Charlottesville’s Dysfunctional City Government and the Left’s Four-Card Monty
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11 responses to “Charlottesville’s Dysfunctional City Government and the Left’s Four-Card Monty”
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A couple of years ago Petersburg was the poster child for municipal dysfunction. Fortunately for Petersburg, the fiscal disaster was mostly the result of incompetence. Incompetence can be addressed. The city brought in outside consultants led by Bob C. Bobb (former city manager of Richmond), who enforced some hard choices, and Petersburg dug itself out of its hole. It still has major issues with crime and schools, but it has addressed its fiscal issues.
There is no fixing leftist ideology. Charlottesville and Portsmouth are the poster children for government dysfunction. I think Sherlock’s observation is astute — for the left, every issue is reducible to race, gender, climate or guns. The left is impervious to any data except that which confirms its ideology and rejects or ignores the rest. Wrong diagnoses lead to worthless prescriptions.
Add to that the fact that the left is especially prone to vicious in-fighting, as all ideologues typically are.
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I’d love to see Peter G’s response to the above.
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C’ville don’t want to talk about no schools. Thanks to the link in the post the underwhelming performance of Charlottesville schools is very clear.
39% of students score proficient or above, and 61% are less than proficient. Yet 86% (not in the link) are classified as gifted. WTF?
Charlottesville could be the perfect poster child for the failures of wokeism. However, it lacks a horde of homeless people, mentally ill and drug addled living and pooping on the sidewalks. There is something left for the city to strive for.
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Been to the Downtown Mall lately? I mean it. Maybe they have cleaned up the homeless issue.
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I have not, thanks for the update. Looks like that puts C’ville back in the running for “wokeist”.
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They have not.
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I think it was 2013 when the hard-left democrats took full and complete control of the C’ville City Council. I made the following prediction to my wife the day after the elections: “If people like these remain in power then within the next 12-15 years Charlottesville as a safe, vibrant and diverse small city will be effectively destroyed”.
I was wrong. It took less than ten.
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I think it was 2013 when the hard-left democrats took full and complete control of the C’ville City Council. I made the following prediction to my wife the day after the elections: “If people like these remain in power then within the next 12-15 years Charlottesville as a safe, vibrant and diverse small city will be effectively destroyed”.
I was wrong. It took less than ten years.
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One thing I have noted all of my life about Democrats is that give them an inch, they take a mile. The party of government, when the get even temporary control, they act in huge chunks. FDR and Lyndon Johnson fit the mold on the federal side. When they got filibuster-proof majorities in the Senate, they massively expanded the role of government in people’s lives.
In Virginia, the Democrats used a relatively brief period before the elections of 2021 to completely change the course of government in Richmond. Then they rage that Republicans are upsetting “established norms” when they try to regain some of the lost ground. It is ritual. And it tends, with the help of the press, to be successful.
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He joins others who “support and advocate for commonsense criminal justice reforms to make their communities safer and the commonwealth’s justice system more fair and equitable.
“Common sense criminal justice reform”.
In my experience, anything with “common sense” in its name, isn’t.
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Too funny, Virginian attacking one of their nicest cites (they don’t have many) because they don’t like that it’s more Democratic.
Attack it’s schools when it’s the best in that region of Va and has one of the state’s premier universities.
What, do you wish Charlottesville more like the rest of Albemarle County or W. VA? It’s almost 100% Republican.
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