Why do I keep thinking about this old Yiddish joke these days?
Two old guys are sitting on a park bench. Two hours go by in silence. Finally, one lets out a heartfelt, “Oy.” Other guy says, “If you’re going to talk politics, I’m leaving.”
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Monthly Archives: February 2012
The Loudoun GOP’s two masters
My source deep within the labyrinthine bowels of 1 Harrison Street (“Shallow Throat”) hints that Chairman of the Loudoun Board of Supervisors Scott York may already be finding it difficult to keep his all-Republican very-developer-friendly board in line with the program he was tasked with by the state and national Republican Party.
The parish church of Scott York's political mentor, the Vicar of Bray (you can look it up)
Gutting the comprehensive plan in Loudoun
A source deep within the Loudoun government reports this morning that the new very developer-friendly board of supervisors will soon introduce a motion of Intent to Amend the county zoning ordinance.
We no doubt will have another one of those snappy 9–0 votes to approve with no debate.
This would open up the entire county comprehensive plan document to revision—something that at least some of the GOP candidates swore they would not do during the campaign. Continue reading
A busy month for our hard working public servants
Yes, it’s certainly been a busy and productive first month in office for the new all-Republican Loudoun Board
Coming soon, to a field near you
of Supervisors: amazing how much you can get done when you don’t need to listen to differing opinions, conduct wearisome discussions in public—or even think! . . . just adopt the legislative program e-mailed over from the development lawyers who funded your campaign and who run the Loudoun Republican Committee.
In a scant four weeks, the new board has . . . Continue reading
Some of our best friends are developers who sue citizens that speak out
New Republican Loudoun supervisor Geary Higgins (R-Catoctin) struck a heroic figure in his campaign last fall with his courageous opposition to traffic, stinkbugs, and truth or decency (take your pick).
Since the election he has been Exhibit A of the new GOP strategy of masking its developer give-aways in a wrapping of bland and vague geniality, replacing the gratuitous (and politically bad) in-your-face confrontation of the last GOP-developer-backed board in 2003–2007.
Since the election Higgins has also notably and faithfully toed the party line, voting to kill the illegal-sign cleanup program (I guess when he waxed eloquent during the campaign about the Catoctin District’s “pristine wilderness” he was thinking of something besides how it looks) and to initiate the insidious process of unraveling the county’s rural comprehensive zoning plan (which during the election he pledged to support unchanged).
Higgins was also a prime recipient of the remarkable flood of developer cash that flowed into Loudoun GOP coffers during this election cycle. Continue reading
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