Connaughton BACKS HOT -- LOSES PRIMARY
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Topic: Connaughton BACKS HOT -- LOSES PRIMARY
Posted By: DaVetsAtHome
Subject: Connaughton BACKS HOT -- LOSES PRIMARY
Date Posted: 28 Mar 2005 at 12:10pm
http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2004/102004/10282004/1553224
EVERY VOTE COUNTS! JOB WELL DONE, Northern Virginia!
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Posted By: shirons
Date Posted: 28 Mar 2005 at 12:35pm
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This is a very old article.
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Posted By: DaVetsAtHome
Date Posted: 28 Mar 2005 at 12:41pm
quote:
Originally posted by shirons
[br]This is a very old article.
Did he change his position?
Repudiated the association?
Need defending to the HOV riders?
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Posted By: DanMadeup
Date Posted: 02 Jun 2005 at 2:56pm
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Originally posted by shirons
[br]This is a very old article.
New vote coming in a month!
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Posted By: SpongeBob
Date Posted: 09 Jun 2005 at 9:44am
I don't vote Republican anyway, but I understand from Scott Hirons that he found Connaughton open to our anti-toll-roads position. I wasn't aware his campaign had released a statement on the toll roads, which it would be premature for them to do at this time.
By crying out against Sean and against other politicians, you make it more likely they will be unwilling to listen to our side of the story. As a group, we come off as personality driven, rather than issue-driven.
Don't you think we'd catch more flies with sugar than vinegar, Robert?
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Posted By: getmehome pweeze
Date Posted: 09 Jun 2005 at 10:35am
whats Connaughtons first name??
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Posted By: getmehome pweeze
Date Posted: 09 Jun 2005 at 10:35am
whats Connaughtons first name??
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Posted By: SpongeBob
Date Posted: 09 Jun 2005 at 12:05pm
Sean.
(My 200th post, and my shortest ever!)
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Posted By: N_or_S_bound
Date Posted: 10 Jun 2005 at 3:15pm
While I suspect trails are easily covered as we go. Others have said "follow the money".
Here's a place you can do that with one candidate. http://www.vpap.org/cands/cand_donorlist.cfm?ToKey=COM00885&CycleID=2003
I don't see anything here, but then I'm not as familiar with how these things work...
NoSB
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Posted By: DaVetsAtHome
Date Posted: 13 Jun 2005 at 1:16pm
Here is how it works!
You go to
http://www.vpap.org/cands/cand_donorlist.cfm?ToKey=COM00981&CycleID=2005
This will show you the large donations by names. Cut and paste the donor to "Google" it.
For example, google
Smith, Gordon V (Potomac, MD), and there is a FEC listing for the same noting, MILLER & SMITH INC./BUILDER. The number two donator is a firm with significant ongoing development in PWC.
Fried, B Mark (Crozet, VA)and you find that the number three donator is "a real estate developer currently constructing the "Metro Park" office park near the Franconia-Springfield transit station in Springfield. He is the managing member of limited liability companies comprising Frieds and Constellation Real Estate Inc."
Analex Corp (Alexandria, VA) brings up a very interesting article. While Analex Corp is a diversified engineering firm, the article notes, "The biggest contributions--$25,000 each—came from DEVELOPER Cemente LLC, HOMEBUILDER Randolph Ridges LLC, Potomac Cannons owner Art Silber, and Miller & Smith HOMEBUILDERS.
Cecchi Investments of Arlington (the Cecchi family OWNS FOXCHASE MANOR in Manassas and ROSE HILL MANOR)
Companies giving $10,000 included EQUITY HOMES, DEVELOPER Fried Cos. (noted above) -- Peterson Cos. DEVELOPEMENT FIRM, SALLY MAE insurance company -- Van Metre REAL ESTATE.
Robbins, Charles H (Newington, VA)-- GENERAL CONTRACTOR
Well, I think that I have seen enough?
Just to be fair, here is the top of the Bolling list:
Information Technology
Commercial Real Estate
Farmer
Property Management
Building Supplies
Service Stations
Retired
quote:
Originally posted by N_or_S_bound
[br]While I suspect trails are easily covered as we go. Others have said "follow the money".
Here's a place you can do that with one candidate. http://www.vpap.org/cands/cand_donorlist.cfm?ToKey=COM00885&CycleID=2003
I don't see anything here, but then I'm not as familiar with how these things work...
NoSB
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Posted By: dickboyd
Date Posted: 13 Jun 2005 at 11:54pm
POLITICAL DONATIONS
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Originally posted by DaVetsAtHome
[br]Here is how it works!
You go to
http://www.vpap.org/cands/cand_donorlist.cfm?ToKey=COM00981&CycleID=2005
This will show you the large donations by names. Cut and paste the donor to "Google" it.
Thanks for the link to political donors.
Think for a minute about who is actually making the donation. The developer sells the homes or the upgraded land use titles to someone to build the homes. People who buy the homes are actually paying for the political donations. Like it or not. Is it in a potential homeowners best interest to buy a home from someone that does not provide all the amenities?
Developers don't want to get involved in what happens over the property line. The impact fees or mitigation fees being discussed in the Virginia Assembly may increase the price of doing business. Not to worry, just pass the cost on to the ultimate buyer (with profit markup, of course).
But the things to be paid for by those impact fees will never happen, or will be much more expensive when individuals try to install them. Want a sewer? Get signatures from 60% of the PROPERTY OWNERS. So if a property owner doesn't have a house on the property, will he be inclined to vote yes on sewers?
If you don't have police protection paid for by the developer, the developer will adopt predatory nesting habits. Much like a cowbird, the developer will expect the county to pick up the salary of police officers to guard the constructions sites. Birds already in the nest will have to give up a little for the new chicks that the developer hopes to add. Even when developers pay for policing they only contribute pennies on the dollar.
What can be done about predatory nesting? For one, contact the developers and point out that shorter commute times through slugging means that people will spend less time on the road and more time at home. More time enjoying the largest investment they will make in their life. Is there a value added to the homes by the availability of slugs? I think so.
Does slugging provide a competitive edge in selling a house? Probably not, since slugs are presently the only ones that know the value, and they aren't talking.
This extra time at home which is provided by slugging is not available on VRE or METRO. Only regular car pools and van pools exceed slugging in providing shortest commute times. I would suggest that van pools can be cheaper under certain circumstances.
Ask the developer to make room for slugging as part of the amenity package.
The other group to contact is the elected representation in the Assembly. Thank them for their dedicated public service and explain that you know how hard it is to get elected without developer funding. Include a comment that you further understand the value added by slugging and that in your opinion, slugging should be addressed in the general and specific land use plans. Some places have a chapter for "circulation". Others have a chapter in land use plans for "transportation." Get the law on land use plans updated to require the developers to answer questions about transportation beyond the property line.
dickboyd@aol.com
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