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Outrage In Fairfax
By Greg L | 15 May 2007 | Fairfax County, Illegal Aliens | 11 Comments
The WMAL website has some fascinating emails posted regarding yesterday’s Chris Core show in which the host and callers discussed overcrowding in Fairfax County. It’s not looking like Gerry Connolly made a whole lot of friends with his comments yesterday, and a lot of listeners came away with the same conclusion as I did that Connolly has been ducking this issue and failed the residents of Fairfax County.
Here’s one listener’s take on Connolly’s backpedaling:
I found the conversation with Mr. Connelly sad, yet amusing. Here’s a man who has signed the County up for a “multimillion-dollar program, being developed with the Sierra Club, is intended to decrease government emissions of climate-changing greenhouse gases by increasing the use of wind power, clean-burning vehicles and environmentally friendly building techniques” [at a higher cost per watt of power] (Washington Post 4/3/07), but can not commit resources to enforce existing laws, the violation of which are hurting thousands in his community today. When he told the story of several weeks ago seeing the single family home with the sign saying “Apartments for Rent” in Spanish, then admitting, as the chief public official in Fairfax County that he was sure the situation had not been corrected, I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.
A zoning inspector emailed and expressed his frustration in getting the Board of County Supervisors to update the zoning ordinances so they can do their job more effectively. Without effective zoning enforcement tools, it’s hard to place blame on the inspectors:
The inspectors are dealing with an ordinance that is outdated, which appears to have been written in the late 1950’s. Efforts by those who enforce this ordinance to have a revision made have been ignored. The members of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors have failed to allow updates and modernization of this ordinance. They will pass additions to the ordinance but have not modernized it.
A listener who visits a lot of these homes as part of her job added some insight into what the worst cases look like. I can’t imagine things getting so bad that the owners of these overcrowded houses might be trying to tap into active electric service cables in order to expand the number of people they can accommodate in their buildings:
The hard core cases have cut up their houses using illegal and unsafe building methods without having building permits, building inspections or fire code inspections. Also, as some callers tried to convey to you, many of these people are conducting illegal businesses and I see many tapping illegally into electric, cable and phone lines. These properties not only run down property values-they are dangerous and unsafe for the people living in them. A simple verified complaint from a neighbor should be enough to trigger an inspection by the building, fire and home health care inspectors.
Challengers to the current members of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors need to seize this issue and run with it. Yesterday’s program generated an overwhelming response by the listening audience, and this issue is probably number one in the minds of some voters who are having to deal with this in their local communities. I can’t see any better opportunity to take down Gerry Connolly for his disinterest in doing anything to protect the quality of life in areas of Fairfax County while he spends an inordinate amount of energy and taxpayer dollars on initiatives that won’t matter to anyone other than a handful of activists on the far-left.
UPDATE: The Fairfax County Times has more on this issue here.
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It is time for every one to take a stand. Here is a story in central North Carolina where I am originally from, read the comments posted by readers:
http://wral.com/news/local/story/1413989/
I believe that it is time for groups like Save Manassas and Save Fairfax to go nationwide. There is strength in numbers, and numbers are the only things that politicians are afraid of as was made very apparent here.
You bring up an interesting point about the unsafe living conditions: Illegal alien activities cause a disproportionate number of crime and accident victims among these immigrant communities. If the authorities cracked down on overcrowded conditions and street crimes (not to mention sending away those who aren’t supposed to be here), the rate of victimization among minority and immigrant communities would decrease drastically.
See my post on Fireworks on WMAL
In truth, I’m a bit surprised that this issue has taken so long to take root in FFX. I lived in springfield for about 8 months in 1990 and they already had some pretty serious problems back then. Some of those developments were built in the 50’s and the roads just weren’t spec’d to handle anything more than 2 cars per unit.
All this being said, I think Republicans do have to be careful with the “xenophobe” label. I hope the message of the social pathologies can be coupled with protection of communities from crime, not fear of any foreigner. It’s one thing what you say in a message, quite another how it gets interpreted.
If fairfax thinks they have it bad then they should spend a few days in the park. At least their elected officials seem to be feeling the heat over this issue finally. Ours just laugh about it.
Why shouldn’t they, park’d?
They feel brazen enough to lie about their participation in a 287(G) program. They feel brazen enough to spend $33 million on an elementary school that is almost double what it should cost on a per sq. ft. basis.[1] They feel brazen enough to try to run a businessman out of town, with raids and false rumors.
[1]The people who promote the “LEED” green energy design program claim it only costs an additional $3 per square foot to build a green school. So that does NOT account for the additional cost increase.
Ron,
According to the Washington Post article this past Sunday there are plenty of Dems who are pissed off about this issue. Liberals don’t mind illegals until they move in next door.
Recall what Gerry did when he had a car accident a few years ago. He is why many people are sick of politics and politicians.
You know Ron you hit the nail on the head here. All of these bleeding hearts cry for the illegals yet they all live in their cushy mantua neighborhoods far away from the white vans clogging the streets, the 15 people to a house, the corona bottles in your yard and the trash blowing around your neighborhood streets. Easy to fight for illegal rights when you don’t have to live in the squalor that they create.
Ah, the shopping carts… I live in Centreville about 1/2 mile from a Giant. My neighbor and I get our exercise returning abandoned shopping carts back to the Giant. I have pulled many out of the Big Rocky Run. And along the way back to the Giant I get to pick-up the continuous trail of McDonalds trash the entire distance… and I get to see the new graffiti every week in town as I dodge the day laborers camping out on the lawn of Centreville’s library… ’tis getting old fast…
That shopping center on Centreville Road near Herndon where the
Baja Fresh is has shopping carts equipped with some sort of device that locks the wheels up if they’re moved past a certain point in the parking lot.
Or, so the signs in the parking lot say, anyway.
With regards to the trash, I’m convinced that some of these people make as much mess as they get paid to clean up.