All Entries in the "Taxes and Spending" Category
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, [...]
Guest editorial: Tom Perriello: Keep stealing? Yes, we will!
Tom Perriello: Keep stealing? Yes, we will!
by Keith C. Drake
In a rare moment of “accidental honesty affliction” or “AHA,” Congressman Tom Perriello told a group of constituents last March: “If you don’t tie our hands, we will keep stealing.” (emphasis added).
Video of the event produced and posted by The Schilling Show made the national news. [...]
Breaking news: Democrat Congressman Tom Perriello says, “Fire Geithner!”
Democrat Congressman “King Tom” Perriello (VA-05) has officially called on President Barack Obama to “fire” United States Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, presumably for incompetence (see video below).
Perriello’s explicit demand was voiced in response to a constituent-posed question at the August 20, 2010 Ruckersville, Virginia town hall meeting:
Constituent: “Which of the President’s policies do you like [...]
Guest editorial: Housing authority’s explosive expansion may explode
Housing authority’s explosive expansion may explode
by Kenneth A. Martin
For over ten years, the Charlottesville Redevelopment and Housing Authority (CRHA) has struggled with issues involving finance, management and maintenance of the city’s current 376 public housing units. Over two years ago, the Board of Commissioners of the CRHA decided to hire a consultant, Wallace, Roberts & [...]
Perriello sign-ban shot down: King Tom’s fascist tactic taken from SEIU playbook
The Rutherford Institute, yesterday, strongly condemned Congressman Tom Perriello’s Town Hall “sign-ban” as “an act of outright censorship” that comes “at the expense of his constituents’ First Amendment rights to freedom of expression.”
Within hours of Rutherford releasing their statement along with a letter (which threatened legal action) sent to directly to “King Tom” Perriello, the [...]
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 [...]
Thorpe speaks: Perriello taken to the woodshed
On Monday, August 2, 2010, Congressman Tom Perriello was given a long overdue whupping, not by his mother, but by Carole Thorpe, chair of the Jefferson Area Tea Party.
At the evening press conference, Ms. Thorpe along with Alex Cortes of DefundIt.org and Dr. Gary Helmbrecht took turns taking Perriello to task for breaking his “abortion [...]
Guest editorial: Convicting social justice
Convicting Social Justice
by Josh Lambert
As a graduate of the University of Virginia, I have spent the past three years of my life listening to professors and students sing the praises of a concept I am sure we are all familiar with: Social Justice. Intellectual after intellectual has told me that the pursuit of Social Justice [...]
Fleeced by the Barbour 2: Charlottesville’s commercial real estate assessment racket
Previously, we documented Charlottesville’s outrageous residential over-assessments wherein scores of City property owners have been paying dramatically higher real estate taxes than they should be—thanks to a partially corrupt, partially inept assessment operation, headed by Roosevelt Barbour (in collusion with the Charlottesville City Manager’s office).
But today’s announcement of the Charlottesville Ice Park’s completed sale should [...]
