Bill Howell

It’s about fairness, but it’s also about overstepping the Board’s authority.

And in the process, he’s throwing the rest of the Republican Party under the bus.[read_more] News has been percolating over the last couple of days about a scheme Speaker Howell hatched to get the State Board of Elections to change their rules for requirements to…

We know Bill: our “higher-tax” Bill![read_more] Republicans have enjoyed a large majority in the Virginia House of Delegates the entire time Bill Howell has served as Speaker. Today, 68 out of 100 members of the Virginia House of Delegates have an (R) next to their…

There’s nothing more fun than making campaign mountains out of personnel mole hills.[read_more] Matt Hall at Bearing Drift reprinted a post from Fredericks this morning which Mr. Fredericks had offered as a guest post to The Bull Elephant yesterday.  We chose not to run it…

Today is tax day, and for millions of Virginians, April 15th serves as a vivid and painful reminder of the burden placed upon their families by an excessive and bloated government operating wastefully, and far beyond its core functions.[read_more] While campaigning door-to-door, I’ve had the…

In 2013, Speaker Bill Howell pushed through the largest tax increase in Va history.  Politifact rates mostly true, the claim that he was the force behind three major tax increases in the last decade.  Speaker Howell’s record on fiscal policy is not encouraging.  Another look…

You know, usually you have to do something in the party or in the conservative movement before anyone takes your opinion seriously. Apparently for some folks over at Bearing Drift, that is not the case. [read_more] Matt Colt Hall’s whiny piece (following several equally problematic pieces…