The Hapless 57th
As we all know, Tom McCrystal declared his candidacy in the 57th over this past weekend. His opponents have been running for some time. McCrystal seems to be going over board in trying to convince people that he is "not planning on going to Richmond to fight the culture wars" and that he is very moderate. Quite frankly, McCrystal is not a conservative, nor does he claim to be one. Of course, I would prefer to have any sort of Republican in a district like the 57th that has been controlled by the Democrats so long. McCrystal is definitely accurate about certain constituencies within Charlottesville being taken for granted by the Democratic city machine. Republican City Councilman Rob Schilling, the only Republican to sit on the Charlottesville City Council in the last 19 years, has been intelligently trying to target parts of the African-American community who want to be able to directly elect the mayor of Charlottesville.
posted by Lighthorse Harry at 10:15 AM
1 Comments:
Rob Schilling has single-handedly set back the Republican cause in Charlottesville by at least a half-decade. He is the laziest, least-involved councilor that we've had in my memory. The guy sits on no boards or commissions, works with no community groups, and has no apparent connections to any aspect of life as anybody knows it in Charlottesville -- he just shows up and sits down at Council meetings every two weeks.
We've got some intelligent, hard-working Republicans in Charlottesville, at least two of whom I've told that I would actively campaign for if they ran for council. Rob Schilling is absolutely not one of those people.
He's not as bad as the last two candidates that the Charlottesville Republicans dredged up for the '03 Council race -- one of them was a creationist and the other had been arrested for stabbing people not once, not twice, but three times over the course of his life. Compared to these clowns, yeah, I guess Schilling is "intelligent." But the bar's pretty low.
9:53 PM
Post a Comment
<< Home