Across the Commonwealth when a vacancy occurs on the Board of Supervisors, or in any other office, if there is a candidate of the majority party running for the seat, he or she is appointed to complete the term of the vacancy. It helps the party and the candidate. But Loudoun county is a *special dysfunctional snowflake* and we don’t always do things as would be expected, or beneficial. We don’t do things that will help our own candidates to win. All of which brings us back to the question that the Washington Post has asked, “why is the country’s wealthiest county so dysfunctional”? (One might look to the leadership, or lack thereof. Fish always stinks from the head down, doesn’t it?)
Being the good guy that he is, the Republican candidate in Broad Run, Ron Meyer, has made the Board of Supervisors’ job easier by withdrawing his name from consideration for the appointment to fill out Shawn Williams’ term. His statement,
I ask that the Board of Supervisors remove my name from consideration for the upcoming appointment to fill Shawn Williams’ vacancy.
Ultimately, I want our campaign’s ideas–especially to build a Greenway alternative–to be on an untainted ballot this November 3.
While I believe we could have gotten started on this initiative, I am confident that whomever the Board choses will work with us in these last few pivotal months to begin making progress on realigning Shellhorn Road.
Please join me in keeping Mr. Williams, his family, and affected community members in our thoughts and prayers.
Now we only need wonder what friend of Scott York’s will be appointed to fill out Shawn Williams term on the Board of Supervisors. Speculation is the appointment may go to a former planning commissioner. What a huge missed opportunity to help a Republican candidate. What’s wrong with this board?
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Good guys finish last indeed. Especially when THEY GIVE UP – NEEDLESSLY. Does it stem from some misplaced idea of good sportsmanship – self-deprecation?! Mr Meyer must think voters will go for the guy who holds back in the race – giving others a head-start. Maybe Mr. Meyer secretly is rooting for his Dem opponent?! Heaven knows, he’s doing all he can do to aid HIS (opponent’s) campaign in Nov.
Ron Meyer obviously does NOT consider himself the best man for the job and/or does NOT consider the Board competent to make the best decision.
LOL So if he filled the empty Board seat – how does that “taint” his ballot for Nov?!?
Who would want to vote for such a self-debasing, loser candidate?!? Did his campaign director and workers advise him to do this or are they now tearing their hair out?
What’s wrong with the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors and the county’s Republican Committee?!
You have my sympathies for living in such an – aptly named – special dysfunctional snowflake, Ms. Martin.
P.S. Mr. Meyer – it REALLY would have been seemly of you to pray for Mr. Williams’ numerous VICTIMS too – both his assault victim from Sat night, and Mr. Williams’ former girlfriend, etc. – you know – all the INNOCENT people Mr. Williams has beaten up over the years! Please to remember – Mr. Williams is the despicable thug here TOTALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR HIS OWN VIOLENT, CRIMINAL ACTIONS.
Do you live and vote in the district? I know Jeanine doesn’t.
Jeanine, while setting herself up as an oracle, really knows very little about the majority of the county–the suburban policy area, where three quarters of the voters live. Meyer is running in a suburban district, and it could have been a very bad move to assumptively take the seat, OR assumptively give it, and make what has so far been a winning campaign for him needlessly closer (especially when his opponent, while a poster child for everything cartoonish about progressives, IS backed by the SEIU–that entity Jeanine regards as a GOOD endorsement when she likes someone, and a BAD one when she doesn’t).
It could have been a VERY bad move when the small group of which Jeanine is the megaphone takes up the Williams issue with both hands and swings it around to bash York, dimly knowing but emphatically not caring that it will give ammo to every other race. After the hay the same group made with it back during the nominating process, and the backlash against Charlie’s campaign for how some of his supporters were using it then, lathering, rinsing and repeating at this late stage with the same stuff won’t necessarily help Charlie, and could hurt him again.
But some, in the so-proudly “wild” bunch, may rather have the Dem win overall, because they are sure that will convince everyone to obey better next time when the oracles speak. Newsflash: most voters in the east (read, most voters in the county) do not know or care that they are supposed to obey less than half a dozen people who don’t live anywhere near their district.
I see Janet Clarke says the board doesn’t have to appoint anyone and can leave the seat vacant.
There is no indication that the board will do that. They CAN do it, but it doesn’t appear that they will.