A little Rule 5 for a cold Saturday.
It is respectfully recommended that you listen to “Under the boardwalk” by The Drifters as you view today’s selections:
[...] edited by: Vivian Paige,
Virginia Editor
A little Rule 5 for a cold Saturday.
It is respectfully recommended that you listen to “Under the boardwalk” by The Drifters as you view today’s selections:
[...] Yesterday, CCC commented on TIME Magazine’s selection of Ben Bernanke as the publication’s Person of the Year for 2009. The selection is appropriate because of the influence of Bernanke’s actions on world events. TIME has indeed made some notorious selections in the past.
So what did Bernanke do? Here [...]
As 2009 draws to a close, the Tea Party movement continues generating controversy, at the local, state and federal levels. But despite the successful press from media outlets such as FoxNews, Politico and others, the tea party movement fails to deliver where it matters most: elections. [...]
My apologies. I embedded the wrong video. 12/17/09
Reminder, persons of the year are not always heroes. Quite often, they have been villans. The tradition started in 1927 and has featured people who have influenced the world, not necessarily in a good way. Click to see past selections.
Who is your [...]
Here we go again. On Tuesday this week former vice mayor Sam Mabry filed a Freedom of Information Act claim against Falls Church City officials. Mabry is requesting documents related to communications between council members and others regarding the initiative to move local elections to November.
Mabry and his associates [...]
The confusion about local elections in Falls Church City and Hatch Act restrictions is so rampant it strikes me as being intentional. Time for a primer on the subject.
What was the acronym Joe Bodmer used to describe the political strategy being used by some opponents of November elections? [...]
Blueweeds is live blogging the Falls Church City Council meeting on December 14, 2009, for the agenda item regarding moving local elections.
For those of you new to the live blog format, the observations are very contemporaneous (read: not really filtered very well). So please keep that [...]
A little conjecture and perspective on the todays' WaPo article on moving local elections (Will Falls Church Voters Move To Fall Elections? ).
The article was pitched by opponents of moving local elections as a way to cudgle the discussion that will happen at the council meeting' [...]
Council members Team Dave Snyder and Nader Baroukh were forced on Friday afternoon to reveal their plans to hold a citywide referendum within the next sixty (60) days on whether or not to move local elections to November. A council resolution calling for an emergency advisory [...]
This year has been a year for running great Republican candidates across the entire state, but especially in Northern Virginia. We’ve been especially successful in our special elections, and I’m hoping that our trend continues as we’ve got a school board special election coming up in the Mason District (to [...]
The Roanoke Times editorialized today in favor of the Know Campaign’s guilt-based GOTV campaign, and I couldn’t agree more. That was the conservative group who was looking to send out mailers telling people which of their neighbors have voted in recent elections. The SBE was upset, as were many [...]
The Fairfax Times got it right in its recent editorial ("One Size Fits All") on moving local elections to November.
The money quote:
"... Frankly, we're not sure why this decision has been so difficult to make. ...
In late 2009, with every municipality between Herndon and Hampton Roads'" [...]
In the political poker equivalent of a call and an all-in raise, Falls Church City Mayor Robin Gardner last night proposed a modification to the November local election ordinance which would move the effective date of the change to November 2012 and provide that no council member whose [...]
Falls Church City changed its local elections in 1973 from June to May in response to an administrative change made in Richmond. Moving local elections was done by city council ordinance, not by public referendum, and it did not result in partisan elections or the extension of any [...]
The state of Virginia has said it will no longer subsidize local elections held in May. Moving Falls Church City local elections to November would dramatically increase voter turnout and would save city taxpayers approximately $60,000 each local election cycle.
Opponents of moving local elections argue moving local elections to the [...]
