Virginian Republican legislative initiatives New mathhave earned the Commonwealth unpleasant nation (and global) wide attention in recent years.  Whether the abuse of public resources to undermine Virginia's academic reputation with anti-science legal shenanigans (2010 to present); the social, moral, and medical outrage of trying to require unnecessary ultrasounds on women seeking to execute their Constitutional right to control their own medical destinies (2012); or the anti-democratic efforts to redistrict (out-of-cycle) to manipulate the Commonwealth's Senate districts and to shift the Electoral College votes from Virginia to skew away from voters' intent, Virginia's GOP has provided lots of substantive reasons for intensely outraged attention to their anti-science, anti-constitutional rights, and anti-democratic tendencies.

These flashpoint issues have masked other serious issue after issue.

While the threat to the Electoral College and the legislation to redistrict the Commonwealth's Senate seats are capturing the majority of attention, Governor Bob McDonnell's very troubling and damaging transportation proposal is receiving minimal (if any) national attention.  And, this matters.