Showing posts with label Election. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Election. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Come Out this Thursday Evening to Support Teresa Altemus

In a recent news publication much enthusiasm was directed at supporting Gloucester Point Supervisor Chris Hutson in his reelection efforts and the actions of the infamous Gloucester 40 and Gloucester’s former Commonwealth Attorney. The article also cast a negative cloud about Teresa Altemus who is seeking the Republican Party’s nomination for Supervisor of the Gloucester Point District; even though she and the other targeted Supervisors were cleared of all charges. In fact it was not Mrs. Altemus and the other targeted Supervisors who cost Gloucester County hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees. It was a group of people who were unhappy about the results of an election that were all associated with a single local civic organization that cost Gloucester County all of that money.
 
There was absolutely nothing in the article about Mrs. Altemus’ previous track record or her conservative and sensible views on issues that matter to the People of Gloucester County. There were no quotes from anyone supporting Mrs. Altemus. There were however, multiple quotes from members of the Gloucester 40 and from Mr. Hutson. In fact the article, in its own subtle way, tends to steer the reader away from Mrs. Altemus in favor of Mr. Hutson. What or who is the driving force behind Mr. Hutson having that privilege? It certainly cannot be a result of his track record as Supervisor for the Gloucester Point district.
 
Mr. Hutson’s track record includes failing to disclose his personal interest in property that would have been impacted by the Terrapin Cove sewer extension and voting to approve the project without disclosing the personal interest. When the appearance of conflict and Mr. Hutson’s failure to disclose his interest in the property was discovered, Mr. Hutson publicly claimed his wife did not tell him about the property. More recently he was heard claiming that his wife didn’t know about the property until the conflict appearance became public. Why the change of story at election time?
 
Mr. Hutson voted against lifting the boat tax and suggested taxing boats owned by already struggling commercial water-men. He voted against the recently adopted 2016 budget because real estate tax rates were not raised to 70 plus cents. He has stated that the only way the Board of Supervisors knows what the People and Citizens want is through comments made at Board of Supervisor meetings during citizen comment periods. What about emails to the Board or to ones district representative, or phone calls, letters and face to face communications? I can honestly say Mr. Hutson has never responded to a single email I have sent to him and I live in the Gloucester Point district.   
 
At the Republican Party Mass Meeting being held at Achilles Elementary School this Thursday evening; Gloucester Point residents will vote to determine which of these individuals will receive the Republican nomination to run for the position of the Party's representative on the Board of Supervisors. Those wishing to participate must register between 5:30 and 6:45 P.M.and bring with them a picture ID (as is required for elections in Virginia). Please come and vote for Teresa Altemus for Gloucester Point Supervisor.
 
Kenneth E. Hogge, Sr.

Friday, October 18, 2013

Gloucester, VA Mid Penn Vote, BoS Candidates Video



















October Mid Pen Vote for Gloucester, Virginia Board of Supervisors seats.  This forum was held Sunday October 13th, 2013 at the meeting room in the Gloucester Courthouse library and started at 3:00 PM.  It ran for about one hour and 20 minutes.  Below is a YouTube video that is more of an audio with a few pictures from this event.  Not everyone could get to this and not everyone was off to come to this forum.  Now is your chance to hear the issues before the candidates and make your own selection based on what you hear and other information you have already gathered.




As soon as we get a chance, we will also be putting up the audio from the school board forum that took place at 2:00 PM this same day.  Make sure to turn off the audio from the radio station playing below.  It's on the right hand side panel and is Xtra 99 FM, the local radio station.  A stop button will pop up when you mouse over the name of the station.
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Friday, June 28, 2013

In A Democracy, No Room For Patents, Copyrights or Trademarks

A stylized representation of a red flag, usefu...
A stylized representation of a red flag, useful for articles related to socialism in one way or another. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Everyday we keep hearing about how we must protect our democracy.  What most people do not understand and it's by design, is that a democracy is a communist form of government, and not how the United States was founded.  The United States was founded and set up as a republic.  That republic these days is just about gone thanks to democracy.  Well if we are going to live in a democracy, then the democracy should be one that is fair and by the people for the people.

  Monopolies must then be banished to ideals and idealism of the past.  Monopolies such as the ideas and ideals of patents, copyrights and trademarks are direct conflicts with a free and fair democracy.  A free and fair democracy should embrace the concepts that all inventions are for the good of all the people and not something to be held in secrecy.  After all, if you wish to benefit mankind, you do not do so by hiding truths from your fellow man.

  Any and all secret patents should be loathed as hideous manipulations against one's fellow man and should be shunned and abolished.  Trademarks are the tools of monopolies and therefore should be ignored and abolished.  Copyrights have no place in a democracy and should equally be loathed, ignored and abolished.

  Corporations, the evil monopolies, that would argue against these ideas are becoming concepts of a past we will soon forget as we seek to wipe them from the face of the earth as they no longer have a place in modern society.  Ideas such as the federal reserve no longer have a place in the coming global communities.  Concepts such as the IRS, who's time should now be considered over, are not the ideals of a free and democratic society.

  If gas is 9.00 dollars per gallon in England, it should be 9.00 dollars per gallon in every part of the world.  If a man makes 15.00 dollars per hour in the United States, every man at every level throughout the world should make the same fair 15.00 dollars per hour without regard to what work he does, whether he be a politician or boat repairman.  No man should live in luxury above another.

  Taxes in one country should never exceed what others pay in other countries.  All people irregardless of status should pay the same fair amounts in taxes at all times.  All trade should be fair and equal.

  Secret societies must be banned and opened to the public at every level.  No more should concepts such as the Masons be allowed to maintain secret meetings or hold secret services.  We are not talking about the abolishment of the Mason's but instead the opening of the Mason's to every person.  All secrets revealed and all without cost to anyone.  If the Mason's wish to continue to operate, let them do so through the free and fair donations from those who would wish to continue to support them.

  No government should be allowed to hold anything secret.  Free and fair minds only expand through the freedom of all information.  If governments wish to track people, allow them to, however, any government that wishes to track people must share all tracking information in a free and public manner.  Gone are the days of secrets in a fair democracy.  All the world's information should be freely shared at every level.

  Let no country wage any form of war against another.  Any country that so chooses the ways of war against another should have all supplies, communications and travel cut off until they end such foolishness.  If we are to have a democracy, it can not be a partial democracy, it must be fully open free and fair.  No longer are meetings to be held by any government or any two or more people that would deem it a secret meeting.  All information must be made open at all times when it concerns nations and states.

  Concepts of power and wealth should be forever banished and loathed.  Profits need be forfeited as it would put one's status above another and could not be considered fair to that of any other person.  The manipulation of the people can no longer be considered fair and must be halted forever.  Corporations must be closed forever, never to see the light of day again as a concept.  It's facilities turned to the use of all humankind owned by the people and not the state.

  The concept of state must also be abolished and loathed as it has always been the way of manipulating the human spirit and all of mankind.

Anyone still interested in preserving democracy?
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Monday, June 10, 2013

Virginia State News - Tuesday's Prmaries

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Republican Mural (Photo credit: Burns Library, Boston College)
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Republicans (Photo credit: Jed Sheehan)
Jun 9, 12:24 PM EDT

In Tuesday's Va. primaries amid sparse turnout, some old intraparty grudges will be settled

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- In Virginia's statewide and legislative primaries Tuesday, some intraparty scores will be settled.
Democrats will pick their nominees for lieutenant governor from between state Sen. Ralph Northam and former Obama White House technology chief Aneesh Chopra, and for attorney general between state Sen. Mark Herring and Fairfax lawyer Justin Fairfax.
But the real bad blood is lower on the ticket, where seven House incumbents - five of them Republicans - representing 112 years of combined legislative experience face nomination challenges from newcomers who believe they've broken faith within their parties.
Among Republicans facing primaries is House Speaker Bill Howell and three committee chairmen: Del. Joe May, who heads the Transportation Committee; Del. Beverly Sherwood who chairs the Agriculture Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee; and Del. Bobby Orrock, chairman of the Health Welfare and Institutions Committee.
Their challengers are conservatives who take issue with the party's legislative lions supporting bills that rankle the Republican Right. But the unifying issue appears to be their support for the recently passed first overhaul of a failing state transportation funding formula in 27 years.
Among Democratic challenges, none is as heated as the one that political newcomer Evandra Thompson, a 30-year-old banker who works in a northern Richmond suburb, is waging to deny Rosalyn Dance a fifth term in the House.
Her motivation is similar to those of the Republicans in that she considers Dance, a former Petersburg Mayor, an apostate to her party because she voted with Republicans on several key issues. These include a state takeover of Petersburg's failing public schools, a Republican-written budget that did not provide for Medicaid expansion, and a Republican ambush-style effort to redraw state Senate districts to benefit the GOP and break a stalemate in which each party now holds 20 Senate seats.
Payback?
Sure. But that's what primaries are about: a reckoning within a political party to determine its direction. And the challengers are almost always those who are more ideologically driven and who argue that the incumbent is too cozy with the opposing party.
And its importance is multiplied in a time when the art of politically driven redistricting intended to maximize the strength of a majority party is elevated to a science by ever more powerful technology. It is capable of synthesizing precinct-by-precinct voting results with census data on the most minute level and rendering intricate geopolitical boundaries where a desired partisan outcome is virtually guaranteed.
Because of that, districts have become so solidly Republican or Democratic that incumbent legislators worry more about a June challenge from activists in the outer flanks of his or her own party than general election fights in November, and it further balkanizes a legislature increasingly riven by reflexive partisanship.
"We can't just keep electing people because they're incumbents," said longtime GOP loyalist and first-time challenger Dave A. LaRock, who has waged a determined fight to unseat Joe May, who won his seat in the Virginia House 20 years ago when Republicans were still a minority accustomed to being shoved around by Democrats.
"Joe May has been in there a long time and the Democrats don't oppose him for a good reason: They're satisfied with his votes for their policies," LaRock said.
That's stretching it. May, a high-tech inventor and manufacturer who is among the General Assembly's wealthiest members, has a voting record that's heavily weighted toward his party's initiatives. But in the rare cases when he's gone his own way, it was on issues that make the conservatives see red. He opposed the repeal of Virginia's one-handgun-purchase-per-month law, and he opposed the 2012 bill that would have mandated a vaginally intrusive ultrasound exam before women could undergo abortions.
But what outraged his Republican detractors was his support for the bipartisan transportation bill that increases a handful of taxes to generate more than $1 billion a year in additional revenue to maintain the state's deteriorating 58,000-mile network of roads and jump-start Virginia's moribund road construction program. The bill split House Republicans between those who feared that world-class highway gridlock would cripple economically vibrant but overbuilt northern Virginia and Hampton Roads, and anti-tax hawks such who labeled the bill, pushed by Howell and Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell, as the largest tax increase in Virginia history.
Across the aisle, Dance had already disillusioned some fellow Democratic delegates before she committed what Del. Joe Morrisey and state Sen. Henry Marsh considered an unpardonable heresy by siding with the GOP on the surprise Senate redistricting bid that even some Republicans rejected because of its notorious bushwhack tactics.
On Jan. 20, Marsh, a Richmond Democrat and long-serving black lawmaker, was away to attend the inauguration of President Barack Obama. With the Democrats down a seat and the GOP holding a 20-19 one-day numerical advantage, they amended a House bill that previously made only small technical corrections to legislative lines without warning and with limited debate and muscled it through on a strict party-line vote. Its advantages to the GOP would have easily given Republicans an additional three seats.
The bill died in the House when Speaker Howell ruled the Senate's amendments were not germane to the original bill, but the damage was done when Dance spoke in a private Democratic Caucus meeting and in newspaper interviews in support of the Senate amendments. Morrissey was livid.

Read the rest of the story on Associated Press.  http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/V/VA_SOUTH_PORTICO_VAOL-?SITE=ILROR&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

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Friday, June 7, 2013

Louise Theberge's Vacation Plans - Vote John C Meyer On June 11th, 2013.

Open Letter to the Citizens of Gloucester County Virginia


Thank you Gloucester County for the support and encouragement you have provided me and this site.

The Virginia Constitution was written by men from all walks of life that wanted us to not live under the rule of an unjust government.  Have you ever read the Constitution of the United States?  How about the Constitution of Virginia?

Article 1 Section 5.  No Separation of legislative, executive, and judicial departments; periodical elections.  The legislative, executive, and judicial departments should be separate and distinct and that the members should, at fixed periods, be reduced to a private station, return into that body from which they were originally taken, and the vacancies be supplied by regular elections.

The founders of the Virginia government knew the burden of government could be over powering and to protect the people called to serve we should send them home by electing others so they can rest.  They did not set terms for all positions since everyone is different for the amount of time they can serve.

We have two supervisors that have served one term, and decided they need a break.  One of our at large supervisors has served for 14 years this is a long time to be in any position without a break.  Louise Theberge has served Gloucester tirelessly for a long time.  She has many other interest as has been pointed out in the newspaper such as the Boys and Girls Club, Gloucester Main Street Association, and she is a business person.  Based on these many interests it appears Ms. Theberge  may need to consider a break from service to get some rest, spend time with her family, and pursue other interest.  Or we should consider giving her a vacation by voting for John C. “Jace” Meyer on Tuesday June 11, 2013.

Following the direction spelled out in the Virginia Constitution should be done by all of us so we stay Citizens and do not become serfs.  Being a citizen requires work on our part to ensure we get the government we deserve and want.

“For the Common Good. “

Sincerely,
Alexander James Jay

P.S. I am not a lawyer so I am not giving you a legal definition but what these writings mean to me.



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