As a constituent of Governor Warner what do you think the greatest success and failure of his administration have been?On issues that Governor Warner and I found common ground ? such as education ? we have worked well together. One of the most important things that Governor Warner did was to resist calls for watering down Virginia?s Standards of Learning and wholeheartedly support the education reforms that were begun when I was Governor. As a result, Virginia?s students have continued to make significant progress in learning and are receiving the best education in the nation.
We also disagreed on issues. Governor Warner?s tax increase was the largest in Virginia?s long history. Some will applaud it, others will criticize. I think everyone knows where I stood on it. I did not believe that it was necessary and I think that our recent surpluses since have tended to support my view that a tax increase was undesirable. I felt it was wrong to raise the taxes without letting the people vote on it. Governor Warner won office by promising he would not raise taxes. I did not support his tax increase and I was joined by Governor Wilder and others on both sides of the aisle.
For the whole interview, click here. Interesting that Allen's spending so much time talking to New Hampshire, by the way. So why's he running for Senator for another 6 years if he just plans on quitting to run for President in 2008?