Houck Owns Richmond

Of the 140 members of the Virginia General Assembly, it’s quite possible that none of them has had as good a 2008 so far as Sen. Edd Houck of Spotsylvania (and I’m not just saying that because he endorsed Obama for President). He’s been the go-to guy when it came to repealing Speaker Howell’s god awful abuser fees, and totally smacked down Senate Republicans for playing politics with 4 year olds in defense of Gov. Kaine’s pre-K expansion plan.

Earlier this week, in an op-ed in the Culpeper Star-Exponent, Sen. Houck gives a nice rundown of what’s actually been accomplished in this year’s session; Access to Mental Health Drugs, Capital Projects, Substance Abuse Funding, Judicial Nominations, and a State Energy Plan. The op-ed, in it’s entirety, can be read here.

UPDATE: cvillelaw writes on Democratic Central:

Like all such pieces, he takes credit for a lot of things, and some might look on it as being simply self-serving.

But from what I know, it is not only accurate, but it is perhaps even modest.