You know what Charlie Hall is telling the truth.  As Supervisor, he will back up those words with action.  He want just give "lip service" to the words.....like Smyth.

Everybody who reads these Blogs, please promise to call 3 Providence voters and ask that they call 3 Providence voters. 

On June 12, those voting machines will be humming for Charlie Hall.  AT the end of the Day....Charlie is the new Supervisor of Providence District.

OOps....Correction.  Should read.  "He won't just give "lip service" to the words...like Smyth.

Who is meeting the needs of the special interests (read developers) who give him hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Connolly got a third of a million dollars from these interests in the first three months of this year. That's $331,035.01 to be exact. In three months.

The Washington Post recently decried a Bush fundraiser in which the entrance fee was $2,500 per person. That's for the President of the United States. That's a great deal compared to the $1,000 per person charged by Connolly, a relatively obscure County official. Unless you're a developer who wants a rezoning. In that case, $1,000 or even $10,000, as many of them shelled out, is a minor fee to get your multi-million dollar rezoning approved.

Reform is long overdue in Fairfax. Vote June 12. Vote for reform. Vote for Charlie Hall.

Some of that $331,035.01 came in 10,000 chunks.  Now call me silly, but how much does it cost to buy influence? 

I guess we could ask the Republican Bruce Tulluch from Loudoun.

I have asked family up your way to make the calls. You guys are right on. Watching with great interest as we seem to have the same problems in Chesterfield with the BOS and we would love to solve down here as well. Alteroffreedom.blogspot.com

Tell your family up this way to come to Charlie's barbeque fundraiser tomorrow (sunday 6/3) to meet Charlie in person.  Tell them to bring all their Providence neighbors too!

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6 confirmed so far and may get the chance to come up from Richmond myself. Thanks.

It was encouraging to hear Charlie Hall's position that someone representing Fairfax could speak up for Fairfax to VDOT. At that "debate" (May 23) Linda Smyth didn't make a peep about standing up for Fairfax's needs. All she did when problems were raised was point fingers at VDOT, Jim Gilmore, the school board, whoever, and say "we can't do anything because these people are in charge."

I think Charlie Hall gets the message that we expect our Supervisors to represent us, and rock the boat on our behalf, if that's what it takes to get things done.

And this fits with my philosophy that the government employees, like VDOT staff and Fairfax County staff, work for us, not the supervisors. Which from my experience is not always the way they see it. And that isn't meant as a slam on all government employees. But when the message from the top (in this case, Supervisors Smyth and Connolly) is that they know best and the public's opinion doesn't matter, that is reflected in the way the staff members treat the public.