VIDEO: You Say You Want a Referendum?
January 13, 2010
The agenda for the January 11 Falls Church City Council meeting included resolutions to submit and endorse a referendum to be held by voters to determine whether local elections should be moved from May to November.
However, these agenda items were not scheduled to be considered until after Council had voted on moving the elections.
When Council member Nader Baroukh asked City Attorney John Foster if the referendum questions could be discussed at the same time as the issue of moving elections, he was told that it was up to the Mayor.
Mayor Gardner denied Baroukh’s request, saying it would not be fair to the Council and not be fair to the citizens. The referendum questions, Mayor Gardner said, could be discussed later “when we get to it on the agenda.”
Watch the three-minute video:
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Three and a half hours later, Council worked down to the referendum agenda items.
Watch the 90-second video:
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By Falls Church Times Staff
January 13, 2010
Welcome to “The Little Dictatorship” of Falls Church. Having quickly disabused the citizens of this city of any notion that they have the right to decide questions of the election calendar, Chairman Ma and the Gang of Four pressed on toward completion of their trifecta of budget busting. In addition to an already troublesome budgetary deficit created by the general failure to accurately track revenue against expenditures and the ill-advised and costly water-wars lawsuit , they approved on first reading a heavily subsidized assisted housing project. Or, as this trifecta might otherwise be known, The Three Gouges, Damn project.
When I had my program on Falls Church Cable Access TV, Right on Target Live, the most watched program in the history of FCCTV , I always opened the program with “Coming to you LIVE from the Peoples Socalist Democratic Republic of Falls Church.
I was right then, and I can see that nothing has changed. You poor folks. You just keep voting for those wonderful CBC candidates. Well, you’re getting what you deserve. Falls Church’s Chickens……………are coming home……..to roost.
I’m so glad I got out of there and moved to Charleston, SC. I don’t miss the divine rulers there at all. And I’m sure they don’t miss me either!