Netroots gubernatorial debate 4/29 questions thread

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1. What tax increase will you support for transportation?

   1. Brian – you didn’t leave your city & state. Virginia Beach, right?

      1. Correct

2. What do you consider to be your greatest accomplishment and why? Equivalently what would you consider to be your greatest disappointment (or regret) and why?

   Oh and really any of the 10 questions from Inside the Actor’s Studio fame. Or those from the Proust questionnaire. I particularly like: What is your idea of happiness? What is your idea of misery? Who is your favorite hero and who is your favorite heroine in fiction? Who are your favorite hero and heroine from history?

   Arlington, VA

   1. good questions!

3. Along the same lines – what do you consider your greatest strength and why? Your greatest weakness and why?

   Norfolk VA

4. For each candidate:

   Who are your political role models? Who influenced your political views growing up?

5. In this time of change in the way we look at energy resources, would you support increased credits from the Commonwealth for the purpose of retrofitting and for new construction, with alternative energy features?

   1. As indicated below – Mark is from Cumberland County VA

6. How will you combat the encroachment of the federal government on state sovereignty?

7. Guys – please leave your city and state. Your questions will not be considered without that info.

8. I am from Cumberland, Virginia. I hope this suffices for my two questions above.

9. That one would not be considered anyway.

10. To all the candiates. What would happen to Virginia if Right to work was repealed. Would that cause a lot of businees to leave the state of Virginia?

11. Last month, for the third year in a row, the Civil War Preservation Trust declared Fort Monroe at risk of inappropriate, counterproductive, financially unnecessary overdevelopment. How instead could Virginians best capitalize on that national treasure’s strategic potential to enrich Tidewater and the commonwealth — not only financially, but culturally, recreationally and environmentally? (For the full background on my question, please see the “more” link in the April 26 entry on the “What’s New” page at CFMNP.org, the Web site of Citizens for a Fort Monroe National Park.)
    Steven T. Corneliussen
    Poquoson, Virginia

12. A federal court just struck down the permit for the King William Reservoir as “Arbitrary and Capricious” and remanded it back to the Army Corps of Engineers. Several other state and federal authorities have also tried to deny permits for the project in the past. The proponent is on record saying they could not meet the state permit conditions and would challenge them. Now the proponent just acknowledged that the demand for the project has completely failed to materialize and the cost has`already quadrupled. The Norfolk District of the Corps studied the proposal for over 10 years and recommended denial for a host of reasons and harms that could not be mitigated.

    Former Governor Gilmore already cost the citizens many tens of millions of dollars when he unwisely elevated the permit to a higher authority to overturn the Corps’ original permit denial. As Governor, will you correct Gilmore’s mistake and stop state support for this illegal and unneeded project that has already cost too much and hurt too many?

    Kelly Place
    Williamsburg, VA

    PS, Vivian, if you want documentation on any of this I can provide it immediately. I hope the question isn’t too long. I would like to have included other important factors. I may submit one or two similar questions phrased differently.
    Kelly

13. Now that a federal court has ruled the permit for the King William Reservoir is “Arbitrary and Capricious” and the projections supporting the project proven wrong, will you correct former Governor Gilmore’s multimillion dollar mistake and withdraw state support from this harmful, illegal and unneeded project?

    Kelly Place
    Williamsburg, VA

    PS, Vivian, in case you need a one sentence soundbite question, this is one. I prefer the first submittal because it is more substantive.

14. The King William Reservoir project is widely known as the “Worst Water Project Ever Proposed in Virginia”. Now the federal courts have struck down the permit as illegal, the cost has quadrupled and the demand has completely failed to materialize.

    As Governor will you rectify Governor Gilmore’s costly error when he helped reverse the original permit denial and withdraw state support from this ill-concieved project?

    Kelly Place
    Williamsburg, VA

    Hi Vivian, I appreciate that you provided this forum and only submit these variants of my question in an effort to ensure one of them meets your needs. I hope you don’t mind the number of alternative phraseologies I am submitting.

15. It is widely known that the proposed King William Reservoir would represent the largest permitted loss of contiguous wetlands since passage of the Clean Water Act in 1972. None of the projected demand need for the project has materialized. Now that a federal judge has ruled the long contested permit to be “arbitrary and capricious”, will you get serious about restoring the Chesapeake Bay and withdraw state support for this debacle before hundreds of millions more dollars are wasted?

    Kelly Place
    Williamsburg, VA

    Vivian! I’m starting to have fun now! I’ve never had the pleasure of submitting a question to gubernatorial candidates.

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