The more I think about it, that interview Brian Moran did yesterday on HearSay with Cathy Lewis was quite revealing. In addition to the question about his vote for Dominion's Wise County coal-fired power plant, which he completely flubbed, Moran also failed to answer the caller’s question about his vote to kill Gov. Warner’s amendment to conduct a study of new payday lending laws. Instead, Moran just talked about his final vote on the bill and how he thought it was going to be like "micro-financing" for the poor. So....I can't wait for the lecture from Brian Moran on how the Virginia legislative process works (as if the rest of us are all idiots), but I’m pretty sure when you vote “no” to Gov. Warner’s amendment that means you opposed it. Ha. :) In all seriousness, though, this is becoming a consistent pattern with Brian Moran: evade, obfuscate, attack. Note, for instance, that in response to the caller's question about his Wise coal-fired power plant vote, Moran first starts rambling on about Surry before the host cuts him off and reminds him that the question was about his vote for the Wise plant? Meanwhile, let’s not forget that Moran's press secretary hysterically attempted to claim a few weeks ago that his boss' vote for Bob McDonnell's federal anti-gay-marriage resolution was "incorrectly recorded," or the dog ate his homework or something lame like that. In fact, if Moran's the expert on the Virginia legislative process he claims to be, he of course would know that you can always ask for a correction to the record on votes that went astray. So why didn't he? Moran might also recall that he was quoted in a newspaper article at the time explaining exactly why he voted for McDonnell's resolution, which was that "Those of us that are uncomfortable with the state recognizing a gay marriage would have difficulty not supporting the resolution."
So, here's the Brian Moran pattern: every time he gets questioned by a voter or anyone else about one of his politically inconvenient/bad votes, he either changes the subject, attacks someone, makes up a lame excuse, or completely dodges the question. Just what we want in a governor, huh?
