by jacob
They are having a poll over at the Loudoun Times today. Who would YOU like to see voted out of office. Well. We all know the answer to that question. The biggest idiot in the history of Loudoun Politics: Stevens Miller
Follow the link here
http://www.loudouni.com/themes/people
And put your displeasure on record. Power to the people.
The contest for Chair of the Loudoun Republican Committee is about leadership. It is about what candidate has both the strategic vision to win and the management skills to operate a dynamic operation such as the LCRC. This job takes a very special set of skills. Skills that Candace Strother has proven she possesses. It is my hope you will take a few minutes and allow Candace Strother in her own words to describe to you her core conservative beliefs, principles and the experience she has that will enable her to implement her vision for the LCRC going forward.
Please enjoy this terrific Video
G.Stone
I want to thank my friend David D’Onofrio, President of the Casey Group and host of Talk Of The Town for allowing me to participate in his new web based show. The show is taped at the Loudoun Times Mirrror in downtown Leesburg. David does a very good job of hosting the show and unlike some in the media David’s knowledge of the issues is refreshing and makes for substantive discussions. Take a look at the most resent show HERE
The one point in which we can all agree, is that I have a great face for radio.
G.Stone
As Loudoun’s media outlets have shrunk (no more WAGE, no more Easterner, etc) it has become harder and harder to find quality news and opinion about what’s going on in Loudoun County. Recently that trend has reversed itself and the existing media outlets have improved their websites and their offerings. “Talk with The Times” is a great example of this trend. (link: http://www.loudountimes.com/index.php/video/the_times/) This new web-based show endeavors to take a quick “Meet the Press” like look at Loudoun County’s issues.
The show is hosted by David D’Onofrio, a Loudoun-based strategic communications professional whose company is The Casey Group. He also has a great blog called “The Loudoun Scoop” that recaps the news each morning at http://www.TheCaseyGroup.us/TLS among his many other endeavors.
He has kicked off the show focused on the County Budget and has interviews with Chairman Scott York and Supervisor Lori Waters online already. “Tune in” on Friday March 5th and you’ll see yours truly debating Loudoun Education Association President Sandy Sullivan on school budget matters.
My hat is off to the Loudoun Times Mirror and D’Onofrio for making the effort to go a little deeper on the important issues of the day here in Loudoun
G.Stone
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A very rocky road, with total disaster just over your shoulder…
Dear Loudoun Republican Friend,
I hope you will do me the personal favor of voting for Candace Strother to succeed me as the next Chair of the Loudoun County Republican Committee (LCRC) at this Saturday’s (March 6) Loudoun Republican Party Canvass at Belmont Ridge Middle School. Here are the Canvass details:
When: Saturday, March 6, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Where: Belmont Ridge Middle School (click here for directions)
Who Can Vote: Any registered voter in Loudoun County who brings photo ID and is willing to sign a pledge to support our Republican candidates
If you want to continue the Republican successes we have had in Loudoun County, highlighted by us sweeping the ’09 Governor, Lt. Governor, and Attorney General races by margins larger than the statewide totals, and electing all five of our House of Delegates candidates, then you must join me in voting for Candace Strother as LCRC Chair on Saturday, March 6.
If you are proud that we have expanded our GOP volunteer base, demonstrating our Loudoun grassroots operations are truly “home grown”, and you want to see these efforts continue, then you must join me in voting for Candace Strother as LCRC Chair on Saturday, March 6.
If you are happy to see us expanding our electronic and media presence to spread our positive GOP message and competing for voters all across Loudoun County, then you must join me in voting for Candace Strother as LCRC Chair on Saturday, March 6.
Candace has the conservative bona fides and leadership skills we desperately need in a Republican Committee Chair. She has worked for President Reagan, the Heritage Foundation, and was a key leader in our Loudoun election victories last year. I wholeheartedly endorse her! For more information on Candace, please visit http://candace4chair.blog.com/.
Voting is open to any registered voter in Loudoun willing to sign a pledge in support of our GOP candidates. You must bring photo ID. Voting will occur on Saturday, March 6, from 10 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. at Belmont Ridge Middle School. You just need to show up, vote, and leave! For additional information, please click here.
Many of you are involved with me on activities ranging from my Republican activities, to youth baseball, to defending the Second Amendment. Over the years I have learned that it is rare to find someone who is a true leader, with gravitas and vision. We are lucky to have found such a leader in Candace Strother.
Again, I would consider it a personal favor, as well as an investment in future success for our Republican movement in Loudoun County, if you would vote for Candace Strother as LCRC Chair, this Saturday, March 6.
And please encourage your fellow Loudoun Republicans to join you in voting for Candace!
VOTING WILL TAKE ONLY MINUTES, BUT WILL PAY DIVIDENDS FOR YEARS TO COME!!!
Yours in freedom,
Glen Caroline, Chair
Loudoun County Republican Committee
G. Stone
At last Wednesdays public input sessions before the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors, candidate for Chair of the Loudoun County Republican Committee (LCRC ) Candace Strother , joined a number of concerned citizens warning the Democrat majority on the Board of Supervisors against raising the tax rate yet again. Having immediately followed Candace at the lectern, I was in a very good position to observe her comments. Believe me, Candace was a tough act to follow.
Her comments went beyond banging the lectern and complaining about this boards propensity to raise tax rates in the face of tough budget decisions. Candace reminded them that last fall 61% of the voters in Loudoun County voted for Bob McDonnell, Bill Bolling and Ken Cuccinelli, whose campaigns were focused like a laser on the economy, budget deficits, jobs and fiscal responsibility. Even closer to home, Candace made sure to remind them that Republicans swept all five House of Delegate races defeating two incumbent Democrats in the process. Further, she was right to mention the fact that our two elected Republican Supervisors Eugene Delgaudio, and Lori Waters were again the only two holding the line against increased tax rates. Her comments did not go unnoticed, the Washington Post picked up on Candace’s remarks. See the Washington Post Story Here.
From the Washington Post:
“All of these Republican candidates ran on a platform of fiscal responsibility, lower taxes and limited government. The people of Loudoun agreed,” Strother told the board.
She said consideration of a tax increase during a recession was “fiscally irresponsible and economically unsustainable while ignoring the will of the people.”
Candace’s remarks before the board is proof we need Candace leading the LCRC in 2010 and into the very tough political season of 2011. Candace recognizes that attempting to get this current board to do what is fiscally responsible is for the most part a waste of time. We simply lack the votes. She knows full well the task at hand is finding fiscally conservative candidates and electing them to the board in an attempt to bring Loudoun’s fiscal house in order. This is not going to be an easy task, all the more reason to have a seasoned leader at the helm of the LCRC. Candace Strother has the leadership skills and understands the political calculus enabling her to seize the moment to our advantage. Conservative Republicans and Independents alike need a leader like Candace Strother running the LCRC
It is my hope you and everyone you know interested in bringing back fiscal sanity to the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors will join us this Saturday March 6th, to vote for Candace Strother.
Where:
Belmont Ridge Middle School
19045 Upper Belmont Place
Leesburg, VA 20176
Directions >>
When:
Anytime between 10:00 am & 2:00 pm
Just come in, vote and go
It’s that simple!
Yours in Freedom
G.Stone
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli took a gutsy and intelligent step Feb. 17 when he petitioned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to reconsider its ill-advised “finding” that carbon dioxide creates an endangerment for human health.
“Attorney General Cuccinelli believes that the EPA acted in an arbitrary and capricious fashion and failed to properly exercise its judgment by relying almost exclusively on reports from the IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, an arm of the United Nations] in attributing climate change to [human-caused] greenhouse gas emissions,” the AG’s office explains. “The IPCC is an international body that is not subject to U.S. data quality and transparency standards and the IPCC prepared their reports in total disregard to U.S. Standards.”
The EPA’s actions were based upon data that we now know was tainted, and must be looked at in a new light. It is about time someone made this correlation, and filed for further scientific review.
Shiplap
No more stopping, unloading and locking in the trunk..
As of February 22, 2010, a new federal law allows people who can legally possess firearms under applicable federal, state, and local laws, to legally possess firearms in this park.
Shiplap
They got three or four PAID days off last week because of the snow, and they STILL take the Presidents’ Day “holiday.” When the rest of us can’t work because of the snow, we don’t get paid.
Loudoun County government offices will be closed Monday, February 8, 2010, due to the effects of the record-setting snowstorm that struck our region this weekend. However, the Loudoun County Administrator’s budget presentation and the Board of Supervisors Public Hearing will go on as scheduled.
County Administrator Tim Hemstreet is scheduled to present his proposed FY 2011 budget at 4:00 p.m., in the Board Room of the Loudoun County Government Center, 1 Harrison Street, S.E. in Leesburg. The Board’s monthly public hearing is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. at the same location.
This is a chance for people to let the current BOS know just how popular the proposed in property taxes will be. This is a chance to let the BOS know that increasing the size of the school budget when everyone else has to face a decrease in lifestyle is unacceptable. Go and let your voice be heard.
President 0bama did present a very interesting idea in his State of the Union speech, that all earmarks should be posted online by the requestion congresscritter before it is voted on. That is fine as far as it goes, but it should go farther. The requesting congresscritter should also be required to quote the section of the Constitution that gives Congress the power to do what the earmark says.
It appears Nancy Pelosi is still not ready to give up the good ship Obamacare. Granted, the ship has not sunk yet. The ship is listing, there is fire on the poop deck. The crew is leaping into the water. The keel has broken on the rock and shoals of reality. But, Nancy has just begun to fight!
“We will go through the gate. If the gate is closed, we will go over the fence. If the fence is too high, we will pole vault in. If that doesn’t work, we will parachute in. But we are going to get health care reform passed for the American people…”
Red Nancy knows what is good for us, better than we do. I read the above and the following words run through my mind.
we shall defend our Republic, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the blogs, we shall fight in the congress, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender
The American views the current 2700+ page health care as an invasion. An invasion that will give the government the power over our bank accounts, our end of life decisions, and most importantly, our bodies. This is the subjugation of America in a single legal stroke.
Nancy knows this. The progressives know this. Be afraid. There are still 59 Democrat Senators. That is far too many to feel comfortable, let alone complacent. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. It is time for the American people to awaken from this seventy year slumber.
The argument between free and planned economies is not new …
The trouble is that Keynes was a libertarian when compared to any the socialists, from Mao to Mussolini. Hippies want to eliminate differences in wealth. Keynes just sought a solution to the boom-bust cycle.
Two quotes by Hayek that I find to be spot on given today’s political fads…
“A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.”
“‘Emergencies’ have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.”
Friedrich August von Hayek
Never waste a good crises either. Remember Obama’s little quip when talking to some bald plumber dude?
Spread the wealth around!! Obama is gonna make us all equal, miserably so.
This is truly remarkable. Three amazing things happened in a period of 6 minutes.
1. A Democrat is not closing ranks with his fellow Democrat
2. A Democrat from MA recognizes that the money the Federal Government is spending belongs to the American Taxpayer. You know, the American Taxpayer the one who pays the bills a.k.a “those rich people”. He states this repeatedly as well.
3. The Democrat from MA recognizes that the folks at Bear Sterns got a crew cut, but the folks at Goldman Sachs got 100 cents on the dollar. This is typically called “picking winners and losers.” Behavior that any resident of a banana republic would recognize.
The Democrat on the hot seat looks typically impatient and shameless. Remember what ol’ Alinsky said, “The ends justify the means.”
The really amazing thing is that, it took a year for this scandal to finally start coming out. Where was our vaunted fourth estate all this time? The NYT’s is very good at broadcasting documents marked TOP SECRET and in doing so providing aid and comfort to the likes of Al-Qaeda. This whole mess with Goldman Sachs occurred in the New York Time’s back yard. Wall Street is near the Battery, the NYT’s HQ is in Midtown. I guess this story about Geithner: Democrat, Obama minion, former Goldman Sachs employee — is just not fit to print.
Where are the geniuses from MSNBC, the Boston Globe, the Washington Post etc? This is billions of dollars that belong to the taxpayers of the United States. Where did all these journalists spend their time? The answer is they spent their time trying to push the Obama agenda or dumpster diving in Alaska looking to write one more hit piece on Sarah Palin. Then there was the time spent reporting on the non-existent racist attitudes of the Tea Party movement.
MSM has been carrying the water of the Democrat party for a long time now. It would serve the nation, and the Democrat party if MSM would acknowledge its awe inspiring bias. A bias MSM denies; a denial the tax payer laughs at — while they go elsewhere to get their information regarding the state of our media, political parties, economy, nation, and the rest of the world we live in.
