Wednesday, June 19th, 2013
Gov. Bob McDonnell promised to reduce still births and incidents and low birth weights for Medicaid babies.

Gov. Bob McDonnell promised to reduce still births and incidents and low birth weights for Medicaid babies.

Did McDonnell policies help Medicaid babies?

The Commonwealth Institute takes issue with a recent Bob-O-Meter, telling us the improved health of Medicaid newborns  happened "despite McDonnell, not because of him."

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"The Government Accountability Office estimated (Obamacare) will add to the long-term deficit by $6.2 trillion."

On the coal industry

Says Democratic Party created Planned Parenthood

Says Democratic Party created the Ku Klux Klan.

On restoring voting rights to non-violent felons.

On oil drilling off Virginia's coast.

"In our community college system (state) cuts have reduced funding per student by $1,908."

Says 70,000 children "have lost their Head Start slots" because of the sequester.

"The IRS doesn't have to prove something against you ... you've got the burden of proof."

Promise: Increase funding for Virginia Teaching Scholarship Program

Update: Plan alters for recruiting STEM teachers

 "Of our 98,000 teachers who are K-12, over 53,000 of those teachers today are over 50 years old."

"Only three in 10 young Americans under 30 -- 30 percent under 30 -- have full-time work."

Promise: Reduce still births, low birth weights and improve child health care

Update: Birth weights are up, stillbirths down

"We have never gone a year in Virginia -- ever -- without passing a budget -- ever."

The U.S. Army had a training program that put "evangelical Christians, Catholics and Mormons in the same category of religious extremism as we do al-Qaida."

Federal prosecutions for lying on background checks to buy guns are "down 40 percent" under President Barack Obama.

New Virginia regulations on abortion clinics "provide the same sanitary environment we expect of dental offices."

Says the U.S. fleet of attack submarines is scheduled to fall below the 48 boats that Navy says it needs to carry out current missions.

Promise: Appoint public school turnaround leader

Update: Plan goes through changes

Says under his utility rate plan, "An estimated 50 percent of our residential households will see a decrease in their water and wastewater bills."

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