There’s no mystery that the national liberty movement has shown a major lack of willingness to “go local” but this is just ridiculous.
First, we have Kelly Burk back on the Leesburg Town Council. Now we have the long-time Councilman Vice-Mayor, Bobby Zoldos, “faithful lieutenant” to the 30 year career retiring Mayor of Lovettsville stepping up in her place.
And the most visible supporter of Mr. Sarbanie was Dick Black, a long-time staunch (mostly) conservative State Senator?
The Mayor of Purcellville was unopposed (sans the write-in campaign of someone with a clear axe to grind against him), and all three incumbents won reelection on the Purcellville Town Council.
And the other three town elections in Loudoun were completely uncontested.
Meanwhile, the current elected officials of all these municipalities opposed the Eminent Domain Constitutional Amendment passed by the General Assembly, and fall all over themselves to push every “Smart Growth” initiative they can get their hands on. And that same General Assembly managed to put forward a whole slew of bills related to “Sustainable Development” and “Green Initiatives” most of which have a major local component.
But don’t sweat it…just keep focusing on the National Election and “NOBAMA” and everything will be OK, until our rights are slowly ceded to the “community” and “stakeholders” and the world of private property and individual rights is something we can tell our grandchildren about…(if they let us have those, lest we overpopulate the planet).
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One problem Sparbanie had was his not showing up to challenge Higgins on the metro tax he was at a meeting about a bike path and had already petitioned the BOS to fund the park in Lovettsville. Leadership to me would have been to try to protect those that will pay extra taxes and tolls for stations that will not be useful to us.
Mr Arias, with all due respect, Sparbanie did ESPECIALLY well against a 13 year Vice-Mayor in a town the size of Lovettsville, where practiacally everyone knows the vice-mayor.
Even then, we pulled within 18 votes of this popular fellow in an unprecedented voter turnout that shattered records for Lovettsville. Any ten votes would have been gamechangers.
But guess what? 10 folks who didn’t change their voter registrations to their new addresses inside the town were turned away (as they should have been this year).
What does that indicate in a contest in 2014 where their registrations ARE in order? It is also noteworthy that Lam/Sparbanie picked up 100 votes from Lam’s 2010 number, where the Walker/Zoldos team only picked up a mere 55 votes in 2 years. The numbers are picking up…and it is inevitable that the varient who isn’t Zoldos triumphs in 2014…and the shenanigans of this council will stop.