Dressing Like Jerry Springer Guests

Here is feedback we suspect direct from a sitting Council member:

"Posting unflattering photos of your political opponents on an anonymous website?"

Are you really serious? Let us get this straight. Some Town Council Members, and it surely is not all, show up to Council meetings in sweat pants, jogging suits or essentially pajamas and we are supposed to ignore their complete lack of respect for the office they hold? If ANY Vienna Town Council member shows up to a public meeting dressed inappropriately or looking disheveled - their picture will be right here every time. It's an embarrassment and it should stop. This is the kind of nonsense that happens when there are no cameras to film public servants in action. Vienna Town Council meetings should not leave people feeling like they just witnessed a Jerry Springer episode. Vienna is not a trailer park.

Just in, looks like we were wrong on the authorship of the above comment. Feedback on comments above that came in today:

"No, I'm not a sitting Council member, nor have I ever had any involvement in Vienna politics, the historic district, or anything like that. I'm a longtime resident of SW Vienna (and a lifelong resident of the DC area) who has no use for people who are willing to drag Vienna's good name through the mud for their personal financial gain. As my original comments to you said, I am utterly turned off by your actions. If you think that my previous comments revealed insider knowledge of your antics, you're wrong. It didn't take much effort to use the internet to read the minutes of the meetings you've described on your web page. It didn't take much more work to read the online news articles about your activities and use the Fairfax County real estate assessment web page to locate the real estate holdings you're trying to cash in on (not very cleverly hidden behind "name withheld by request" entries). I would never vote to further empower you by putting one of your number on the Town Council. Judging from your behavior, you would turn our Town government into a circus, to the detriment of everyone but yourselves."
Anonymous

Apparently, you are drinking the Vienna Times Kool-Aid too. This is all about money, that is your view? Let us get this straight: It's alright to have corrupt government and unfair laws as long as you are fighting the cause of stopping some random person who may or may not be profiting from real estate? Do you have any concept of logic? You say this with a straight face as Vienna is being torn down every day to build new everywhere? Since by your rumor filled logic this is all about money, can you forward along to us the development plans that must surely exist that shows how all of this money will be made by all of these greedy people out to hurt Vienna? Or is this just more of the whisper campaign by you and your cronies who may or may not be happy with their lot in life?

You have NO respect for the United States Constitution or basic property rights and your ethical and moral foundations are deeply flawed. You and some of your Council buddies are using unbridled power to settle scores and play games. Class warfare was a game for a different time. Class warfare doesn't work in a community where people are making on average $85,000 a year. A community like Vienna, a community filled with smart people, cares more about fairness and equality. You are only going to find so many people interested in your brand of scare politics. Good luck!