Mark Warner For Senate: "Budget Mess"

Updated: January 1, 2011 | 2:10 p.m.
June 6, 2008

Producer: GMMB

Running Time: 1:00

Debut Date: 05/31/2008

Ad Buy: statewide in Virginia

Cost: not available

Summary: Prominent Virginians praise Warner for turning a budget shortfall into a surplus.

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Script of "Budget Mess" (TV)

ANNOUNCER [v/o]: 2001: Virginia was in trouble.

(Text on screen: Richmond Tech. Council; Former Chair)

PAULA GULAK: It’s very easy to forget what a mess Richmond was in in 2001.

(Text on screen: Va. Chamber of Commerce; Chairman, 2006)

BEN DAVENPORT: We had an enormous budge shortfall.

(Text on screen: Republican Senator; Finance Chair, 2000-08)

JOHN CHICHESTER: We were in trouble -- $6 billion worth of trouble.

(Text on screen: Sheriff, Rockingham County)

DON FARLEY: Firefighters, teachers, police officers -- we were on the chopping block.

(Text on screen: Warner Takes Office Facing Budget Deficits -- The Washington Times; January 13, 2002)

ANNOUNCER [v/o]: On his first day as governor, Mark Warner inherited the worst budget shortfall in Virginia history.

JOHN CHICHESTER: I’ve seen governors come and go. Mark Warner was different.

BEN DAVENPORT: Mark came in with a business approach and really fixed it.

PAULA GULAK: He turned it around.

MARK WARNER: We turned the worst budget shortfall in Virginia history into a surplus. And we did it the right way.

(Text on screen: Warner Sets Bipartisan Tone -- Roanoke Times, Jan. 20, 2002)

JOHN CHICHESTER: The first thing he did was cut spending. Then he worked with Republicans, Democrats to reform the tax code and brought integrity back to the budget process.

ANNOUNCER [v/o]: Mark Warner got Virginia back on track, invested in schools and jobs. And Virginia was named the best managed state in the nation.

(Text on screen: “One Of America’s Five Best Governors” -- Time Magazine, Nov. 13, 2005; Governing Magazine, Feb. 2005)

MARK WARNER: I’m Mark Warner, and I’m running for Senate because partisanship won’t lower the price of gas and bickering won’t create jobs.

(Text on screen: Virginia Independence; Real Results)

I approve this message because we cleaned up the mess in Virginia, and now it’s time to clean up Washington.

(Text on screen: Mark Warner. Senate. MarkWarner2008.com; Paid For By Friends Of Mark Warner)

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