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.