Sharon Baum on Mulch Paranoia

In order to understand the Vienna machine you have to analyze how they operate. Here is an email sent around by Sharon Baum a few years ago during the debate on mulch in Vienna:

The mayor and several council members informed me today that members of the Northeast Vienna Citizens Association (NEVCA) are orchestrating a write-in campaign for this Tuesday's Town election. They are trying to install a mayor and council members who will support their goal of having the town cease operations at the Beulah mulch facililty, which may result in ceasing curbside leaf pick-up. NEVCA has candidates for mayor and all three open council seats. Incumbent mayor Jane Seeman had been running un-opposed until NEVCA began this write-in campaign. For the three open council seats, Laurie Cole and Edythe Kelleher are running as incumbents, and Michael Polychrones (a past council member) also is running. These three also had been running as un-opposed until the write-in campaign. REMEMBER -- Past elections have generated very small turn-outs and NEVCA could have a successful write-in campaign. So please make the effort to vote this Tuesday! The elections will be held 4 May at the Vienna Community Center from 6:00am to 7:00pm. Please pass this information on to other Vienna residents so that they understand the importance of this Tuesday's election -- unless you want to bag your leaves!

That's how you rile up the over 80 Magruders set - scare them that they will bag their leaves. Baum sits on the Vienna Transportation Safety Committee today receiving daily political milk from Maud.

My name is Sharon. I love Maud. I have to say that.