Well I asked for a response. I guess this is one.

[No. 1 son]

Commonwealth of Virginia







Office of Governor Ralph Northam







Dear Mr. Johnson:







Thank you for your letter to Governor Northam. Governor Northam has been made aware of your thoughts and appreciates your willingness to share your ideas with him. In every decision he makes, Governor Northam considers the opinions of his constituents.







You may also wish to contact your state delegate or senator in the General Assembly to share your suggestions. Contact information for your state legislators may be found here: whosmy.virginiageneralassembly.gov/.







Again, thank you for your input. We hope that you will continue to provide Governor Northam with your views on matters affecting the Commonwealth.







Sincerely,







Constituent Services



Office of the Governor













------------------- Original Message -------------------

From: Larry Johnson

Received: Thu Jan 10 2019 09:40:37 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)

To: yyEadPortalGovCr (Do NOT Disable)

Subject: Tax Cuts & Job Act shenanigans



The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 was passed in December of last year. This has been known for a lot longer than that, and yet no effort was made to resolve the tax policy issue with respect to the Virginia tax code. This will result in a $4.5 billion tax increase over the next five years for working Virginians without any legislators having to go on record to vote for it or you, Gov. Northam, having to sign it. Supposedly you are already planning to spend the windfall on expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit for low-income residents, continuing to clean up Chesapeake Bay, and expanding broadband to rural areas and I suspect trying to fund his medicare expansion. These should be include them in your regular budget recommendations, but they should all be included—and funded—in the regular biennial state budget cycle. This inactivity essentially is an increased tax burden on the people of Virginia without discussion. People paying taxes here understandably want any extra money the state collects from the tax code conflict to be returned to them. The General Assembly should immediately pass a bipartisan bill conforming Virginia’s tax code to the federal tax code, and you should sign it without delay. Anything less than that is shameful. Thank you. Larry Johnson Stafford VA
  

[Dave's Not Here Man]

Lol."He ain't got no time fo'dat Foo"!

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LOL!

I actually got a canned response from Whittman in answer to my request that he do more to end the government shutdown. Our government at work.

However, to give Robbie his due, although he didn't give any explanation for his position on the shutdown, he did note that he felt congress shouldn't get paid during shutdowns, so there is that.

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He must be independently wealthy. Because he gave up his salary during this last shutdown, but voted against the clean bills to open it.

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Hey, didn't say he was a great guy, just noted that his letter had a little more substance than Larry's.