So Marshall thinks that the committee's work is tainted, before it even starts, because he was not selected chair. What he really means is that because the committee has not adopted his already established position that it is invalid. This guy truly is incompetent. It is even more bizarre that he thought he should be committee chair because he's married, has adopted children and takes care of an elderly relative. Maybe now he will have the time to start work on the numerous idiotic bills he will introduce next session.

It's possible that Marshall will just get kicked out by the voters in November. He's a freakshow.

I sincerely hope that Marshall gets kicked out by the voters come Nov 6 2007, but he won last time even after stating in debates with his opponent Bruce Roemmelt that "abortion laws were better when it was illegal" and that "studies have shown that stem cell research can create livers growing from a brain". He really said these things in a September 2005 debate, and elicited murmurs of amazement from the debate audience. But, he still took 55% of the vote (he DID lose in two small Loudoun County precincts, but that was not anywhere near enough to defeat Marshall). Delegate Marshall also told me during the 2005 election cycle that private school education vouchers he proposes would save the state public school system over $11,000 per student because the students using vouchers would only cost the Commonwealth of VA $2,200 per student, and that since it costs over $13K per student in VA to cover educate-related costs, that VA would save over $11K per student using vouchers. I tried to tell Del Marshall that just because a student does not attend the public school system does not mean that any potential cost savings is 85-100% of state funding by virtue of that student not attending the school (you still have to pay fixed costs such as bond debt service and utilities costs, etc and also variable costs such as bus maintenance, bus driver pay, cafeteria costs, teacher pay, etc). Delegate Marshall also stated that with state-funded private school vouchers, the student-teacher ratios at public schools would IMPROVE due to less students attending public schools. But if that is the case, then the costs to pay public school teachers would not go down, since none would be laid off. And I told him that paying a parent $2,200 per child in state tax revenue in order for that parent's children to attend a private school IS indeed money that is not available for public obligations - and Delegate Marshall simply cut me off and said I was "wrong".
So, his latest shenanigans with re to this committee chairmanship do not surprise me, but he has won something like 8 terms in a row, so he just may win again. But I sincerely hope not, because Delegate Marshall serves his 13th District constituency poorly at best and incompetently at worst.

Today, Democrat Gov. Tim Kaine and liberal Republicans scored a major victory for broken-borders-immigration.

By removing Del. Bob Marshall as Chairman of the Immigration Commission, Gov. Kaine struck a serious blow against working class families.

Because HB 1673 established the Immigration Commission, its sponsor, Delegate Marshall, was automatically entitled to selection as Chairman. That's long-standing tradition in the General Assembly.

The fact that Gov. Kaine's Sec. of Health lobbied along with big business Republicans to elect a pro-illegal chairman shows that, once again, big money has won and American labor has lost.

Under liberal Republican Senator John Watkins, you will see the Commission work to tie the hands of local governments. The goal of Tim Kaine and the Chamber of Commerce is to bar local governments from enacting creative controls on illegal immigrants.

Big business is terrified by these spreading local iniatives. Corporate titans feed on illegals like vampires feed on blood. They like their workers cheap and submissive. An illegal worker does what he's told--and keeps his mouth shut.

Localities threaten to suspend benefits for illegal aliens, shifting those costs back to the companies that hire them.

Look for Gov. Kaine and his liberal allies to fight tooth and nail against American workers in the upcoming legislative session. This is just round one.

The new Virginia Commission on Immigration will be a paper tiger with John Watkins, a liberal who owns a nursery that employs illegal migrant workers, running it.

Kaine has sandbagged this new commission into a waste of time and money. His pro criminal reputation really precedes him on this.

Watkins, a republican, is a "liberal"? Perhaps a moderate, but hardly a liberal. Marshall, on the other hand, is so far to the right on issues that he gets nothing done because no one wants to be associated with him, even many of his fellow republicans. Marshall typically submits over a hundred or so bills every year, and MAYBE one or two get passed. That's because even his fellow republicans realize what a waste of time most if not all of his bills represent. Hopefully, Bob Marshall's career as a "my moral-agenda" imposing fanatic will end come Nov 6 2007.

How delightful to have Dick Black, or perhaps somebody using that infamous handle, speaking up in Bob's favor. Well, when those who know you best won't put you in charge of something, it is, perhaps, time to think of another line of work. In any event, it is time for the voters to think of having somebody else represent them. Dick Black was sent to the showers, it is now time for Bob to go.