The very belated scramble last week by Loudoun prosecutor Jim Plowman (R, Needless to Say) to ask the Circuit Court to appoint a real special prosecutor to investigate Supervisor Eugene Delgaudio (R-Sterling) for criminal misuse of country staff, resources, and offices for private political fundraising activity is the latest twist in a bizarre series of cover-ups and bungling that has been going on since March. Continue reading
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A lot of very unhappy constituents
There was a standing-room-only crowd last night to confront Chairman Scott York (R) and Supervisor Shawn Williams (R-Broad Run) when they showed up in Potomac Green to try to sell the Hounds/One Loudoun stadium deal to a lot of very unhappy neighbors.
The meeting went on for three hours. We’ll have more details to follow. Clearly York, Williams, and the rest of the all-GOP Board seem amazed that the people who actually live in Loudoun are not deliriously happy about corrupt backroom deals that favor special treatment for major campaign contributors while shutting out the normal public process. (The Board last month voted 9–0 in another snappy “business friendly” move to “expedite” the approval of the stadium backer’s bait-and-switch decision to “move” the planned stadium from Kincora to an entirely different location at One Loudoun.)
Much more to come on this story.
A funny thing happened on the way to the political payoff
It turns out that not everyone in Loudoun County is as gaga in love with the Loudoun Hounds (or even their irresistible mascot “Fetch”) as Major Campaign Bucks Recipients Scott York (R), Supervisor Shawn Williams (R-Broad Run), and the other grateful Republican officeholders who are rushing through an expedited special exception to allow the Hounds to change the location of their proposed very minor league stadium.
Among those distinctly unthrilled are the residents of five age-55+ communities within shouting distance of the new stadium location. They are so ticked off in fact, that they have organized a group called No Stadium on 7. Their website nostadiumon7.org has already posted some terrific information Continue reading
It could even happen in Loudoun
For Loudoun County voters fed up with their ethically challenged Board of Supervisors, here is another encouraging thought from last Tuesday’s election results . . . a story the New York Times ran the other day with this headline:
VOTERS OUST LAWMAKERS
ACCUSED OF ETHICS VIOLATIONS
It could even happen here!
And by 2015 the Board might even be finished with its investigation of Supervisor Eugene Delgaudio’s financial finagling and misuse of county offices, staff, and money . . .
See, Loudoun County does not have to have a bunch of crooks as supervisors
With a 75 percent turnout on Tuesday, Loudoun County went decisively for the Democratic candidates for president and U.S. Senate, Obama receiving 51.5% to Romney’s 47%, Kaine 52.8% to Allen’s 46%.
A year ago, the all-Republican slate of supervisors whose corruption, mismanagement, incompetence, special-interest favoritism, and pro-developer backroom deals we are now enduring, was elected in a contest that brought out 28% of registered voters to the polls.
Moral of the story: We in Loudoun do not actually have to abandon our local government to the corrupt local Loudoun County Republican machine . . . if people actually vote!
Hope we can just possibly remember this three years from now. Or better, change Virginia’s antiquated system of off-year elections — a relic of Virginia’s racist Byrd machine that for decades actively discouraged voting, not only by African Americans, but by members of its own party who (horrors) came out for national elections to support those damned liberals like FDR, Truman, and LBJ, and thus could not be trusted to install the machine-picked candidates at the local level.
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