’s why Virginia is one of three states left with a AAA bond rating (a really big deal in the finance world) and also CQ’s “best managed state” accolade.
Besides, if she had come out with negative growth projections, the Republicans in the legislature would have eaten her alive for “lowballing” her forecasts to prevent the Rs from implementing irresponsible tax cuts.
But I guess it’s a good sign that the R’s are jumping all over Wagner already – shows that they’re scared that Bolling (who has pretty much been a politician his whole life) is being challenged by someone with so much private sector and public sector experience.
VJP,
Thanks for correcting me. After rereading silences comments I understand that he was saying about the same thing as I did.
She is painful to watch read a prompter. have nothing of substance to say, just find her voice annoying