Nov 08 2012
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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.

Nov 06 2012
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Circling the wagons

Real Advocate reports the latest development in the world’s slowest investigation of the blatant misuse of office by Supervisor Eugene Delgaudio (R-Sterling): County Attorney Jack Roberts, who serves at the pleasure of Chairman Scott York (R) and the rest of the Board of Supervisors (R), has named as the “independent” counsel to investigate Delgaudio’s financial shenanigans the former associate general counsel of major contractor and the leading Republican donor to Scott York and the Loudoun Republican Party, Bill Dean (who is also an owner of the Loudoun Times-Mirror (R), formerly one of the world’s newspapers).

So the “independent” counsel Amy Hutchens reports to Roberts who reports to York who reports to Dean  . . . who was Hutchens’s old boss.

So much easier to work with people you know and trust.

 

Nov 05 2012
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More Delgaudio money laundering

Supervisor Eugene Delgaudio (R-Sterling), as we know, is now at last under (extremely slow) investigation for using his county office, staff, and budget to carry on his very lucrative trade in outside political lobbying activity — really pseudo-political money-generating that earns him $150,000+ a year by rattling the cages of homophobic rich right wing donors with mailings warning that e.g. (this is a direct quote) “The Radical Homosexuals infiltrating the United States Congress have a plan: Indoctrinate an entire generation of American children with pro-homosexual propaganda and eliminate traditional values from American society.”

Delgaudio’s former aide Donny Ferguson, having learned at the knee of the master, as it were, has been running his own similar pseudo-lobby “American Tradition Partnership”; for a while, until they caught him at it, he was operating it right out of Delgaudio’s office himself.

However, Delgaudio is still enjoying a very cozy relationship with his protege, funneling county expense funds to Donny on a regular basis, Continue reading →

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Nov 01 2012
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correct link to Frontline story on Donny

The post earlier today had a broken link to the PBS Frontline investigation of former Eugene Delgaudio aide Donny Ferguson’s sleazy political tactics and probable violations of campaign finance laws.

The correct link is:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/government-elections-politics/big-sky-big-money/mysterious-docs-found-in-meth-house-reveal-inner-workings-of-dark-money-group/

Nov 01 2012
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Learning from the master of corrupt politics himself

Delgaudio’s youthful protege Donny Ferguson

NOTE: broken link to the PBS story below now fixed.

Donny Ferguson, former aide to as yet unindicted Supervisor Eugene Delgaudio (R-Sterling), is the subject of a fascinating investigative story by PBS Frontline showing how Donny has applied the lessons of dirty politics, smear campaigns, and dubiously legal fundraising pioneered by his mentor Delgaudio.

Donny, as many Loudoun residents know, is the mastermind of periodic sleazy robocalls which attempt to spread dirt on candidates just before an election. Because his “American Tradition Partnership” claims to be a “social welfare non-profit” organization, it is allowed only to “educate” voters on “issues,” not endorse candidates. It is illegal for such organizations to coordinate with campaigns.

During the supervisor elections in Loudoun last fall, Donny was however blatantly coordinating with the successful campaign of Geary Higgins (R-Catoctin), Continue reading →

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