Nader Baroukh supports the Falls Church Referendum to change the City's Charter. He has been a proponent of the Referendum since he decided to run for office along with the other Pro-Referendum candidates: Ed Hillegass and Margaret Housen.
While Hillegass and Housen have been papering the City with their Pro-Referendum flyers all weekend, which attack everyone from the School Board Chair to the Falls Church Housing Corporation, Nader Baroukh has been busy trying to distance himself from a campaign platform that he now realizes may cost him the election: his stance in support of the Referendum.
I talked to 2 friends yesterday who both told me the same story:
Both of my friends have CBC yard signs and they told me that Nader came to their houses campaigning - he asked them both to vote for him and then only 2 of the CBC candidates. When asked why they should vote for him since he supported the Referendum and they were against it, he told them: "City Charters get changed all the time" (after one friend objected to changing the City's Charter) and "Even if it passes, it will never be enacted" - saying in essence it was ok to vote for him even though they didn't support the referendum, because "it will never be enacted anyway"!
Both friends were turned off and deeply skeptical of Nader's message. One said "If it will never be enacted, then why waste people's time and the taxpayer's money?" The other one said, "I wonder if all the people who actually support the Referendum know this is what Nader Baroukh is saying??"
Voters should be appalled by the dishonesty and manipulation such statements reveal, no matter which side of the Referendum issue they're on. Nader Baroukh should be ashamed of himself... and Voters should beware!
Sunday, May 4, 2008
Falls Church Referendum key to Election on Tuesday
The Falls Church Charter Change Referendum question which will be on the ballot May 6th is turning out to be the key to City election for City Council. All 3 CBC Candidates for City Council OPPOSE the Referendum, and the 3 Opposition candidates SUPPORT it. Nader Baroukh, Margaret Housen and Ed Hillegass all SUPPORT the passage of this very controversial Referendum which would change the City's Charter to restrict economic development in the City. See the Deliberation Falls Church article which just came out yesterday for more information: http://www.citizensovereignty.com/dfcva/2008/05/candidates-a-re.html#more
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