Gerry is all too eager to have us pay for all the illegal aliens flooding into the area as he has probably already registered them all to vote.

Keith Fimian may be the answer.

Is it just me or do others think this article totally missed the mark with that comment? Unharmed? HOw is that possible?

during his tenure as Chairman of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, the Fairfax County Public Schools’ budget has gone from $1.1B annually to over $2B annually, doubling my real estate taxes in the process.

Tell me about it. My mortgae was 1700 in 1998, now its over 2000, all because of the escrow = property tax increases. Meanwhile my son is going to a school which is only now being renovated since it was built in 1961

He said, “As a local government official, I’ve had to deal with the effects of our failed federal immigration system. That system is broken from top to bottom and needs wholesale reform.”

As a Fairfax County resident the past seven years, let me tell you how Mr. Connolly has dealt with ‘our failed federal immigration system’: during his tenure as Chairman of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, the Fairfax County Public Schools’ budget has gone from $1.1B annually to over $2B annually, doubling my real estate taxes in the process. Typical, head-in-the-ground liberal response: throw more money at it and that should fix it.

He said, “As a local government official, I’ve had to deal with the effects of our failed federal immigration system. That system is broken from top to bottom and needs wholesale reform.”

These leftists astound me. Democracy is an inconvenience to them. They rule, we obey. They proclaim, we listen. The “system” is broken because THEY broke it through non-enforcement. Laws seem to mean nothing to them because they suffer no consequences for flouting them. Guys like this need to be caned and run to the jailhouse on a rail.