Reminder to vote for SB candidate in the Arlington Democratic Caucus this week!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most people we want to help, such as teachers, couldn't qualify for Affordable Housing.

So many issues here.

1) Arlington's liberal attitudes here are completely undermining the school system. The county has approved and built Affordable Housing without investing in infrastructure, specifically schools. That AH funding is now creating even more pressure on the schools and also depriving the school system of funds it desperately needs to get its overcapacity problems under control. This makes me crazy! Why would we keep doing this?

2) School teachers and first responders--the kinds of folks who absolutely cannot afford to stay in Arlington County--make "too much" money to quality for AH.

3) The main builder of Affordable Housing in Arlington is running a racket. AHC's 990 (tax return for nonprofits) reports in 2015 their president, Walter Webdale as making $370,363 and their SVP, Stephen Smith, as making $324,818 in annual salaries. BTW: Webdales lives in Reston, Virginia, so why should he care that he's soaking Arlington County taxpayers and destroying their school system to boot? Arlington Partnership for Affordable Housing is living more "modestly." Their president is making (in 2015) $193,500. Nina Janopaul does live in Arlington County, so at least she's paying taxes to the district that pays her salary and pays tens of millions to the cause of affordable housing.

Let's get the county back on track: focus on infrastructure, solve overcapacity, give all kids a great public education, which means investing heavily in schools and reducing spending on other "niceties" in the county.

This is really interesting

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People who don't understand AH in Arlington *think* they are helping teachers and county workers have affordable places to live. That's not what is happening though. Because of income restrictions (many set by federal regs) most teachers and county workers make too much money to qualify for the vast majority of AH units in the County. There are some units set aside for "higher income" levels, but they are the exception and not the rule. And AH construction has been extremely profitable for many developers. They are able to make a developer contribution to the County's Affordable Housing Investment Fund (AHIF) and in exchange the County board waives certain density requirements so they can build more units in their non-AH apartment buildings. Then many of those same developers get the contract from Arlington County to build the AH buildings, with funds from AHIF. I have spoken with many well-meaning AH advocates (including my own pastor) and their heart is in the right place, but they don't understand how they are getting played by the developers. And they don't understand how building more AH is contributing to the school capacity crisis-- it is not just kids moving into AH buildings, but it is also the fact that developers are trading AH donations for extra units in their non-AH buildings and that also drives up school enrollment. I would love to see one of these churches donate their land to the County to build a new school or daycare instead of just building apartment buildings over the sanctuary.

Good points

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Since our homeless population spiked 33% and DCs went down 11% (like I predicted once the new homeless shelter in Courthouse opened)---crime has spiked. They are all over the neighborhood---knocking on doors in the middle of the night, yelling profanity as they walk down the middle of the neighborhood streets--at women and children, squatting in our neighbor's garage, living in new build construction sites.

They come for the free meals, but don't stay the night. They then spill out into surrounding areas nearby. This is a fact the Board blatantly ignored.

I want to help as much as anyone else, but the statistics were there and ignored. We now have DC's homeless population--short walk across the bridge.

Think about this and AFH and the rapid increase of crime of late...and vote how you see fit...


So who should we vote for? Driving around Arlington, I see at least 10 or so panhandlers every day. I swear if any Republicans run for SB and CB, I will vote for them.
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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So who should we vote for? Driving around Arlington, I see at least 10 or so panhandlers every day. I swear if any Republicans run for SB and CB, I will vote for them.

Me, too. I can't believe it's gotten to that point.

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When I vote is it for one candidate or do I need to have a ranking?

[Anonymous]

Let's be honest, Liberal friends. The problem with our schools here in Nova is not AH. The problem is Illegal Immgration and DACA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let's be honest, Liberal friends. The problem with our schools here in Nova is not AH. The problem is Illegal Immgration and DACA.

I'm here to fight the battles I can win.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let's be honest, Liberal friends. The problem with our schools here in Nova is not AH. The problem is Illegal Immgration and DACA.

I'm here to fight the battles I can win.

Vote Republican on other ballots. It is absolutely insanity that Democrats do not want to enforce immigration laws and it is specific communities in Arlington and Fairfax that have to bear the cost of Sanctuary cities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let's be honest, Liberal friends. The problem with our schools here in Nova is not AH. The problem is Illegal Immgration and DACA.

I'm here to fight the battles I can win.

Vote Republican on other ballots. It is absolutely insanity that Democrats do not want to enforce immigration laws and it is specific communities in Arlington and Fairfax that have to bear the cost of Sanctuary cities.

No.
I'm not voting for that crazy train on the national level.

I would be interested in hearing out a moderate fiscal conservative at the local level- as long as they didn't bring any of the national level antiquated, hateful nonsense to the local level.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let's be honest, Liberal friends. The problem with our schools here in Nova is not AH. The problem is Illegal Immgration and DACA.

I'm here to fight the battles I can win.

Vote Republican on other ballots. It is absolutely insanity that Democrats do not want to enforce immigration laws and it is specific communities in Arlington and Fairfax that have to bear the cost of Sanctuary cities.

No.
I'm not voting for that crazy train on the national level.

I would be interested in hearing out a moderate fiscal conservative at the local level- as long as they didn't bring any of the national level antiquated, hateful nonsense to the local level.

I'm the PP and I agree with you. The old guard religious GOP is on its way out though. Fingers crossed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let's be honest, Liberal friends. The problem with our schools here in Nova is not AH. The problem is Illegal Immgration and DACA.

I'm here to fight the battles I can win.

Vote Republican on other ballots. It is absolutely insanity that Democrats do not want to enforce immigration laws and it is specific communities in Arlington and Fairfax that have to bear the cost of Sanctuary cities.

No.
I'm not voting for that crazy train on the national level.

I would be interested in hearing out a moderate fiscal conservative at the local level- as long as they didn't bring any of the national level antiquated, hateful nonsense to the local level.

To counter the Illegal Immigration problem, which affects those of us in certain areas of Nova, we really need to look outside of party lines these days. The Democrats lost my vote in the last few years because of Obama's DACA shitshow and what it's done to FFX.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let's be honest, Liberal friends. The problem with our schools here in Nova is not AH. The problem is Illegal Immgration and DACA.

I'm here to fight the battles I can win.

Vote Republican on other ballots. It is absolutely insanity that Democrats do not want to enforce immigration laws and it is specific communities in Arlington and Fairfax that have to bear the cost of Sanctuary cities.

No.
I'm not voting for that crazy train on the national level.

I would be interested in hearing out a moderate fiscal conservative at the local level- as long as they didn't bring any of the national level antiquated, hateful nonsense to the local level.

To counter the Illegal Immigration problem, which affects those of us in certain areas of Nova, we really need to look outside of party lines these days. The Democrats lost my vote in the last few years because of Obama's DACA shitshow and what it's done to FFX.

Well, if you're in FFX, not sure why you're posting about Arlington's caucus. Take your hate elsewhere. This has nothing to do with immigration, legal or otherwise.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let's be honest, Liberal friends. The problem with our schools here in Nova is not AH. The problem is Illegal Immgration and DACA.

I'm here to fight the battles I can win.

Vote Republican on other ballots. It is absolutely insanity that Democrats do not want to enforce immigration laws and it is specific communities in Arlington and Fairfax that have to bear the cost of Sanctuary cities.

No.
I'm not voting for that crazy train on the national level.

I would be interested in hearing out a moderate fiscal conservative at the local level- as long as they didn't bring any of the national level antiquated, hateful nonsense to the local level.

To counter the Illegal Immigration problem, which affects those of us in certain areas of Nova, we really need to look outside of party lines these days. The Democrats lost my vote in the last few years because of Obama's DACA shitshow and what it's done to FFX.

Well, if you're in FFX, not sure why you're posting about Arlington's caucus. Take your hate elsewhere. This has nothing to do with immigration, legal or otherwise.

Umm, because that is the underlying problem people are talking about with regard to Arlington's school overcrowding and low scoring problem, not AH. I understand the truth is really triggering for you and it's easier to write off any legit observation about Illegal Immigraton as "hate" but get over yourself.

It is people like you that keep gaslighting voters into turning a blind eye to the obvious problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let's be honest, Liberal friends. The problem with our schools here in Nova is not AH. The problem is Illegal Immgration and DACA.

I'm here to fight the battles I can win.

Vote Republican on other ballots. It is absolutely insanity that Democrats do not want to enforce immigration laws and it is specific communities in Arlington and Fairfax that have to bear the cost of Sanctuary cities.

No.
I'm not voting for that crazy train on the national level.

I would be interested in hearing out a moderate fiscal conservative at the local level- as long as they didn't bring any of the national level antiquated, hateful nonsense to the local level.

To counter the Illegal Immigration problem, which affects those of us in certain areas of Nova, we really need to look outside of party lines these days. The Democrats lost my vote in the last few years because of Obama's DACA shitshow and what it's done to FFX.

Well, if you're in FFX, not sure why you're posting about Arlington's caucus. Take your hate elsewhere. This has nothing to do with immigration, legal or otherwise.

I don't hate. I care about my schools and my neighborhood, and Illegal Immigration has really ruined both. So you take YOUR hate and crawl back under that rock of denial of yours. Tired of people like you trying to shut other people up by using labels.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most people we want to help, such as teachers, couldn't qualify for Affordable Housing.

So many issues here.

1) Arlington's liberal attitudes here are completely undermining the school system. The county has approved and built Affordable Housing without investing in infrastructure, specifically schools. That AH funding is now creating even more pressure on the schools and also depriving the school system of funds it desperately needs to get its overcapacity problems under control. This makes me crazy! Why would we keep doing this?

2) School teachers and first responders--the kinds of folks who absolutely cannot afford to stay in Arlington County--make "too much" money to quality for AH.

3) The main builder of Affordable Housing in Arlington is running a racket. AHC's 990 (tax return for nonprofits) reports in 2015 their president, Walter Webdale as making $370,363 and their SVP, Stephen Smith, as making $324,818 in annual salaries. BTW: Webdales lives in Reston, Virginia, so why should he care that he's soaking Arlington County taxpayers and destroying their school system to boot? Arlington Partnership for Affordable Housing is living more "modestly." Their president is making (in 2015) $193,500. Nina Janopaul does live in Arlington County, so at least she's paying taxes to the district that pays her salary and pays tens of millions to the cause of affordable housing.

Let's get the county back on track: focus on infrastructure, solve overcapacity, give all kids a great public education, which means investing heavily in schools and reducing spending on other "niceties" in the county.

Excellent points. As for your third point, NPR had a good report the other day about how affordable housing developers have made a lot of money, but there still aren't enough units available for people to live in. http://www.npr.org/2017/05/09/527046451/affordable-housing-program-costs-more-shelters-less