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Asking the crowd to judge him on his record, Rep. Wolf listed his accomplishments in transferring National and Dulles airports over to state authority, preserving the Manassas Battlefield and obstructing the CIA from building a new $1.9 billion facility in West Virginia as ones of which he was most proud.
“I want you to have reasons to go out and tell other people to vote for me,” said Rep. Wolf.
He addressed the deficit, which he judges is around $380 billion, saying “something had to be done.” “If we cut at every penny of the defense budget, you would still have, this year, a $100 billion deficit,” he said. “If something isn’t done,” said Rep. Wolf, “what will happen is that our children and grandchildren in 1999 will have to deal with debt around $13.5 trillion.”
“I am committed to doing something about it, because I don’t want my grandchildren to come to me and ask, ‘What did you do on your watch, did you try to do something?”’ said Rep. Wolf.
He told the group that he was behind the President “so enthusiastically because he was one of the most honest, decent, ethical and moral men who is serving today.”
“I would rather have someone who I didn’t always completely agree on everything than who is honest, ethical, decent and moral,” he said.
In fairness to the President, said Wolf, much of these four years has been dedicated to foreign affairs and he has done a great job.
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