Hall-Smyth Race Hits National Blogosphere
By: Lowell
Published On: 5/29/2007 5:53:23 PM
See here for a diary on MyDD, promoted by none other than the "blogfather" himself, Virginia resident Jerome Armstrong.
Comments
That is big news (Eric - 5/29/2007 7:18:33 PM)
A local races goes national. Wow.
And very much related, this "small" race has generated a lot of (sometimes heated) discussion here on RK. That does speak volumes for how the blogosphere is evolving as an interactive political landscape that's home to both political players and grassroots citizens at all levels.
Corruption (HerbE - 5/29/2007 8:28:12 PM)
Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
It is the responsibility of the voters to watch our officials and monitor their campaign promises and actions. Thank you RK for raising our awareness of the machine politics in Fairfax County. It is time to return to our democratic roots...representing the constituents...not the campaign coffers and "paying to play." Isn't this what the Dems are complaining about on the Fed level? We only need corrective lenses to look in our own backyard - which is what you have provided.
Actually This is Not the First National Blog Attention (Deborah Reyher - 5/29/2007 9:22:58 PM)
Over a year ago, ePluribus Media give front-page treatment to a series of essays addressing what what going monumentally wrong with Fairfax environmental policy, and how that helped foment a grass-roots citizens' "Network":
http://scoop.eplurib...
The Network is alive and well, and behind Charlie Hall all the way!
Very impressive! (Lowell - 5/29/2007 9:31:11 PM)
By the way, my thought for the evening is that the fundamental problem with "smart growth" in Fairfax is that there's too much "growth" and not enough "smart." Also, I'd say there's too much good rhetoric, and not enough followthrough. As far as high density development around Metro stops is concerned, it sounds great in theory but the devil's in the details. One problem in Fairfax is that, unlike Arlington, the Metro is not integrated into the community but goes down the middle of a highway (I-66). Flowing from that "original sin," you get a lot of problems, such as how to connect communities to the Metro, how to shoehorn a "smart growth" model onto what basically is suburban sprawl. That would be tough under any circumstances, but especially if you don't have the authorities watching the developers like a hawk. I don't believe that's the case in Fairfax, and that's a big problem.