Again, if this wasn’t so sad it would be funny. Arizona is looking at ways to get workers from Mexico into the United States to aid their industries, agriculture, steel, travel/tourism etc… Radical idea here folks require those that are already here to become legal and offer them a path! Then we don’t shoot ourselves in the foot by damaging our commercial, residential real estate markets, protect businesses and productivity, and stop the non-sense of kicking them out before we have to invite them back.
Anti-Immigrant Sign Attack – Hoax
Kids destroying class projects and another teenager filing a false police report who’s now facing a Class 2 misdemeanor. What’s going on?
Election Results
Manassas City
| RACE | CANDIDATE | VOTE | VOTE% |
|---|---|---|---|
| Member, City Council (MANASSAS CITY) |
Steven S. Smith | 1,238 | 32.93% |
| Jonathan L. “Jon” Way | 1,199 | 31.89% | |
| Mark D. Wolfe | 1,234 | 32.82% | |
| Write In | 88 | 2.34% |
| RACE | CANDIDATE | VOTE | VOTE% |
|---|---|---|---|
| Member, School Board (MANASSAS CITY) | Scott M. Albrecht | 1,092 | 20.89% |
| Sheryl L. Bass | 1,163 | 22.24% | |
| Arthur P. Bushnell | 1,019 | 19.49% | |
| Kermit Holmes Dance | 998 | 19.09% | |
| Edward W. Pratt, Jr. | 910 | 17.40% | |
| Write In | 45 | 0.86% |
| RACE | CANDIDATE | VOTE | VOTE% |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mayor (MANASSAS CITY) |
Harry J. “Hal” Parrish II | 1,422 | 95.88% |
| Write In | 61 | 4.11% |
Herndon
| RACE | CANDIDATE | VOTE | VOTE% |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mayor – Herndon (FAIRFAX COUNTY – HERNDON) |
Steve J. DeBenedittis | 1,313 | 52.43% |
| J. Harlon Reece | 940 | 37.53% | |
| Jasbinder Singh | 250 | 9.98% | |
| Write In | 1 | 0.03% |
Haymarket
| RACE | CANDIDATE | VOTE | VOTE% |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mayor, Town of Haymarket (PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY – HAYMARKET) |
Pam E. Stutz | 93 | 75% |
| Write In | 31 | 25% |
| RACE | CANDIDATE | VOTE | VOTE% |
|---|---|---|---|
| Member, Town Council – Haymarket PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY – HAYMARKET) |
John C. Cole | 84 | 12.31% |
| Susan E. Edwards | 85 | 12.46% | |
| Bryan A. Garcia | 49 | 7.18% | |
| Christopher A. Johnson | 31 | 4.54% | |
| Charles F. King, Jr. | 37 | 5.42% | |
| David M. Leake | 60 | 8.79% | |
| Sean Roberts | 40 | 5.86% | |
| Susan M. Shuryn | 67 | 9.82% | |
| James E. “Jay” Tobias | 31 | 4.54% | |
| Oswald Vazquez | 69 | 10.11% | |
| Robert B. “Bob” Weir | 75 | 10.99% | |
| Write In | 54 | 7.91% |
Occoquan
| RACE | CANDIDATE | VOTE | VOTE% |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mayor, Town of Occoquan (PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY – OCCOQUAN) |
Earnest W. Porta, Jr. | 125 | 96.89% |
| Write In | 4 | 3.10% |
Dreams Deferred
As far as I’m concerned, this one is a no-brainer. The next President regardless of whether it’s a Republican or a Democrat, will, at a minimum, need to address these minor children who consider themselves Americans. This will be the third, and I believe succesfull attempt at legislating the “Dream Act.” It is my desire that there will be Comprehensive Immigration Reform and not just a ‘quick fix’ attempt to resolve our immigration problems.
PWCBOS 05/06/08 Meeting
The Board will have both a 2:oopm & 7:30pm session tomorrow; hopefully starting tomorrow the County can get back to normal business. Does anyone foresee that happening?
Here’s the agenda for the meeting.
Contact
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Let’s Shake Things UP
Done some SPRING cleaning and feeling it’s time for a change. Let’s see if we can work with this ‘template’. It needs some tweaking so please be patient. Also, I am including 3 permanent pages on the top navigation, an ‘About’ page, a ‘Solutions’ page and a ‘Wacky Comment’ page. Feedback welcome.
Help Save Manassas – Mexicans Without Borders 3/7/08 Part2
Watch Greg stammer when explaining the ‘$50 million supposedly, reasonably’ shortfall of the hospital which is ‘attributed’ to ‘illegal’ immigrants. Why all the stammering and disclaimers of supposedly or reasonably well it’s because it’s not PROVEN! It’s a feeling. I personally spoke with a representative from the hospital who I asked for proof that undocumented individuals and not just the poor were the ‘self-pay’ ie ‘no-pay’ problem to which she replied – ‘it sure feels that way.’ Sorry folks, I’m not buying this ‘feeling’. Show me the numbers or give me the best numbers you have. The hospital is a non-profit and files 1099’s online, so I looked there without any luck. Otherwise, they don’t release their annual report to the public but I’d really like to look at those numbers. Otherwise, I get the feeling that it’s just scapegoating the undocumented community.
HSM ‘Frontline’ article – ‘Cultural Chaos’
The March edition of ‘Front Line’, Help Save Manassas’ marching orders is on news stands now. (Please stand back while I hurl.) And what brilliance are we in for this month? Cultural Chaos. According to Dan Arnold, Vice President of Help Save Manassas Prince William County is in a cultural chaos. Okay, and what does he validate his claims on, well ‘a strange phenomenon.’ (Keep reading this is a classic.) According to Arnold, Prince William doesn’t enjoy a ‘pleasant mix of ethnicities’ as other cities like Chicago, Cleveland, Saint Louis and Minneapolis. You can’t make this up folks. Yes, he said a pleasant mix of ethnicities, please tell me, Mr. Arnold what is so unpleasant about the ‘mix’ in Prince William?Read More
