The following is a release from "Opportunity Virginia PAC"
"Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell was
elected Chairman of the Republican Governors Association today at the group's
quarterly meetings in Orlando,
Florida. With today's vote the Governor will continue his
service as head of the organization. Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey was
elected to continue serving as RGA Vice-Chairman. Joining McDonnell and
Christie on the RGA Executive Committee will be: Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, Governor
Susana Martinez of New Mexico,
Governor Tom Corbett of Pennsylvania,
Governor Nikki Haley of South
Carolina, and Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin. Additionally, Governor Mitch
Daniels of Indiana was elected to serve as RGA Policy Chairman to lead the
Republican Governors Public Policy Committee.
Speaking
about the election, Governor McDonnell remarked, "I am honored to be
elected by my peers to chair the Republican Governors Association in
2012. Our country is facing unprecedented economic and fiscal challenges
that require bold leadership and innovative solutions. Unemployment is
unacceptably high, too many of our citizens lack access to a good paying job
and the American Dream, and for too long our leaders in Washington have
over-promised, over-spent, and under-delivered. Republican governors
across the country have been showing the way forward by balancing budgets by
cutting spending, not raising taxes; reforming state governments to make them
more efficient, effective and user-friendly to taxpayers; and focusing on
private sector job creation to get our fellow citizens back to work and
reignite the economic engine of America. Across the country these efforts
are producing positive results, and I look forward to working with my
colleagues over the next year to continue implementing good, fiscally
responsible policy, and to working hard to build on the RGA's successes of
2009-2011 to add to the ranks of our 29 outstanding Republican governors."
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