Finally, a Republican Sounds Like Reagan.......Patrick Muldoon is Substantive, Unlike Bolling

Below is the text of a press release from Muldoon's camp.
Man, is it ever nice to hear a Republican finally talking about issues in a meaningful and substantive manner without nuance and innuendo, but with real ideas from a Constitutional conservative viewpoint.
Muldoon understands that Virginians are tired of hearing the same old tired campaign lines from Republicans touting stances on murky areas of beliefs with zero specifics given, leading us to believe that they avoid specifics intentionally to avoid getting put in a corner where they have to deliver.
Muldoon is unafraid to be an unapologetic conservative first in the mold of Reagan, and I for one am very encouraged about the direction our party will take if we will nominate him.

I am tired of hearing about what great pro-family leaders people like Bolling are, and hearing them cite meaningless ratings from the Family Foundation who give Bolling a 100% rating after HPV and 3202, and the Pornographic guidebooks, and the list goes on.

Most Republicans today avoid the controversial moral issues like the bubonic plague, but not Muldoon!
Bolling's consultants and his staff are telling him he must move left to win........not Muldoon!!
He is out there sounding as if he actually believes the conservative values he talks about, and unlike Bolling, he does not have a record that belies his conservative rhetoric.

I would encourage all to visit his website.....it is refreshing to hear an unabashed conservative in our leadership again!

#25: I will work to break the logjam on Transportation by pushing for Private-Sector Solutions.

I’m hearing from delegates who are asking why I would challenge an incumbent Republican lieutenant governor like Bill Bolling. It’s very simple: I’m running to get our Republican Party back to Looking Out for Virginians by always living up to our conservative principles … and never failing to do the right thing, even for short-term advantage.

If there’s one thing Republicans have learned in getting our clocks cleaned in a Red State in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 (even if Bill Bolling did win by the width of a whisker), it’s this:

Voters across the Commonwealth and the political spectrum are tired of the same old politicians doing the same old things in the same old way and getting the same old non-results – because they are looking out for their own interests and their own re-elections rather than those of Virginians. We’re tired of watching Republicans and Democrats play fiscal footsie with our money to buy votes.

Virginians want change. We’ve had enough of go-along, get-along, tax-along, spend-along, stumble-along government … and we are looking for an alternative.

But Virginians don’t want that alternative to be bigger, more intrusive and more expensive government. We’re looking for smaller, smarter government, government that looks out for us and:

• Creates the conditions and the opportunities where WE can succeed, not depend on the nanny state.
• Protects our rights and doesn’t subsume them to all-controlling bureaucrats.
• Gives us choices, not mandates.
• Looks after our money, collects only what it needs in the least obtrusive manner and spends it wisely and frugally; and
• Shares our strong Virginia values – with marriage and the family at the epicenter – and recognizes that these values represent good government and the real basis for economic and social well-being.

I’m running to deliver that alternative, an alternative I believe will resonate with voters looking for change this November. In other words, I’m running to represent the Republican Wing of the Republican Party – a party built on government of the people, by the people and FOR the people.

And in that vein, allow me to continue with:

THE TOP 30 REASONS TO VOTE PATRICK MULDOON:

#30: I CAN WIN — both in Richmond and this Statewide this Fall!

#29: I won’t run and hide from my support for Virginia Values on social issues.

#28: I will give you the choice to repeal the state income and corporate taxes.

#27: I will work to ROLL BACK spending and focus Virginia government on truly essential programs.

#26: I will put parents in charge of their children’s education by ensuring real parental choice.

#25: I will work to break the logjam on transportation by pushing for private-sector solutions.

Ask any Virginian and they will tell you: the #1 problem they face every single day is transportation. Very simply, we’re sick of sitting stuck in traffic.

And what has the Kaine/Bolling Administration accomplished to fix this problem? If you said, zip, zero, nix and nada, you’d be close to right – but not quite.

In fact, they forced through – with Bill Bolling’s enthusiastic support – a plan that would have made things worse, by raising taxes (again) while selling your rights down the river by introducing abusive abuser fees and allowing unelected, bureaucratic regional authorities to levy new fees on you.

Fortunately, the people of Virginia – and the state Supreme Court – said “thanks, but no thanks” to the Kaine/Bolling non-solution. Unfortunately, that leaves us right back where we started: stuck.

The problem is a broken paradigm: build new communities far away from where jobs are and insufficient infrastructure to get their residents from there to here and back again. Then, spend transportation money according to political formulas rather than economic need, resulting in gold-plated country byways, congested urban and suburban arteries, and overpriced, underutilized public transportation boondoggles.

But there is a formula for fixing our transportation trap:

• First, end the practice of having separate authorities planning transportation and development.
• But more important, take the problem out of the hands of politicians, and let the private sector address it, driven by the profit motive and funded by user fees, not general revenues.

Private-sector entities will see traffic jams not as a political football, but as an economic opportunity. And in risking their own money, they will make sure funds are spent the right way in the right places to ease those jams and get us where we belong.

In fact, two such “opportunities” where I will seek private-sector involvement and investment are:

• A privately-financed and operated, quick-to-implement mass-transit bus solution using the existing Dulles Access Road – instead of the multi-year, multibillion-dollar Dulles Rail Project boondoggle.
• A privately-financed and operated Tech Crossing extending Route 28 across the Potomac River to link the Dulles Technology Corridor with Maryland’s Biotech Corridor – not only easing traffic on the Toll Road and the Beltway, but also creating untold potential for explosive growth and new jobs.

As Ronald Reagan said, there are simple answers … not just easy ones. It won’t be easy to fix all our transportation problems – but a simple way to break the logjam is to turn our public problem into a private-sector opportunity.

Counting down to victory on May 30,

Patrick