Monthly Archives: February 2012

Feb 10 2012
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No Democrats, Independents, or impartial experts need apply

It could of course be simple incompetence, but the new very–developer friendly all-Republican (but I repeat myself) Loudoun Board of Supervisors has been stretching out ad infinitum the process of filling positions on the county’s many boards and commissions.

More likely is that this is a calculated tactic, intended to divert attention from the fact that they are packing these commissions with major campaign contributors, developers, and local GOP party hacks—and that they are hoping that that by announcing the appointments by dribs and drabs the cumulative effect of their purging and packing will be blunted.

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Feb 08 2012
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Setting an excellent example to our children

Supervisor Eugene Delgaudio (R-Sterling) proudly poses with his bumper crop of illegal signs posted on the VDOT right of way:

There’s $1,600 right there that would have helped the county budget had the fine prescribed by state law been enforced!

Feb 08 2012
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Who bought “Ken”?

I wasn’t really intending this to be Pick on Ken Reid Week, but I did promise to provide a rundown of the top campaign contributors to proud new Loudoun Republican  Supervisor “Cleaning up Roadside Trash Will Harm the Environment” Reid, so here it is. Continue reading →

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Feb 08 2012
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Illegal signs: A Treasury of Bogus Arguments

Of course it’s a venerable practice in politics to insist that crass partisanship or craven payoffs to special interests is actually an act of great statesmanlike principle in the interests of American Values, The Constitution, The Wisdom of the Founding Fathers, Liberty, and (if you listen to the GOP presidential debates) The Sainted Memory of Ronald Reagan. So I suppose it should be no surprise that the new all-Republican Loudoun Board of Supervisors and its apologists in the Loudoun Republican Politburo have been coming up with all sorts of remarkable after-the-fact explanations about the Great Principles they were upholding in voting, as one of their first official acts, to kill the volunteer sign cleanup program.

Still, the sheer variety, imagination, and unmitigated bogosity of their assertions have been a bit breathtaking. Continue reading →

Feb 07 2012
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Ken Reid’s driving record and the quality of mercy

One of the more creative arguments offered by apologists for the Board of Supervisors’ abrupt termination last month of the volunteer illegal-sign cleanup program was offered the other day by the editor of the Loudoun Times-Mirror (motto: One of the World’s Newspapers): he suggested that “for most of us, illegal signs in the VDOT right of way seem like just another nuisance with those signs being illegal in the same sense that driving 60 mph in a 55 mph zone” is illegal.

Ken "Ken" Reid, Exhibit A

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