An email from Corey Stewart:
For the past couple of weeks, liberal DC politicians have been flirting with a national default and the prospect of a declining credit rating. With such an irresponsible approach to take care of the nation’s debt, we are fortunate that in Prince William County our AAA bond rating is stable.
Our AAA bond rating and steady financial outlook are a result of my willingness to make hard decisions and stick to my convictions. In tough times we kept taxes low and reduced government spending while still making critical investments in our schools and roads.
These same DC Liberals that are spending our children’s future away are attempting to bring their reckless policies to Prince William County and we need your help to keep proven conservative leadership right where it belongs. Will you help us by donating $5, $10 or $20 to our campaign?
Fortunately, we have shown the nation just how successful strong conservative leadership can be for local government. I will continue to hold fast to my principles for the sake of our community’s future, and I aim to endure the liberal challenges that we face, but I need your help. Please click here to volunteer and take action with my campaign so we can keep moving PWC in the right direction.
I hope that you consider supporting my campaign as I work tirelessly to make Prince William County one of the greatest places to live.
Thank you again for your support,
Signed by Corey Stewart
Oh PUH-Leez, Corey. We had a AAA bond rating before you came on the scene. You have no idea what will happen to that bond rating if those you have been cozying up to have their way. There are 7 other supervisors. It isn’t all about you. Do you hear the ‘DC Liberals’ continuing not to support their own leader? {crickets chirping}?
What critical investments have been made in schools and on what roads? Is Corey claiming responsibility for all those pot holes and traffic congestion?
What DC Liberals is he talking about? The DC City Council? Does he mean Washington? He sounds like an out-of- towner who doesn’t understand the subtle differences in DC and Washington, D.C.
What conservative values is he speaking of in his letter? Does he mean catering to developers and using a little league football team to push his way through to get a yes vote for developers? Does he mean not honoring his own pledge to guard the Rural Crescent? Is breaking your word a conservative value? Is using children for political gain a conservative value? I hope those children have gotten their football fields now.
How about the trashing of the jewel of Prince William County, Silver Lake? Yes, that same lake where 45 acres were literally long-term leased away to a pet project non-profit. That same jewel where a school was built right on top of the lake? Shame!
Corey, stop trying to capitalize on a potential economic crisis. Who are you cozying up to today? Are you snuggling with John Boehner or the nay saying Tea Party people who don’t think it matters if we go in to a default situation just so long as they keep their pledge to their peeps. Which is it, Corey?
Finally, stop begging. I don’t know if others have noticed, but if you write to the county board of supervisors, you end up on Corey’s beg list. That’s how I got his letter. Is that really Kosher?
Corey’s running scared. In articles in The WaPo and Manassas Patch he sides with other local politicians who realize that their jurisdictions’ triple A bond ratings may tank if the clowns in DC don’t come to some agreement about the country’s debt. Nowhere does he p & m about liberals in those articles. But… if the bond rating tanks, it’ll be on his watch and he doesn’t want to take the blame for that. However, it’s disingenuous to blame “liberals” alone. But Corey’s got to do what Corey always does – find a scapegoat. He fails to see the irony in his partisan call to arms. After all, it’s partisanship which has everything at a standstill.
A candidate trying to raise money for his campaign! This is outrageous! It’s NEVER been done before!
Its not so much that he is trying to raise money, but HOW he is trying to raise money.
For starters, if I write to him as a constituent to voice my opinion, my email address should not be put in the ‘supporters’ pile. That is exactly what happened.
And he wasn’t exactly truthful in his campaign mail, now was he?
@Slow
And, in other spamming news, Obama urges people to spam Congress twitter accounts, and loses 40,000 followers in the process.
Moon, since you brought up Silver Lake and the nonprofit, check this coming Tuesday’s BOCS Agenda Item 4-F.
Moonhowler – Doesn’t Slowpoke Rodriguez state the obvious? The fact Stewart asks for money doesn’t bother you. What irks you is that he does not say what you want him to say and do what you want him to do.
Consider your concerns about our credit rating. Do high taxes bother you? Does borrowing huge sums to fund government-run welfare programs bother you? Does putting generations yet unborn in debt to authoritarian regimes concern you? No, no, and no. You are much more selective than that. Asking for money to reduce government spending is just too undignified. Extortion from unwilling taxpayers to pay for the programs you want, however, is A-okay. And you make fun of Stewart? What are you going to do next, call him a debt ceiling hobbit?
Citizen Tom, you don’t know me. How dare you decide what I think.
I don’t think I made fun of Corey at all. More to the point, I criticized his past actions. Breaking a pledge in order to have more housing developments is not a way to reduce government spending. Actually, it produces more of a need for government spending. Schools, roads, libraries must be built when this is done, all at taxpayer expense.
I have not seen that Corey really has the conviction to be a debt ceiling hobbit. If he is, then it is just for a day before he changes his costume to go cozy up with another special interest group.
You did not make fun of Stewart? 🙄 “Corey Stewart begs for money” is not the title of this post? Before you make fun of Stewart, check out the skeletons in your own closet, like the ones you have posted on this blog.
You are right. I don’t know you, but I can read.
For the most part, our nation’s budget fiasco has resulted from a misunderstanding of the role of government. Each of us sees ourselves as having good intentions. Unfortunately, when we in fact all tend to want more than we deserve, we readily impute the most vile motives to others.
To protect our rights, we must endow government officials with extraordinary authority. Yet giving government officials such powers creates problems. How do we protect ourselves from powerful government officials? We do that with checks and balances and by limiting their sphere of influence. And that is the problem with socialism. It removes the checks and balances, and it takes off all the limits.
Schools, housing developments, roads, libraries, and all the other things socialists want from government are not free. To offer such things to the public for “free”, government officials have to extort money from productive citizens.
Try not paying your taxes; you will go to jail.
Therefore, we each have an obligation ask a question? Is it really necessary for government to do all things I want it to do? Is there a private alternative that satisfies the need? Far more often than not, the answer is yes, but that option is not “free”, and it does not allow us to be a bossy busybody with other people’s money.
Perhaps we should have a “retrospective” of sorts of a few of Obama’s and Pelosi’s more shameful pleas for money! You know, to keep things “fair and balanced”!
Citizen Tom,
I am disappointed in your base rhetoric.
“Schools, housing developments, roads, libraries, and all the other things socialists want from government are not free. To offer such things to the public for “free”, government officials have to extort money from productive citizens.”
This is what make someone a socialist? I am thoroughly entertained by your diatribe against public school as a socialist agenda! I thought you were a fan of Thomas Jefferson, a true advocate for public education.
Thanks for laugh “Tom” 😉
Now, to address Corey and fundraising. Corey does know he is still running for local office right? Corey reminds me, in behavior at least, of that old saying……”always a bridesmaid never a bride”, only for Corey it would read more like this “always a local politician, never a governor, senator, or congressman”
Tom, are you smoking dope?
You obviously aren’t aware of the events mentioned. No one said those things were free. In fact, schools, libraries, roads cost the taxpayers money. Unfortunately, our chairman doesn’t realize that allowing new housing developments costs the county taxpayers money, not the developers.
If citizens write to any public official regarding government, that official should NOT snag that email address to put in his campaign bank. You are aware that is where Corey got my email address, aren’t you? Is that the roll you want government to play in our lives?
If I went to his campaign headquarters or to his website and left my email address, I would expect him to contact me and ask for campaign money. If I write to him in his official elected capacity and express myself on how I expect my county to operate, I do not expect him to contact me for money. THAT is begging.
And no I am not making fun of him. I am calling it like I see it. No other supervisor has done that and I have contacted them all. Only Corey.
OUCH moon, that’s gotta hurt “Toms” ability to blather. Hard to argue with your position.
Silver Lake is not an environmental jewel. It is a glorified farm pond. I think it is a great addition to the County’s parks but the “jewel” was a marketing name given to the parcel when the three different groups fought over it. Each group had to love it more than the other.
The school is sited on one of the more pristine areas of the Park. The fact that the school is there at all tells you how much the “jewel” is valued. Silver Lake is the grizzly field for the supporters of open space.
@Elena
No, but it is most certainly a good start. When you support a political party that nationalizes the entire healthcare industry, takes over an auto company and cheats its bondholders, illegally bars offshore drilling, and tangles industry in reams of new regulations…… Well, there is a reason why companies are just sitting on trillons of dollars and not investing.
@Moon-howler
No, you are not making fun of Stewart. You are just saying the nicest things about him. And you don’t favor socialism. You just support Barack Obama who does favor redistributing the wealth.
I have been getting requests for money from the DCCC for years. I guarantee you I did not give that outfit my email address. I sometimes post their requests for money so people can see. 😆 I have no trouble admitting I make fun of their ads.
Please excuse me for having difficulty following thread of logic. You mixed so many subjects and added so little detail……
Has Stewart done his job? For the most part, he has, but development has continued, albeit at a slower pace. Because we have Big Government next door, and that is still growing, we have more houses being built in Prince William. You don’t think those people should have some place to live. Why don’t you just ask Obama to fork over more taxpayer funds to Prince William?
Our county government has only a limited ability to stop developers. The Virginia Commonwealth sets the rules. What county officials can do is charge proffers to rezone land for different uses. If land is already zoned for development, then the county cannot charge proffers.
Are the proffers large enough? That’s debatable, but that is not the subject of your post.
I also have complained about Silver Lake. The area should have been handed over to a private group which the county government could only help to protect the area. Instead, even at the cost of the park being half the size, our government decided keep the land.
What has Prince William County done to encourage development at a cost to the taxpayers? The primary thing we have been doing is building and improving roads. To some extent Prince William has been exceptional in that respect. Because our roads were so clogged, in desperation local taxpayers paid for roads VDOT would ordinarily have funded. We really had a choice? We could afford to wait? In traffic?
Have we have funded roads just to open up land for development? I don’t think there is much doubt of that, but there has been substantially less such funding in recent years. There has been less demand.
The principal problem is the mechanism we use finance roads. We should use tolls for public roads or private financing for private roads (which may or may not become public roads). Otherwise, local communities should pay to build and maintain their own roads. Instead, when we see roadwork, we often have no idea who is paying for it. However, developers pay more than you might think. Otherwise, many of those roads would not get built.
Nevertheless, whenever you see a county road called a parkway, a county government probably built it, and you can depend upon that road soon being cluttered with stoplights. Such is the nature of urban sprawl.
@clueless
Silver Lake should have been deeded to Bull Run Conservancy. They would at least have trash cans, no school, and no riding center which is a plum for at least one supervisor.
You are right. It isn’t a jewel at all. It makes me sick to look at it. It is an example of bad goverance at its worst.
@Tom, glad you got over your rant so that conversation at normal decibles can take place.
Corey signed a pledge to protect the Rural Crescent which was designated by the BOCS. He broke the pledge when he voted to approve Avendale. He word should be good. It wasn’t in this case. I am afraid I find Mr. Stewart to be opportunistic.
I never said I talked nice about him. I didn’t. I didn’t make fun of him though. I admonished him. I think it is different being on DNCC lists. You obviously voted in a primary or signed up at one of their websites. Corey got my email from writing to voice my opinion on how the county is run. Big difference. I might also point out that no other supervisor has done that to me.
I get communication from Jackson Miller. I signed up to get those. Not a problem.
PWC usually crows about the roads it builds. That it a good thing.
@Moon-howler
If you want to criticize a politician for breaking an unambiguous promise, I have no problem with that. Stewart obviously realized that vote would be very hard to explain.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/06/AR2010080606262_2.html
Unfortunately, once we start growing the government, it is very hard to elect honest people. For example, our politicians take an oath to support and defend the Constitution. Unfortunately, too many of us demand that congressmen spend money on things the Constitution never authorized. That’s sort of like insisting that only oathbreakers can run for public office.
That practical effect of the Avendale vote is not good. Whenver the BOCS does not hold firm on the county’s comprehensive plan, it jeopardizes its ability to maintain the rural cresent as defined by that plan. When BOCS makes zoning decisions, they have to be consistent. They cannot show favortism. Otherwise, a developer can take the county to court, sue, and a judge will decide zoning decisions.
@Tom
https://www.moonhowlings.net/index.php/2010/08/04/corey-stewart-breaks-his-pledge/
https://www.moonhowlings.net/index.php/2010/01/10/pwc-you-just-cant-teach-an-old-dog-new-tricks/
@Moon-howler
We supposedly live in a free society. Somebody in the business of building homes has the right to build homes so that people can buy them. When we try to stop them, those of us who bought our own homes risk showing ourselves as pathetic and greedy hypocrites.
You got kids? Where are they going to buy a house? You care for the poor? Don’t you realize that our zoning laws are designed to force the construction of low cost housing out of the county? You hate urban sprawl? What do you think causes it? Not enough government? 🙄
When an area experiences rapid growth, the people who already live there will find themselves both blessed and cursed. The value of their property will increase, and their cost of living expenses will also go up. So what is the natural reaction? We use the power of government to tinker with market forces. Unfortunately, because of unanticipated consequences, that usually just makes things worse. People have to live some place. If they can’t live in Fairfax or Prince William, they buy a house in Fauquier, commute, and clog I-66 or the VRE.
Look at our overcrowded schools. If they were run privately, entrepreneurs would see that growth as an opportunity. They would invest their money and build new schools, and school construction would just about keep pace with growth. Look around. Do we have a shortage of supermarkets?
Because we have a socialist school system, we regard change — even growth — as a crisis. If it were not so costly and hard on the kids, it would be funny.
That said, Stewart had no business voting for the Avendale development. We deal with the situation as it is, not as we wish. Stewart promised not to vote for developments in the Rural Crescent, and our schools are overcrowded. Nonetheless, we must understand that using government to obstruct development creates more problems than it solves.
Am I going to vote for the other guy? If I thought him more virtuous I might?
Was it necessary for the PWC Board of Supervisors to purchase and erect signage on Linton Hall Road and Heathcote Boulevard that those roads were “Provided by: PWC Board of Supervisors and the PWC tax payers” or citizens or whatever they say? I’m sure they weren’t a ton of money, but every time I drive by them it irks me. Aren’t there more important things to spend some time on? And why “the PWC board of supervisors”? If it is that important, aren’t members of the board PWC citizens and taxpayers? Why do the Supervisors need to be specifically mentioned/thanked? Just bitchin.
Tom,
Bailing out the banks and GM was smart economic policy. GM has paid back more than 2/3 of what they borrowed from the taxpayer. Saving millions of jobs in a crisis is smart policy. Bailing out the banks was smart policy.
The question remains however, how do we as AMericans ensure we don’t see another disaster like 2008. To do nothing, to simply go along, like business as usual, is pure insantiy in my opinion.
Clearly, there was a lack of regulation and oversight regarding wall street and big banks. Having said that, I do not believe that buying a home is right. If you can’t afford it, you shouldn’t but it.
I am not ideologically stunted that I do not see value in the some of the conservative positions, but I also see value in the progressive positions. Public education does not represent socialism Tom, but SOL’s, in my mind, do. Not everyone learns the same, not everyone goes to college and nor should they. There are plenty of very happy successful people that have skills that do not require college. Ours is not a one size fits all society.