I must have missed that one, given that I had just moved to the US shortly before.
larry On 8/2/05, SStewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There was a referendum about 15 years ago that almost made it to a public > vote, whereby the counties of Arlington, Fairfax, Loudon, Prince William, > Stafford, the independent cities of Alexandria, Arlington, Falls Church and > Vienna and I believe Fauquier Counties would secede from the state of > Virginia, becoming the State of Northern Virginia, with either the city of > Manassas or Fairfax as the capital. > > The GOP in Richmond had a fit, because all of the tax money that they were > passing to the tobacco farmers would've dried up. > > Of course we would've gotten all of roads built, and the Fairfax County > Parkway would've been finished a lot sooner.... and Northern VA would be > better off, and Mark Warner would be third term Governor of Northern > Virginia, and Gilmore would've never gotten away with blatantly lying to the > people of Virginia.... > > Scott A. Stewart, > Web Application Developer > > Engineering Consulting Services, Ltd. (ECS) > 14026 Thunderbolt Place, Suite 300 > Chantilly, VA 20151 > Phone: (703) 995-1737 > Fax: (703) 834-5527 > > "Many thousands of years ago, a blue faced Pict stepped on a bloated sheep > carcass... and thus the Pipes were born" > > .... the Scottish Rogues > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Larry C. Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 01:57 pm > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Why? > Importance: Low > > No arguments here. It would be supremely ironic if Northern Virginia > separated from the rest of the state. The Richmond and Tidewater areas > would have to figure out how to pay their own way. > > larry > > On 8/2/05, SStewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I get so disgusted with the fact that NoVa subsidizes the rest of the state > > and we get little or no benefit from our own tax money > > > > Scott A. Stewart, > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:167596 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
