Stewart To Connolly: Get Off Your Butt!
By Greg L | 17 August 2007 | Fairfax County, Illegal Aliens | 52 Comments
The DC Examiner has an interesting article online today where Prince William County Chairman Corey Stewart takes his counterpart in Fairfax to task for his abject failure to do anything to reduce the number of illegal aliens in Fairfax County.
“Gerry Connolly needs to get off of his behind and join the rest of us tackling illegal immigration in Northern Virginia,” Stewart said. “Fairfax is a real hindrance now. They are real laggards in terms of addressing the problem.”
With continued inaction, he said, the neighboring county is “becoming a sanctuary for illegal immigrants in Northern Virginia.”
Get some, Corey!
In response, a spokesman for Gerry Connolly trotted out the typical pablum offered by those who are actively complicit in this broad scheme to encourage illegal aliens to reside in our country unlawfully:
Fairfax County spokeswoman Merni Fitzgerald said the county has a policy of focusing “not on someone’s status, but on their behavior in the community.” Part of that policy, she said, is this year’s creation of a strike team to tackle code violations such as overcrowding.
“Immigration is a federal issue; we follow whatever policies the federal government enacts,” she said. “But immigrants have helped shape the identity of Fairfax County. … Our diversity here is truly our strength.”
How this “diversity” — a diversity of opinion on whether laws should be enforced or whether it is appropriate for government officials to attempt to subvert the enforcement of the law — is going to benefit Fairfax residents is beyond me. Comments like this are only going to further inflame public opinion against Gerry Connolly and the Fairfax Board of Supervisors who are complicit in the sanctuary policies in force within the Fairfax County Police Department that prevents police officers from questioning the legal status of any suspected illegal alien who is detained on anything less than a felony charge.
Help Save Fairfax, anyone?
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Fairfax is in dire need of saving…unfortunately I personally cannot participate as a leader in a Help Save Fairfax organization. What I CAN suggest is that like-minded Fairfax residents visit the Enhanced Code Enforcement Strike Team regularly, and provide the county with suspect addresses:
http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/opa/striketeam/
Whenever I am driving/riding/biking around residential areas, I bring a notepad and pen and write down the addresses of any obvious illegal bunkhouses. I have provided several reports, and actually received a call from a code enforcement officer!
Prince William County:
The median income for a household in the county was $65,960, and the median income for a family was $71,622. Males had a median income of $45,595 versus $34,286 for females. The per capita income for the county was $25,641.
Fairfax County:
The median income for a household in the county was $81,050, and the median income for a family was $92,146. Males had a median income of $60,503 versus $41,802 for females. The per capita income for the county was $36,888.
We neither need nor want policy advice from Prince William County.
Mr. Stewart - please attend to the business of the county you are expected to manage. Complaining about other jurisdictions is just another way of distracting your constituents from the problem you have created.
Fairfax Resident is right in the fact they don’t need our advice, they don’t have illegal alien problem YET because they have priced the county out of most of their abilities to afford a living space. So instead they expect PWC to house them. That’s fine, when it starts to become a problem to live here, they will have to go somewhere and I hope they end up in Fairfax, that ending results should be extremely amusing when Fairfax “socialites” can no longer roam the streets unarmed while finding their next Starbucks.
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IBy contrasdt what has Corey Stewart done to stop Gill? Nothing. Amazingly, Stewart endorsed Gill for the nomination. Stewart even spoke at Gill’s 3/31/07 campaign kickoff.
Stewart has been silent about the overvote fraud at the HOD-51 convention. Stewart has been silent about Kopko’s refusal to do anything about it.
Stewart told a mosque audience recently that “I got Faisal Gill on the ballot.”
Now Stewart wants to go to Congress and replace Tom Davis. Stewart is afraid he will run against Gerry Connolly, hence the invective.
But know this. Sending Corey Stewart to Congress means sending the federal lobbying firm of Sapentia LLC, whose principals are Faisal Gill and Gill and Gallinger law partner Asim Ghafoor, to Congress with him.
A Congressman Corey Stewart would answer Gill’s Sapentia calls, and he would answer them before he answered yours.
Ask yourself, do you want Faisal Gill’s and Asim Ghafoor’s Sapential LLC to gain a back door into Congress through the election of the reprehensible Corey Stewart the arms-deal lawyer?
http://www.sapentia.us/
Sapential LLC states on its website:
“”"What We Do
Our team of experienced professionals work at the local, state and federal levels. We provide services in many aspects of strategy and procurement, with an expertise in local and federal levels.”"”
Corey Stewart may be surprised about the level of outrage over the Gill nomination. Well, if he continues the path he is on then I know that Corey Stewart will face many more surprises.
Yeah I foresee those median income stats flip-flopping over the next few years. And don’t think some illegals aren’t living in Fairfax now, and not participating in such surveys. Some people can’t be told, they have to find out the hard way.
Does PWC have an e-complaints option like Fairfax does? If not, they need to add one.
And if anyone thinks Fairfax doesn’t have an illegal problem, then you need to get out more. They have hordes of illegals up there.
Fairfax Resident - comparing incomes of the two counties does nothing but foster an elitism that really should not exist. Yes, we have McLean where a good number of professional athletes and movie/tv stars (Linda Carter I belive lives here), but that makes us no better than PWC nor worse than Arlington. I think the only reason Stewart is thumping his chest is that he as higher aspirations and wants to look strong when he runs for Congress.
Thumper - saying that you “Hope they end up in Fairfax” really does nothing but add flames to the debate. Please know that Connolly DOES NOT speak for a good number of residents (Ds AND Rs) on the illegal alien issue. Besides, there are a good number of “boarding houses” all over Fairfax County and for years the police did nothing when they were reported on. On my way to church I pass one in particular…a McMansion built in an older community that not even one year after being built is already falling apart. It made the news recently and evidently the owner is being fined ONLY $1000 for having multiple families living in cubicles (mail addressed to that house will have different last names and then appt 1 or appt 2 after the name on the envelope).
I love Springfield and Fairfax County so I am VERY partial to it, but I also have lived in Prince William County and my children went to school there for many years and I keep in touch with a good number of my close friends and know that what affects PWC also plays to Fairfax. Let’s quit the finger pointing and name calling and the sticking out of chests and do the hard work. Greg has set the example with HSM and we in Fairfax need to follow his lead and do the right thing. Just as we would not want a child molestor living next door to us, neither should we allow illegals to have free reign in our county or let these boarding houses flourish unchecked.
BTW, gas in Prince William is about 30 cents cheaper than Fairfax
Hey Fairfax resident, You may not see it in your “high median income” neighbeorhood, but mark my words, you will eventually be affected by Illegal immigration in your community like the rest of us have been for a while now. It’s not until it’s happening to you that people start realizing the scope of the propblem. Guess money can’t buy you a clue huh?
There are plenty of illegal aliens living in Fairfax County.
Maybe the income numbers will flip-flop. Who knows. Loudoun is already the richest county in the US - not Fairfax.
My point is simple - the PWC Commissioner should attend to business in PWC, not spend his time complaining about Fairfax County.
All I read on this blog is what an unmitigated disaster the people of PWC think PWC has become. Illegal aliens, soaring crime, street rumbles, politicians connected to the Taliban.
Holy smokes!
It sounds more like Falluja than Virginia.
Then, the guy running your county starts popping off about Fairfax County.
I don’t know guys.
If I felt the same way about Fairfax County as you guys seem to feel about PWC I’d tell our politicians to shut the hell up when they stated verbally vomiting on other localities.
Good luck to you guys. I do mean that.
Oh … and “M”:
Here’s what your pal Corey Stewart said:
Gerry Connolly needs to get off of his behind and join the rest of us tackling illegal immigration in Northern Virginia,” Stewart said. “Fairfax is a real hindrance now. They are real laggards in terms of addressing the problem.”
With continued inaction, he said, the neighboring county is “becoming a sanctuary for illegal immigrants in Northern Virginia”.
Fairfax County is a sanctuary for illegal immigrants in Northern Virginia.
And … here’s what you wrote:
“…you will eventually be affected by Illegal immigration in your community like the rest of us have been for a while now. It’s not until it’s happening to you that people start realizing the scope of the propblem. Guess money can’t buy you a clue huh?”.
So, Fairfax is a sanctuary for illegal immigrants or there are no illegal immigrants living here but there soon will be?
And … just out of curiosity … whereabouts is Herndon located?
I guess you had too many wines at the Manassas Park Mensa meeting last night.
I don’t belong to Mensa, but I have a little theory about Fairfax.
As Fairfax Resident smugly pointed out, Fairfax has a higher per capita income then PWC. With this comes more separation of the social classes. For the most part, illegals haven’t invaded the elitists’ neighborhoods other then to clean their pools and do their landscaping. Illegals have an uncanny ability to pool together resources and get into some fairly expensive realestate so maybe that will change as they flee PWC. Untill then I don’t see Fairfax getting off the stick.
Comparing median incomes when discussing illegal immigration has zero value for many reasons. The two I can think of immediately are:
1.) According to US Census figures, Fairfax has approximately 3x the number of residents as Prince William, and is bound to have a larger number of both very high and very low income residents than PWC. Because of the larger sample size, the median of larger jurisdictions will usually be higher than the median of smaller jurisdictions.
2.) The income (or lack thereof) of illegal residents is likely not included in the median income statistics, so it’s not clear how the two are correlated. I’m not even sure how the median income of an area is intended to debunk the statements made by the PWC Chairman.
I don’t think Fairfax Resident was arguing that Fairfax does not have a problem with illegal immigration, but that the PWC Chairman is using the illegal immigration issue as red meat for demagoguery on the issue.
Personally, as a Fairfax resident myself, I welcome the comments of neighboring counties and hope they bring pressure to bear on Connolly and his ilk. I live in the Merrifielf/Dunn Loring area, and on my frequent bike rides I see MANY homes creaking under the weight of immigrant families. I will work as an individual to see that all of these get reported…and sometime down the road, it would be useful to use FOIA to get the records on number of houses reported and actions taken if that is at all possible. (Does anyone know if it is?)
I’ll chime in as another Fairfax resident who has firsthand problems with illegal immigration. We’ve got illegals taking advantage of our lax enforcement in my “higher per capita” neighborhood and most neighborhoods in the County.
I find it ironic that ‘Fairfax Resident’ will tell Mr. Stewart to keep his opinion in PWC, but ‘Fairfax Resident’ won’t ask Mexico to keep their s#$! in Mexico. (Or other countries promoting illegal emigration into the USA.) (And for you “progressive” close-minded bigots who think I mean “people” when I say s#$!, you are wrong: I mean problems.)
I’m pleased to see PWC taking Ffx to task on the issue. I’m also pleased to see the link to Help Save Fairfax. I will be researching and joining and participating as much as I can reasonably do.
From “The Cuccinelli Compass”:
“There will be a meeting of Help Save Virginia tomorrow night. The purpose of the meeting is to put in place leadership to do the work forming and setting up a Help Save Fairfax chapter to fight illegal immigration here in Fairfax County.”
FYI, Ken plans on attending.
To Fairfax Resident,
If Fairfax County cracked down on illegal aliens we wouldn’t have the problems in Prince William County that we do. Seems like Fairfax always dumps their trash on us in Prince William.
By the way take a tour of Burgundy Road, Elmwood, the lower end of Norton and Eleanor Ct. and you will see first hand how illegal “immigration” has shaped the identity of Fairfax County. If Greg will let me I can provide pictures for all to see. Connolly better hurry up and clean up that area before I get there with my camera.
And for those of you who are Prince William County residents, I will tell you in a few words what those areas look like: “The slums of Mexico and El Salvador”. I know I’ve seen it right in the heart of Fairfax County.
P.S. If you think you’ve seen trashy yards in our area. How about so much junk you can’t see the grass in the yard. They even have an ironing board out in the front yard and that is what the current Fairfax Co. Board of Supervisors desires to help shape the identity of Fairfax Co. I should publish pictures and watch your property values drop like a rock.
Fairfax does need help.
They have chosen to just to surrender certain areas to the illegal aliens. Two prime examples Annandale & Herndon. Go by the 7-11 at Little River Turnpike and Andandale Rds., and you will find at least 50 “day laborers”.There’s also been a few reports on tv showing flop houses in Fairfax, and they worse than most I’ve seen in PWC. Believe me, I have seen a few. I bet John Light has seen a few too.
The time has come that Fairfax must get over their DENIAL, and move forward against illegal immigration.
I’m so glad to be a PW native of the Gainesville District(The Honorable John Stirrup’), and that we are leading the way on trying to rid our county of ILLEGAL ALIENS.
Thank you John Stirrup!!!
JL
I’d like to tell a few people this…
“You think you’re so ILLUSTRIOUS.
You call yourself INTENSE.”-(TheCars..ByeByeLove)
This is an all time favorite line of mine, and use it often.
CORR 4:03
chosen to just surrender..
and they are worse than most I’ve seen
Fairfax Resident,
You must be mighty careful about where you go. The first gang violence I ever witnessed was right there in Fairfax County. Nice stabbing at Springfield Mall. A machete was used. I haven’t been back since. It was a little too close for comfort.
When I was a kid, I was always told to ‘clean up your own back yard before you start on the neighbors.’ Corey Stewart might well be giving advice to our surrounding neighbors if we had our own situation under control.
We do not. I wish he would spend his energy getting the zoning agents whipped into shape, all PWCPD officers on the same sheet of music, and appointed HRC members to do what they were appointed to do rather than aggitate. Prince William County has made a fine start in correcting our illegal immigrant situation but it is only a start. Let’s see some implementation before our county gets on its high-horse.
Typical, typical Stewart approach. PWC is not Cory’s main interest. He is his main interest.
Maybe we need an independant to run against him and Pandak. Someone who has their sights on PWC for the next 10-15 years - not Richmond or DC. Bet ya’ a strong independent conservative that runs on immigration issues and returning transporation funding requirements to Richmond not local tax dollars will take the chair. One without development ties.
Any takers???
Would someone please tell me what these baby carriages mean in front of the doors of these Hispanic homes? I keep seeing them all the time. They are left out when it rains as well so I know (or at least I hope) that they aren’t actually using them for their babies. It must signify that there are rooms to rent or something. Who can shed some light on this for me?
park’d
I can’t shed any light on the baby carriages. I’ve been wondering how long and what the new signal would be.
I can’t say for sure of course, but I wouln’t be surprised if that’s the new signal. Are the carriages at house that used to have the storm door open?
I did see one house today that was bold enough to have 2 cardboard signs up. Se un cuarto para rente=Room for rent
and gave the phone number to call. There are 6 cars there now tonight, this house had only 2 cars for the last month or so. This is near intersection of Portsmouth & Urbanna. One sign is nailed to the carport and the other nailed to big maple tree.
Fairfax Resident — how about getting your figures right next time.
http://www.wtop.com/?nid=25&sid=897253
Area Tops List of Nation’s Wealthiest Counties
August 30, 2006 - 9:35am
WASHINGTON - Several counties in the Washington area top the list of the wealthiest counties in the country.
According to new census figures, Loudoun County has the highest median household income in the nation at just more than $98,000.
Fairfax County is second on the list at just more than $94,000, while Howard County, Maryland is third.
Other area counties in the top 10 are Montgomery County, which came in sixth at just more than $82,000.
Prince William County, Virginia was seventh on the list at just under $82,000.
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Information from The Washington Post
(Copyright 2006 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
Fairfax resident is right on…..
I live in PWC and can tell you that Corey Stewart is providing sound bytes to get noticed in Fairfax, it’s part of his strategy to gain name recognition for his highly anticipated congressional race against Gerry Connolly.
Prince William Republican’s are so blinded by this guy. Frankly he doesn’t give a damn about PWC or immigration, all he cares about is getting noticed.
PWC needs to make him the lame duck Chairman that he deserves to be in November. His plan is to run for Tom Davis’ congressional seat, if he wins, we have to endure a special election, if he loses, he keeps his Chairmanship.
He is a corrupt man without a soul who uses ..the conservative evangelical church, the muslims, the Catholic church, his Jewish friends in Gainesville, all for selfish personal gain.
Corey Stewart is an OPPORTUNIST.
There are at least three reasons for this seemingly silly comment by Mr. Stewart:
1. all press is good press at certain relatively low levels of politics;
2. if you have grand ambitions of running against Connelly for something, despite being a relatively untested newcomer on the scene, it doesn’t hurt (particularly in uninformed circles) to have your name mentioned in the same article with Connelly;
3. the Fairfax policy of addressing behaviours, rather than status, is so damned sensible and rational that it sticks out like a sore thumb in a region whose politicians are grasping for the next magic voter mind-control, that PW and others are in real danger of looking very foolish. The comment in the article that Fairfax is addressing these issues under existing restrictions on housing, zoning, crime etc. is so refreshingly common-sensical that it threatens to dissipate the fog of hysteria that is fueling these issues in neighboring jurisdictions. That would be a very bad development indeed for pols who are trying to distract the electorate from their shortcomings and lack of accomplishment.
With these points in mind, it is clear why Stewart said what he said. It is also clear that in Loudoun and Fairfax there are several guys who would have real trouble without this issue this year who are going to try to saddle this beast up and ride it past the polls in November. They’re counting on those of you who have concerns about your neighborhoods and your quality of life to mistake rhetoric for effectiveness. They think you’re easy marks.
Are you?
Lafayette - what can I say but, ROCK ON!!!
I’ll be at the meeting tomorrow evening. The good folks of Fairfax (I think there are at least 5) need all the help they can get. I’d like to see Mr. Stewart there, also, lending support instead of criticism.
Nova Scout,
Stewart is damn good at acting like a politician, the problem is he has been a lousy Supervisor and an even worse Chairman. The Immigration Resolution wasn’t his idea, but he is an opportunist that will seize the moment given the opportunity to do so and take credit.
His best buddy Faisal Gill is a political imposter, who is campaigning to “cut the problem off at the roots” which means attacking employers for providing jobs to aliens.
There is evidence to support that it is the legal immigrants themselves who are abusing the illegals by encouraging them to come here so they themselves can benefit from the exploitation of cheap labor. Bearing in mind Gill is only licensed in DC, therefore he can only practice federal law in his Tyson’s office.
A fair assumption can be made that his practice is 100% immigration law to rescue immigrants from deportation. If elected he will continue his lobbying efforts to reform immigration law as well as influence the reform of laws that protect counterterrorism efforts in the USA. He has lobbyed congress before, while working for The American Muslim Council, he will again.
Stewart in Congress —DANGEROUS!
Faisal Mohommed Gill in HOD—MORE DANGEROUS!!
Hey Jon M.,
If Faisal Mohommed Gill is only licensed in DC, then the infamous letter he sent threatening suit to Black Velvet Bruce Lee from his firm seems to be an ethics violation, wouldn’t you say?
I’m glad Corey chastised Fairfax Board of Supervisors. My mom (long time Fairfax resident) and her neighbors have suffered under the Fairfax Board of Supervisors for a long long time. In fact the Supervisor that represents her district is quiting. Can’t stand the heat from the constituents I suppose.
By the way, PWC residents. You better support Corey in the upcoming election because if his opponent Pandak wins, you might as well raise the Mexican Flag over the McCoart building and over every PWC police station.
Patty,
I’ve read many of your postings and you’re an intelligent woman. I urge you to take this very seriously.
Stewart is an ISLAMIC TERRORIST SYMPATHIZER; he is turning his head to the illegal immigration of Muslim’s in favor of political favors. Is this who you want to put in charge of the county that you care so much about?
Make a point of speaking to LEGAL Hispanic Immigrants, and they’ll tell you Chesterfield County is the VA SANCTUARY for illegals, not Fairfax.
Most illegals can’t afford Prince William. What does help to draw them here is something we’re not talking enough about.
The message to HSM is that PWC must begin hunting down housing renovations being down without proper permitting for the purpose of providing low income housing tenements.
We must pass an ordinance IMMEDIATELY allowing only ONE FAMILY PER HOUSEHOLD. With all the foreclosures, we’re going to see a surge in investment properties with slum lords who will exploit our lack of enforcement. This has always been the problem and things will get worse no matter how many Illegal Alien Resolutions we pass at the BOCS.
STEWART knows this is the truth, but it is his MUSLIM friends buying the property and converting them to low income multi-family dwellings, unlawfully. It is also how they BUY their voting privileges in our county. Are you beginning to see the light?
Sharon PANDEK would NEVER knowingly turn a cheek to this if she had evidence of this type of abuse. Don’t be fooled.
“”"Hey Jon M.,
If Faisal Mohommed Gill is only licensed in DC, then the infamous letter he sent threatening suit to Black Velvet Bruce Lee from his firm seems to be an ethics violation, wouldn’t you say?”"”
Attorney Jad Sarsour, who had recently passed the Virginia bar, signed the letter from Gill and Gallinger. Given the mistakes in the letter (Sarsour even incorrectly spelled “counselor”) I would say that Sarsour wrote it as well.
Do you have to be a US citizen to pass the US Bar?
I wonder how stringent the verification of U.S. citizenship really is with the Bar Association.
I hope it’s better than the hiring practices of Homeland Security and the FBI!
To Mr. Ari Stotle: you said “STEWART knows this is the truth, but it is his MUSLIM friends buying the property and converting them to low income multi-family dwellings, unlawfully. It is also how they BUY their voting privileges in our county. Are you beginning to see the light?
Sharon PANDEK would NEVER knowingly turn a cheek to this if she had evidence of this type of abuse. Don’t be fooled.”
If you can prove this, it would be a very damning thing against Corey, but if it isn’t true, then you make the rest of us look like fools. I do not think that Sharon Pandak is not the answer at all. Corey is flawed, that I agree but not nearly as flawed as she is. She is a smug self satified typical Democrat who has never seen a tax she doesn’t love.
I have seen her debate against Corey and after that, I had no doubt who I would vote for.
I am glad to see Corey finally standing up against illegal aliens. I hope that he will also stand up against terrorism as well. I know Faisal and I find it hard to see him as a terrorist. My objection to him has been that he was basically a “do nothing” when he was given some responsibility in the PWCGOP. I don’t want a “do nothing” in Richmond. I don’t have a dog in that fight since I am not in the 51st, but for me electability is what is important as well as the principles the man stands for. Faisal always has been a conservative. I worked on several committee’s he was on and he doesn’t have a liberal bone in his body. I don’t like his associations and I would like to hear him come out against radical Islam. That I haven’t heard and I find that troubling. I also find it troubling in the PWCGOP, that if you didn’t support him, that you were not a member in good standing. And that was before the convention. I don’t like that Tom Kopko took a public stand and money from him. This has divided the party like nothing I have seen so far, and we were divided before that.
As for illegal immigrants, I am troubled that the liberals and some Republicans don’t have an issue with allowing a “slave class” to exist while yelling “racist” to those of us who find this disturbing. My issue isn’t about the way the houses look, although I don’t live near one of them, and if I did, I would have a different take on it. My issue is that this is basically human trafficing(sp?) and these people have come here to “work”. That is the big argument, that they are hard “workers”. Isn’t that what slaves were? Slaves didn’t exist to lie around, drinking mint julips! They were “workers” as well to do work that others didn’t want to do.
My personal feeling is that those who support this atrocity are the true racists. Just because people are willing to live in substandard housing and receive substandard pay, doesn’t make it right. Making them legal doesn’t either because we have a right to our country and to have our laws enforced and to decide how many people we can handle at a time. Also if these illegals are made legal, then they have right to better wages and the employers will just look for more illegals.
Throwing the word “racist” around is merely a cover for the subtle or maybe not so subtle arrogance of the upper class who feels the need to hire SLAVES.
Nancy Pratt,
It’s time to clean house in Prince William.
Don’t be blinded by your own strong republican principles, you’re dealing with people who don’t have any principles.
Thank Corey Stewart for giving outsiders the impression that we are running an impoverished government that is over run with drunk illegals, criminals, gang violence, unsafe streets and schools, overcrowded classrooms because of the many illegal aliens that are now living here, an overburdened police department that is unable to manage the problem, forced library closings, and an overwhelming burden on our county resources for food stamps, Medicaid, welfare and subsidized housing needs.
Do you think that makes our county a desirable place to move your family or business?
Do you really think companies like Eli Lilly will be jumping at the chance to relocate their employees here to raise their families?
At this rate, we won’t be able to give away our homes.
And you want for more years of this?
Ari: We don’t need him or you to tell us these things. We live them every day. Property values ARE decreasing for these very reasons and citizens have moved away in droves. When people think of Manassas, they think of a place that has been utterly taken over by illegals and converted into little Mexico; a Manexico if you will. Stewart had nothing to do with fostering this conception. All people had to do was drive down 234 or 28 and it was easily seen for themselves. I wouldn’t even consider raising my family in this town if I had one. Hell, I don’t even want to be here but alas it’s either stay here and stick it out and hope for the government to do their jobs or sell my house under value and cut and run like everyone else, leaving this town for the illegals. The latter gets more and more appealing by the day. When I have kids, I wouldn’t send them to a public school in PW County or Manassas Park if their lives depended on it.
Not that I am defending Stewart or any of the other lackeys on the BOCS (or multitude of other impotent politicians at the state, local and federal level), but at least finally they SEEM to see the light. It appears as if you have some kind of ax to grind with Stewart.
To Ari Stotle, sorry no sale on Sharon Pandak. My hand would have to be cut off before I could vote for her. Blinded? I don’t think so, I don’t follow any party line. I have my own principles and I follow the party that seems to have what I believe in the most. Am I unhappy with Republicans? Of course I am but I am totally disgusted by the Democrats and their hateful rhetoric, that is a total turnoff to me. Some Dems I respect, but not many that is for sure.
Park’d,
Where would you go? It seems to be everywhere.
In May 2007 an Act was introduced H.R. 2265, that is being referred to as the “ Responsibility to Iraqi Refugees Act of 2007′.
Your day is about to be ruined, and good luck sleeping tonight.
The truth about who some of the members are that crafted this “act” is Grover Norquist, David Keene, CAIR, the Muslim Brotherhood, and it is funded by Safa Trust and other foreign entities.
Fact 1.
Grover Norquist was at Faisla Gill’s kick off for HOD-51 located in eastern Prince William County.
Fact 2.
Gill lobbied for an organization that is deemed by the State Department to have Terrorist ties, and it’s founder Alamoudi to be a known supporter of Al Qaeda who is now imprisoned.
Fact 3.
Gill’s money has ended up in the hands of Steve Chapman ($3500.) Corey Stewart, Bill Bolling, Tom Davis, and others who happen to be Republican.
Fact 4.
Any candidate or politician who has accepted money from Faisal Gill or the organizations or people he has supported has BLOOD on their hands.
Fact 5.
It is the blood of 3,000 lives that were lost on 9-11.
Now Ms. Pratt, and others..where are you going to go when the flood gates of Middle Eastern immigrants of unidentifiyable or questionable backgrounds overcome our Nation?
How will you know if your new neighbor killed one of our young american solders that gave their life in Iraq? You won’t. It is time to clean house.
Bill H.R.2265 http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:h2265:
You can go to a place where you get what you pay for and what you elect. I am
Ari Stotle
Are you in reality Sharon Pandak?
I’ve seen enough of her citizen’s time at the BOCS meeting to convince me that she doesn’t care about the citizens of PWC.
If the citizens of this county are truly interested in something being done about illegal aliens, then you need to support Corey Stewart and John Stirrup.
Nancy Pratt — sorry you would consider cutting off your hand rather than leave through the maze exit and try something new. Guess you will run in circles with the Republican (who love business and why would they do ANYTHING to increase construction costs) party for the rest of your life with one hand. Who do you think has been running PWC for the past 15 years - Hilary Clinton?????? Low/no taxes no community improvements and continuing to elect the same group is what got us here. Stewart was so happy to take Sean’s place and bash him, he didn’t realize (or didn’t care) what the heck he did to the County.
I am not thrilled with Pandak, but I am less so than with the Wilbourns and the Stewarts of the county. While she was County Attorney she did improve a few things for the residents. More than I can say for the board chair.
…..And I like both my hands and am not afraid to try something new. Beats clinging to the boulder with both hands as it rolls off the cliff.
Patty,
John Stirrup is an honorable and ethical man. He demonstrates his Conservative Principles with honor. As do many good Republicans in PWC.
Stewart is NOT in that league, nor will he ever be. He fooled us for a while but the honeymoon is over and his alliance with shady characters like Gill and *Norquist pose a serious threat to the security of our Nation.
His stand on immigration is phoney. He saw the press opportunity it got Stirrup and Greg L. and he jumped in on the action.
Not voting for Corey isn’t a strong enough stand, if elected Faisal Gill and Corey Stewart will be reforming immigration and opening up the flood gates.
Hopefully we will pick up an (R) Royse in Woodbridge, and Occoquan may go to an (I) who is really an (R) but the point is Pandak will have balance representation on the BoCS and we’ll have honest leadership.
http://www.mega.nu/ampp/gaffney_on_norquist.html
Ari Stotle,
re: Bill H.R.2265
I knew this was coming. Good grief, I guess Americans will never learn!
I bet the Iraqi newcomers will not be opening nail salons like the flood of immigrants from southeast Asia have done. Lets see…how about jobs in fertilizer plants. Lets make it easy for them.
After we deal with the Iraqis immigrants, who I am sure will all be given special status, those from south of the border are going to start looking like good neighbors.
Dolph, You got it my good friend!
While we’re distracted fighting the battle of the borders, their sliding this one in right under our noses. Speaking of nails…the employee incentive at the fertilizer plant is…. a box of nails!
Ari Stotle = John Gray, CPA
And by the way John, Mike May is going to completely crush you in Occoquan.
Scooter, just for the record….I am not John Gray.
Are you one of the Suarez twins?
Since Fairfax has praised the “diversity” of the county, here is the result of a recend Harvard (!) study on that issue:
“A massive new study, based on detailed interviews of nearly 30,000 people across America, has concluded just the opposite. Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam — famous for “Bowling Alone,” his 2000 book on declining civic engagement — has found that the greater the diversity in a community, the fewer people vote and the less they volunteer, the less they give to charity and work on community projects. In the most diverse communities, neighbors trust one another about half as much as they do in the most homogenous settings. The study, the largest ever on civic engagement in America, found that virtually all measures of civic health are lower in more diverse settings.”
Check it out on Google for more details.