John Light mentioned the Jeannemarie mailer, which as I recall contained both Chap’s address and his phone number. I think Chap is a great guy, even though I voted for Jeannemarie. Chap has never hidden where he lives from the public and pretty much everyone knows where he lives. But, even so, I think it was still 100% wrong for Jeannemarie’s camp to have sent that mailer without blocking his home address and phone number out. When someone does something like that it becomes far too tempting for the bored and slightly loopy to pick up the phone and dial the person’s house and be annoying or scary, which it seems a couple people might have done. So Jeannemarie should not have “approved that message” (as they say at the end of televised ads). That was a circumstance where a sincere and heartfelt apology was due in my opinion, but with the Stu Gibson situation, I personally believe it was at least a little more serious, and an apology is probably not really enough unless it is of the sincere, heartfelt and nearly grovelling variety.

The Examiner editorial linked above also mentions the case of Bruce Bennett, a citizen activist whose has been removed twice recently from public meetings for the high crime of trying to record them, which is apparently quite legal in Virginia. To me, FCPS has tried to dance around the meaning of public meeting. I hope Mr. Bennett, who is not a fellow to take abuse lightly, will take them on - and head on. I know him and he is not a guy who goes to meetings to make a scene or disrupt them; he is a very level fellow who believes (and apparently a state agency agrees) that he has the right to record public meetings under Virginia’s version of FOIA. I believe Bruce Bennett is owed an extremely grovelling apology from the County since they actually made the cops come out and get involved not once but twice. That, and they need to let the man make his doggoned recordings, as is his apparent right. They never should have interfered with him in the first place. I see is County officials trying to intimidate a citizen by getting the cops involved. It’s sad. Welcome to the People’s Republic of Fairfax, where citizens are the enemy.

This slime ball needs to go.

Can he be impeached? or Recalled?

“Gibson is the mastermind behind the controversial Western County redistricting, and has reportedly cut a deal with other Board members to exempt some areas from the controversial redistricting.” - Source: The Cuccinelli Compass.

Oh yeah, the mother should try to get him disbarred as well.