Dems should vote on a Wednesday
Aside from previously blasting presidential candidate Obama, the Democrats in general and Creigh Deeds, the lame candidate for Virginia’s governor, I have mostly stayed out of partisan politics in recent columns. Surely you’ve noticed.
There have admittedly been a few swipes at our mostly malfunctioning Stafford Board of Supervisors, dominated by a Democrat majority of “aginners:” anti-business, anti-development, anti-SPCA-BPOL . But I said nothing, you must admit, in criticism of our daffy planning commission that fashioned a mighty comprehensive plan bereft of cost considerations and sufficient public input.
Incidentally, friend Jo Knight, a long-time real estate broker in Stafford, told the board the truth about adoption of a comprehensive plan. It would make small businesses wanting to locate here think twice about the added costs in time and money of having to jump through that added bureaucratic hoop.
In any event, since time is drawing nigh for all of us to vote on political candidates again, let me become more specific and un-bipartisan, unlike my usual meanderings.
Except as noted below, the Board of Supervisor candidates are all thugs, IMHO. Lacking any ideas to solve problems in Stafford, they only attack their opponents. Watch for more of their mud slinging until the election.
The good guys:
--Paul Milde, our most passionate and industrious incumbent who keeps the pot boiling and his opponents seething.
--Mark Dudenhefer, our long-time champion of safer roads, a retired Marine Corps colonel whose opponent is an inexperienced youngster campaigning negatively.
--Susan Stimpson, a candidate with a fresh face, who will bring proven skills and a needed distaff perspective to a board recently seen as an old boys club.
--Gary Snellings will represent Hartwood and speak for all its residents, not just the radicals and special interests. He has a steady, mature hand that will help return the board to civility.
If they all win, given the mood hereabouts concerning the present board’s hopelessly liberal majority, we conservatives will be dancing in the streets. Well, perhaps most folks.
I’ll be content to say I told you so.(I once did dance in the streets for George Bush just because of Al Gore's lofty and bellicose ignorance.)
With so little else to cheer for nowadays, from the Redskins to the White House to our collapsing dollar (“Sound as a dollar?”--R.I.P, alas), a Republican sweep in Stafford and Richmond will help stem the national adverse tide, let’s hope.
Which reminds me. With financial problems all around ( despite that found $5 million on the county’s books), and with little in sight to signal improvement anytime soon, it would appear downright foolish for us to approve that proposed bond issue for Parks and Rec. One failed the last time we went to the polls and we should dump this one too.
Meanwhile, on the recession-fighting front nationally, the Administration’s stimulus shovels still stand ready but idle, it seems. Tons of money wasted in the process, it says here, as I nevertheless remain comfortable in our still-conservative and prudent county.
There have admittedly been a few swipes at our mostly malfunctioning Stafford Board of Supervisors, dominated by a Democrat majority of “aginners:” anti-business, anti-development, anti-SPCA-BPOL . But I said nothing, you must admit, in criticism of our daffy planning commission that fashioned a mighty comprehensive plan bereft of cost considerations and sufficient public input.
Incidentally, friend Jo Knight, a long-time real estate broker in Stafford, told the board the truth about adoption of a comprehensive plan. It would make small businesses wanting to locate here think twice about the added costs in time and money of having to jump through that added bureaucratic hoop.
In any event, since time is drawing nigh for all of us to vote on political candidates again, let me become more specific and un-bipartisan, unlike my usual meanderings.
Except as noted below, the Board of Supervisor candidates are all thugs, IMHO. Lacking any ideas to solve problems in Stafford, they only attack their opponents. Watch for more of their mud slinging until the election.
The good guys:
--Paul Milde, our most passionate and industrious incumbent who keeps the pot boiling and his opponents seething.
--Mark Dudenhefer, our long-time champion of safer roads, a retired Marine Corps colonel whose opponent is an inexperienced youngster campaigning negatively.
--Susan Stimpson, a candidate with a fresh face, who will bring proven skills and a needed distaff perspective to a board recently seen as an old boys club.
--Gary Snellings will represent Hartwood and speak for all its residents, not just the radicals and special interests. He has a steady, mature hand that will help return the board to civility.
If they all win, given the mood hereabouts concerning the present board’s hopelessly liberal majority, we conservatives will be dancing in the streets. Well, perhaps most folks.
I’ll be content to say I told you so.(I once did dance in the streets for George Bush just because of Al Gore's lofty and bellicose ignorance.)
With so little else to cheer for nowadays, from the Redskins to the White House to our collapsing dollar (“Sound as a dollar?”--R.I.P, alas), a Republican sweep in Stafford and Richmond will help stem the national adverse tide, let’s hope.
Which reminds me. With financial problems all around ( despite that found $5 million on the county’s books), and with little in sight to signal improvement anytime soon, it would appear downright foolish for us to approve that proposed bond issue for Parks and Rec. One failed the last time we went to the polls and we should dump this one too.
Meanwhile, on the recession-fighting front nationally, the Administration’s stimulus shovels still stand ready but idle, it seems. Tons of money wasted in the process, it says here, as I nevertheless remain comfortable in our still-conservative and prudent county.
posted by Ben Blankenship at
12:43 PM
