Saturday, September 17, 2011

By Request (UPDATED)

Okay, I got a good comment on the last post, and it made a valid point about how cash-on-hand can be misleading. So, here's the list of candidates with their funds raised in the same order as my websites page.


[UPDATED to add information for Mark Nuzzaco, and to round amounts to the nearest dollar.]

Board of Supervisors
Constitutional Offices
House of Delegates
School Board
State Senate
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7 comments:

  1. AnonymousSeptember 17, 2011 at 10:28 PM

    There sure is a whole lot of Telos & McDean money floating around.
    Ralph Buona & Janet Clarke are swimming in it up to their eyeballs.

    How exactly does that work, if either Telos or MC Dean (openband) issue come before the new board. Will those who have accepted campaign donations have to recuse themselves from voting?

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  2. LizSeptember 18, 2011 at 12:11 AM

    Well, Lori Waters and Eugene Delgaudio haven't recused themselves on any OpenBand votes as of yet, and both have received substantial donations from MCDean and the Dean family in general.

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  3. Stevens MillerSeptember 19, 2011 at 9:14 AM

    Our rules require recusal by any member who has accepted a donation from a party with an application pending before the board, or from a party with an application decided within the previous six months, or else the amount of the donation must be returned to the donor.

    Eugene Delgaudio never signed the document that commits us to those rules. The only consequences for a violation that I can think of would be discipline by the board of the member in violation. In the past, a prior board issued a resolution of "censure," and removed a member from all board and regional committee appointments for one year (the discipline then was for having used abusive language to two other board members).

    Virginia law requires disclosure by anyone in government service of a conflict of interest, followed either by recusal or a statement to the effect that the conflicted person will not behave any differently than if the conflict did not exist. (Note that this applies to elected officials, goverment employees, and even volunteers who serve on advisory panels.)

    Strictly speaking, no one ever has to recuse: they can disclose and/or risk discipline, but we can't ever compel a member of the board to refrain from voting. Only thing that would do that would be outright removal, which requires judicial action in Virginia.

    Regardless, I do not believe any BOS member has yet disclosed or otherwise addressed the matter of having received donations from M.C. Dean or OpenBand.

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  4. AnonymousSeptember 19, 2011 at 5:15 PM

    I believe the explanation re recusal above does not apply to land use issues. As I recall, ANY donation over $100 from a developer,their attorney, etc received within a year of a supervisor sitting for a land use type application, the supervisor MUST recuse him/herself. This seems petty in light of the fact that other special interest parties can give thousands of dollars and the supervisor has no such obligation of recusal.

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  5. Stevens MillerSeptember 19, 2011 at 6:31 PM

    Anonymous, you're right, mostly. The rules requiring recusal by recipients of donations from applicants don't say anything about donations from people opposing applications. That's a bug in the rules we all knew about when we passed them. But a lot of us campaigned on promising to pass that rule, since developer influence was a major topic in the '07 elections. So, we kept a campaign promise by passing the rule, but I agree it was an asymmetrical solution to the problems of an asymmetrical situation.

    Regardless, there is no way to enforce it, so no one ever HAS to recuse. It's done on the honor system.

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  6. Loudoun OutsiderSeptember 21, 2011 at 9:06 AM

    Thank you, Mrs. Miller, for making this information so available.

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  7. Liz MillerSeptember 21, 2011 at 10:50 AM

    You're very welcome!

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