Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Ken Reid's Contradiction

Councilman Reid's latest campaign email is a wonderful study in contradiction. The newsletter's subject line is:

"'Jobs forum' July 28 designed to mask Burk's anti-business votes."

Councilman Reid then goes on in the newsletter to state "My opponent, unfortunately, is anti jobs, anti business and supports heavy-handed regulations and higher taxes.

What is funny is that Reid admits, in the very same newsletter that, "about 4 or 5 members of the panel [Supervisor Burk's Jobs Symposium, tomorrow morning] (including the host, Rehau) are backing her campaign for supervisor." In point of fact, a majority of Leesburg's downtown businesses support Supervisor Burk's re-election, including a number of business leaders who had previously supported Republicans in other elections.

Which, of course, begs the question, how can someone be "anti-business" and still get the broad support of the business community in the area she was elected to represent?

In point of fact, Kelly Burk has a strong, pro-business agenda, and has made a point of connecting businesses to jobseekers in Leesburg. The jobs symposium held tomorrow morning is part of that agenda to help local businesses expand their hiring of local residents.

That's consistently putting Leesburg first.

Inconsistency is Councilman Reid's modus operandi. After all, he was never running for office again, until he changed his mind.

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