Comments At Arlington County Board Meeting, November 15, 2025.
On the post-election front, the good news is that out of about 625 “Clement” signs deployed throughout the county, 75 percent were recovered after the election. With the notable exception of the Garfield Apartments precinct in Clarendon, where political signs are always confiscated, the number of signs reclaimed after the polls closed increased dramatically.
The bad news is that by Saturday, November 8 Pentagon City medians were wiped clean of Clement signs, which confiscation I attribute to the good offices of ACDC operatives. More troubling were Spanberger signs posted at polls throughout the county on Election Day far in excess of the legal limit of 2 per poll. At Westover, for example, I photographed no less than 14 Spanberger signs. At Oakridge Elementary I saw a dozen Spanberger signs. This situation illustrates graphically the mantra of both major parties, which is that: the law applies to thee, not me. Don’t get me wrong. I understand the anger of Blue Ballot voters at the Trump administration for the firing and furlough of thousands of county residents. In the absence of due process, these terminations were patently illegal.
Yet when I see ACDC operatives running roughshod over the County’s election ordinance, my confidence in the Democrats sinks to new lows. Indeed in anticipation of the 2026 mid-terms, Democrats and Republicans are locked in a struggle to see who can produce the most gerrymandered congressional districts. In Virginia a constitutionally mandated bipartisan redistricting commission is all but a dead letter after passage of a Democrat sponsored redistricting bill in October. This race to the bottom by the dominant parties has produced a lawless state that relegates dissenters to perpetual victimhood.