Manassas & Manassas Park Cities Democratic Committee

By now, the snow is no longer novel.  Our kind neighbor across the street cleared our driveway with his snowblower and another neighbor helped dig out one of our cars.  How nice to live in a neighborhood without discord and full of cooperation. I guess we really can’t analogize this spirit to the current Presidential race.  The best it can be described is “free-for-all”.  Indeed, I am stumped as to…

A message from outgoing MMPCDC Chair EJ Scott on January 15: Dear Friends, It is with great sadness that I send this letter. We have lost two great public servants who were incredible human beings and friends. Yesterday, Maxine Coleman passed.  Max has served on the Manassas Park Electoral Board for the past 8 years and a longtime member of the Board of Project Mend-A-House.  She was also an active…

Here’s Bob’s latest offensive bill: 2016 SESSION HB 385 Discrimination; ordinances or regulations prohibiting. Introduced by: Robert G. Marshall SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED: Discrimination; ordinances or regulations prohibiting. Prohibits any political subdivision of the Commonwealth, including a locality or school board, from enacting an ordinance or adopting a regulation prohibiting discrimination on any basis other than race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, national origin, age, marital status,…

It’s a new year but xenophobia reigns supreme from the mouth of Donald Trump.  What is characterized as “political correctness” by the Republican leader, is an appeal to mostly white men of a certain age with high school diplomas (maybe).  Their displays of disrespect and intolerance are excused by what is supposedly threats against their economic status.  Who cannot be reminded of McCarthyism from the 1950’s right here in the…