Virginia’s opposition speakers

Virginia’s Governor Bob McDonnell will deliver the opposition party’s response to the president’s State of the Union address on January 27th.  This will follow a recent tradition of Virginian’s who have delivered this speech.  In 2006 Tim Kaine delivered the Democrat’s response to President Bush’s State of the Union and then in the following year Senator Jim Webb did so as well.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Gov. McDonnell was picked because, “Gov. McDonnell understands that the American people are more interested in shrinking unemployment than expanding government.”

House Minority Leader John Boehner believes Gov. McDonnell is the right person to deliver the speech because he “has offered common sense economic policies in stark contracts to Washington Democrats.”