Monthly Archives: January 2014

Jan 14 2014
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Scott York, hapless bystander

As predicted (it wasn’t much of a feat of prognostication), Loudoun Board of Supervisors Chairman Scott York (R-At Large) yesterday disavowed any responsibility whatsoever for having officially nominated and secured the unanimous approval of the all-Republican Board for Supervisors for Supervisor Eugene Delgaudio’s (R-Sterling) wacko choice of an anti-gay, anti-Muslim obscenity-and-violent-threat-spewing extremist to the Loudoun Library Board.

Asked about the laughable “resume” that  Delgaudio forwarded to the supervisors from Andrew Beacham (it listed no work or education experience whatsoever), York told Leesburg Today that it was “not unusual” for the Board to receive such “sparse” credentials from nominees for county boards and commissions. “We’ve gotten everything from short synopsis to full blown resumes in the past from people,” York said; he added that it has been “the unofficial practice” of the Board to automatically approve whoever a supervisor selects to fill the position for his district. Continue reading →

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Jan 13 2014
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Delgaudio: Curses, foiled again

In our last episode, having been caught in the act of deliberately hiding the notorious extremist background of the right-wing loony he secured an appointment for on the Loudoun Library Board of Trustees, right-wing loony supervisor Eugene Delgaudio (R-Sterling) announced he was “withdrawing” the nomination and Board Chairman Scott York (R-At Large) told outraged constituents who contacted him that the Board would “rescind” the previously unanimously approved appointment at its next business meeting.

A little problem: under the Virginia statute governing library boards, a member of a library board may be removed only “for misconduct or neglect of duty by the governing body making the appointment” (Virginia Code 42.1-35). In other words, it looked like the Board was stuck with Delgaudio’s handpicked choice, one Andrew Beacham — known (now, thanks to the Washington Post‘s reporting) for tearing pages out of the Koran in front of the White House, being arrested for disrupting a Senate hearing, calling President Obama a serial killer, and issuing obscene and violent threats about gays and liberals.

But demonstrating what a political tool of Delgaudio he obviously was all along, Beacham last night obediently submitted his resignation, thus tidily resolving the embarrassment.

None of this would have happened Continue reading →

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Jan 12 2014
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Just don’t expect an explanation (or apology)

The gang that couldn’t govern straight, aka the all-Republican Loudoun Board of Supervisors, said yesterday that it plans to reverse its recent appointment of wacko right-wing activist Andrew Beacham to the Loudoun Library Board of Trustees. This was after the Washington Post‘s Tom Jackman revealed in a blog post on Friday that Beacham was the guy who ripped pages out of the Koran in front of the White House, was arrested at the Capitol for disrupting the Senate confirmation hearing of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, heckled President Obama at several speeches, and routinely sends out virulent, violent, and obscene anti-gay and anti-liberal messages on his Twitter feed.

Supervisor Eugene Delgaudio (R-Sterling), who nominated him, gave an incoherent explanation to Jackman as to why he was withdrawing the already-unanimously-confirmed appointment. Continue reading →

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Jan 11 2014
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More on Beacham

If there was any doubt that the fix was in on the appointment of a raving right-wing loony to the Loudoun County Public Library Board of Trustees by the all-Republican Loudoun Board of Supervisors — i.e., any doubt that Chairman Scott York (R) and raving right-wing loony Supervisor Eugene Delgaudio (R-Sterling) knew exactly what they were doing in securing his appointment — the deliberate effort to conceal their appointee’s “credentials” and the absence of any questions being raised about the laughable “resume” he supplied is pretty suggestive. Continue reading →

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Jan 11 2014
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What happens when you let the GOP run Loudoun

As noted the other day, Loudoun Board of Supervisors Chairman Scott York (R) has been trying hard to forget all of that late unpleasantness about not-technically-indicted fellow Supervisor Eugene Delgaudio (R-Sterling), quietly restoring Degaudio’s assignment to one of the Board’s committees, which had been taken away as punishment for the little matter of his misuse of office, finagling public funds for political activity, and abuse of staff.

York's new appointee to the Loudoun Library Board, demonstrating his support for the written word

York’s new appointee to the Loudoun Library Board, demonstrating his support for the written word

Through all those little difficulties last year, Delgaudio remained the darling of  the very far-out Tea Party crowd that runs the local Republican Party, and York seems eager to make amends now that bygone are bygones.

As reported first in the Washington Post this week, the love fest continues: York, at Delgaudio’s request, slipped into the we-don’t-even-need-to-have-a-vote-on-it “consent agenda” of the January 2 Board meeting the appointment of one Andrew Beacham to the Loudoun Library Trustees board as the Sterling District representative.

The 31-year-old Beacham, as the Post reported, has demonstrated his commitment to the written word, freedom of expression, and the advancement of literature by (a) standing in front of the White House and tearing pages out of the Koran to show his “support” for a Florida pastor who planned to burn copies of Korans in 2010; Continue reading →

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