Albo Puts Grover Norquist Ahead of His People

After yesterday's General Assembly session, we heard that Del. Dave Albo's band, Albopalooza, is adding this Nine-Inch-Nails song to their repertoire:

bow down before the one you serve.
you're going to get what you deserve.
god money i'll do anything for you.
god money just tell me what you want me to.
god money nail me up against the wall.
god money don't want everything he wants it all....
Head Like a Hole by Nine Inch Nails

Why do we say this? Well, for weeks Del. Dave Albo has been telling the press every chance he gets that he wants to vote for a transportation funding bill and that everyone's being unreasonable except him.

• He introduced legislation to try to bridge the gap; and
  
• He stated on the record during the session that he supported a grantor's tax to pay for transportation improvements that would actually be imposed by the General Assembly and not one that required a vote by local governments

So what happens when it's time to vote on a bill with a grantor's tax increase and no gas tax increase?

Americans for Tax Reform’s president, Grover Norquist, wrote in an open letter to Virginia lawmakers who sign the organization’s no-tax-increase pledge that voting for Hamilton’s bill would be breach their commitment. “That’s going to make it very tough to keep my own people behind it,” [Del. Dave Albo's law partner Del. Morgan] Griffith said. Futile Finale Awaits Another VA Roads Session, AP (July 8, 2008).

So first we have Del. Albo's own law partner telling the paper that "his people" (maybe like his business partners) aren't going to be able to get behind transportation legislation.

Next, Grover Norquist twists the screws and the faithful capitulate. Del. Dave Albo has signed the tax pledge for nearly a decade running now and we've covered Del. Albo's affinity for Jack Ambramoff pal Grover Norquist's anti-tax pablum before:

2008 - Albo Listed as One of Only 22 Va. HOD Taxpayer Protection Pledge Signers
2007 - ATR Signers of Taxpayer Protection Pledge (Albo 1 of 28 on p.10)
2006 - ATR Signers of Taxpayer Protection Pledge (Albo 1 of 28 on p.10)
2005 - ATR Pledge Signer's Update (Albo 1 of 32 on p.10)
2004 - ATR Pledge Signer's Update (Albo 1 of 33 in VA on p.10)
2003 - ATR Press Release - Albo Pledges to Oppose Tax Increases
2002 - ATR - Pledge Signers Update (Albo Listed on P. 10)
2001 - ATR, The Tax Reformer (Albo Listed as 2001 Pledge Signer on P. 17

Don't forget these:
2004 - Voting NO on Governor Warner's Investments in NoVa's schools
2003 - Voting for the Local transportation referendum bill but refusing to campaign for its passage (See, AMG - Albo Flips Flops on Transportation & Taxes)
2001 - Voting against the 2001 Local transportation referendum bill

or this:
AMG, Stuck in Traffic? Call Dave Albo (May 13, 2008)
AMG, Albo, Tax Cuts & Mass Murders (June 16, 2007)

So what happens when it's time to put up or shut up for the People of the 42nd District?

It's depicted here below.

and here: