With much discussion over whether or not Virginia Governor Tim Kaine could become Barack Obama’s Vice Presidential running mate, it started me considering the political aspirations of Chairman Corey Stewart. We do know that according to a Washington Post article in February that Stewart did have intentions on seeking the Lieutenant Governor’s position even declaring himself the ‘preeminent Republican in Northern Virginia’. Now, while I don’t proclaim to know what his long-term objectives are, could he conceivably envision himself as a possible candidate for a national office?
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stewart has a greater chance of winning a gold medal in the olympics than obtaining higher office
http://sendables.jibjab.com/view/owner/Qud2MwdverYFF6iC#/view/Qud2MwdverYFF6iC
his future is sealed.
Good leaders rise to the top. The fact that this site keeps obsessing over him, tells me that he may be someone to support for higher office.
Dime
Dime, Nickel, Penny–Have at it. Call McCain and suggest your boy for VP. Maybe his handler can spring to national prominence rather than just on shoulders.
Dime,
If you think that way then BVBL must support Judy Feder, and bad leaders would get no attention. Doesn’t make much sense now does it?
Dime people obsessed over Hitler as well.
Damn. I did it again and I said I wouldn’t. Just couldn’t help it.
Preeminent Republican in Northern Virginia is not going to give him a very big “push”in this area: especially if he runs with BVBL “Dog for Sale” albatros hanging around his neck.
And then there’s 9500Liberty’s video of him saying that some of his followers may be racists and its good to know who they are. Of course, that’s followed by him bragging at a HSM meeting about running ESOL students out of town. I’m afraid he, like GL, has stuck his mug in front of enough cameras so that there’s no denying what he believes. He’s a young guy but an old throwback to days Virginia has worked hard to forget. Let the next wave of foreclosures and budget cuts further sink his ship.
I agree. Stewart’s goose is cooked. He couldn’t even win re-election in PWC, let alone compete in a statewide election. And, his dismal-to-luke-warm support among Conservatives will only go down as the Rule of Mob Economic Disaster worsens in coming years. Each of the next 3 budget cycles, as citizens watch helplessly while our Board cuts back on public safety, slashes school budgets, and eliminates popular programs, we will be lamenting the self-serving partisanship that led Corey Stewart to doom our county to bad-for-business reputation, a deflating economy, and de-investment in our infrastructure while the rest of NoVA enjoys a recovery from the Bush Recession.
Corey Stewart thought he’d ride the wave of anti-immigrant hatred to higher office. The wave went kaput about a mile from shore and Corey Stewart’s dead carcass of a career is all that washed up on the sand.
My opinion differs.
Dime
Wow, Dime at least kept things classy and non-attack. Good job Dime. Glad to see dissenting opinions can be spoken without verbal attacks. Not even side-swiping on your part!
Guaranteed Dime or Mark is Corey himself. Really, who else would stick up for Corey?
Corey’s destroyed the sense of community in PWC. He could have tackled this problem responsibly by going after house overcrowding, more funds for schools, better zoning enforcement, etc.
Now people eye one another with suspicion.
What an idiot.
See Bring-It-On? You’re words are what’s wrong with political discourse in America. I personally don’t care that much about Corey Stewart, yet all you can do is attack. You are really limiting political discourse when you do this. I was admiring Dime’s ability to not attack with his/her words, but to bring a different viewpoint. That requires a verbal assault?
Please.
Corey maybe able to redeem himself if he denounces Greg and the anti-immigrant mob and apologizes for his temporary blindness. I believe Senator Robert Byrd was able to save his soul and his career by apologizing for his involvement with the KKK and denouncing intolerance.
I know now I was wrong. Intolerance had no place in America. I apologized a thousand times… and I don’t mind apologizing over and over again. I can’t erase what happened.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/18/AR2005061801105_pf.html
I would like to drink a beer with Corey. He seems like he would be a fun person. He just doesn’t seem to have made the best political decisions.
He runs for anything else, I’m going to send the RPV the Gospel Greg video and let them know who his friends are…..
MH – sounds like Bush….
Dime, 22. August 2008, 10:34
Good leaders rise to the top. The fact that this site keeps obsessing over him, tells me that he may be someone to support for higher office.
Dime
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Sorry to appear sarcastic, but what planet are you from?????
Juturna,
ditto. Seriously, dime. What’s the logic?
MH,
I’d have a beer with Corey, but only if I can tell him that he’s the worst thing that’s happened to PWC.
In fact, I’ll bet the National Inquirer would love that video of Gospel Greg…… They run stories about loonies all the time..
“I would like to drink a beer with Corey.”
Be forewarned… I have drank beer with Corey. It’s pretty close to impossible to keep it to *A* beer with him. Maybe you should say, “I would like to drink SOME beer with Corey” or “I would like to watch Corey drink beers.”
anon, thanks for the warning. question is, does he drive after the beer consumption? because uhm that would be ILLEGAL.
I heard through the grapevine that Corey was particularly rude to Bob Marshall’s wife after she spoke at Citizens’ Time. I have a hard time believing that would happen. Does anyone know if there’s any truth to that rumor?
I don’t like beer.
But seriously, Corey would have to do a 360 to turn this whole thing around. I don’t see it happening.
Since Bob Marshall’s wife has (had?) someone in the senior daycare center and Corey et al nixed the program, there might be some truth to that. Marshall himself defended the program last time the program was on the chopping block.
kgotthardt said: But seriously, Corey would have to do a 360 to turn this whole thing around. I don’t see it happening.
I think you mean he would have to do a 180, if he did a 360 then he wouldn’t change at all…
http://pwcgov.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=43
Ah, the videos of the Supervisors meetings are now available on line. After Citizens’ Time but before the recess around 1 hour into the video, Corey takes some ‘personal time’ and addresses Kathy Marshall’s comments.
kgotthardt, 22. August 2008, 10:57
Dime people obsessed over Hitler as well.
Damn. I did it again and I said I wouldn’t. Just couldn’t help it.
Can you not go ONE day without comparing somebody to Hitler or calling them a Nazi?
Juturna,
Earth
NotGregLetiecq,
My logic is:
Last year I had a path beside my house worn by Hispanics cutting through to get to the 7-11. I do not have that path any longer. The grass has grown back. And yes, the traffic was 90% Hispanic.
Last year I had to call the police 3-4 times a week in the spring, summer and fall. Hispanics drinking, sleeping, passed out, urinating and dumping trash in my back yard. I have only called twice since April of this year.
I am a person that has been affected by legal/illegal immigrants moving to my community. I can tell legal from illegal only weather Hispanic or not. All I know is that since the Board passed the resolution, the quality of life around my home is much better. I have nothing against the Hispanic population, most are decent people I believe. It seems to me that the resolution has cleared out the segment of the population that was causing most of the problems in my community. As such, I have taken the decision to support the leader who was able to pass it.
Dime
Sorry, should have read:
“I can not tell legal from illegal”
Dime
I am appalled that Corey singled out Mrs. Marshall. How much have we WASTED on the immigration b.s. that a small mob rule thrust upon us all? Has the price tag reached 3 million yet? And Corey has the audacity to suggest he is a fiscal conservative?! He did absolutely NO research prior to pushing this political agenda, taking citizens word (i.e. Greg and a few of this followers) as empirical evidence that illegal aliens are causing great distress on all its citizens.
Corey’s political aspirations=Obama’s Veep??? Announcement coming any moment now…
Obama/Stewart 08
Dime,
Do you not think a slowing economy and the rate of foreclosures in PWC had anything to do with “clearing our of that segment of poulation? The resolution alone did not improve the quality of life. Our Neighborhood Services Dept has really improved over the last year. That too had an impact. Citizens have become more involved as well.I too have delt with similar issues that you spoke of.
Elena,
Why isn’t Corey following his own “rules”? Remember Corey saying to Maureen C. “this board makes it a practice not to respond back to citizens”. I guess that only applies to the “chosen ones”. Clearly, assisting senior and their families is NOT on his agenda.
I would like to know where those seniors are spending their days now. We all know where they are NOT spending them.
Dime,
I doubt very highly it was completely due to the resolution. The housing market has taken a nose dive and many people who were here working in construction no longer have jobs. I would add, that the issues you are talking about could have and should have been addressed without putting a black mark on PWC as racist and intolerant. I wonder, what would people have done if you could not have assigned a term like illegal and yet still had to deal with changes in neighborhoods. I have talked to many people, having had a large number of hispanics move into their neighborhoods who had the opposite experience. Houses that were falling apart and lawns that were unkempt were now being renovated and improved by these new immigrants into the community. I can empathize with your experience, the neighborhood I moved from in Centreville was going through quite an extensive demographic change, not the same issues, but the changes that I would not necessarily call all positive. My solution was to deal directly with my neighbors. Of course, this would not have worked with people wearing a path in the grass behind my house.
Excellent point Chris. I guess Corey is a do as I say not as I do kinda guy.
Every time I think about how much money has been wasted on this resolution, a resolution that has, for all intensive purposes, come full circle (back to 287 G that was in place PRIOR to the resolution), I just get so angry. The senior day care center will be a black mark on every supervisors record.
Chris,
I think enforcement has a lot to do with the improvement my communities problems. The slowing economy perhaps is connected to the rate of foreclosures. I know that the home in my cul-d-sac that was used as a multi family home was purchased by a very nice family from Mexico. Looks like a win for the community.
Dime
Dime,
Thanks for the insight. We had several “boarding houses” on my block. My block is in MUCH better shape than last year. Enforcement of the zoning laws has made huge impact for the better. However, legal immigrants are leaving too. I don’t think that’s a good thing. I’ve talked to many legal immigrant friends of mine and they said they don’t feel like this is the same place it once was.
One legal immigrant friend of mine told me about a friend of her’s who was here illegally. He got in some sort of trouble with the law and was taken to the jail here in PWC. He was turned over to ICE. He said he would not appeal this decision and wanted to return home as soon as possible.
Dime, I think stepped up enforcement could have taken care of most neighorhood problems without bringing up the subject of immigration. Just as Chris said, some legal tax-paying immigrants left too because of the climate created here. At this point PWC needs all the taxpayers it can get.
Haha. Um, you’d better be careful about saying that the cream rises to the top because those of us on septic fields know that something else quite different rises to the top – in the tank.
Dime,
I would like to remind you that there was a “building moratorium” for 2007. What a farce that was. There were many projects already in the pipeline. I do feel the building slowed way down and the builders did NOT need all the cheap labor they once did.
anon, 22. August 2008, 13:17
Agreed Anon! Having had a cocktail or two with Corey, he is fun to hang out with, he does have an infectious laugh and I am still sad to this day that he and I can no longer communicate on a friendly basis.
Welcome Mark!
—kgotthardt said: But seriously, Corey would have to do a 360 to turn this whole thing around. I don’t see it happening.
I think you mean he would have to do a 180, if he did a 360 then he wouldn’t change at all…—
LMAO!!!! Um, DUH, Yeah. You’re right! Heee heee heee.
But wouldn’t it be fun to see him spinning around and around and around?
“Can you not go ONE day without comparing somebody to Hitler or calling them a Nazi?”
Hey I’M TRYING! If the keyboard were my mouth, I might tape it for awhile but it’s not that simple 🙂
Well… reminding anti-historical posters of Hitler is just the easiest way to disprove a dumb idea like “any politician who achieves fame has to be a good politician” (nice one, Dime).
Personally, I’d prefer it if, during the latter half of 2007, I had NOT been reminded of the political tactics of Hitler by the behavior of my fellow PWC residents. It wasn’t KGotthardt’s decision to use fear politics to turn this county against itself. It was F.A.I.R., Help Save Manassas, John Stirrup, and Corey Stewart … in that order.
That said, I doubt that any of these people, with the exclusion of F.A.I.R. foresaw the disastrous consequences of the Immigration Resolution. Certainly Corey Stewart wouldn’t have forced this upon this community (whether he plans to stay here or not) if he’d known it was going to erode our public safety, our economic future, our schools, our housing market, and, perhaps worst of all destroy the brand of Prince William County, which will hamper us in trying to recover from all of the above.
As I’ve said before, bigots and partisans can be found in any community. There are no more of them here than in any other county. What made Prince William County especially tragic (and also especially famous) is in Chairman Corey Stewart we had a powerful and skillful public official foolish and short-sighted enough to pander to them.
When the spinning stops and the writing is on the wall, Corey Stewart will be remembered as the politician who insisted upon an economic, public safety, and social disaster in this county because he was more interested in advancing himself than advancing the interests of the people he had sworn to represent.
At this point, we can only help that his same undying self-interest will cause him to work with his fellow Supervisors to minimize the damage he has done … because however dark the days ahead, it is one man and one man alone who will bear the legacy.
Thank you WHWN! I know talking about WWII history only serves to turn some people totally off to the discussion so I am endeavoring to move towards speech that might help evolve the dialogue. That said, I just couldn’t help putting the obvious out there. Stating the obvious again and again no matter in what way usually DOES irritate people even if it’s not Hitler we are discussing.
Folks, the fact of the matter is that most of America is right of center. I think Stewart will be great in a higher office, and I will vote for him. Karen, your little “Hitler” slip is rooted in deep and irreparable ignorance…that’s why you can’t help yourself.
Corey Stewart ain’t got nothin’ on the big boys.
Here’s some vids that might illuminate the kind of ‘dark alliances’ we like to believe don’t exist.
In this first vid at the 5:00 mark, begins a story of ethnic cleansing lite similar to what happened here in PWC except this happened in Tulia, TX. A different set of laws were used to make the ethnic cleansing possible…but it was still ethnic cleansing…under the color of the law.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HaCacMLK1Y&feature=related
This follow-on vid goes even deeper in exploring who was really pulling the strings.
Like the police say, when there is a crime, look for motive, means, and opportunity and you will find the perpetrator.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUoJWGi5Oyw&feature=related
Mackie,
I think the war on drugs is a a huge problem at the same time the ESCAPE GOAT.
It is a catch 22. It self destructs itself. I hope that make sense 😉
What-eva Soy.
We have many people right-of-center right in here who think Stewart is a losing proposition for any government, local or otherwise.