Stewart Distances Himself From Letiecq

For Reference:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/28/AR20080328034...

Or:
http://www.raisingkaine.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=13789

Annabel and I made this video for the 9500 Liberty interactive documentary after PWC community members expressed confusion about the relationship between Prince William County BOCS Chairman Corey Stewart and Greg Letiecq (Help Save Manassas President and Black Velvet Bruce Li Blogger/Admin). In the broader context, there are two reasons why this is a critical question right now.

(1) Funding of the Immigration Resolution is in Doubt. In recent public remarks, Chairman Stewart has hinted that the Immigration Resolution may not be fully funded because of budget constraints and the Board's reluctance to raise taxes drastically and/or go into debt (estimated $100 million deficit over the next five years). The projected cost of the Immigration Resolution continues to balloon, currently sitting at $26,500,000 after starting at $14,166,376 last fall. In part, this is because the incarceration at the local level of hundreds of undocumented immigrants who have not committed serious crimes means there is no room for documented residents who HAVE committed serious crimes. The overcrowded jails are creating human rights violations which will almost certainly lead to law suits, and skyrocketing costs (paying other Virginia jails hundreds of thousands per month to keep PWC detainees) are breaking the county's bank even faster than anticipated. Federal and local law enforcement officials have advised the Board of Supervisors to allow local police to focus on crimes that impact public safety (assault, robbery, burglary, etc), and let Immigration officials deal with undocumented uncles and students with expired visas. We have a video called "Looming Crisis in PWC Jails" that documents the meeting in which Federal and local law enforcement, including Chief Deane, explained the stark reality to the Board.

(2) In Late March, Chairman Stewart attacked Police Chief Deane through the media and through Greg Letiecq's infamous right wing blog "Black Velvet Bruce Li," causing an uproar among Prince William County citizens and high drama during Citizens' Time. An article published March 29th in the Washington Post (sited above) documents the conflict between Chairman Corey Stewart and Police Chief Charlie Deane, which had to do with an informational meeting at which a representative of the Mexican government was present. On his blog, Letiecq howled "Chief Dean Must Go," causing consternation among residents as to where Stewart stood on this issue. Did he really want to go so far as to fire Chief Deane, or was that Letiecq's idea? No one knew the answer as the Board of Supervisors met on April 1st. The room had not seen such tension since the 12-hour marathon of October 16th, 2007 when the Immigration Resolution was approved. It was no contest. Citizens' Time all but settled the score in Chief Deane's favor, with 18 people speaking out in favor of the Chief and only 2 mildly supporting Chairman Stewart. Even before the Chief spoke for himself, it was now clear that, outside of Letiecq's most faithful followers, there was simply no support for ousting Chief Deane, a man who had honorably served the community for four decades. Chairman Stewart did not apologize to the Chief as his constituents demanded, but he did tone down the confrontational rhetoric, saying he was "satisfied" with Chief Deane's explanation.

If indeed Stewart wanted to oust the Chief, his about face would seem to represent a split with Letiecq. In the video above, Stewart says he was never in favor of ousting the Chief. The video also reveals that Chairman Stewart had been feeding Letiecq inter-office emails between Board members in order to add to the Chief Deane controversy. It is difficult to imagine what advantage Stewart might have seen in stirring up anger toward Chief Deane. All that is known is that he did team with Letiecq to create the anger. You see, normally, when citizens make FOIA requests for emails or documents, it takes weeks for government officials to respond, let alone procure them. But if you follow the chronology implicit in this video, these emails were fed to Letiecq as soon as Chairman Stewart received them.

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[NoVAConservative]

9500Liberty, I must say that I am quite disappointed in the obvious bias you portray in many of your videos and your channel as a whole. Immigration is not real issue. It is the illegal entry into this country. If I am not mistaken, you fail to mention that anywhere in the description or elsewhere on your page. I wait for the day that some of these posters will see the truth instead of screaming their usual race-rants.

Until then, VIVA USA Y LA RESOLUCION!

[9500Liberty]

What in this video do you think did not happen?

[katherinemm31]

Well there ya go. GL saying John Stirrup and Corey Stewart PUSHED through the legislation. But Stewart denies knowing about the blog? He's not racist, eh, but he affiliates with a racist group? He's so full of crap it's spilling out his ears. Someone please take these people to court. Annabel and Eric, film THAT.

[kellysmith627]

His friend whipped up this frenzy and the anti-immigrant sentiment in Prince William. The board members sat silently as one after another HSM member came forward with comments that were RACIST and what they're objecting to are the personal comments directed at them. Personally, verbal attacks against board members are one thing but racial comments during Citizens' Time should have been immediately addressed instead only Stirrup objected to the foul languages of a Hispanic lady.

[EdugeBDroN]

This is bigotry , most of those people are citizen and those people will vote and that would be the reckoning

[phlood69]

lol @ "the usual SUSPECTS... not a BROWN face" lol

[Att1cu5Finch]

This video shows how the hate group "Save Manasas" influenced Corey to push the Legislation. The two of them made a mess in this County. Enforcing Federal Law is for for the Feds, anything else is racism

[checkers35]

as sad as it is true. thank you MasterMark123

[MasterMark123]

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. - Blaise Pascal

[skews93869]

MobergNixon-go to your outhouse or something. This isn't ENG 111. We are typing fast and make mistakes. You know... like President Nixon... mjoey77 has some very good points. mjoey77-they are afraid of stating their real stand so they go off on tangents and try to upset you. They have pot bellies and are frustrated because they have a lame job. These people never argue facts. They simply use hearsay or personal opinion.

[skews93869]

You can try to blame the immigrates all you want but the truth is the U.S. has had health care issues for a very long time. The reason our Real Estate industry is a mess is because of bad banking guidelines used during the rise and investors now have nothing to invest in so they go to oil. That's why the oil price increases. We are short labor across the county but illegals are not migrating as much.Hmm...We need them and they need us. It's that simple.

[skews93869]

mrpm..While the immigrant population is the highest it's ever been in absolute numbers, it isn't so when compared to the equally increasing total U.S. population. Since the beginning of the 20th century, the percentage of immigrants has fluctuated within 5-15% of the U.S. population. As of 2006, immigrants are 12% of the U.S. population. (U.S. Census Bureau, "Historical Census Statistics on the Foreign-born Population of the United States: 1850-1990."

[mrpmotta]

By 2005 non-Hispanic whites were 54.2% of Prince William County's population. 19.4% of the population was African-American. 0.5% was Native American. 6.4% of the population was Asian. The growth of the Asian population was numerically and as a percentage of the total population in this subgroup dwarfed by the growth of the Latino population which was 18.0% of the county's total population by 2005.

[mjoey77]

Free trade is not the cause; Look at the European Union, look at the Euro, tell me those are problems created by free trade.