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Green building, brown bushes: Charlottesville’s colorblind environmental hypocrisy
For all its self-aggrandizing blather of being a “green city,” prioritizing a “more robust tree canopy,” and invoking environmental sustainability, practically speaking, Charlottesville city is pulling emerald wool over our eyes.
Consider CAT’s (Charlottesville Area Transit) “new green facility” (aka the green goddess)—a modern marvel of LEED-certified energy efficiency goodness. So esteemed is this advanced edifice, [...]
Good to be King pt. 1: “King Tom” Perriello bans signs at taxpayer-funded town hall meetings
A notorious nemesis of First Amendment freedoms, Democrat Congressman Tom Perriello (VA-05) has done the unthinkable: By royal decree, he has outlawed his subjects’ right to free speech!
At a series of taxpayer-funded re-election rallies (aka Town Hall meetings), Perriello’s staff has posted the following edict at the Congressman’s behest:
“To assure a pleasant atmosphere, no signs [...]
Lefty loves Tom Perriello: McNeill, too, slants the news
Words are powerful.
Words can be used to clarify; words can be used to obfuscate.
When perusing the daily newspaper, one should not need to parse. Sadly, when Brian “Lefty” McNeill is at the pen, every printed word must be run through an objectivity strainer, and the spaces between the lines, as well, must be weighed for [...]
Bird brained: “Chicken Tom” Perriello ducks debate with Jeff Clark
Tom Perriello is a man well known for personal and public hypocrisy.
He claims to be “Catholic,” yet he supports abortion “rights.”
He claims to be fiscally frugal, yet he votes in favor of ObamaCare and for the massive energy tax known as Cap and Trade.
He claims to “represent” the people of Virginia’s Fifth Congressional District, yet [...]
Let them eat cake: Perriello health care plan to starve constituents?
Virginia’s 5th District Congressman, Democrat Tom Perriello, is a silver-tongued snake oil salesman if ever there was one. He could sell ice to an Eskimo. He could even sell socialized medicine to a district largely comprised of capitalists. And that he did.
The delusory pitch was based on Perriello’s promise that his vote in favor of [...]
Soaked: Ratepayers underwrite RWSA $5k gift to Rivanna Conservation Society
Times must be flush at the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority (RWSA).
At their June 22, 2010 board meeting, the embattled authority (infamously known for raising water and sewer rates to compensate for conservation–related revenue shortfalls) quietly pumped $5,000 of ratepayer money into the caissons of a political ally—the Rivanna Conservation Society (RCS).
RCS, a private, left-leaning [...]
Open trough: Charlottesville City’s $360M “free” lunch
Charlottesville City’s Director of Disinformation, Ric Barrick, is at it again. This time he’s promising something that never has existed: a “free” lunch.
Barrick deceptively headlined his June 18, 2010 press release (see below), “Charlottesville Parks Department to Provide Free Lunch this Summer,” assuming that media outlets would “swallow” and “spit out whole” his pablum.
A fatal [...]
Institutional amnesia: Charlottesville City Government “forgets” Memorial Day
In a shameful exhibition of disdain for America’s war dead, Charlottesville City Government was officially unrepresented at Monday’s Memorial Day Ceremony on the grounds of the Albemarle County Office Building, McIntire Road.
The event, sponsored by Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1847 (headquartered in Charlottesville) is an annual tradition held on this date, at this time [...]
Left is right, Right is wrong: Street theatre and protesters in Perriello’s parking lot
In an amazing turnabout of tolerance, more than 20 left-wing protesters from the Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice (CCPJ) were allowed to congregate, mill and perform (anti-Bush!) “street theatre” (see video and photos below) in the parking lot of Democrat Congressman Tom Perriello’s Charlottesville office, Wednesday, May 19, 2010, without complaint.
This, on the heels [...]
Video vilification: David Brown’s bullying pulpit
Time and time again, citizens have bemoaned abusive reception at the hands of Democrat Charlottesville City Councilors during meetings both public and private. And over the years, many residents—Democrats and Republicans alike—who may on occasion disagree with Council, have stopped attending or speaking-out at City Council meetings, fearful of a public tongue-lashing by bumptious and [...]
