realloudoun

Apparently realizing that throwing off of the county Heritage Commission the most prominent representative of local heritage organizations was too much even for this Board of Supervisors to try to get away with, the otherwise very developer friendly supervisors have at last agreed to reappoint Lori Kimball to this commission (as an “at-large” member)—a small break from their otherwise consistent pattern of replacing independent experts on county commissions with developer and Republican Party drones.

A reminder to keep up the public pressure . . .

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!

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 →