MIDLOTHIAN—
In some of his harshest words of the campaign for governor so far, Republican Bob McDonnell blasted his opponent Democrat Creigh Deeds on transportation, the economy, and how the Senator is running his campaign.McDonnell made the comments after a campaign event Thursday morning in Midlothian.
On transportation:
"I helped put together a plan in 2007 with no help from Creigh Deeds. The guy has no credibility on transportation, everybody knows that. So, his claim that we're taking money from education is false, it's bogus. It's the old Democratic playbook about stealing money from children, it's not going to work," McDonnell said. "It's just more of the dissapointed campaign he's run."
On the Democrats' attack based on the 1989 thesis McDonnell wrote:
"I'm insulted that Creigh Deeds and the Democrats would say I don't support working women."
"This is the most backwards-looking campaign in modern Virginia history. He's talking about former presidents, former governors, 20 year old theses. I mean he's got no ideas on transportation, on comprehensive energy reform, good ideas to turn the economy around."
On the economy:
"If I had a record as bad as Creigh Deeds when it came to business and supporting job creating in Virginia, I'd be talking about other things too."
