At today’s Stafford Democratic Committee (SDC) Reorganizational Caucus, former Aquia Democratic Supervisor Kandy Hilliard was elected Chair of the SDC. As the outgoing Chair of this committee, I believe that Kandy will continue the tremendous progress we have made over the last two years and will be one heck of a Chair! Congratulations to Kandy!
Now, here is a little about Kandy. In 2001, she was elected to the Stafford County Board of Supervisors. While on the board, she served as the Region 7 Director on the Virginia Association of Counties Board of Directors.
She was also appointed by Governor Mark Warner to serve on the Local Government Advisory Committee of the Chesapeake Bay Program and then was reappointed by Governor Kaine. Kandy played a key role in helping to preserve the Crow’s Nest Peninsula. As Kandy explained today,
As Aquia District Supervisor, I worked hard to get $30 million in Virginia Resource Authority funds to purchase the Crow’s Nest Peninsula, one of the last remaining bird and wildlife sanctuaries on the eastern seaboard.
She also helped to spearhead a County-wide roadside litter removal effort which cleaned up more than 50 miles of major roadways each year. They picked up trash from Quantico on the north end to the Falmouth Bridge on the southern end and up Garrisonville Road and Rt. 17. Given the makeup of the current Board of Supervisors within Stafford County, this experience may prove to be invaluable!
Kandy is also the current Chair of the Friends of the Rappahannock Executive committee.
Elected along with Kandy were Laura Sellers as Senior Vice-Chair; Noreen Crowley and Linda Berkoff as Vice-Chairs; David Kerr as Secretary; Bruce Iosco as Treasurer; Bobby Crisp as Sergeant-at-Arms; and Marvin Wagner as Parliamentarian.
Del. Albert Pollard (D-99) did his part. He endorsed Creigh Deeds for Governor prior to the Democratic primary in June and appeared with him at multiple events in Fredericksburg and the Northern Neck. But the dust has settled and the voters of the 99th district have spoken: Pollard for Delegate and McDonnell for Governor.
Pollard, who has a lifetime 96% rating from the Virginia League of Conservation Voters and is a recipient of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation Legislator of the Year award, has been named to Bob McDonnell’s Transition Team Advisory Group for Natural Resources.
Delegate Albert C. Pollard, Jr., was recently appointed to Governor-elect McDonnell’s Transition Team Advisory Group for Natural Resources.
The news which first appeared on the Washington Post website is an effort of the incoming administration’s efforts to reach across the aisle.
“It’s an honor to be appointed to Governor-elect McDonnell’s transition team,” said Pollard. “At this point in our nation’s history, we cannot waste time with petty partisan politics. Future generations will not care if the Chesapeake Bay was cleaned by one party or another – only that the job was done.”
Now maybe Speaker Howell will wise up and put Pollard on the Agriculture, Chesapeake, and Natural Resources Committee where he belongs?
How long before the wingnuts get a hold of Steve Forbes and force his namesake (of which he is editor-in-chief) to print a retraction?
Forbes is as loyal a conservative Republican as you will find. This was Mr. Forbes a few weeks ago when he endorsed Doug Hoffman for Congress in NY:
Under the Democrat Congress and White House, we’ve seen runaway spending, more bail-outs and attempts to pass government run healthcare and union power grabs like Card Check. We’ve seen federal tax dollars used to promote abortion on demand and we’ve seen more of our freedoms put in jeopardy.
The full statement is the standard “Democrats=Satan” talk that could have come from the mouth of Beck or Palin.
Back to the Forbes magazine article; this analysis from Oxford Analytica (a group started by a former member of the Nixon administration) looks at the good and the bad from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) and concludes:
Despite its flaws, the stimulus package has helped underpin recovery and prevented even more savage job losses than those that have occurred. However, this observation (based on counterfactual conjecture about how much worse conditions would have been without the plan) is unlikely to be politically salient for Obama if unemployment remains high ahead of the November 2010 mid-term elections.
And just for good measure:
The summer 2009 “cash-for-clunkers” program intended to encourage new car purchases–and appears to have succeeded.
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