An Open Letter to the Mayor of Roanoke
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25 responses to “An Open Letter to the Mayor of Roanoke”
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Playing hot potato with the homeless never works in the long run.
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I actually feel the same way when I encounter the homeless as well as the folks panhandling on the medians at traffic signals. We have them both in the Fredericksburg Area also. I think you’ll find them congregating more so in cities than rural areas for a number of reasons that have little to nothing to do with whether it’s Dem or GOP run.
But hey… we got REAL issues with DEI, “grooming”, and depicting history to students not to mention the transgenders causing trouble and liberals “cancelling” folks and all that stuff.
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I sympathize with Dianc Ribble. I see that sort of thing in many places across Virginia. On Sunday at the Sheetz in Front Royal, a man comes behind me at the check out line with a lit joint in his mouth. No commotion. This past Friday rolling up the road to Marshall, VA I was passed by a Fauquier Deputy. I was doing 55 he was doing about 60. The deputy was promptly passed by not one or two but four vehicles and a tractor trailer. All doing 70 plus. Not one of the vehicles is stopped. In Fredericksburg my mother’s business has shuttered the showroom. Too many nutty derelicts coming in and out and making a spectacle. City police and restraining orders seem to have no effect.
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Social breakdown starts with the bigger things… and moves on to the bigger things.
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“Racist, anti-semitic, and homophobic graffiti was painted around the Food Lion building in South Riding Town Center in South Riding, VA, on or around Friday, December 2nd”
You’re right! Enforce litter laws and end murder.
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Other than stating how disgusting it is, I’m withholding comment on that one until we know more about who painted it.
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Same people who shoot transformers. Chain link is out. Brick and reinforced block is in.
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Down the road from South Riding in Brambleton we had a rash of anti Hindu graffiti that stirred up the community. It turned out to be a notorious Indian kid from the school I worked at.
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As a former resident of South Riding, I concur with Wayne’s message. However, knowing the area it was probably the similar situation.
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I’ve heard of people who have taken vacations to some some islands and Central/South American countries where the poor and homeless hang out in front of the hotel and beg… not that different than street beggars in Cairo and similar.
Never seen that before, eh?
Not uncommon in a lot of countries so it’s a shock in this country?
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A sorta new one in Fredericksburg. They wait with a full cart at the store until you hit the checkout and then ask if you can add their cart to your check out items/bill.
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That has happened to me at few times. I went along once. There was kid in the cart. What are going to do?
I had a good relationship with homeless Vietnam vet and his dog. They would camp out next to the WaWa by the Bowman Center. Our deal was 5 bucks for a Vietnam War story. He had some good ones.
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When Trump shutdown the government, we bought groceries for Coast Guardsmen at the commissary.
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You’re a good man James.
I wish some of the other conservatives here would be like you! 😉
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We were in Roanoke in September for a high school reunion, and were stunned to see a major homeless encampment (15-20 tents?) right near our hotel at the intersection of Orange and Williamson, near the coliseum and interstate exit. Panhandlers had all the nearby street corners covered. I didn’t notice aggressive behavior but then I didn’t engage. Left a strong and negative impression of my former hometown. Maybe we start to call them Bidenvilles?
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Trumptowns…
Roanoke has bee run by democrats for the last 12-15 years. That being the case, I do not understand why their “compassion, determination and innovation” have not yet effectively eliminated the city’s homeless problem…
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Because shooting them won’t work either? Just asking.
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Shooting people is not always the answer, you know…
😉
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How many beds in homeless shelters does Roanoke have since one is so interested in the issue. Would electing Republicans create more space in homeless shelters.
Well, we could do away with the Bill of Rights (Trump’s suggestion, to which the GOP mostly is silent, was a tad excessive) and end seeing poverty with involuntary incarcerations into mental concentration (meditation?) camps.
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Well, first, they’d have to be officially designated as a s_ithole location…..
MAGA – Make American Great Again – no homeless or s_ithole places…
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If even his most hardcore supporters cannot recognize that comment as his honest to God, final, once-and-for-all, 100% pure, unadulterated, “jump the shark” moment, then the republican party is in even worse shape than I thought it was.
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It is. Lift that eye patch and take a good look.
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What? You want me to burn out both of my retinas?
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