Just one more illegal alien flophouse to go and my dogs will be able to use their doggy door once again…. it’s been four years that it has been shut down… 4 flophouses down…. 1 more to go…

The flop-house behind my house finally was vacated. I heard the commotion late at night (mid-nightish) and haven’t seen anybody there for about a week now. It’s been a week of not finding trash in my back yard. A week of my dog not getting antagonized by brats throwing rocks at him and teasing him (I have confronted them several times to no avail - I’m really good with kids too - not a curmudgeon). Those were really my only two issues with that particular flop-house, but those two issues grated on me.

Their back yard looks like a nuclear bomb went off in it, but

It. Is. Quiet.

Phew.

Only two flop-houses left in my immediate vicinity.

AWC,

No, there isn’t anything wrong with it. I am not against both the county and the city GOPs helping re-re-reestablish the Manassas Park GOP. No, not in the least. What I am against is the actual combining of the two city parties, under a single chairmanship. Perhaps there needs to be a better coordination or more focus at the level of the next higher common committee. Whether at the 10th congressional, 29th Sentatorial, or 50th house committee level.

On paper, it looks like the Dems benefitted from such a combination. However, there wasn’t an actual MP Democrat committee as far as I could tell, prior to the re-org. Also, I attribute their success during this cycle more to the 40 or so paid campaign workers that the Obama and Warner camps dumped into the area. I know this to be the case, as I had two visits from some fresh-faced college kids who had “taken a semester off to make a difference”. One particularly warm day, I chatted with them on my front porch for a good 20 minutes or so. I was playing the “independent who usually votes GOP, but is open to “change”. They pretty much told me everything. How many (35-40), paid by the two campaigns, full-time, here for the duration of the race. They were polished, enthusiastic, polite, and dedicated to wringing every single vote out of the area for their candidate. Oh, and almost every one of them was from outside the area.

While the local GOP committees relied totally on local volunteers, people who have jobs, families, etc. here which placed a limit on the time they could contribute, the democats had 40 people whose only job was to go door to door, registering new voters, hitting every single house in the two cities two and three times. Throw in the last minute influx of volunteers from DC and MD that blanketed the area during the final 72 hours, and there you find the answer to the electoral results. Turn-out, pure and simple.

I wonder what the MP comnittee would think about disolving and combining with either the county or Manassas GOP’s? Has anybody asked them?

Considering that the MP GOP has like 4-6 active members, combining the two committees would place further strain on the Manassas GOP, because thin resources would have to be spent covering both areas.

https://www.voterinfo.sbe.virginia.gov/election/DATA/2008/07261AFC-9ED3-410F-B07D-84D014AB2C6B/Unofficial/00_685_s.shtml

MP City Treasurer is still an elected position.