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Volume VII, Issue 4 · Late February, 2012

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County kills summer camp – or do they?

A community rallies

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Brogan, BR Ops & a Humane b’day
Mandy goes corporate

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Mary Kay’s political end run – Darr fights back

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Mannequin announces council run

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Prospect Street duplex fire attributed to smoking in bed
Fire alarm sounded two minutes before halftime of Super Bowl
up top … oh well … Warren County fire and rescue units were dispatched for an apartment fire that evening at 4 East Prospect Street. Units arrived to find smoke and flames from second floor windows. As fire and police units arrived, two occupants were being removed from the apartment by neighbors who saw the fire coming from the windows. Occupants Katherine and Jeffrey Laudermilk were removed from the building by a neighbor. Fire was located in a second floor bedroom and consumed the room and contents. Fire Investigator from Warren County Fire and Rescue determined the fire originated in a bed, apparently caused by discarded smoking materials in the bed. Occupants were alerted to the fire by a properly operating smoke detector. The fire was extinguished using one hand line, confining the fire to the bedroom and adjacent hallway. Mr. Laudermilk was treated on scene for smoke inhalation and transported to Warren Memorial Hospital
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where he was treated and eventually released. There were no injuries to Fire and Rescue personnel. Fire, heat and smoke damage was confined to the Laudermilk’s side of the duplex unit. Initial damage estimates were $35,000.Occupants were offered but refused assistance by Winchester/Clarke Chapter of Red Cross. Fire units also assisted by Front Royal Police Department with traffic and crowd control. The Warren County Department Fire and Rescue Services encourages those occupants of apartments or rental property, etc. and notice fire hazards and inoperable fire detection sys-

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media. He has used the pages of the Warren County Report as a personal left-wing propaganda sheet. Sincerely, George Woloshyn Linden, VA PS- BTW: Your banner is misleading. Rather than “0,000 readers” it should state: “0,000 copies dumped in various locations and adding to the county’s environmental pollution and litter.....no idea if anybody reads it.” (Managing editor’s note: Shame on you, George, rummaging through other people’s trash to read our paper. But seriously, as Rodney Dangerfield says – “I can’t get no respect around here. No, really, I’m getting ” serious now: A/ I assure you I am neither the editor of the Capital News Service that originates in Richmond on the campus of Virginia Commonwealth University, nor am I using Michael Bodine as a pen name. B/ as for Mr. Woloshyn’s “yada, yada, yada” loss of interest in the last portion of this sentence – “the irrational hysteria ... of religious extremists who seem hell-bent on forcing ... yada.. yada..yada. I guess I’m not surprised ” at his editing out “(forcing) their noquarters perception of reality on all Americans under the guise of religious freedom. – If the “yada, yada, ” yada” fits, just yada, yada over it. C/ after visiting Mr. Woloshyn’s online link supporting Ms. Dominguez’s assertion that Planned Parenthood is a billion-dollar abortion industry investing in the sex trafficking of young girls, I stand by our referenced stats and facts about Planned Parenthood’s mission and services, rather than any extremist, right-wing website claims – but that’s just me. The site’s “sex trafficking” claims appear to revolve around personal claims that Planned Parenthood provides medical services to women the website claims have been indentified as prostitutes. D/ As for my opinions, or anyone else’s, well they are like, you know … everybody’s got one. I’ll stand by mine, or over it, them – Oh, never mind.) Hoover v. Bianchini Sir: Who is the true patriot? That is the question that came to mind when I read the typical right wing rant by Richard Hoover in response to Roger Bianchini’s article “Patriotism 101: not blind prejudice an lies”. When one considers the principals upon which this great nation was founded, Roger wins hands down. Those principals are embodied in the Declaration of Independence which I suggest Mr. Hoover read in its entirety. “We hold these truths to be self- evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. - That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and happiness.” Senator Carl Shurz, Chicago, Illinois, on October 17 1899 made the following astute observation. “I confidently trust that the American people will prove themselves … too wise to detect false pride or the dangerous ambitions or the selfish schemes which so often bide themselves under the deceptive cry of mock patriotism: ‘Our country right or wrong!’ They will not fail to recognize that our dignity, our free institutions and the peace and welfare of this and coming generations of Americans will be secure only as we cling to the watchword of true patriotism: ‘Our country - when right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right.’ ” The following from “The True Patriot” By Eric Liu and Nick Hanaurer is right on the money: “America today is drifting from its best traditions. We have allowed false profits of selfishness to obscure our vision. We have grown numb to creeping cynicism about progress and public life. We crave human connection yet hide behind walls. We worship the money chase yet decry the toll it exacts on us. We allow the market to dominate our lives, relationships, yearnings and aspirations. We indulge in nostalgia and irony and entertainment, then purge from our hearts any true idealism or passion, any notion that being American should mean more than everyday low prices or every man for himself.” It’s time to return to true patriotism. What does it mean today to be patriotic? Lui and Hanaurer explain. “Patriotism means pride. But true patriotism is earned pride: It means appreciating not only what is great about our country but also what it takes to create and sustain greatness. It means being proud of how we react to each other, how we plan for the future, how we meet challenges and threats. True patriotism celebrates the hard choices needed to create more op-

WCR is a trashy rag, part 1 Editor, Good thing your paper is free because I certainly would not buy it. Your recent articles on the “occupy” movement, anti-”fetal” (including your editor’s disparaging note to Ms. Dominguez’s letter to the editor), and then the nerve to print about dissent and the truth (and which side is currently getting violent, right here in the U.S.A.?), have rendered you a puppet for the White House Administration. You are both trying to do exactly what Goebbels did. I can get the same crossword puzzle from another county paper but I will use yours for lining the bird cage and starting a warm fire for the evening. Could you be any more left leaning? Geez! Angela Magnotto Linden, VA (Managing editor’s note: While Ms. Magnotto declined to verify more than her e-mail address and Linden as a location, we bent our rules a little to see that she got her 2 cents in – don’t want to be accused of censorship, do we?!!? That said, last time I checked it was still legal to have “left leaning” opinions in America. The new American political right’s opinion that to be “liberal”, “left of center” or dare I even suggest “progressive” is somehow un-American is typical of the extremist mindset characteristic of the rise of right-wing totalitarian societies – no argument, no compromise, no other opinion than ours can be heard because our opinion is God’s will – and should be that of the state as well. Pretty scary …) WCR is a trashy rag, part 2 Editor, I was amused to read Mr. Bianchini’s pompous reference to “both this publication and the editor of

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Vet therapy dog website We would like to correct the website for donations to the Veterans Moving Forward organization featured in our early February edition, not on page 4, but page 18. The correct e-address is www.vetsfwd.org – please reach out and help provide our war veterans with this valuable private-sector initiative to bring specially-trained companion dogs into their lives.

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the Capital News Service” as standing by “the fairness and content” of Michael Bodine’s tendentious story on abortion. He might as well have abbreviated his comments by simply referring to all three as “me, myself, and I”. Mr. B then morphed from his dual role as “Managing Editor” and “Reporter” into that of ombudsman by first seeking the high ground of a disinterested commentator on “a highly complex and debatable issue” before taking his more customary stance against “the irrational hysteria....of religious extremists who seem hellbent on forcing....yada..yada..yada.” Unless I misread his “Managing editor’s note, he even seems to have lapsed into self-delusion by referring the reader to earlier articles in the Warren County Report as authoritative on such issues. And all along I thought the “Report” was simply a bulky advertising flyer held together with Mr. B’s uninteresting musings and left-wing rants. But let’s get back to Mr. B’s highminded effort to correct Jessica Dominguez’s “slanderous and inaccurate” letter (by hurling some slanderous and inaccurate characterizations of his own). Mrs. Dominguez is accused of “unsubstantiated hyperbole” for suggesting that Planned Parenthood is a billion-dollar abortion business “that perpetrates sextrafficking of young girls and is US tax-payer funded”. Mrs. Dominguez was simply referring to the 009 testimony of Abby Johnson, a former PP clinic director: “I can tell you from experience that Planned Parenthood often turns a blind eye to sexual abuse and trafficking”. Furthermore, if the reader should seek further support for Ms. Johnson’s statement, there are 7 videos taken at 7 different PP clinics on http:// liveaction.org/traffick. As regards Mr. B’s assertion that abortions account for only three percent of PP’s public funding, he is simply reading from a PP playbook. Planned Parenthood gets one third ($363 million) of its funding from the federal government while it has been cutting back on programs such as adoption, breast cancer screening, and infertility service. As has often been shown in Congressional testimony, money is fungible and those (public) funds that are used to pay for overhead and other “non-abortion” costs become available for abortion services. Mr. B. should follow his own advice by not expressing so irrationally his opinion on such “highly complex and debatable issues” as motivations of people of faith, or supporters of free enterprise, or simply plain, everyday patriotic citizens and residents of Warren County who are fed up with what’s going on in the country and in Washington and in our

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portunity for more people, and the values that guide those choices.” We have come to this sad state of affairs because money has bought politics. Our politicians know the problem but they are not going to fix it. Only we the people, a large unrelenting group can take it back with a grass roots campaign for a constitutional amendment to remove money from politics and only public funding be allowed. When the money is withdrawn politicians will no longer be on the payroll of any one except the citizens. We don’t need hirefor- pay-whores in Washington. Go to get the money out.com to see the proposed amendment and if you agree please sign the petition. Gene Rigelon Front Royal, VA (Managing editor’s note: thanks, after the previous two letters, I needed that.) A United Way thanks Dear Editor, As Campaign Chair for the Front Royal/Warren County United Way, I feel compelled to personally thank this wonderful community for enabling us to reach goal for two years in a row, raising over $11,000 in both 011 and 01. Throughout the campaigns, I’ve been amazed at the commitment of the United Way board members, volunteers, our Executive Director, our friends in the media, and of course our faithful donors. I’d like to especially thank our Gold Sponsor, Cory Michael of CBM Mortgage, and our new Pacesetter’s Leadership Club members: Dr. Charles Delcambre, Craig Laird, George McIntyre and Bill Powers. We are blessed to have a community that truly understand what it means to give generously. Those who supported the campaign gave our local neighbors in need a helping hand by recognizing what power even $1 per week, $5 per year, can give to our 13 member agencies: The American Red Cross, Blue Ridge Legal Services, Blue Ridge Opportunities, Boy Scouts, Community Transitional Housing Program, Concern Hotline, Front Royal Women’s Resource Center, Girl Scouts, Harmony Place, Healthy Families of Warren County, House of Hope, Mental Health America, and St. Luke Community Clinic. For your financial support and the countless lives touched by our member agencies thanks to your donations, I thank you, Warren County for LIVING UNITED! Sincerely, Beth Medved Waller Volunteer Campaign Chair FR/WC United Way Help clean up Editor, Years ago I traveled through the Shenandoah Valley and fell in love with its charm, leading to my wish to live here someday. A few years later I met and married a native of the Valley and we retired here. My husband and I have both become involved in our church and community. Being environmentally conscious, and Secretary of the Front Royal/ Warren County Anti-Litter Council, I feel I must comment on the lack of concern for and lack of enforcement of the “Do not Litter” and “Cover Your Load” ordinances. The Anti-Litter Council, a few other community organizations and a few individuals have taken on the duty of cleaning up litter from area streets and highways. But due to the high incidence of litter being either thrown out, blowing out from uncovered loads or windblown from other areas, it is a never ending task. We need more people and organizations to “step up to the plate” and not only help clean up our streets and roads, but also teach the young people of our community by our own actions not to litter and to recycle. So much of what people throw away can find other uses through some form of recycling, such as: sorting out glass, metal, paper, cardboard, etc. at the dumpster sites or giving to charities, “Freecycle.com” or someone in need. Perhaps some of the people who are given “community service” could be utilized to help clean up their environment. It might make them think twice about littering and it would truly be a “community service”. The Front Royal/Warren County Anti-Litter Council sponsors projects for schools and Community organizations to win awards; “Clean

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Business Awards” to businesses for keeping the area around their establishments clean and having trash receptacles and cigarette butt receptacles accessible. We also help distribute trash receptacles, cigarette butt receptacles, doggie waste stations, etc. to organizations or businesses that request them. We can also be found manning a booth at area festivals, manning the dumpsters and/or transfer stations during the annual “County Cleanup Day”, and various other days throughout the year. While there we hand out cargo nets to people with uncovered loads so they will be in compliance with the “Cover Your Load” ordinance, and hand out litter and recycling literature as well as giving coloring books, stickers, bracelets, etc. to the children while people unload their trash. Individuals and organizations are encouraged to “adopt a street” or a portion of a road. Just contact the Town Public Works Department, attention Jimmy Hanagan or call (540) 635-7819 for information on the procedure. Anyone interested in finding out more about our organization will be welcomed at our monthly meeting at Front Royal Government Center in the conference room at 4pm, the fourth Thursday of every month. We welcome new members. Patricia Cullers, Secretary Anti-Litter Council Front Royal/Warren County What are real jail costs? Sir, Did you know Senator Mark Obenshain and Delegate Todd Gilbert have the immediate authority to strip the funding for the RSW jail from Governor McDonnell’s budget? Call and email them telling them to do so today. The timing is urgent. They have sided with “Big Money” not their constituents. The era of Shenandoah County Board of Supervisors policy of no transparency is over. We have been lied to concerning the cost of, cost overruns and future expenditures of this jail. The jail project committee meets once a week to submit their department’s wish lists. The laundry, kitchen, intake area, offices and God only knows what else is on the list that will be furnished in fine jail authority style at 01 prices. Do you realize the power of your vote? Obenshain has political ambitions beyond Shenandoah County. He wants to be Virginia’s next Attorney General. He is arrogant enough to think we will forget what he did here while he moves on to a higher state position. We will not forget or forgive. Shenandoah county BOS will tell us the cost is $7 million. When the numbers are calculated (they have been), the true number of overall liability in years to come is $154 million. Do you know what a “Jail Authority” is? In our case, with three counties involved, three members from each county are appointed. This is a ugly entity. Nine members secluded from the public. Taxpayers and citizens alike have no oversight at all. This is one example of Agenda 1 creeping into our county. The way this authority is designed will only breed fraud and no disclosure of what really goes on behind closed doors. Hopefully, with your input we can stop this funding now, and prevent the inevitable which will be massive property tax increases for seniors and generations to come. Marsha Shruntz Strasburg VA Another RSW protest Dear Editor: I would like to encourage people to send Senator Obenshain and Delegate Gilbert letters and phone calls opposing the funding of the regional jail. When we have a jail sitting empty in Boyce and a wing of another regional jail closed down for lack on inmates in Winchester why on earth do we need to waste the money on the jail here? I want to let Misters Obenshain and Gilbert know that their constituents are watching their actions on this, and will take it into account when both run for higher office. Support the will of the people or lose your seat, we will not forget. ... Oh, and by the way do not tell us it’s too late to cut the funding (which is in the budget), because it was put back into the budget, after being voted out, when Governor McDonnell usurped the will of the people at the behest of then Delegate Athey last budget cycle. We the people are tired of the talk. Cut the jail funding now. Kim Bishop Strasburg

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Airlift command. Amy arrived in Warren County from Washington’s ex-urbs with husband Ken, also an Air Force veteran, seeking a quiet retreat in a new house while Ken retired and she continued to fly regularly out of Dulles International Airport, completing trips that total more than 400,000 miles a year. Seeking other things to do in her spare time, one evening in 009 Amy dropped by “Yappy Hour” at the Vino E Formaggio on Main Street. She became a “regular” at the weekly event to raise money for Front Royal’s animal shelter and today is regarded as a stalwart member of the board of directors of the Humane Society of Warren County (HSWC). Not only does she serve the board, but between international flights to London, Rome, and Tokyo, she spends many hours at the shelter doing hands-on work, and worries about the animal shelter’s current financial plight. She’s also helped raise and educate three step-children through college graduation during her 18 years of marriage to Ken, now a longtime volunteer at Front Royal’s tourism bureau in downtown Front Royal. In her husband’s eyes, she’s a hero, not only for how she helped with his children but “she’s one of the most gifted pilots I have ever known,” he wrote in a note to me. She also is mom to three rescue cats at their home on Megeath Farm Lane in Rockland. Amy is a quiet, introspective woman who can surprise you with a sudden burst of invective, usually to do with the welfare of the animals she seeks to help. She wants Warren County, which provides about $150,000 a year to operate the animal shelter, to double its commitment so the shelter can meet the burgeoning costs of animal care. “We need donated dollars or tax dollars if we are to continue to provide a service to the town and county,” she bluntly said, quietly acceding that efforts to raise money by the HSWC are nowhere near trimming a budget approaching $300,000. Amy was born in Chula Vista, CA (near San Diego), spent her early years in Michigan, then returned to California as a young girl where she graduated from Palm Springs High School. She said she’d wanted to fly since an early age. She followed the footsteps of her father into the Air Force. Her dad was an air force pilot, who was killed in a crash during the Vietnam War when she was just 9 years old. She subsequently worked hard toward winning her way into the USAF Academy, Colorado Springs, where she enrolled in only the second class to admit women. She was to ultimately fly C-130s for the Air Force. Between duty tours, she was an instructor pilot (1989-199) for the USAF Presidential Unit. Since 199, she has

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By Kevin S. Engle Warren County Report “If I see another lousy stink bug in here, I’m gonna scream!” Three and a half seconds later, I did. “Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!” 2011 was our worst year yet for stink bugs. There were days, more than I care to remember, when we had in excess of 100 of the little beasts crawling on the windows and flying around the house. Yeah, you read that right. One hundred. 2012 has gotten off to a better start. Now we’re down to only 20-25 per day. A big improvement, but still enough to send me to the nut house. They’re relentless. You get rid of one and immediately find two more. It’s not uncommon to see me upstairs in my office, swinging a yard stick at them as they buzz around my head and circle round the ceiling fan. It almost takes me back to my Little League baseball playing days, only not nearly as fun. And when my wife and I sit down to watch TV, we can hear them coming, like a helicopter, as they descend from above and land on one of our lamp shades. We let out a few choice words and then take turns going after them. A good thing about this time of year is that they die almost instantly when thrown outside. They don’t like the cold temps. Our front porch looks like a stink bug graveyard. But the reality is, we’re only putting bandages on the wound. We need to stop the bleeding. But how? My wife heard that Lowes sold stink bug traps. And so off I went in search of that magic product that would (hopefully) change our lives for the better. After reading the label, I wasn’t convinced this was gonna do the job. You see, I have lots of experience with these beasts. I know how they act, how they think, what they like, what they don’t. My knowledge and expertise told me this wasn’t gonna get the job done. I bought it anyway. My wife would’ve kicked my you know what had I come home without it. Some assembly was required. Not much, but enough to exceed my skills. My wife put it together and hung it upstairs. And then we waited. And waited some more. Nothing. Oh, we still had stink bugs, just not in the trap. I didn’t want to say “I told you so,” but the thought definitely crossed my mind. “Don’t even think it,” she warned me. She moved the trap downstairs. We waited. And waited. And then, one day, I saw something that brought tears to my eyes. We had snared one. This was cause for celebration. “Yay,” I said under my breath. It was a small celebration. Twenty five days after buying this magic product, our count is up to ………one. One lousy stink bug. If I divide $39.30 by one, that gives me, wait, let me find my calculator. Ok, that works out to. What? $39.30 per stink bug! Quite the valuable bug indeed. And just my luck. We come across one that’s worth some money, and now it’s dead. Damn stink bugs! Stink bug, o stink bug, I’ve seen enough of you. Go back where you came from And take your buddies too. Get outta my house, now! Or I’m gonna lose it and have a cow.

United Air Lines pilot Amy Thurman, in uniform, with Maggie, one of her rescue cats.

By Malcolm Barr Sr. Warren County Report A lifelong passion for flying and a more recent epiphany for the welfare of animals – that just about sums up Amy Thurmond, an eightyear émigré to Warren County who is one of our country’s growing minority of female commercial airline pilots. A graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, she flies for United after an 11-year USAF career piloting big transport planes for the Military

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RSW Regional Jail schedule and numbers presented
Project costs ($69 mil) vs. principal investment ($89 mil) vs. financing ($154 mil)
ceeding as if the project approved by the three involved county governments is a done deal; in fact a done deal with the promised 45 percent to 50 percent state funding commitment. The schedule presented by Davenport & Associates Senior Vice President Ted Cole included construction bids going this spring, likely in April, and closing on both a construction contract and bond financing for the entire project by June. If that schedule is met, construction would begin in July and be completed with inmates being “loaded” by July 014. The state’s reimbursement, now estimated at $3.6 million (45.4 percent of project costs), would come in January 015. The financing plan developed includes interim financing on the state portion until it is received and a 30year bond life – 013 to 043. Annual payments by the Regional Jail Authority over the life of that debt service would range between $3.5 million and $3.9 million per year. At issue for remaining opponents of the project is the fact that of the total $153.79 million debt service, $64.7 million is interest (3.9 percent annually) on the bond issue principal now estimated at $89.08 million. But as we recall from covering development of this project over about six years, at no time did any involved municipal government – Rappahannock, Shenandoah and Warren Counties – say they had the cash on hand to fund there share of the project. Welcome to the wonderful world of capitalism, folks! That is the base definition of “capitalism” – making capital (money) from capital (money). And the financial entity providing the cash to fund the project, in this case Wells Fargo, sees a nice return on its investment, in this case $64.7 million on its $89 million investment. Regional vs. local costs But the flip side of the argument is that had the individual counties proceeded independently to build their own new jails when the need arose, the individual costs would have been higher than the shared obligations of the regional funding package. Opponents, including Shenandoah Sheriff Carter, argued that not all options had been taken into consideration, including development of cheaper work release facilities, home incarceration on minor charges, as well as varying timeframes on reaching inmate capacities for existing facilities in Shenandoah versus Warren and Rappahannock’s more pressing need to proceed. Warren Sheriff Daniel McEathron, a major proponent from the start, told us following the Feb. 7th meeting that had Warren proceeded alone it would already have gotten higher estimates on financing a county jail than the numbers on Warren’s share of financing the regional jail. That fact was reflected during the Feb. 7th discussion when Warren Board Chairman Archie Fox asked Cole specifically about Warren’s financial positions in both a local and regional jail scenario. “So, this is a better scenario [for us] in the long run?” he asked Cole. Yes, the bond and financial consultant agreed. Cole referenced numbers showing

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an initial $.5 million annual Warren split, compared to $1.6 million for Shenandoah, and $774,533 for Rappahannock. He said the estimated annual cost of a local Warren Jail was $3 million plus current jail operational costs. Davenport’s numbers also showed the revenue impact of a one-cent tax hike in each of the three counties: Warren, 1 cent = $357,566 of revenue; Shenandoah, 1 cent = $375,000 of revenue; Rappahannock, 1 cent = $175,000 of revenue. The tax revenue necessary to meet Warren’s annual obligation is between 7 and 8 cents; Shenandoah, from 4 to 5 cents; and Rappahannock, from 4.5 to 5 cents. Bed capacities & rentals Once the 563-inmate capacity facility opens for business, the annual operating expense the Regional Jail Authority will be responsible for is forecast to begin at $9.75 million and climb to $11.63 million by 01. Non-local revenues estimated between $6.7 million and $7.9 million will help cover those expenses. The three member counties are forecast to use 70 of the available inmate bed space, with as many as 93 beds, with double bunking, going to outside jurisdictions on rental arrangements. Local funding splits are based on the number of inmate beds they fill. That split is currently estimated at: · Rappahannock – 36 inmates (13.3 percent funding share); · Shenandoah – 99 inmates (36.7 percent funding share) · Warren – 135 inmates (50 percent funding share). Strategies We told the sheriff after the meeting, only half in jest, that we had “A PLAN” – that with our educational background in sociology it appeared obvious to us how to reduce Warren’s annual operational funding share – reduce the number of criminals prosecuted and convicted in the county: 1. by reducing the number of victimless crimes on the books; . by fixing the national, regional and local economies so that people aren’t motivated to steal to meet basic needs such as access to food and shelter (we’ll schedule a later meeting on how to accomplish that one). 3. by developing pro-active educational and economic initiatives to make people on the periphery of society feel they are a welcome and included part of society; 4. develop means of identify-

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Summer Camp - NO

“All I can say is we have all worked very well with this program together – I hope it continues; I hope the committee continues working together.” – Angels’ Korner Daycare private-sector provider Rosemary Comstock

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Majority consensus to kill parks & rec summer camp program reached
for parents, one board-suggested change, were the county program continued this year, is to raise costs $0 per week to reduce the difference with private-sector prices. After listening to the same arguments for about the sixth time over the past nine months, this time for 35 minutes, Chairman Archie Fox suggested sending county staff back to the table with Comstock and others from the private sector. However the board’s only apparent remaining supporter of the county program, Tony Carter, said enough is enough. “You’re never going to be able to do something that satisfies everybody. We’ve spent too much time on this. I think we need to either go forward or stop it,” Carter told the board. “I agree with Tony – let’s drop it,” Richard Traczyk said after some additional back and forth. Formerly, Traczyk had been Carter’s only board ally in support of the program. We later asked Carter why he didn’t contradict Traczyk’s assertion he had suggested killing the program, rather than just suggest the board make a decision one way or the other. He essentially said with the writing on the wall and with his lone ally “leaving camp” as it were, what was the point? – “I got tired of beating my head on the wall,” an exasperated

County Parks & Rec Summer Camp program developer Robin Richardson tells her side of story as staffer and board Chairman Archie Fox listen. By Roger Bianchini Warren County Report Less than a month after calling for a Feb. 1st public hearing to gather public opinion upon which to help make a decision on extending an eight-week parks & recreation summer youth camp into a second year, the Warren County Board of Supervisors reached a majority consensus to kill the program without that public input. Well, the board DID get public input at a Feb. 7th work session – from one private daycare provider, who presented written statements of opposition from three other daycare providers to the board. Two other women accompanying Angel’s Korner Daycare & Learning Center operator Rosemary Comstock remained

Raising the specter of Sarah Palin, Daycare ‘Mama Bear’ Rosemary Comstock recites her version of how the county has moved to destroy private sector free enterprise with a summer camp. silent during the work session. Comstock has led opposition to the program from the move to reinstate it in the spring of 011. On Feb. 7th she reiterated her stance that the program designed to provide a more active and affordable summer option for younger, school-age children utilized public tax money to unfairly compete with private sector daycare. However, in response to a direct question from a supervisor at an earlier public discussion of the 011 program, one parent who utilized the program and supported continuation of it told the supervisors that private-sector daycare was not a viable option for her family due to higher costs. Despite that aspect of providing a cheaper summer option

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“It’s like Tony [Carter] said, it’s never ending. No matter what we laid on the table … it still wasn’t good enough.” – Parks & Rec Summer Camp Program Director Robin Richardson
Carter later said. What went wrong? For two months leading up to the work session county parks & rec staff were in ongoing discussions with private sector providers to develop additional ways to accommodate their issues. Those accommodations, some implemented last year, included private daycare client and staff use of county facilities like gyms and the public swimming pool at no or reduced costs; inclusion in county camp field trips; higher county costs; and caps on registration. At both the work session and in a subsequent interview, Comstock, who raised visions of the aborted presidential campaign of Sarah Palin by stating she was “being the mother bear” for all the daycare providers, insisted she was not against the program, only how it was implemented. In fact, Palin, I mean Comstock, said she wanted the county program to reach out to “more” county children. To her mind that outreach could occur through changes such as splitting the camp into morning and afternoon sessions with a one-hour break that would require the children to leave county supervision at lunch time. While such a change would seem to

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limit users of the county program to families with at least one non-working parent, or those who could make other arrangements for the care of their children for half a day or at least for an hour at lunch time each day, for Comstock it was both a step toward more participation and reduced county competition with services such as hers – and apparently the possibility of year-round public subsidization of private sector daycare. Rosemary’s ‘baby’ “My whole thing is I want all the children in the community to be able to benefit from parks & rec, and not just 40 children, not just 50 children. I want it around the whole community so that they can take those eight weeks – and truly they can take 5 weeks out of the year and get ALL of our kids in this community with different activities that they can do, instead of us [the daycare providers] having to leave our county to go to another county to give that to the children,” Comstock said. From the beginning in early 011, parks & rec staff said they were seeking to provide a more physically-active and affordable summer option for parents of young school-age children while school is out of session. A supervisors’ majority dating to the last board (Fox-Glavis-White) directed parks & rec staff to work with the private sector to develop a mutually acceptable resolution. However Comstock insisted county staff inquiries into her and other private sector daycare summer activities indicated a desire to model the county program after the private sector. “Why did they ask me for what I do with my children during the summer time? Why did they ask all the daycares – because they want to implement what we’re doing with our kids,” Comstock said. However Parks & Rec Director Dan Lenz disputes that assertion. He said his staff followed board instructions to explore daycare programs, so as to

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er ending. No matter what we laid on the table – I mean, they wanted us to go back and do what you used to do (1997-00). So that’s what I brought to the table and it still wasn’t good enough,” Robin Richardson said. “And then Archie’s [Fox] question [to Comstock], ‘Well, what do YOU want?’ “And then it was basically she wants us to provide programming for them, but then turn around and says it’s for the entire community. It was just going around in circles and it’s been that way for the last two months,” Richardson said. We asked Richardson if she felt the county parks & rec summer program

“I got tired of beating my head on the wall.” – Supervisor Tony Carter on silence in face of board straw poll to kill the county parks & rec summer youth (ages 5-1) camp

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was being blamed for the impact of a down U.S. economy on private sector daycare. “Yes, absolutely, yes I do believe so,” Richardson said. “And [Comstock] made a lot of references to ‘they need to offer more, they need to do this.’ She made a reference to gymnastics and tumbling – we do those programs. We offer all those things in the summer time through the schools – we partner with the schools to do basketball, cheerleading, football, volleyball, wrestling and all those programs.” In arguing against implementation of the program last spring Comstock pointed to the temporary loss of clients over the life of the eightweek county program due, not to dissatisfaction with her service, but rather the ability to save as much as $40 per child per week by opting into the county program. Included in the parks & rec report provided to the supervisors last October, private providers reported the temporary loss of from one to six clients over the duration of the eight-week county youth camp. Comstock’s Angel’s Korner headed that list with six, followed by Royal Christian Academy (4), Dominion Health & Fitness (), Lil Angels, Meadowlands and Apple

Dumpling with one each. But according to Richardson, it is not only daycare clients looking to save a buck through the summer in tough economic times that will be impacted by the loss of the program. “Oh, it’s going to happen,” Richardson said of impacts on non-daycare clients. “She (Comstock) referenced a lot about people that were in her program that could afford day care. But there were a lot of people in our program that had the payment plans and were doing what they could to scrape by. And it’s going to impact them. And a lot of those parents that aren’t working, it’s not by choice, so they definitely can’t afford daycare.” Matter of survival or public subsidies? In a prepared opening statement delivered at the work session, Comstock pointed to the “bad economy” and resultant business closings “everywhere we turn”. She pointed to one 30-year daycare provider forced to close their doors, adding, “All the daycares and other businesses have been hurt financially due to the economy. We’re asking for help from our county to keep our doors open, to keep our employees working. We’re

asking for help through parks & rec to find other ways with all of us to reach all the children and not to have an eight-week program that’s only available to a handful of children of parents that are working but to create something that could and would reach more families.” We asked Comstock, who last May pointed to the potential necessity of having to lay off one or two part or full-time employees during the summer if the county program was implemented, if an eight-week county program impacting between one and six clients could be the decisive factor in a daycare business’s survival. “It could,” she insisted. “You’ve got people who actually had to share hours instead of having lay offs, they had to share hours to help each other. It was – it affected us with 10 children, which truthfully is a full-time position. So it does affect the community; it does affect the small businesses.” Directive After reaching a work session majority consensus to kill the program – only Carter appeared supportive of it, the board directed parks & rec staff to proceed with discussion with nonprofit programs on how the county might partner with those groups to add a dimension to their programs this summer. There are two such programs, the Youth Enrichment Program (YEP) and the Warren County School Age Care, Richardson told us. “And we’ve partnered with them before and we’re just going to sit down with them and try to work out what we can do to help them out,” Richardson said of plans in the face of the board’s apparent decision to kill the county summer camp program.

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“I got several requests within the Party asking if we’d be willing to run a mass meeting to discuss nominations for the town election,” Henderson [told us]. We asked if he could name the source of those requests. “Mary Kay Clark and Tom Sayre,” he replied.

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Was Clark electoral initiative aimed at eliminating Darr eligibility?
town level don’t tend to be partisan in nature, but instead require an ability to grasp non-partisan, practical answers that balance public services, affordability and revenue generation that best accommodate all a town’s citizens. “We’re not going to be challenged to discuss Roe v. Wade at a town meeting. There is no room in local politics for party affiliation. My concerns are water, power, police and fire departments, as well as clean streets and neighborhoods for my town,” Darr told a Capital News Service reporter for a related story. However it appears in our radically-changing, neo-theocratic local and state political landscape not all agree: “I know I am always coming up with ideas that some people think are wild or something. But when O WHEN are we going to start using what little influence we have to start doing something really dramatic? Daryl is a great candidate, and likely will advance to the Bd of Supervisors some day. Also, his primary interest [he told me personally] is Pro Life issues,” Clark wrote in a Feb. 1st e-mail to local Republican officials seeking movement on partisan nominations in the spring town election. (Daryl is Daryl Funk, who works in the law offices of Pond, Athey, Athey & Pond) Perhaps it is not surprising that Seton Home School proprietor and staunchly conservative Catholic Clark would find a primary interest in “Pro-Life issues” a major qualifier for a run for municipal office, despite the fact municipalities have absolutely no legislative authority over abortion law or any other related issue.

Did Mayor Darr smell something rotten nearby as Councilman Sayre spoke at Feb. 13 council meeting? Mary Kay Clark hurries past this reporter into Feb. 13 WC Republican Executive Committee meeting. By Roger Bianchini Warren County Report Sometimes you’re just left shaking your head in wonder at the extreme state of partisan politics in America these days. And you don’t even have to focus on far-away primaries with unpredictable results and the day-today campaign hyperbole, hypocrisies, convenient memory lapses and what not surrounding a presidential race – it’s all happening right here in River City. On February 1, Warren County Republican Committee Secretary Mary Kay Clark launched an attempt to buck long historical tradition and have the committee officially nominate Republican candidates for this spring’s town election. Consequently a special meeting of the committee’s executive board to discuss the issue was called and eventually cancelled by Chairman Dave Henderson. “It was never my intent to change it [policy on partisan town nominations], only talk about it. But it started to get so serious I decided to end it,” Henderson told us of his decision to cancel the special executive committee meeting slated for Feb. 7th at Samuels Public Library. “I got several requests within the Party asking if we’d be willing to run a mass meeting to discuss nominations for the town election,” Henderson said of the original impetus for the special meeting. We asked if he could name the source of those requests. “Mary Kay Clark and Tom Sayre,” he replied. Neither Clark nor Sayre have responded to repeated phone or direct inquiries about their roles in the local partisan initiative. Our efforts to get a reply from both began on Feb. 9. Hatch Act & the mayor Henderson was one of several Republican Executive Committee members eventually contacted by Front Royal Mayor Tim Darr after he caught wind of the initiative. Darr explained the potential ramification on him personally were the Republicans to proceed with nominations or certification of Party candidates in this town election. At issue for Front Royal’s incumbent mayor is that were town elections to become politically partisan, he as a federal employee would become ineligible to run in them due to provisions of the Hatch Act. The Hatch Act bars federal employees from running in partisan political elections. Darr has long worked for the Department of Defense in security at the Pentagon. Traditionally, not only in Front Royal, but throughout Virginia town elections are non-partisan. But our understanding is that unless specifically prohibited by municipal charter, unlike school board elections which are non-partisan by state law, there is no legal barrier to bringing partisanship into town races. Front Royal has no such charter prohibition. Rather, it appears the basis for this statewide tradition of unknown origin or duration (County Voter Registrar Carol Tobin told us while she could not say for sure there had never been partisan town elections, she could find no record of them) is common sense – that most issues at the

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derstand, to invoke partisan politics into the town election.” That call came a week prior to his work session comments. “My comments last night were to let them know I realized just how rotten they were – that it’s just dirty politics,” Darr said of whoever was behind the local maneuvering that would have left him ineligible for this May’s town ballot. Darr said he heard the initiative was being “promoted” to the Republican Committee’s executive board “to assure newer candidates like Daryl Funk got on the ballot”. Darr said while he had no direct knowledge, he was told Mary Kay Clark and Tom Sayre were behind the move that would have eliminated him from the 01 town ballot. In reaction to the information forwarded to him, Darr said he called several Republican members of the executive committee. Those included Dan Murray, Tony Carter, Dave Henderson –AND Daryl Funk. Darr said Funk told him he had a copy of the e-mail from Clark regarding the partisan nominations naming him as a prime Republican beneficiary. “He said, ‘I’ve got it – I don’t want any part of it.’ ” Darr said. Mayor Darr said he received similar reactions from Murray, Carter and Henderson that such a late move to alter the nature of town elections “wasn’t right”. “I talked to Tim Darr and I told him it’s not fair three months before an election to switch horses on how things are done – that should be done years … a year and a half before an election. Not after someone’s name is on the ballot that would then have to be removed,” Henderson said. “I said as chairman I would veto it [regarding this election],” Henderson told us. Collateral (Party) damage And while one Republican, Funk, was targeted by Clark as a potential beneficiary of her partisan town initiative, others were cited as potential threats to her view of which Republicans should be allowed to campaign for town office under the Party banner. In her Feb. 1 e-mail to some executive committee members, Clark adds a wary note: “And there is a danger here: Neither Tewalt nor Bret Hrbek are currently members on our Committee, but they both might come forth IF we do this for Daryl, and those two might want a Caucus also? And to top off the danger, Tim Ratigan might come forward and want us to have a Caucus vote for him for mayor!! “I will tell you that once we go down this road, forever after, we will have Republicans run for Town Council! But we will need to be very intelligent and insightful in the future. We cannot do worse than what we have.” So it appears there are Republicans, even fellow pro-life, Catholic Republicans, to whom Mary Kay Clark is not ready to pass on her imprimatur, or the party’s nomination. Shakespeare v. Abbott and Costello But odd perhaps, is that with four seats up for grabs in May – the mayor and three council seats, Clark seemed focused on only two: “I told [Funk] we need Republicans to run for these two offices,” Clark wrote in her Feb. 1 e-mail seeking Republican Executive Committee support to nominate candidates for the May town election. And as Shakespeare, or was it Abbot and Costello, wrote, “There’s the rub.” In this case “the rub” is WHO in Ms. Clark’s opinion would have been that second partisan endorsement for the May town ballot? We know Daryl Funk is on first, whether he wants to be or not. BUT that second “base runner” is the unnamed mystery candidate – and the “rub” as it were. The smart money is on old Clark protégé Tom Sayre in the role of mayor he has been rehearsing for at Darr’s side for over a year. But alas, poor Yorick – what will he do now?

Mayor Darr and Councilman Sayre reflect quietly during moment of silence at outset of Feb. 13 council meeting. But what may be surprising is that Clark sent her partisan political initiative out from her Seton Home School e-mail address. According to the commissioner of the revenue’s office, Seton has a non-profit, educational exemption from paying federal taxes. Our reading of applicable codes is that non profits are generally prohibited from engaging in direct partisan political activity; and risk losing their tax-exempt status by doing so. A sniff of political intrigue At the conclusion of a February 6th Front Royal Town Council work session Mayor Darr made a brief statement about what he called “the most difficult week of my political life”. Darr appeared to be holding back some intense emotion as he thanked those who had helped him through the unnamed difficulty. As Darr spoke, two seats to his right Councilman Sayre stared forward, shuffling a pen in his hand and making eye contact with no one. Since council was about to adjourn into closed session, we caught up with the mayor later. We asked if rumors we’d heard about moves within the Republican Committee to make the coming town election a partisan one had anything to do with his aforementioned difficulties. “You pretty much nailed it on the head,” the mayor told us. “I got a call that I better watch out – there was a special meeting being called to put Republicans on the ballot, and I un-

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As for Mandy’s plans, I can say that while hindered somewhat by her mannequin status, she plans to incorporate and run in the May town election as a “corporate person” per the 5-4 U.S. Supreme Court’s “Citizen’s United” ruling that “corporations are people, my friend.”

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and past unsuccessful challenger of Commissioner of Revenue John Smedley and Mark Obenshain, the latter for the 6th District Republican state Senate nomination. Hrbek is an Edward Jones financial consultant, former councilman and vice mayor defeated, with the help of Tederick, in 010. He is expected to officially announce for council next week. Holloway is a contractor, the current town vice mayor, former Republican Committee member and an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for the North River seat on the board of supervisors last November. Our initial list, picked up on Jan. 17, included: 1. Tim Ratigan – Human Life International receptionist and Tea Party activist, has declared intention to run for mayor; . Eugene Tewalt – retired town Public Works Director, former councilman and mayor defeated by current Mayor Darr in 010; 3. Tim Darr – federal security employee, sitting mayor; 4. Carson Lauder – cole slaw king, sitting councilman, up for election; 5. Robert “Robbie” Tennett – newspaper and pizza delivery driver, twice unsuccessful past council candidate; 6. Ron Harvey – retired teacher and WCHS tennis coach; 7. Tom Sayre – attorney, sitting councilman, not up for reelection this year; 8. Roger Bianchini – (for Mandy, retired FRPD traffic enforcement mannequin & current floral shop fashion model) We have learned Harvey is, in fact, collecting signatures, making it all but one of that initial list to confirm planned runs. Sayre has not returned our calls about his potential plans or role in a failed effort to have partisan Republican Committee nominations made in this town election that would have disqualified incumbent Mayor Tim Darr (see related story).

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ets or planning runs for town office – we again stopped by Warren County Voter Registrar Carol Tobin’s office for our updated list of who has picked up packets to qualify for the May town elections. New names included Michael Kraust, Matt Tederick, Bret Hrbek and Chris Holloway. Others confirming a hike on the spring town campaign trail to us were Daryl Funk, an attorney at the Pond, Athey, Athey & Pond law firm (see partisan town election story), and Manuel Vicente, a Seton Home School employee. We are unfamiliar with Kraust and could not find a listing in the phone book. Tederick is a well-known local Republican activist and former (mid90s) Warren County supervisor

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Parker renews hope for a small personal property tax reduction
By Roger Bianchini Warren County Report On Feb. 13th the Front Royal Town Council voted 5-0, Vice-Mayor Chris Holloway absent, to advertise a flat real estate and personal property tax rate for the coming budget year. However, Councilman Shae Parker renewed his earlier work session call for council to reduce the personal property tax rate of 64 cents per $110 of assessed value a cent if revenue-expenditure projections would allow it. Since council has advertised a flat rate, no change raising the tax rates could be made at the second and final reading, however, lower rates could be implemented. Through budget work session discussion Parker has challenged himself and his colleagues to be creative in approaching a budget cycle that has not required tax hikes to cover town expenditures. Parker commented that the town had still not heard from the county on a proposal the county take over the town’s share and totally take over the public funding aspect of Samuels Public Library. Parker’s tax reduction plan would seem to rely on some reductions in the town’s existing financial responsibilities. And the library appears to be the leading contender for that reduction. Council also approved final readings of two ordinance changes, one on the parameters of applying to display private organizational message on town banner pole sites on Royal Avenue and John Marshall Highway; the other to have the town manager regulate social media on town websites. Both were approved by 5-0 votes. The banner ordinance now notes that Chamber of Commerce, Wine & Crafts Festival and Heritage Society Festival of Leaves events that have been long town traditional events will receive a grandfathered priority on the spaces. Other events that have been ongoing for at least five years will also receive priority consideration over new or newer events competing for the banner space. Parameters on the size and makeup of banners, as well as the duration the banners can be in place were also enacted. A five-day turnaround on the application process suggested by the town manager raised the only debate, a quite humorous one at that, on the ordinance changes. Currently there is a 4-hour turnaround applicant-town reply period. Tom Sayre suggested reducing the timeframe to three days but said he would defer to Town Manager Steve Burke’s opinion on the advisability of the timeframe. “I don’t know if you know what’s going on,” Sayre said in broaching the time reduction. “I know what’s going on – but I’m mystified by your logic,” Parker replied. Tom Conkey then suggested the time reduction could make it more difficult for applicants to get successful proposals in. “I think what’s going on is more people like to put their [message] on it,” Sayre countered. Burke said to his knowledge there had been no previous issue with conflicting banner requests and did not think the turnaround would impact applications. Sayre then joined the four other councilmen present in approving the changes.

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Afghan vet Jesse Breeden presents Melting Pot owner Robert Bachelor with a little token of appreciation. By Roger Bianchini Warren County Report On Feb. 4th Melting Pot owner Robert Bachelor got a surprise gift from a long-time customer – a unit flag that had flown with U.S. troops in Afghanistan. Twenty-three-year-old Jesse Breeden, a member of the U.S. Army Reserves since March 009, presented the flag mounted with a dedication to Bachelor and The Melting Pot during a welcome home party hosted by friends and relatives at – of all places, The Melting Pot. Bachelor admitted to being taken by surprise by the gesture and appeared to have, for a rare moment, been rendered speechless. “I got a little emotional there,” Bachelor told us shortly after as we took a closer look at the gift in his office. “That’s really something.” Breeden, back from a 10-month tour of the Afghan war zone, told us he has been a Melting Pot customer “all my life – “I came here in July when I was back on R and R and Robert sent out a message that it was

The inscription above the Army unit flag that will soon be on display in the Melting Pot. on the house. I thought I’d return the gesture and thought it would be a nice idea to return the favor.” Breeden said the flag had flown with his Unit 31, a psychological operations company, in eastern Afghanistan. “I really can’t say any more than that,” he told us. Already earmarked for orange pajamas by some readers, we joked we would remain mum on any further details of his deployment … but just between you and me, we asked … just kidding, we did NOT. Rather we let Breeden return to friends and family celebrating his safe return home. We did ask Bachelor, who is celebrating the 40th anniversary of The Melting Pot, what that kind of gesture from someone who essentially has been a customer and fan of his food all his life, meant to him. Finally composed, Bach pointed to the almost unprecedented duration, under one ownership, of his privately-owned restaurant. “You know I learned something from my father, who ran a grocery

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By Claire Porter Capital News Service RICHMOND – Facing a torrent of what they consider “bad bills,” Democrats in the General Assembly acknowledge that they do not have enough votes to stop socially conservative legislation on issues like abortion, gay rights, voter identification requirements and drug testing of welfare recipients. House and Senate Democrats gathered Thursday to criticize the wave of “divisive social-issue legislative overreach” they say Republicans are perpetrating in Richmond. “We simply don’t have the numbers to stop misplaced priorities and leadership overreach,” said the House Democratic leader, Delegate David Toscano of Charlottesville. “It’s not just one bill; it’s really the critical mass of all of them that wakes you up. I hope the governor trims some back or vetoes some of these bills, but I don’t have much hope for that.” The chairman of the House Republican Caucus, Delegate Timothy Hugo of Fairfax, rejected Democratic assertions that the GOP is pushing a divisive agenda. “Fewer than 3 percent of the bills passed so far in the House are what the Democrats are calling ‘divisive,’ ” Hugo said. But the chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, Delegate Mark Sickles of Franconia, said those types of bills are generating the most debate on the House floor and the majority of constituent responses. Sen. Barbara Favola, D-Arlington, echoed that sentiment: “The Republicans are on a values crusade.” Democrats want to shift the political focus to providing money for education, “so that localities don’t have to consider raising real estate taxes to fund their schools,” Toscano said. However, Democrats don’t have the votes to set the agenda in either legislative chamber. That’s especially true in the House, where the 3 Democrats are eclipsed by 67 Republicans plus an independent who usually sides with the GOP. The Senate is split, 0-0, between Democrats and Republicans; however, that chamber’s presiding officer, Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling, is a Republican and can cast tie-breaking votes. As a result, Democrats complain, Republicans have had their way on issues such as: · Revoking the state law that prohibits the purchase of more than one handgun every 30 days. (On mostly party-line votes, both the House and Senate have passed bills to rescind the one-gun-a-month limit.) · Requiring women who want an abortion to first have an ultrasound. The woman then would have an opportunity to view ultrasound image of the fetus or hear the fetal heartbeat. (The Senate has passed a bill containing the ultrasound requirement; the House may vote on similar legislation this week.) · Prohibiting people who can’t show sufficient identification at the polls

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“Fewer than 3 percent of the bills passed so far in the House are what the Democrats are calling ‘divisive.’ ” - Timothy Hugo, R-Fairfax
Muslims and Jews also oppose HB 85. The All Dulles Area Muslim Society, the American Jewish Committee and the Anti-Defamation League have come out against the bill. The House Courts of Justice Committee voted last week to postpone consideration of HB 85 until next year. Drug Tests for Welfare Republican legislators filed eight bills requiring public assistance recipients and applications to undergo substance abuse testing. The House legislation has been postponed until 013; the Senate legislation has cleared a committee and is ready for a floor vote. Sickles said Republicans have a double standard when it comes to people who benefit from government programs. “I think there’s potential for a lot of hypocrisy here that they are going to test every person for drugs but will hand out tax credits like candy,”

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Sickles said. He said Virginia’s welfare benefits are among the most meager in the country. “People can’t help that they’re poor,” Sickles said. “Those welfare benefits are for the children, and the benefits are really, extraordinarily small.” He said there are easier ways to make sure parents are not drug addicts – ways that are not “an affront our basic sense of fairness.” Adoption ban for gays On Thursday, the Senate approved a bill to allow private adoption and foster-care agencies to turn away parents for reasons including religious faith or sexual orientation. The bill passed by a -18 vote. Earlier in the week, the House passed its version of the adoption legislation containing the so-called “conscience clause.” The vote was a 71-8. Abortion initiatives Republicans introduced several anti-abortion measures this session. They include legislation banning abortions after 0 weeks of pregnancy (Senate Bill 637); requiring that insurance companies that cover abortions also offer policies that do not (House Bill 1174); giving full personhood rights to a fertilized egg at the moment of conception (House Bill 1); and ending state subsidies for poor women to abort fetuses with serious birth defects (House Bill 6). Republicans say bills like the ones mandating ultrasounds are based on legitimate concerns toward women’s health. But most Democrats dispute that. “I hope no one here is dumb enough to believe this is about women’s health,” said the Senate minority leader, Sen. Dick Saslaw of Fairfax. “They couldn’t care less about a woman’s health.”

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Indictments
Scottie Evan Kilgore, Jr. The Warren County, VA Circuit Court Grand Jury charges that: COUNT ONE: On or about June , 011, in the County of Warren, Scottie Evan Kilgore, Jr., of unknown age and address, did unlawfully and feloniously distribute a Schedule II controlled substance, to-wit: Methadone. COUNT TWO: On or about June 1, 011, in the County of Warren, Scottie Evan Kilgore Jr. did unlawfully and feloniously distribute a Schedule II controlled substance, to-wit: Methadone COUNT THREE: On or about July 0, 011, in the County of Warren, Scottie Evan Kilgore, Jr. did unlawfully and feloniously sell or distribute an imitation controlled substance which imitates a Schedule II controlled substance, to-wit: Hydromorphone. Deborah Ann Vincent The Warren County, VA Circuit Court Grand Jury charges that on or about October 8, 011, in the County of Warren, Deborah Ann Vincent, 53, of 79 Mariane Ln., Bentonville, VA 61, did unlawfully and feloniously, willfully conceal the goods and merchandise of Food Lion, Inc., with the intention of converting said goods or merchandise to her own use without having paid the full purchase price thereof, after having previously been convicted of larceny or an offense deemed as larceny two or more times. William Neil Wade, Jr. The Warren County, VA Circuit Court Grand Jury charges that: COUNT ONE: On or about November 9, 011, in the County of Warren, William Neil Wade, Jr., 30, of 1308 Queens Hwy., Front Royal, VA, 630, did unlawfully and feloniously forge, with the intent to defraud, a draft or check, or any other writing. COUNT TWO: On or about November 9, 011, in the County of Warren, William Neil Wade, Jr. did unlawfully and feloniously, with the intent to defraud, obtain by false pretense or token, United States Currency, having a value of $00.00 or more, belonging to another. COUNT THREE: On or about November 15, 011, in the County of Warren, William Neil Wade, Jr. did unlawfully and feloniously forge, with the intent to defraud, a draft or check, or any other writing. COUNT FOUR: On or about November 15, 011, in the County of Warren, William Neil Wade, Jr. did unlawfully and feloniously, with the intent to defraud, obtain by false pretense or token, United States Currency, having a value of $00.00 or more, belonging to another. James Lewis Lathon The Warren County, VA Circuit Court Grand Jury charges that: COUNT ONE: On or about December 10, 010, in the County of Warren, James Lewis Lathon, of unknown age and address, did unlawfully and feloniously take, steal, and

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carry away the goods and chattels of Colleen Olverson, with a value of $00.00 or more. COUNT TWO: On or about December 10, 010, in the County of Warren, James Lewis Lathon did unlawfully and feloniously sell stolen property with an aggregate value of $00.00 or more when he knew or should have known that the property was stolen. COUNT THREE: On or about December 10, 010, in the County of Warren, James Lewis Lathon did unlawfully and with the intent to defraud, obtain by false pretense money less than $00.00 from Simonpetri’s Pawn Shop. COUNT FOUR: On or about December 11, 010, in the County of Warren, James Lewis Lathon did unlawfully and with the intent to defraud, obtain by false pretense money less than $00.00 from Simonpetri’s Pawn Shop. COUNT FIVE: On or about December 13, 010, in the County of Warren, James Lewis Lathon did unlawfully and with the intent to defraud, obtain by false pretense money less than $00.00 from Simonpetri’s Pawn Shop COUNT SIX: On or about December 14, 010, in the County of Warren, James Lewis Lathon did unlawfully with the intent to defraud, obtain by false pretense money less than $00.00 from Simonpetri’s Pawn Shop COUNT SEVEN: On or about January , 011, in the County of Warren, James Lewis Lathon did unlawfully and with the intent to defraud, obtain by false pretense money less than $00.00 from Simonpetri’s Pawn Shop.

Maryland man arrested after pursuit, crash at Kendrick Ln.
At approximately 1:30 a.m. on February 8, 01 Deputy Mumaw with the Warren County Sheriff ’s Office attempted to stop a vehicle headed east on Strasburg Road for reckless driving by speed. The vehicle failed to stop for the deputy and continued east on Strasburg Road until arriving at Shenandoah Avenue. The vehicle fled south on Shenandoah Avenue and crashed in a field at the intersection of Shenandoah Avenue and Kendrick Lane. After a short investigation, the driver of the vehicle, Carlos Eligio Pedroza,  years of age, of 411 Landgreen Street, Rockville Maryland was apprehended and arrested. Pedroza was charged with felony eluding, felony hit and run (injury), felony destruction of property and failure to maintain control of the vehicle. The vehicle, a 000 Acura Integra, was a total loss. A passenger in the vehicle was injured and taken to Warren Memorial Hospital where he was treated and released. The passenger was not charged in the incident. Pedroza is being held without bond at the Warren County Jail. (From a release)

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One day after receiving an initial report a student at the “Diversified Minds” Alternative Education program housed on Criser Road, the Warren County Sheriff ’s Office took a 17-year-old male juvenile into custody. A press release issued the day of the arrest, February 9, described events leading up to the youth being charged with a Class 6 felony, Possession of a Firearm on School Property. “On February 8, at approximately 3 p.m. the Warren County Sheriff ’s Office received information that a student may have brought a handgun to the Diversified Minds Alternative Education Program at 30 Criser Road (Ressie Jeffries complex) in Front Royal. Deputies responded to the school and coordinated with school officials to conduct a search of the DMAE building. By the time the search was to be conducted the school was unoccupied by students due to the 1 p.m. weather-related early release. However, a canine from the A.T.F. was utilized to assist in the search. No weapon was located during this search. “At approximately 7:50 a.m. on February 9th, Warren County deputies were back at the school facility to stand by while school officials conducted a search of approximately nine students that attended that program. One juvenile male student refused to participate in the search by school officials. School officials asked the deputies that were on site to remove the student from the property and notify his parents. “Prior to transporting the student a pat down was conducted by deputies and a .5 caliber semi-automatic handgun was located on the student. The student was transported to the Warren County Sheriff ’s Office and charged with possession of a firearm on school property, a class 6 felony. A detention hearing was held and the 17 year old juvenile was remanded to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center until trial. At this time there in so indication the juvenile had any intentions to use the firearm, however the investigation continues. Anyone with any additional information is asked to contact Investigator Dan Simmons at the Warren County Sheriff ’s Office at 635-7100 or 635-418 or on the Warren County Sheriff ’s Office website www.warrencountysheriff.org . (From a release)

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Maximino Mendoza Miranda, Jr. The Warren County, VA Circuit Court Grand Jury charges that: COUNT ONE: On or about September 5, 010, in the County of Warren, Maximino Mendoza Miranda, Jr., of unknown age and address, did unlawfully and feloniously break and enter in the nighttime with a deadly weapon the dwelling belonging to Patricia Militello, with the intent to commit murder, rape, robbery, or arson. COUNT TWO: On or about September 5, 010, in the County of Warren, Maximino Mendoza Miranda, Jr. did unlawfully and feloniously attempt to murder one Steven Lee Williams, Jr. COUNT THREE: On or about September 5, 010, in the County of Warren, Maximino Mendoza Miranda, Jr. did unlawfully and feloniously, maliciously cut and wound one Steven Lee Williams, Jr. with the intent to maim, disable, disfigure, or kill said Steven Lee Williams, Jr. COUNT FOUR: On or about September 5, 010, in the County of Warren, Maximino Mendoza Miranda, Jr. did unlawfully and feloniously, maliciously cut and wound one Rebecca Lynn Militello, with the intent to maim, disable, disfigure or kill said Rebecca Lynn Militello. Nicholas Eugene Walls The Warren County, VA Circuit Court Grand Jury charges that on or about October 0, 011, in the County of Warren, Nicholas Eugene Walls, 5, of 385 Old Sage Rd., Markham, VA 643, did unlawfully and feloniously sell or distribute an imitation controlled substance which imitates a Schedule I controlled substance, to-wit: Heroin. Deanna Dawn Dawson The Warren County, VA Circuit Court Grand Jury charges that on or about December 10, 011, in the County of Warren, Deanna Dawn Dawson, 8, of 711 Warren Ave., Front Royal, VA 630, did unlawfully and feloniously, willfully conceal the goods or merchandise of Walmart, with the intention of converting said goods or merchandise to her own use without having paid the full purchase price thereof, after having previously been convicted of larceny or an offense deemed as larceny two or more times. Anthony Luis Rodriguez

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been convicted of a felony. COUNT TWO: On or about October 6, 011, in the County of Warren, William Lawrence Etters did unlawfully drive or operate a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol. COUNT THREE: On or about October 6, 011, in the County of Warren, William Lawrence Etters did unreasonably refuse to permit a sample of blood or breath to be taken to determine the alcohol or drug or both drug and alcohol content of the blood, after having been arrested for unlawfully driving or operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol. Ashley Brook Dawson The Warren County, VA Circuit Court Grand Jury charges that on or about June 6, 011, in the County of Warren, Ashley Brook Dawson, 4, of 310 E. Prospect St., Front Royal, VA 630, did unlawfully and feloniously, willfully conceal the goods or merchandise of Food Lion, Inc., with the intention of converting goods or merchandise to her own use without paying the full purchase price thereof, after having previously been convicted of larceny or an offense deemed as larceny two or more times. Lisa Dawn Hall The Warren County, VA Circuit Court Grand Jury charges that: COUNT ONE: On or about June 9, 011, in the County of Warren, Lisa Dawn Hall, 36, of 05 Peach Tree Ct., Front Royal, VA 630, did unlawfully and feloniously, with the intent to defraud, obtain by false pretense or token, United States Currency, having a value of $00.00 or more, belonging to another COUNT TWO: On or about June 9, 011, in the County of Warren, Lisa Dawn Hall did unlawfully and feloniously, with the intent to defraud, knowingly utter or attempt to employ as true, a forged draft or check.

The Warren County, VA Circuit Court Grand Jury charges that on or about November 11, 011, in the County of Warren, Anthony Luis Rodriguez, 5, of 1 N. Royal Ave. Apt. C, Front Royal, VA 630, did unlawfully and feloniously steal property, having a value of $00.00 or more, belonging to Cheryl Pitts. Tina Jones Thompson The Warren County, VA Circuit Court Grand Jury charges that on or about December 3, 011, in the County of Warren, Tina Jones Thompson, of unknown age and address, did unlawfully, feloniously, knowingly, and intentionally possess a fire arm after having previously been convicted of a felony. Nathan Allen Benson

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“Family Foundation”, said school choice legislation would help low-income families who want a faith-based education for their children. “School choice exists for the wealthy. They can put their kid in the right private school; they can move into the right school system,” Cobb said. “But for those that can’t afford it, the only school is the choice that’s given to them by the state. So if that choice isn’t a fit for them, for whatever reason, we need to give them options.” The ‘Tebow rule’ Virginia’s attorney general also used his time at the rally to endorse HB 947, sponsored by Delegate Rob Bell, R-Charlottesville. The bill would allow homeschooled students to participate in interscholastic activities at public schools. The measure is sometimes called the “Tim Tebow bill,” after the NFL quarterback who, as a home-schooler in Florida, was allowed to play football for a local high school. “That’s a bill I hope you will mention to your legislators today,” Cuccinelli said. “Homeschoolers have always had some tough sledding here. That’s something we should be looking to advance.”

nating the scholarships claimed the maximum tax credits allowed. Under the legislation, the scholarships would go to students eligible for free and reduced-price lunches under federal income guidelines. In addition to the Republican governor and attorney general, another speaker at the rally was Melvin Adams, president of a conservative religious non-profit called “Renew a Nation”. Adams didn’t mince words – he said school choice is a religious issue. “It is the right thing to do because it will give greater opportunities to families who want a

faith-based education for their children – something that every child should have access to. We are committed to the idea of offering every child a Christian worldview,” Adams said. “Let’s put the people whose moral responsibility it is to raise children in control of their children’s education, and that’s parents,” Cuccinelli told the crowd. The closing speaker, Dr. Alberta Wilson, chief executive officer of “Faith First”, a Philadelphia-based non-profit that provides scholarships to Christian schools, compared the current educational system to the schoolyard rhyme “eenie, meenie, minie, moe” be-

fore a game of tag. “If, by chance, you live in a good school district, then your child could have that quality education,” said Wilson. “We are here because we want to declare, loud and clear, that we will no longer embrace an educational system that sings ‘eenie, meenie, minie, moe’ and plays the game of chance with our children. We demand school choice, not school chance.” Victoria Cobb, president of the

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“This is not the way to attract good teachers. This is a way to drive them out of Virginia.” – Kaye Korey, D-Fairfax

House, Senate disagree on teacher contract bills
By Mechelle Hankerson Capital News Service RICHMOND – The Virginia Education Association, which represents the state’s teachers, can breathe a little easier about legislation to overhaul how teachers are hired and evaluated. VEA leaders were alarmed Monday when the House voted 55-43 for a bill that would end what critics describe as a tenure system for public school teachers. Under the bill, sponsored by Delegate Richard “Dickie” Bell, R-Staunton, new teachers and principals would receive three-year contracts instead of continuing contracts – making it easier to fire them. Bell’s House Bill 576 has been sent to the Senate and assigned to the Senate Education and Health Committee. But on Tuesday, the Senate killed its version of the legislation, sponsored by Sen. Mark Obenshain, RHarrisonburg. The vote was 18-0, as all of the Democratic senators opposed the bill and two Republican senators declined to vote. The defeat of Senate Bill 438 bodes poorly for HB 576. That’s something of a relief to VEA President Kitty Boitnott. Boitnott called the legislation “a huge, huge mistake.” Virginia teachers feel under attack, and some are considering leaving the state to pursue their teaching careers elsewhere, she said. “We won’t be able to replace them,” Boitnott said. Instead of punishing teachers, she said, the most effective K-1 education reforms would be systemic and would focus on raising salaries to attract and retain high-quality teachers. The association has announced Friday as a “VEA Day of Mourning” or “Black Friday.” The group is encouraging teachers to wear black “to illustrate your collective mourning over the attack that has been launched against Virginia’s teachers and students by legislators with open disrespect and disdain.” As originally written, HB 576 would have put teachers on one-year contracts. The bill was amended to provide for threeyear contracts – after the teacher or principal has served a probationary five-year term. Also under the legislation, school boards would adopt an evaluation process based on state guidelines, and student academic success would account for 40 percent of the evaluation. Boitnott said the idea of a bad teacher is too subjective. “Everybody can probably think of at least one teacher that they had over the course of their career that they didn’t think was as effective as they could’ve been or perhaps should’ve been, (but) that same teacher may have made a huge difference for another child,” Boitnott said. The bill would provide money for training principals to effectively and fairly evaluate teachers. Bell said this is a way to address the VEA’s concerns. Kenneth Plum and Kaye Kory, Democratic delegates from Fairfax, both favored giving more responsibility to local governments and school boards to determine contract and evaluation terms. Gov. Bob McDonnell endorsed Bell’s proposal, but Plum reminded the House that McDonnell also has emphasized the importance of local governments throughout the session. “We should be supporting local governments, not micro-managing from Richmond with the idea being that we’ve been to school, so we know best,” Plum said. Kory agreed. She also expressed concern about the future of teachers in the state. “This is not the way to attract good teachers,” she said. “This is a way to drive them out of Virginia.” Delegate Jeion Ward, D-Hampton, serves as president of the Hampton Federation of Teachers.

She said there are processes in place to help and replace poorly performing teachers. “It is very easy to get rid of a bad teacher,” Ward said. Boitnott agreed that administrators “already had the tools and resources to remove a teacher, and shame on them if they didn’t do it. That’s a broken administration system. That’s not on the VEA; that’s not on teachers. That’s on a system that hasn’t been properly implemented.”

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“It is a bill that has had bipartisan support in other states, and I think you will find it has bipartisan support in the Senate of Virginia.” – Jill Holtzman Vogel, R-Winchester, bill sponsor

Senate approves mandatory ultrasound legislation
By Michael Bodine Capital News Service RICHMOND – The Virginia Senate has passed a bill requiring the use of ultrasound testing prior to the performance of an abortion. The bill, sponsored by Sen. Jill Holtzman Vogel, R-Winchester, now goes to the House of Delegates. If passed – a likely prospect in the Republican-controlled House – the measure will be sent to Gov. Bob McDonnell to be signed into law. The Senate voted 1-18 in favor of Senate Bill 484 the first week of February. The bill would require the use of ultrasound testing before an abortion. The woman would then have the option to view the sonograms before terminating her pregnancy. The Senate Education and Health Committee voted favorably on SB 484 on Jan. 6. The committee, in which Republicans narrowly outnumber Democrats, referred the bill to the Senate floor in a strict party-line vote. “My expectation is that it will gain a favorable vote in the full Senate,” Vogel said after the committee’s vote. “It is a bill that has had bipartisan support in other states, and I think you will find it has bipartisan support in the Senate of Virginia.” On Wednesday, the bill did get the support of two Democratic senators, Charles Colgan of Manassas and Phillip Puckett of Tazewell. One Republican – Sen. John Watkins of Powhatan County – voted against the bill. Democratic Sen. Louise Lucas of Portsmouth did not vote. Sen. Ralph Northam, D-Norfolk, is a physician who opposed the bill. On Tuesday, he sought to amend Vogel’s bill, prompting senators to delay the vote on SB 484 until Wednesday. On Wednesday, however, Northam’s plea for another delay was shot down. “It severely and significantly affects the provider-patient relationship,” Northam said. “The government should have nothing to do with it.” The Family Foundation of Virginia considered the bill’s passage in the Senate to be a major victory for its organization. “We would like to thank Senator Vogel and Senate leaders who worked with us to ensure the passage of this important measure,” the Family Foundation said on its website. However, Tarina Keene, executive director of NARAL ProChoice Virginia, said in a press release that the proposed law would be detrimental to a woman’s choice and to the physicianpatient relationship. “Women should have the option of having an ultrasound, not forced to undergo an unnecessary procedure prescribed by politicians,” Keene said. Mark Obenshain, R-6th, joined in supporting the Vogel-sponsored bill.

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Bills puts government inside women’s bodies, Dems say
By Claire Porter Capital News Service RICHMOND – Democratic leaders and women’s right advocates sounded the alarm Thursday about three bills they said would limit a woman’s reproductive freedom in Virginia. They said House Bill 1, which would grant individual rights to an embryo from the moment of conception, would be a step toward making all abortions illegal. On Tuesday, the House of Delegates passed the measure on a 66-3 vote. The bill provides that “unborn children” from the moment of conception until birth at every stage of biological development “enjoy all the rights, privileges, and immunities available to other persons, citizens, and residents of the Commonwealth, subject only to the laws and constitutions of Virginia and the United States, precedents of the United States Supreme Court, and provisions to the contrary in the statutes of the Commonwealth.” No state has passed such a law. Since 008, Republicans in Colorado and Mississippi have pushed for similar “personhood” bills, but they failed. HB 1, sponsored by Delegate Bob Marshall, R-Manassas, now heads to the Senate. If the personhood bill becomes law, it would essentially criminalize all abortions in Virginia, opponents say. They worry that the law also would affect women’s access to regular contraceptive measures, such as intrauterine devices and the morning-after pill. At a press conference Thursday in the General Assembly Building, Delegate Vivian Watts, DAnnandale, said she has asked Marshall “What is the definition of conception?” Marshall has refused to answer, Watts said. She said he repeatedly responded with “That will be up to the courts to decide.” According to Watts, the language of HB 1 is clear: that from the moment egg and sperm meet, anything that keeps the fertilized egg from being implanted in the uterus would be destroying a person. Sen. Donald McEachin, D-Richmond, said he believes the personhood bill is “absolutely an attack on contraceptives. It makes me wonder if the Republicans’ real intent is to prevent access to contraceptives, to continue to blur lines, and eventually for them to make all family decisions for Virginians.” State probes Speakers at the press conference also criticized House Bill 46, which would require every woman undergoing an abortion to first submit to an ultrasound. The bill says the woman must be given an opportunity to view the ultrasound image of her fetus before the abortion. Under the legislation, if the heartbeat cannot be detected, as

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Obama amends HHS birth control guidelines
Religious affiliates will not have to directly provide birth control option
By Roger Bianchini Warren County Report Less than three weeks after a Department of Health and Human Services announcement maintained guidelines mandating that religious organizations serving significant numbers of non-faith employees had to provide a reduced cost birth control option as part of insurance coverage, the White House announced changes to that portion of the Affordable Health Care Act. The changes were announced after weeks of a growing political uproar centered within the Catholic Church. Republican presidential candidates quickly jumped on the bandwagon, accusing the Obama administration of threatening religious freedom by forcing religious-affiliated organizations like schools, hospitals and other service providers to include no co-pay, non-deductible insurance options on birth control to employees who want it. The new directive announced by President Barack Obama on Feb. 10, will still guarantee that option to female employees of those religious-affiliated organizations, but through non-religious affiliated insurance companies. Those previously-impacted organizations now exempted will be allowed to provide insurance coverage without the birth control option. However, the outside insurer will have to provide the coverage to those who want it at no additional cost to those women. Employees of churches, which have always been exempt from the mandate, will not have the option of acquiring the separate, no-cost coverage. The president addressed the controversy and his desire to quell it in a presidential election year during a Feb. 10th White House briefing. Standing with the president at that press briefing was Health & Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, whose office announced the timeframe for implementation of the Affordable Health Care Act mandate and exceptions on birth control on Jan. 0th. “After many genuine concerns were raised over the last few weeks – and the more cynical desire to make this into political football – it became clear that spending months hammering out a solution was not an option, we had to move this faster. I’ve been confident from the start we could work out a sensible approach here. Some folks in Washington may want to treat this as another political wedge issue, but it shouldn’t be. I never saw it that way. It’s people with goodwill on both sides of the debate sorting through a complicated issue to find a solution that works for everyone. Today’s announcement has done that,” President Obama said. Impacted insurers must implement the no co-pay, non-deductible birth control option by Aug. 1 of this year. A one-year extension on that deadline is still offered to any religious-affiliated organizations that may be impacted. Catholic controversy Reactions from two Catholic organizations taking polar opposite viewpoints indicated a continued philosophical split within the church. Despite the accommodation, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops continued to rail against the Obama Administration for involving the federal government in health care coverage for women

VDOT recommends lowering speed limit on Rockland Road
By Malcolm Barr, Sr. Warren County Report For the past couple of years, Rockland residents Mary Ryan and Barbara Frank have been diligently circulating petitions in an effort to persuade the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) to approve lower speed limits along three area roads. They appear to have been successful in one case, the other two will remain as currently posted. The stretch of Rockland Road from Fairground Road to Ashby Station Road (Rte. 661) got the nod from VDOT and likely will drop from 45 mph to 35. Rte. 643 from Howellsville Road to the Clarke County Line is recommended to remain at 55 mph; Rte 661 (Fairground Road) at 45 mph. These recommendations were made in a report to the Warren County Board of Supervisors the second week of February as a result of on-site studies conducted last November. The citizen petitions were submitted to VDOT in March 011. Ryan and Frank have scheduled a community meeting March 8 at 6:30 p.m. at Rockland Church Fellowship Hall where VDOT’s recommendations will be presented in detail. Supervisor Richard Traczyk will represent the Board of Supervisors. In an e-mail to members of the Rockland community, Powers said, “Some of us still feel that there are other roads in our area that need speeds reduced in addition to a section of Rockland Road.” The study, incidentally, finds many drivers (about 450 a day) drive on Rockland between Fairground and Ashby Station at speeds up to 50 mph but average around 45, the current limit. Crash and injury rates were taken into consideration in the three studies. Powers added: “We are asking VDOT to let us see other speed analyses taken on similar roads (in Warren County) that have lower speeds than our Rockland/Greenway Historic District area.” She cited other county roads she has driven where speed limits are lower that she believes present similar traffic issues.

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on issues they call immoral. The bishops were also troubled by the financial responsibility put on Catholic employers, even the exempt ones, to see the birth control coverage is provided at no additional cost to their employees who want it. However, Catholics for Choice President Jon O’Brien, citing statistics claiming 98 percent of sexually-active Catholic women have or are using some form of contraception, called the Administration’s accommodation to the loud protests of the bishops and conservative-right politicians “unfortunate”. “We are glad to see that the administration did not choose to cave completely to the bishops. But the reality is that this compromise relies on insurance companies doing the right thing, and gives victory number one to the bishops on their ‘religious liberty’ shopping list,” O’Brien said. “The US bishops will move on to the other items on their list, demanding special treatment in federal contracts, allowing them to opt out of providing reproductive healthcare services and condoms for HIV prevention, forcing compromises in those states that have marriage equality statutes and allowing religious employers to discriminate in hiring practices.”

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By Roger Bianchini Warren County Report After being blasted by local Republican activist Matt Tederick on Feb. 9th for keeping the alleged motivation for a December policy change on the availability of food in the classroom a secret, we asked Warren County School Board Chairman Roy Boyles and Superintendent of Schools Pamela McInnis to reply. On Feb. 9th in typical style, Tederick accused school officials of dishonesty, a cover up, as well as accusing the school board of rubber stamping a far-reaching legal settlement without adequate public or school board input. As for any previous silence on the matter of an agreement reached with any parent of any former or current students that Tederick may have been alluding to, McInnis said, “I signed a confidentiality agreement to enter into an early complaint resolution for the complaint filed. I have honored the confidentiality agreement. Mr. Tederick spoke at the February 9, 01 School Board Meeting during public participation. I will present a report to the Board at its February 3, 01 work session on the task assigned to me by the Board. The assigned task was to research how the regulation was being applied across the school division and to research how policy JHCF, Student Wellness, is applied across the division.” School Board Chairman Roy Boyles added that McInnis had the “full support” of the school board. He added that the superintendent did “a good job” of keeping the school board “informed about issues that come up.” Boyles added that he believed Tederick was asking the school board to do things related to disclosure that “would be in violation” of aspects of the code of conduct that the school board members agreed to in writing at their meeting of Jan. 9. “I also will not discuss individual student records or personnel files,” Boyles said when questioned about any complaintbased agreements the board or superintendent have signed off on. “We live in a wonderful country that allows everyone to express their opinion, no matter how misdirected or political it may be. I think Mr. Tederick wants to take us back to the mid 1990’s. I for one don’t want to go back there. Our process works and helps us do what is best for kids,” Boyles added of Tederick’s public lambasting of the board and superintendent. As reported here last issue, the policy in question prohibits staff at public schools from handing out food as a reward in the classroom and asks parents to “cooperate” by not sending food to school with their children for classroom distribution. The policy was announced in a letter sent to parents from McInnis on Dec. 1st. It has since become the subject of online posts criticizing the public school system and McInnis for “infringing upon the rights” of school children and parents for attempting to limit student access to food in the classroom for celebrations or other events.

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