Jennifer Buske has written an article about the area plans for the Sesquicentennial for the Washington Post entitled “As Civil War anniversary nears, Manassas sees a historic opportunity.” In the Friday the 13th article she writes what begins as an ode to deceased event planner Creston Owen and takes us though the history of the arriving at the Sesquicentennial. Included in the article is a comparison between the Manassas Battlefield and Gettysburg.
Any attempts to compare the two battlefields ended about the time of the battles themselves. Manassas is not Gettysburg and never will be, based pretty much on location, location, location, both then and now. Gettysburg pretty much is a dedicated battlefield. Manassas is a suburb of D.C. And here is the gist of the problem.
Playing off the excitement of the sesquicentennial, Corey A. Stewart, the Board of County Supervisors chairman, said he wants to begin branding Prince William as a military history corridor where people can stop at the battlefield, the National Museum of the Marine Corps and the future American Wartime Museum. That attraction is scheduled to open in 2014 and cover every era of war from World War I to Iraq and Afghanistan.
It seems that Corey Stewart is still attempting to flirt with running for the U. S. Senate, according to the Richmond Times Dispatch. In an interview, Corey boasts that people either love him or hate him:
“I’ve been a very controversial figure, and people either love me or hate me,” said Stewart, 42.
The moment of blithe self-awareness followed a ceremonial announcement of his bid for re-election as at-large chairman of the Prince William Board of County Supervisors. Elected countywide, the position answers to more than 400,000 constituents.
But with political ambition to spare, Stewart, an affable international trade attorney and spirited conservative, has designs on higher office — a seat in the U.S. Senate.
Corey still doesn’t get it. No one I have ever talked to hates Corey. They dislike his style of governance–that fly by the seat of your pants way of saying one thing to one person and the opposite to the next person. Corey has a reputation for breaking his word. He signs pledges he does not keep when a better deal comes along, such as his sell out on the Avendale property. His total disregard for previous pledges to guard the Rural Crescent was highlighted on this blog. Most people who know Corey say he is affable and fun to be with. Many who know him simply don’t trust him, having been screwed over in the past.
There is something for everyone in the Tuesday night Jon Stewart segment. Want to make fun of Joe Biden? check! Want to hate Obama? check! Criticism America? check! Salude America? check! Make fun of Sarah Palin and her Palinisms? check!
Stewart does a great JFK imitation. Palin does a great Palin. And no, it isn’t an Obama Doctrine. What president hasn’t been cutting and pasting! The Delicate Dance of the Presidency is highlighted.
So was there something here for you? Stewart even addressed Emma’s concern. You gotta love a guy who covers everything. Squirmish? OMG. Dan Quayle has returned.
It’s official. Former Virginia Governor George Allen will run for the U.S. Senate for the seat currently held by Senator Jim Webb. As a matter of fact, George Allen ran for the same seat in 2006 and lost to Senator Webb. Part of Allen’s problem was a screwed the pooch remark made about a Democratic operative who had been shadowing him. He called the young man, Macaca, attempting to be funny. It wasn’t and Allen still bears the scars from his unfortunate mistake. The Democrats were all over that mistake.
George Allen speaks of it today. According to the Huffington Post:
“I made mistakes and I take responsibility for them,” Allen said in an interview with Bearing Drift, before seemingly attempting to play off the slur as a fabricated word that other people had mistakenly interpreted as offensive, a move that he similarly attempted in 2006.
“I needlessly drew a college student who was following me around all over Virginia into the race, and I should not have. He was just doing his job and I should not have made him part of the issue,” Allen said of S.R. Sidarth, the Democratic tracker of Indian descent he was addressing. “It was not done with malice, and if I had known that that made-up word would be connoted as a racial insult I would not have said it.”
After Allen used the phrase in summer 2006, it quickly became a racially-charged ball and chain that is largely thought to have sunk him in his battle against his opponent, Democrat Jim Webb.
As George Allen, who was the one time darling of Virginia Republicans, attempted to address the perceived macaca problem, our very own Corey Stewart was quick to seize the opportunity to throw Allen under the bus:
Stewart, who is heading to Richmond, Va. on Tuesday to talk to party activists and court donors ahead of his own likely Senate bid, said he, along with other Republicans in the state, is “concerned that [Allen’s] not going to be able to shake off the ‘macaca’ moment.”
Corey might want to think about his own transgressions in the loose lips department. The moonhowlings folder has all sorts of gaffes that I feel certain the Allen campaign would find useful. A few Allen aides could use our search engine to pull out highlights, or should I say low lights of many a slip of the tongue made by Stewart.
Strange, he sees the same things I do. The slightest criticism becomes persecution. UFB. He didn’t even call and ask my opinion, this time.
Palin threw down the gauntlet by sayings ‘for those on the left would have no standards if it weren’t for their double standards.’ I sure hope she isn’t counting on MY vote, since I bet she includes people like me in her ‘left.’ So when asked why I don’t care for her, I will just go with that:
Where is he wrong in his assessment? It pretty much comes from the Caribou’s mouth in this one.
They met here, in Prince William County, on July 21, 1861, to engage in battle. It was supposed to be a quick battlefield victory for the Union and bring about an early end to the civil war.
But Union forces were routed in this first major battle of the war. The North was shocked. There was little celebration in the South, however, as both sides realized the war would be longer and more brutal than they had imagined.
This year, we will commemorate that battle. We will give thanks that the war ended the scourge of slavery and preserved our nation. The war was not so long ago. We may meet living children of those who fought. And perhaps, most importantly, we will come to understand our own place in history.
When you elected this board in 2007, the county—and the nation—was entering the longest and deepest economic downturn since the end of World War II. The housing market had gone from boom to bust, and county tax revenues were plummeting.
That Jon Stewart. He’s an activist. Oh well, that’s apples and oranges.
1. Jon Stewart addressed the 9/11 first responders bill with interviewees on Thursday night.
2. Shep and Chris Wallace responded to Jon Stewart of Friday. There was no 3 days of 9/11 first responders special by Shep. That was simply a lie.
3. Shep flipped Fox, to his credit.
The Tres Amigos, Fox and Friends, were really on Jon Stewart’s pork chops though. The Gretch had the nerve to say people already thought Jon Stewart was real news. Hmmmm…and what about HER show? Real news or satire?
Who cares. He’s an activist. {{{snicker}}}
The New York Times had nothing but praise for the efforts of Jon Stewart:
Did the bill pledging federal funds for the health care of 9/11 responders become law in the waning hours of the 111th Congress only because a comedian took it up as a personal cause?
And does that make that comedian, Jon Stewart — despite all his protestations that what he does has nothing to do with journalism — the modern-day equivalent of Edward R. Murrow?
Corey exploits the dead for political purposes. For shame. I don’t hear Corey Stewart talking about drunk drivers killing a grandmother and her grandchild or an habitual drug offender veering across a median strip to cause an inferno that killed 2 people and seriously injured a third. I suppose those deaths just don’t have the same ring as an ‘illegal immigrant.’
I thought that the Attorney General said that this was BAD legislation. Why is Corey still pushing it? If the Cooch says its bad, then it must stink. Which delegate or state senator is going to go charging in come January and insist on passing bad legislation?
.’UPDATE: A long time resident of Prince William County sent me a suggested scenario just for those who want to take a trip back in time to days of old…just for a moment. Come gather round to see how Corey became Corey, the Red-nosed Exploitative Reindeer.
Corey the Red-Nosed Exploitative Reindeer
I’m sure when Greg Letiecq knocked on the door with the camera Corey said, “Oh no, do I have to make this video today? It’s Christmas!” And Greg said, “Corey, if you don’t do my evil bidding, I will reveal all of your secrets from 2007 and your political career will be over, bwhaahahahahaaa!”
Corey then said, “But no one in Virginia supports this law, not even the Republicans, at least not the respectable ones. And your script, it’s really going to make me look like an ass. Trying to convince the whole state to pass a law that I couldn’t stop my own board from repealing? You know they’re going to rip me to shreds when they find out how much it cost.”
Greg: “We’ll deny it, and find a polarizing way to distract them.”
Corey: “What if they find out the real crime statistics?”
Greg: “We’ll accuse anyone who looks up the real statistics of being an illegal alien apologist, a traitor, and a socialist. Then I’ll get my three lady friends to write them some angry emails. They’ll back down.”
Corey: “Alright, come in, we’ll shoot it in my office. But I’m not doing it over and over again. Last time was so exhausting.”
Greg: “Fine, fine, we’ll do it in one take.”
Corey: “Can we cut this part where I try to exploit a tragic accident and the Christmas holiday? I think that’s really in poor taste.”
Greg: “Nope. That’s the best part. Trust me, if you get people riled up enough, you can turn them against those losers George Allen and Ken Cuccinelli. They’re not tough like you are. They’re soft and weak. You are the only Republican who is man enough to walk in Sharon Angel and Jan Brewer’s non-immigrant looking shoes!”
Corey: “Thanks Greg, that’s kind of you.”
Greg: “Now sit here in front of this painting. I’ll frame it so the guy’s head is chopped off so it subtly reminds people of headless bodies.”
Corey: “Good idea.”
Disclaimer: The above is satire. I have no idea who really made the video. MH
Call it fate, destiny, coincidence, whatever word you like, but sometimes life is just too bizarre. I met Erik Finley a few years ago during a paving job Finley Asphalt was hired to do for my community. I can tell you, from first hand experience, he, and his company are top notch. They are what makes small business America the best in the world. He and other small business owners like him ARE the backbone of our economy. The treatment he received from Corey, his office, and Wally was unconscionable.
It was happenstance that Erik and I ended up talking. Here is what Erik shared with me and his story, in three years, has remained consistent.
Somehow, the foreman and I began discussing PWC politics and county government, one topic lead to another and he asked if I would be willing to talk with Erik who was having some issues with the county. I said, “sure, I would love to”.
Fox New Chief Roger Ailes attacked Jon Stewart. Now that’s right up there with attacking Bill Clinton. Don’t do it.
Basically, here’s what it was over:
When Jon Stewart was appearing on the O’Reilly Factor a few weeks back, he stopped by Roger Ailes’ office for an hour-long chat about politics.
“He’s obviously really, really smart,” the Fox News chairman says. “He openly admits he’s sort of an atheist and a socialist. He once told me he would’ve voted for Norman Thomas.”
Roving Reporters calling in from the Metro Station–both north and south lots are filled. One reporter is standing in a line 300 yards long to get to the trains. Message is, if you are going, get dropped off or find another way in to town.
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If you watched the news yesterday, you could feel the presence of fear and that something was wrong. We had planes being escorted into JFK by fighter jets. The FBI and other spook groups were pouring all over places near Newark, Phillie, Portsmouth, Maine, looking for packages that might have contained explosives. Uneasy times.
It was impossible not to think of 9/11. We need to be reminded periodically.
The Daily Show feature is from September 20, 2001. In trying to restore sanity, Jon Stewart had the following:
Jon Stewart is here and preparing for the Rally. Life is good. The Daily Show is back and was great and well, homey, since it is staged out of DC. He naturally covered the firing of Juan Williams. Naturally, everyone caught hell. The best line of the week from Jon:
NPR–you just brought a totebag of David Sedaris books to a knife fight.
Stewart is referring, of course, to the hounds of hell being unleashed by Fox News onto NPR.
Jon takes a few pokes at getting around DC. The lead up to the big rally this weekend should be entertaining. Anything of interest such as great skits will be added to this post.
