General Assembly Kicks Off Tomorrow!

To all those poor souls that are heading down to Richmond, I’m so glad I’m not you!!!

FYI for anyone who want to know how bad the Chichester-Howell split is on taxes. It’s not. Consternation among the grassroots, but nothing tangible. This is going to be a good old fashioned sit down between the Senate and the House, and thanks to the highly conservative make-up of the House, it doesn’t appear as if “tax reform” will go very far. A tax hike on tobacco may be in the works, but not much else.

Political long-term, folks aren’t angry enough about Chichester et al., and there is no real leader whom they would rally around that has been vocal enough against the tax hikes in the Senate. In the end though, barring a knock down drag out fight on the Senate floor (and I don’t see that happening in the Virginia Senate ever), this is going to be a pretty even handed discussion of how the House and Senate feel Virginia needs to be run.