Posted on 11/04/2006 8:08:18 AM PST by tomzz
Why I'm Voting for George Allen
Virginia Democrats have a long history of reckless spending; George Allen has a long history of opposing them. That's what this US Senate election is basically about.
The ways in which ordinary people are harmed and impoverished by democrat policies are often less than clear or obvious; they take the form of higher taxes at all levels of government and, more often than not, the money piled up by these higher taxes is used for purposes which benefit nobody other than beaurocrats seeking to aggrandize power.
Homeowners see rising local taxes directly; people living in apartments see them in the form of rent increases. George Allen is generally associated with populist groups within the Republican party and has been an ally of Ted and Marcy Dykes, who have led some of the hardest battles against those who would spend Virginia into a Kafkaesque beaurocratic state.
In theory, when real estate values rise, governments are morally obligated to lower the rates of taxation correspondingly so that nobodys taxes rise faster than inflation rates; nonetheless, this rule is not written down anyweere and the Fairfax County government has rarely obeyed it. Other regional governments of course look to Fairfax County as a model for their own behavior.
Beginning in 1986 or so and lasting until around 1990 or 1991, Fairfax county experienced a gigantic rise in assessed housing values. Again, the county government should have simply lowered tax rates accordingly, so that nobody's taxes would have risen any faster than inflation at the outside; They didn't. You might think that the human mind simply couldn't invent ways to spend money as fast as it began to roll in under such circumstances, and you'd be wrong, particularly under the reign of Audrey Moore. Expenditure items began to include such things as decorative windmills from Holland to provide scenic atmosphere for highway cloverleafs, parks which nobody needed or wanted, a fleet of police cruisers purchased before they were needed and left sit to rot, and on and on until it finally dawned on them that what they REALLY needed was an imperial palace, like Peterhof or Versaille. That is what the so-called "Taj Mahol", or "Fairfax County Imperial Palace" behind the FairOaks mall is about.
By 1988, it was obvious that the board of supervisers, along with the county executive, Jay Hamilton Lambert, was totally out of control. Taxes in some areas had been going up 100% and more a year, and people were actually losing their homes and going without heat on account of it. A sort of a non-meeting of the minds took place at the grange in Great Falls. Ted Dykes and other civic leaders spoke and then, predictably, the local press showed up to cover the speeches of Lambert and Drainesville superviser Lilla Richards. The people had had enough of such treatment; the press was told they could leave immediately, or cover their cameras until time for rebuttals. Things grew stranger as the evening wore on. Richards told the people in attendance they needed a "civics lesson" and, by some accounts, Richards and Lambert were lucky to leave alive; the police escort helped.
The two Dykes' organized COST (Committee on Sensible Taxation), and rounded up something like 4000 names on a petition to put the so-called COST proposal on the 89 ballot as a referendum to change the form of the county government and summarily heave the then present board in its entirety, prematurely. The law stated that this coule be done, and that either 3000 names or 10% of registered voters names on a petition were required. The obvious intent of the language was 3000 or 10%, whichever was LESS, i.e. so that some little county with 2000 living souls including dogs, cats, and children would not require 3000 registered voters' names on a petition. over
Mary Sue Terry in her role as Attorney General, however, insisted the law meant 3000 or 10%, whichever was MORE, and this meant rounding up 40,000 names, which Fairfax County didn't even have the manpower or facilities to verify or count. Nonetheless, we did it, and handed them nearly 50,000 names on a petition. Naturally enough, they found grounds to toss out something like 11,000 of these names and, when the Dykes offered to have an extra 5000 or so names in on the same day, told them that that could not be done, and they'd have to start over.
When it appeared that this was indeed still possible, Terry and cohorts rammed through a special law for Fairfax county, SB 278, which forbade counties over a certain size (only Fairfax qualifies) to hold special elections involving any change in the forms of county government. Every other county in Va. has this right; Fairfax now does not.
Thus, by changing the rules in the middle of the game a number of times, the powers that be in Fairfax County, along with their politically correct cohorts in Richmond were able to keep the COST petition off the ballot in 89 and preserve the status quo for two more years.
What WAS on that ballot was a referendum on "pledge" bonds, basically a government request for a blank check from the people. This was another kind of a phony municipal bond scheme; the pols figured what the hell, all they can do is say no, which they did, something like 80 - 20. The funny thing is that the Washington Post and nearly every common element of local media had been telling Virginians they HAD to vote for this item if they wished to continue to lead civilized lives. The item on the ballot called for voters to surrender their right to pass judgment on bond issues in perpetuity.
The war against phony bonds continued to occupy much of COST's attention afterwards, including two lawsuits, one involving the B2/B3 complex. Marcy Dykes won the first of these by a 6 - 1 vote of the Va. supreme court, and it is at that point that the entire business gets interesting and ceases to be only a Fairfax County deal. The boys in Richmond paniced when that happened; in ruling for Dykes case in Fairfax, the court had said that something like half the debt which the state govt. had contracted over the last 10 years or so was basically illegal.
Terry and a whole gang of the heavy hitters from Richmond somehow persuaded the court to reverse itself WITHOUT ANY NEW EVIDENCE BEING PRESENTED. This is illegal. The court is only allowed to reverse such a decision on grounds of overwhelming new evidence, or when forced to reverse itself by the US supreme court. In ruling against Dykes' and others on the B2/B3 suit, the judge cited this former case as a precident, basically claiming "You lost something similar two years ago, and therefore you deserve to lose now!" The B2/B3 case, as I see it, involved a violation of fiduciary responsibilities on the part of the board; such a precident should have been irrelevant.
In all of these dealings, Virginia Democrats have behaved as if they aspired to become an autocratic or monarchical ruling class of sorts, and as if they believed they had some sort of a devine right to rule, and that it did not matter what they had to do to accomplish this.
Again, George Allen has always been an ally of populists like Ted and Marcy Dykes, and of the common man in Virginia, and the people who are most committed to his removal are the same people who want to tax us into destitution and slavery in order to buy more imperial palaces, more decorative windmills for highway cloverleafs, and more fleets of unneeded government vehicles.
May I suggest you join me in copying one or both of the following and emailing them to absolutely everyone you can -- and ask them to do the same :
http://freedomkeys.com/2003taxcuts1.htm
http://freedomkeys.com/demsondefense-excerpts.htm
Also, be creative: find the email addresses of the officers, staff and members of various clubs and Chambers of Commerce in the towns around you and the areas you're most concerned about.
What the hell are they thinking in VA?
Are the demographics changing that much? that quickly?
The "macaca moment". Priceless.
Allen clearly was fumbling for something to call the guy without using any really bad words in front of a bumch of Christians and 'macaca' was the only thing that popped into his head. The whole thing was an obvious setup.
The network news starting every newscast with carnage among civilians in Iraq on the days they can't find any military causualties among the 145,000 service personnel stationed there.
I've noticed that, too. They don't talk about all the good things that are going on over there, and they don't talk about the stakes if we leave Iraq. One of the many reasons I quit watching the dinosaur media news.
I don't live in Virginia, but I wish I did so I could vote for Allen! You don't need reasons to vote for this outstanding American..he is a leader and America screams for men such as this. What happened was the DNC and their target was to stop him first and formost because he indeed could be one to run for the White House against their only candidate in 08, Hillary. He would beat her hands down and they couldn't afford to let that happen, thus they attempted to tarnish Allen early...with nothing but crap. Lets hope he can throw it off....VOTE folks, VOTE!!
It's not that close. Allen will win. They were saying the same things about Warner last time he ran.
I think there are two reasons. The first is obvious: the unprecedented smear campaign against George Allen. Sure he had some missteps, but Webb is not without blemishes. The MSM has ignored Webb's or mentioned them in passing and trumpeted Allen's night and day.
The second has not been so obvious for some reason, but it is obvious to me. Webb is an unusual candidate in that he has great appeal to two totally different constituencies: the liberal Peoples Republic of Northern Virginia (where he lives) and the vote-rich military area around Norfolk (largest Naval Station in the world I think--and he's a former Navy secretary).
I don't know enough about Virginia politics to know if they have ever had a candidate like that. I imagine it could be the decisive factor.
For those of you in Virginia, God bless you for your support of Allen. Virginia, Montana, Maryland, Missouri, Tennessee are all crucial this year. hopefully everyone gets out and votes and the Senate and the nation is saved.
Yes. Northern Virginia is not only teeming with native born liberals, but is literally bursting at the seams with more and more and more foreigners who come from nanny-state or authoratative cultures. They want to bring their cultures here and inpose them on us.
There was a time when there was a discernable difference between NoVa and Maryland. Not any more.
I'm glad Lee, Jackson, Stuart, Mosby, etc. can't see the sissy boy liberals that now inhabit Northern Virginia.
The RATS have never really liked Webb. He was their sacrificial lamb so that they could bring out all their smear campaign to derail Allen for 2008.
Unfortunately, Allen helped them out with the macaca incident. There's no question about that. And they tasted blood and suddenly Jim Webb is Mr. Wonderful.
But that incident should have been over when he apologized. With a RAT it would have been. Instead you have The Washington Post writing over 200 articles on the word and less than a dozen about Allen's accomplishments as Governor and Senator.
And they have virtually ignored Webb's past which has documented racism, sexism and anger issues, among other things. He's flip-flopped more often that John Kerry.
Quite frankly, with all the crap they've flung at him (and continue to fling) it's amazing that Allen is still standing at all. But that's a testimony to who he really is.
My hope and prayer is that the people of Virginia realize that come Tuesday.
This is all about turnout now.
I live here in Northern, Virginia. I am bringing in 3 new voters to the polls Tuesday. However, if you visit 7/11 you will see many other "new" voters.
Of course. He worked for Reagan! Until this year, he was contemptuous of Hollywood liberals, Clinton, and Kerry. The only reason he has been embraced is because he is useful. They are mutually using each other.
Instead you have The Washington Post writing over 200 articles on the word and less than a dozen about Allen's accomplishments as Governor and Senator.
There were that many?
I don't have the current count, but as of September 30, it was 156 to 1.
It's not that close. Allen will win. They were saying the same things about Warner last time he ran.
Have you gotten some data that supports the race not being so close? Just interested. I live in Richmond and literally can't sleep at night thinking of the possibility of Webb as Senator.
I can give you that data on Tuesday evening. :-)
Until then, I can only go on faith as well as historical evidence that all polls are slanted to the left.
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