The DC Examiner had an article in their dead tree version today on last Thursday night’s debate between PWC Chairman Corey Stewart and Sharon Pandak. Here’s the highlights:
With board support, Stewart said, the county balanced an $18 million deficit, lowered the tax burdern for the average resident, became a national leader on illegal immigration and imposed a moratorium on new housing development.
I don’t care how you slice it, those are the items that Corey ran on in 2006 and he has stuck to those promises and gotten results.
Pandak said the moratorium on housing development was not a real change and risked annoying developers… Cutting important services from the budget just so residents could have a tax cut was not effective leadership… The services were worth more than roughly $20 in taxes the average resident was spared, she said.
Okay, Debbie Downer. Let’s extrapolate from those comments what YOU would have done in Corey’s place.
No moratorium on new housing development, therefore we’d still be experiencing uncontrolled growth that would place additional burdens on our infrastructure. Oh, no, we can’t risk annoying developers! After all, they are your biggest campaign donors!
I don’t know about you, but to me important county services are police, fire/rescue and education and PWC hasn’t been cutting personnel or pay in any of those areas. In fact, we’re still hiring in all three AND increasing their pay.
That asks the real question of what Pandak thinks are “important services.” Oh, that’s right. She gave us an answer on that last year.
“We need to look at essential services in a far more complex way,” Pandak said.
And finally, not only do you have to consider that the average taxpayer’s liability went down from where it was last year, but don’t think for a second that if Pandak had been Chairman that your taxes wouldn’t have gone up as well to pay for some ridiculous program that Pandak would have deemed to be essential such as a Peruvian line dancing class for midgets.
Send Pathetic Pandak packing…
Filed under: 2007 Elections, Prince William County Politics
