Speaking of FOIA, back when the Tate case was hot and heavy, Loudoun CA Jim Plowman was FOIAed for correspondence. Somehow they were inadvertently not saved. Someone found copies somehwere else later and they didn’t make him look good.

As I said before, a truly independent FOIA officer is needed in every county to ensure selective FOIA doesn’t become the norm.

It is time for our elected officials and we the citizens of Prince William County to take our government back from these insulated career bureaucrats who believe they are accountable to no one.

I’m truly concerned as well…actually very, very concerned as this is a possible abuse of process. The FOIA procedures were put there for a reason, to allow the citizens to keep tabs on the government and to allow other citizens to see what was disseminated. FOIA was meant to cover the bases to ensure all that was being accomplished. By going in the “backdoor” we have the appearances of a process breach, In fact I’m not going to file a FOIA request to see everything that Eric Byler has requested. I doubt I’ll get anything back on this, but at least It should prickle some feathers somewhere.

I’ve been researching the 9500 liberty crowd and what I have come to find out is that they appear pretty shady; byler writing his own wiki entries and such. It’s pretty apparent they flip-flopped on the illegal immigration issue. I have a strong suspicion that when the election is over and the illegal immigration issue is not as strong on peoples minds as it is now, they will all disappear into the woodwork. Elena and the others will follow for sure when they find a better cause to support….

I have always felt this was just another “cause” for them to support, help the poor little illegal aliens who can do no wrong, all they want to do is work right? They provide more services than they take right?

Wrong, Illegal is Illegal no matter how you slice it. why should anyone give a damn about someone who is here illegally? criminality breeds criminality, does not matter how passive people seem to be..the fact that they do one criminal act means they have compulsion to do another (you see illegals driving all the time without licenses, that’s illegal and they freely admit too it all the time)

My personal feelings is that I dont give a damn about illegals or their families. I have always felt birthright citizenship should have been amended long ago (it was for slaves, not illegals) and that they all should be deported immediately. Push them all back across the border from whence they came and not to let the door hit them on the way out. And, anyone who supports or abets an illegal alien in hiding and/or criminal activity while knowing they are illegal should be deported too.

I am concerned as well. It doesn’t matter that he is with the 9500 Liberty group, who else is getting the same info through the backdoor? Why does he need this, wouldn’t an FOIA request spell it out? Given his reputation at 9500, this seems like a witch hunt or something that will be added and misconstrued truth that they seem to be able to push out now. I had respect for them at first, but lost it after I saw the transition to ILLEGAL alien apologists.

I work in media. Bloggers now fall into the category of ‘non-traditional media’. They usually get the same rights as ‘traditional media’. Didn’t the Wonkette blog obtain White House press credentials a couple years ago? Isn’t the Washington Post a blog when they put stories online and allow comments? Whatever Byler’s slant, it seems he just asked the right people. What did he get? Some DVDs and a cable to hook into a media pool audio feed? All the TV crews get to do that.

I know (c: I was being sarcastic I am in hopes that their names in the public will prevent them from “helping” those that do not go through the correct channels. If byler gets his hands on any of this stuff, we should be able to get it as well and with the same ease as he did.

I figure since all this has come to light, further proddings by Byler will be shunned and the red carpet will be rolled up. Maybe I’m being naive.

Elected officials play politics, and you’re “foolish” to think that they wouldn’t. County employees are prohibited from doing so. You want to throw out the county’s ethics policies, that’s fine, but at least be honest that you self-loathing liberals are the ones that want county employees to be freed from any obligation to act as nonpartisan public servants.

No doubt if county employees were supporting HSM while drawing a taxpayer-funded salary, you’d be marching out front with a sign reading “not with my taxes” while muttering incoherently about warrantless wiretaps. I guess liberal orthodoxy hasn’t changed much since the Soviets taught you all about the bennies of spying on anyone who gives a crap about the Constitution. Let’s just use spy cameras on all those HSM people. They’re as inferior as all those unborn children we execute to prevent mothers from possibly suffering post-partum depression. Let’s use public resources to bully them into compliance with our enlightened worldview. It’s cheaper than building all those re-education camps, and we can use the savings to fund public school teachers instructing kindergarteners how to mastrubate.

I guess ethics policies are those things that Repugs have to deal with, while Barney Frank continues to roam the corridors of the Capitol looking for young boys to molest and Barry “Just Words” NoBama stuffs cash into his burka that he got from the slumlords and Fannie Mae executives he’s been shielding from prosecution.

Liberals. Ignorance should be a lot more painful than it is.

The purpose would not be to “…justify the police department every year…” as Craig Gerhardt ridiculously alledged last year, but to clearly identify the tasked functions of each department and then, to outline the resources (personnel…to include salary grades…and materials) necessary to perform each of those functions. In aggregate, you have the budget.

Today, the Staff “creates a budget” and gives it to the BOCS for review. As has been said before, the BOCS nor the Supervisors’ “budget review committees” have visibility into the details of budget creation. A zero-based budget would provide that visibility. Do you think it will happen? Nope.