PAUL GOLDMAN PRESS RELEASE

Goldman for Mayor - 25 June 2008 - For Immediate Release - Contract, 804-833-6313
"Given today's news about potential utility cost increases, given that the Mayor concedes that Richmonders are being squeezed by rising living costs, and that new city budget due to go into effect next week contains record government taxes and spending, my opponents support for a huge new taxpayer-funded subsidy the public had been promised would never be necessary is big issue in this campaign"

"My friends Dwight, Robert and Bill need to get some backbone, and do what an Elected Mayor was created to do: stop the old Richmond politics of buying political support with public money such as this indefensible operating subsidy."

(Richmond) - Paul Goldman, candidate for Mayor said that "it is time for a fundamental change from the old politics of my opponents. Dwight, Robert and Bill seem to forget that most people in Richmond have modest incomes, and they caught in a tough economic squeeze that is really hurting small businesses, indeed the entire private sector which is the engine that creates the jobs."

"I am the only candidate for Mayor who has ever been interested in making sure there is a full accountability of all the public money spent on this project and of making sure the facts are presented to the public.""

"Until I started working at City Hall, there was no public accountability, even internal city government accountability, of the public funds spent on this project as admitted by the then City Finance director.

Mr. Pantele had never asked for it nor had any other member of City Council.

In Mr. Grey's second report on the project for the Wilder Administration - which concedes that the modernization of the Carpenter Center is only possible right now due to my City of the Future plan foresight - there is no mention of the need for a huge new taxpayer-funded operating subsidy.

Earlier this week, I proposed a bold "Economic Growth" plan to slash business taxes 50%, cut wasteful and unnecessary city bureaucratic spending by $15 million, along with more than a dozen other specific ideas to create jobs and produce new revenue for our city so begin lifting the social, personal and governmental costs of poverty from our citizens.

We already have the most expensive City Hall and City Council in Virginia.

We need to cut taxes and spending, not burden residents with yet another new $500,000 politically-inspired public subsidy for a private group."