My Side of the Fence

I’m dusiting off the beer summit meetings and am going to host one on the proposed City Manager’s budget.  It’ll be on the 10th of March at my house.  I want to hear from folks and talk about what’s in the Manager’s budget, what’s new, what’s changed and what folks might want us to shoot for.

Details:  March 10th at 3:00pm.  Space is limited (my house is little) so there are 8 spaces available.  There is but one requirement: you must have been signed up for the Republican convention this year or voted in the last City election.  I want people that are involved and that’s my screening mechanism.  Email requests to andy@matrixcc.net

Update:  The formidable Mrs. Stevens points out that we should have 3 requirements and I agree.  The third is that you must have printed and read at least the executive summary from the CM’s budget presentation.  Further, bring that copy with you.  I ain’t payin to print out copies for everyone.

Kudos to Manassas Park for their impressive school performance as covered here.  They also just got a bunch of money to build new sidewalks so their kids can walk to school!  We’re patching ours with asphalt nowadays.

Oh, in Manassas news, our prostitutes are so straight-up gangsta that when their “clients” don’t pay, the “clients” call the cops for protection.  Although sometimes they don’t bother and just rob them.

Happy Tuesday.

I’m an IT guy so, even at my advanced age, I’m still up with all of the “in” technologies and cool kids.  At least that’s how I see it.  My daughter may beg to differ but I’m not asking.  I like facebook and twitter etc, etc, etc.

In any event, one of my most prolific friends on Facebook is someone we’ll call “The Big D”.  The Big D is pregnant and has to visit the restroom several times every night and she sometimes shares her frustration on Facebook.  The other morning when she was up early she noticed a helicopter ambulance landing at Osbourn – the second in 24 hours and put that up on her Facebook wall.  I thought that was odd and was going to contact our Fire Chief about that when I recieved an email from our interim City Manager:

Turns out that there was a gang fight and someone was stabbed badly enough that they required an airlift.  Now, some might assume that this was a beef between local kids or an MS-13 thing.  It wasn’t.  It was a knife fight between the Bloods and Crips.  That’s right.  A knife fight between the OG crowd that started in LA, right here in Manassas.  Is this what things have come to?

I didn’t win the Mayor’s nod at the Republican convention but I believe in my message of schools and public safety and I’m taking it to the wall.  I’ll post more details in coming days about both.  I took a lot of heat from more conservative folks about spending more money on Police but I don’t regret it for a second.  In fact, I think we need to turn the heat up on these scumbags.  That may or may not require adjusting were we spend our money but a new approach is needed.

Between this and the schools, is this the kind of place you want to live in?  Enough.