Did Wagner score some points on Bolling?
| August 11, 2009 | in Politics So, what is the Governor’s Advisory Council on Revenue Estimates (GACRE), is it important, and would you participate in its meetings if you were the Lieutenant Governor? We alluded to this a little bit in our most recent podcast and Tim Watson of Virginia Virtucon has the details. This has all come up because Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor Jody Wagner brought it up, and claimed that it is important enough for the LG to attend, particularly if he’s going to be critical of the budgeting process (specifically the revenue projections). On first glance, it is a pretty solid blow by Wagner. Wagner writes: “The Committee plays a critical role in the bi-partisan process of revenue forecasting. Each year, Lt. Governor Bolling has been invited. Each year, he’s failed to show up-including the latest meeting, held yesterday in Richmond.” Upon reading this, you might say this looks like dereliction by Bolling. Then she goes onto say: “For the last four
