Here is the LEC Headquarters.
Looks long-term!
Really says, “Visitors welcome!”
Look, it’s no secret how I feel about the CBPO. I’m in favor of clean water and higher land value due to clean water.
Suppose that you wanted certain policies enacted in Loudoun, policies that would enrich you at the expense of other residents and the long-term health of the county. Further, suppose that if you were honest about this goal, those who would do your bidding would never stand a chance of being elected. The quickest, easiest route to what you want would be to find an issue that you can use to generate fear and anger. Fear and anger will motivate otherwise busy or uninterested people to go vote for your candidate, whereas the ordinary business of actual governance – analyzing evidence and debating different solutions to problems – usually will not. It may be lazy, and it may be disingenuous, but it does work – and if serving your own interests is the goal, that’s all that matters.
The issue could be almost anything; it’s what you do to exploit it that counts. In this particular case, the issue is an attempt by local government to address the problem of deteriorating stream quality, and therefore the quality and cost of our domestic water. Continue reading
Found in my inbox this morning:
A politics fairy left a flyer under our pillow last night. No way to tell if it’s authentic, but it purports to be the remarks of this person:
Of this organization:
Who may or may not be this person:
Of this organization:
A group whose commitment to Loudoun County goes back all of eight months, according to the State Corporation Commission:
(Bets now being taken on how long they exist after November.)
The flyer says her remarks at a meeting on February 4, 2011, included these immortal words:
Action Teams of incorrigible virtues? Wonder if their team-mates will look like this:
Hard to see it, but the sign on this incorrigible Republican virtue says, “I am a corrupt politician,” and was worn in a display of (what the flyer calls) “fact-based discourse” opposing the passage of a clean-water ordinance for Loudoun County that marched through the board of supervisors’ meeting room in the middle of Tuesday’s business session.
Nothing informs a fact-based discourse like a pig-suit, eh?
The flyer closes with a few words of an unknown philosopher:
And this call to join their army:
A little “difference” from this crowd would be a welcome thing. They can start with some of their own advice and admit to some obvious facts. Here’s a start, with grammar to match their standards:
But that would be taking an easy shot, and after all the material they’ve supplied already, let’s not be hogs…
