Virgina's Next Governor

As Election Day approaches, candidates get more caustic about their views, and voters’ tension grows as they try to figure out which candidate will make a better governor. One of the biggest issues that Virginia is currently facing is the one of transportation and how to solve such challenge. There are roads that need to be fixed, and the state does not have enough funds to pay for their renovation or construction of new roads. Bob McDonnell and Creigh Deeds, the candidates, both care about transportation, yet financial backing to fix this issue is quite different for each candidate.

McDonnell has stated on his webpage that he “will make transportation infrastructure a four-year priority” (“Transportation”). Although McDonnell believes that transportation should be one of the first focuses to be changed, it is not his most important task to accomplish. Both candidates want to fix the economic problems and McDonnell believes helping entrepreneurs is the way to start such change (Bartel). That is McDonnell’s priority, not transportation issues. Deeds, however, has made fixing transportation problems his main concern and his solution to the economic problems. “Transportation is the lifeblood of our economy and our quality of life” he stated on his website (“Transportation”). Deeds claims that the last thing that Virginians need in this economic crisis is having to spend hundreds of dollars in repairing the damages that roads in bad conditions cause on their cars. Thus, fixing the transportation issues will improve Virginia’s economy according to Deeds.

It is clear to both candidates that in order to fix the problem of transportation, funding will be needed. They also know that the state cannot give such funding. Both candidate...

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... to fix this problem. McDonnell believes that people misusing their time getting stuck in traffic when they could be with their families is a “quality of life issue” (“Transportation”). He believes Virginians should not have to deal with this. Deeds agrees with this but at the same time, he has stated that “Virginia consistently ranks in the top 20 percent of the sates having the lowest tax burdens” (Anonymous). As opposed to McDonnell, Deeds not only sees the issue and wants to take action in fixing it but he is also willing to do raise taxes, something that voters would instantly not be happy. Deeds has taken a brave stand on fixing the transportation problems and he has explained exactly where the money would go towards.

But how do Virginians feel about their plans? Both candidates are aware that citizens are willing to help solve the issue of transportation.