Chairman Scott York chose Shawn Williams to be his Vice Chairman on the Loudoun Board of Supervisors. York and Williams have been best buds since Shawn came onto the board in 2012. York has sung the praises of Shawn Williams since the last election. Shawn was York’s guy, often representing him in public
When the news of Shawn Williams’ background broke last February, we called for his resignation from the board, as did many others. Scott York said no. York controls the board of Supervisors and he would only permit Shawn to resign as Vice Chair. Some Supervisors believed Shawn should resign the board but York wouldn’t hear of it. When more news broke about Shawn’s terrible background of abuse of women and driving drunk, there were more calls for his resignation. And again, Scott York said no.
It was well known that deputy sheriffs had been called to Williams’ house for domestic disputes. It was also well known that Williams was still drinking, despite his claims otherwise. Scott York still said no to Williams’ resignation from the board.
After all of this had been known for months Scott York gave Shawn Williams a leadership roll in his campaign! York made Williams his campaign treasurer! A terrible decision on York’s part. Who appoints a disgraced Supervisor to a leadership roll on a campaign?! Other members of York’s campaign staff also have very questionable backgrounds, including one with numerous arrests and incarcerations.
One must question Scott York’s decision making and judgment. Why did York insist that a disgraced Supervisor, with numerous arrests, remain on the board? And on his campaign team? Why is York hiring other convicted felons on his campaign team? How can we trust Scott York to continue to run Loudoun county when he surrounds himself with people who have such terrible backgrounds? Why didn’t Scott York care about abuse of women, domestic assaults and drunk driving? Why does he surround himself with people who have extensive arrest records? Where is his judgment? Is this the kind of man we want to lead Loudoun county and represent us? I think not.
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Barbara it is about Scott’s character and inability to make sound decisions. Now if you want to make the case that making Shawn as treasurer of his campaign after learning of Shawns issues serious enough to drive him from the race please I am all ears. While you are it make the case that holding on to Shawn by making excuses for him when it was obvious to everyone that Shawn had a serious problem is a good thing.
While you are at it clarify for me that what I and others were begging Shawn to do months ago , step down and take of his family first was at the time political chicanery but now excepted as sound advice by you and all that care for him. The only real difference is we made the suggestion along time ago knowing his issues would bring additional pain
Greg, my only issue with this has been the glee with which the thug life group has used it as no more than a political tool.
It stained Charlie’s campaign the first time, through no fault of Charlie’s other than relying on some people whose first choice is always rough, and it may stain it again–you’d think you guys would have learned this through the Metro issue, or the convention and Noble, or any number of other things–pretty much going back to the canvass between Mark and Candace.
The thug-ugly hurts more than it helps, unless the target audience is already in the bubble. Did it win any of the major issues on which it (the behavior) has been employed? No.
Maybe you guys don’t really want to win anything, other than an angry martyr’s crown–surely your choice, but don’t speak for everybody in the process, don’t set yourself up as the oracle in the process of being repeatedly wrong, and don’t torpedo everybody else’s race just so you can stroke yourself with”toldja”, after you’re one of the ones that helped burn it down.
“knowing his issues would bring additional pain”–do you ever ask yourself how much additional pain you clowns brought in your righteous flames, to the wife, kids, etc? I can’t fault York for trying to make the best of a board he can’t throw anyone off of, or for maybe trying to give help to someone struggling.
If the meltdown had been worse, with perhaps death, would you all have been really really thrilled, so you’d have a bigger pile of **** to smear around, and a much bigger “toldja”?
I can understand pretending to be Howard Beal, and getting a big tingle up your leg for being mad as hell and not taking it anymore, but remember, Howard’s ratings slipped, and it didn’t end well for him.
The opportunistic self-righteous rage gets old. Maybe, instead of everybody ELSE learning to obey you all when you yell, you guys could learn a bit from when it DIDN’T work before. More people might listen to the points you do have to make then, on issues beyond the personal.
I am sharing an excellent comment I found on Facebook regarding Scott York
“York VERSUS Voters,Bad Decisions
Guilty on all counts in the first degree!
He made a mistake by stepping down, he made a mistake not running against King at the convention, he made a mistake going off the reservation and running as a independent. he made a mistake picking Williams, the woman beater as his replacement, he made a mistake choosing Williams the drunkard as his campaign treasurer,
You’re fired!”
Yes! Let’s elect Republican Charlie King!
Our hardcore Viking is always entertaining–He’s posting that everywhere, under all of his names.
He is a true take-no-prisoners!
um, are you saying that the appointment to a campaign ROLE AFFECTS “us all”?
As long as Williams’ actions on the campaign had no EFFECT as a result of substance abuse, then that may be more of a situation where the simple fact of the appointment AFFECTS the campaign by providing you and others the opportunity to politicize it.
The EFFECT you are seeking in hammering on his ROLE there may AFFECT your candidate in ways that are not beneficial, just as they were not the last time this was your chosen hammer.
But I know, that’s just how you ROLL.
Scott York’s continual whitewashing of Shawn’s known and repeated woman beating, serial DUIs, and assaults by calling it an “alcohol abuse problem” is much like saying that Ted Kennedy was just not a good driver. Keeping someone like Shawn on his campaign speaks volumes for Scott’s lack of character.