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How many times do we have to hear Loudoun Republican Supervisor Shawn Williams (R-Broad Run) advance exactly the same mendacious claims that the all-Republican Board of Supervisors is not cutting the school budget?

Williams was at it again this week, with a letter to Leesburg Today in which he even had the chutzpah to assert that “unfortunately, some have put forward a false narrative that this Board of Supervisors has cut the LCPS budget.”

OK, Shawn, shall we go over it once more?

This year, enrollment in the Loudoun school system rose by 3.7 percent (an additional 2,569 students added to the rolls) — Continue reading →

Once again demonstrating its deep and abiding commitment to democracy and open elections, the Loudoun County Republican Committe — or rather, five of its key henchpersons who run the show — reacted on Monday to longtime Republican house delegate Joe May’s announced candidacy for the open 33rd District state senate seat by immediately pulling the plug on a planned GOP primary — and instead rushing out new rules a few hours later to have their candidate chosen in a closed-door meeting in which the GOP henchpersons get to decide who is allowed to cast a vote at all. Continue reading →

A droll footnote to the item we reported the other day about extremely well-traveled Loudoun Board of Supervisors Chairman Scott York (R-At Large):

Because York was one of no fewer than five state and local officials involved in divvying up road building funds whom York invited along on his action-packed  ten-day highly official tourism and shopping spree to Turkey in late October, and one of three officials on the trip who serve on the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority, even Virginia’s extraordinarily lax ethics rules required that public notice be given of the trip — as do any occasions where three or more officials serving on the same body get together, as there is a presumption that they may be discussing official business out of the public view.

York, per usual, never tells his benighted constituents about any of this many foreign junkets  to Germany, England, Asia, and now the exotic Near East (all of course vital to the job of administering a Virginia county), nor has he ever to our knowledge reported back to the Board of Supervisors or the public on the “results” of these trips.

But on the advice of the NVTA’s lawyer, public notice was required this time. And so it was indeed provided.

We’re sure everyone saw it, as it was conveniently posted in a single location . . . on the bulletin board at NVTA headquarters. Continue reading →

Our globe-trotting chairman of the all-Republican Loudoun Board of Supervisors, Scott York (R-Often At Large), has received some no doubt unwelcome attention from the Washington Post this past weekend for his latest international fact-finding mission, reported here two weeks ago.

Joining York for his weeklong trip to Turkey October 25 to November 3 were Virginia’s outgoing transportation secretary and fellow big booster of  the developer-friendly “BiCounty Parkway” (aka Outer Beltway, Western Bypass, TriCounty Parkway etc etc) Sean Connaughton, Continue reading →