"My Life Is Sitting on Vienna Town Council"

What happens when elected positions in a government are occupied by people whose whole life revolves around just being on Town Council? Not much. That's where Vienna is ladies and gentleman. Fairfax County is exploding, we are in the middle of it, and we have no leadership - at all.

We desperately need people who want to achieve something other than power for the sake of power. Now, you might laugh at that statement thinking, "What could be so great about being on Town Council?"

Being on Town Council is the only thing people like Maud Robinson and Jane Seeman live for. The fact that their husbands passed on the baton to both of them further exemplifies what Deborah Brehony said in the paper, "dynasty". It doesn't take much observation to see that they have the same death grip on power that people like Byrd and Thurmond (now dead of course) have/had in the US Senate.

These politicians long out live their usefulness (whether they ever had it is debatable), but they hang on because they can and because they have nothing else. It's not just public service to them, it's their lives. It's all very sad because clearly Vienna has some of the most educated and ambitious populace in the country. However, as of right now we are relegated to leaders who are terribly incompetent.

At this stage of the game beating around the bush and saying that Robinson and crew have redeemable political value is hogwash. Anyone who says that probably could have been convinced to drink Kool-aid with Jim Jones.

Perhaps, some people don't like the tone of this website. Fine, but if you live in Vienna and you are honest with yourself, you must be embarrassed at what populates these pages. The actions and words of our current crop of leaders are atrocious.

All this said, this website is under no illusions. Until the older generations (the 80+ and over set) that keep voting the Maud's of the world into power either wakeup and acknowledge that their long time political Madame has lost it or they too pass onto the other side, Vienna will remain crippled. And crippled ain't good when you are in the middle of Fairfax County.