McDonnell to VSB: Hand over $5M 
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Published: December 20, 2010
Tags: General Assembly, Gov. Bob McDonnell, Judgeships, Supreme Court of Virginia News, Virginia State Bar
Gov. Bob McDonnell has blindsided the Virginia State Bar with a budget proposal to take $5 million from the VSB and effectively wipe out the bar’s reserve.
The plan, referenced in budget documents released by the governor Dec. 16, came as a surprise to officials at the VSB. VSB President Irving M. Blank said he still ...
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This is OUR MONEY. If our elected bar leadership does not stand up to this, then they ought to all be voted out of office. Even if the Court feels the need to cave, the Bar leadership should say no. We are not vassls of either the Court or the Governor. We are a self-regulating profession. The state merely holds this money in trust. I call on our elected leadership to stand up and fight for the rights of the members of the bar. If they can’t or won’t, they should resign.