On the heels of Matt Harrison’s resignation from the PWCDC earlier today, we now get word from BVBL that the Chairman of the PWC Dems, Vic Bras, has resigned.
It couldn’t have happened in a better place. Now is the time for the PWC GOP to go in and finish the job off. Unlike many other parts of VA (especially other parts of NOVA), PWC is a place where the GOP can play offense instead of defense. We have a total of five targets of opportunity — two state senate seats (Colgan and Puller), two BOCS seats (Barg and Jenkins) and the Commonwealth’s Attorney (Ebert). The Colgan seat is winnable (especially if he retires, but not impossible otherwise). Puller will be tougher because she can rely on the Fairfax portions of her district for some comfort, but let’s face it — she isn’t exactly a rocket scientist and you can only cruise on your name for so long until you run out of gas. Barg and Jenkins are pretty much institutions unto themselves who get along fairly well with their GOP counterparts on the BOCS, so those will be tough districts to take over at least until they are open. Finally, there is Ebert whose gross incompetence over the years has led us to find this worthy opponent to him:
Our friend Greg L. over on BVBL has been doing an outstanding job staying ahead of the curve on what looks to be a major public corruption investigation that a number of newspapers as well as the FBI are involved in carrying out. As part of it, Greg shared this with us:
A prior investigation into perjury and evidence tampering by the Manassas Park police department from Dave Ruttenberg’s ABC hearing was shut down by commonwealth’s attorney Paul Ebert. Ebert did the same thing when his son assaulted a police officer so badly the officer spent a month in the hospital, and managed to get off without even having charges filed. Of course Paul Ebert’s first wife died under unusual circumstances many years ago when she “fell down the stairs” and broke her neck after an argument with him at his home. Police who showed up to investigate the noise discovered the body. Paul Ebert is a colorful character, to say the least, but one who hasn’t been of much help in this case for some reason.
If Ebert gets caught up on the wrong side of this investigation, those years of incompetence might begin to look to some people like corruption instead. Either way, that isn’t a good position to be in during an election year for someone whose name is on the ballot.
Filed under: Corruption, Crime, Prince William County Politics
[...] NovaTownHall has coverage here, and Riley at Virtucon has his thoughts up as [...]
Facts and figures on Butch Ebert’s “incompetence”, please.
Beyond the citation for hunting out of season several years ago, let’s lay out the case why Ebert needs to be defeated…and not simply that you want him to because he is a democrat, but why.
Well, most recently his office botched the prosecution of Rene Baillargeon (someone who had already been convicted elsewhere on both county and state violations for failure to have the proper contractors license) in a very spectacular fashion. The Friday before the case was set to go to trial, all of a sudden a new prosecutor was assigned to the case. This person didn’t have any case files or know anything about the case. Fortunately, the entity pressing the charges had such info and supplied it to the prosecutor. Then when the prosecutor went into court the following week, the case was thrown out because the Commonwealth’s Attorney office had let the statute of limitations for bringing the case expire.
Well, that is an amateur mistake. But then we started putting 2 and 2 together — Rene was well-acquainted with a politically connected Democrat who is part of the old boys’ network that Ebert is a part of. Suddenly, the incompetence started to look like it might be something else. That being said, it could be that it was just incompetence — just like the way he managed to botch BOTH of the Bobbit cases.
Ebert and his crew have a long trail of such cases that can easily be used against him in a campaign.
How may I get ahold of you with information that I cannot post for the public?
I certainly do not want my email address listed.
Just scroll down the page until you see on the right-hand side where it says “Contact Us” and click on the “Reagan’s Raiders” comic book cover. It will open up an email addressed to us here.
[...] if Paul “as effective as Ham Sandwich” Ebert could get off his posterior and do something, it’s time for him to indict [...]
Dear Riley, Not O’Reilly,
Your acusations concerning the Rene Baillargeon case as being “botched” by Paul Ebert’s “crew” border on liable. You are alleged to be an attorney and should know the difference between an act or ommission that would ammount to negligence vs. the dismissal of a case because it was initiated by the complaintants beyond the Statute of Limitations. If you would have bothered to check the facts contained in the court files, you would have noticed that the Southbridge Community Association (victim) contracted for some work with Rene Baillargeon on March 4, 2004. Contracting without a license is a Class One Misdemenor in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Most Class One Misdemeanors have a one year Statute of Limitations, Section19.2-8, Code of Virginia. The warrants were obtained from the magistrate on June 21, 2005. The court ruled that the prosecution of Mr. Baillargeon was barred because the warrants were obtained by the victim, or whoever was responsible for obtaining them, for reasons that the warrants were not obtained in a timely fashion and hence barred by the Statue of Limitations. The untimely warrants had nothing to do with “Ebert’s Crew” or Paul Ebert.
Instead of responsibly checking your facts, you instead imply some “OLD BOY” conspiracy was at work and that Baillargeon got off because of “something else” ( being Ebert’s pal) . You should be ashamed of yourself. This kind of sleezy inuendo is something I would expect from the Clinton Gang not from a fellow Republican.
T.C. Hall — I know the facts better than almost anyone as I am a member of the Southbridge Board (I’m the current president and was tasked with helping to clean up the mess that was left for me with regard to this matter) and know things NOT in the public record. Believe me, what is public and what I have outlined briefly barely scratches the surface. Ebert’s office fell down on the job on this one — again.
It is interesting that you were able to find out as much about the case as you stated in your post as there is nothing online about it. You would have had to either have gotten that from someone in Ebert’s office or gone to all the trouble of going down to the courthouse, filling out paperwork to get the materials, reading through it and then posting your thoughts here. Guess which way I’m thinking you received the information on this case…
Second, what makes you a “fellow Republican” other than your say so? Are you or have you ever been a member of a local GOP cmte.? Do you hold an office or other position within the party? Since we have no party registration here in Virginia, that is truly the only way to be considered a party member. Please, enlighten us here. I’m pretty much an open book — PWC Cmte. member 2001-2006, RPV state central cmte. member 2003-2005, dep. gen. counsel for Steve Forbes 1996, among a host of other things. Since I’m not currently a dues paying member of my local committee, even I can’t be officially considered a “Republican” in Virginia. That is, of course, if you are a Virginia resident who just happens to have a Delaware IP address for whatever reason.
Third, when dealing with public figures, the standard for liable is very high — even higher when you are talking about elected officials when it is their public acts that are being criticized. That is a basic tenant of the First Amendment — freedom of political speech being among the foremost freedoms we have. Criticizing Ebert’s abysmal record is protected speech, especially in an election year. If you don’t like that, then go tout what you think are his successes — if you can find any that Ham Sandwich couldn’t have accomplished, too.