King Ken Plum continues to be a disaster for Reston and Virginia as a whole. His 30-year reign has been marked with indecision and an abhorrent lack of leadership as a delegate. Now, even King Plum acknowledges that he did not foresee the tanking of the Virginia budget. This of course comes as no surprise as in the last few years, King Ken Plum has merely been going through the motions as a partisan pariah in the statehouse. As more and more people in Reston and Northern Virginia come to learn about this 30-year monarch, more and more people keep asking how they could have let such a person stay in one elected position for three decades.
If past precedent is a guide, King Ken Plum will propose new taxes. this also is not a surprise since King Ken Plum is not exactly known as a forward thinker.
Here's the latest quote from the king himself:
"The economic crisis being felt by most households and certainly by the business community as a whole is wreaking havoc on the state budget as well. What appeared initially to be a couple of billion dollars shortfall will certainly exceed 3 billion dollars and the only remaining question is by how much. No areas of the state budget will escape reductions. The challenge will be to keep minimally funded programs alive when they provide vital services."
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