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a look at Malone and McQuinn
Richmond.com has the best look at the 7th District city council race yet this year in Spotlight on the Seventh.
Malone contends that an overriding issue he hears from 7th district constituents while campaigning is McQuinn’s lack of responsiveness to her constituents, specifically her failure to return phone calls and e-mails. “She is, in a very crude way, arrogant about her representation. And people don’t like that. People like courtesy.”
Malone added that McQuinn has become detached from her constituency. “People believe strongly that the representative should have their finger on the pulse of the community,” he said.
Asked about her alleged delinquency in getting back to citizens, McQuinn said her opponent had no issues on which to base a campaign and was thus creating them. “He can’t say the community doesn’t look better. He can’t say that I haven’t worked hard.”
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Just a reminder: Union Hill Civic Association Meeting tonight @7pm at Cedar St Baptist Church
City Council candidate Reggie Malone and School Board candidates Don Coleman, Delores Murray and Keith West will be there to meet Union Hill residents and discuss issues affecting the neighborhood.
Cedar Street Baptist Church is located at the corner of 23rd and Cedar Streets, and we will be using the 23rd Street entrance.
Can’t we just not have a City COuncil? My guess is that the city would continue to run as efficiently, if not more so, than it does at present. McQuinn has not done anything to improve her district…economics have. Her claim is like the midevil sorcer who took credit for the eclipse by claiming that he had blocked the sun….
By the way..don’t forget to bring a towel
Tyranny is a very efficient form of government.
I do have to agree with Mr. Malone’s comments about the detached nature of Rev. McQuinn’s leadership in the district. She has not done a very good job of working to support those who are working to make an economic difference in Church Hill. Unless you are a down and out bum living in the slum, it is nearly impossible to get a response from McQuinn.
She certainly should not be taking any credit for improvements in the area–she certainly has done NOTHING to help these efforts along. The area looks better because of private/corporate investment and citizen involvement in the area. All of which would have taken place with or without her.
We are well overdue for a leadership change in the 7th. Reggie Malone probably won’t do much more (based on his school board track record) but, anything is better than nothing… I know people in the area that are willing to support MCQuinn because they feel they can “pull her by the nose” to support their own agendas. Now there’s leadership!
I got a invite to a fundraiser for McQuinn, with Tim Kaine, H.Marsh, D.Jones, D.McEachin, B.Lambert, J.McClellan, and M.Herring and ‘special guest’ Bobby Scott. She’s got upticket support in droves.
And pparently Lambert will endorse just about anyone these days 🙂
Today, a received a glossy mass-mailing from the McQuinn campaign that was almost laughable. She took credit for business such as CVS and The Market opening in the district. Is she that naive to think that they would not have opened without her input? Did she actively recruit these businesses and incent them to open in the area? We think not. I’m surprised that she doesn’t take credit for the sun rising in the east.
Well now….maybe she is being invited into the fold so to speak…..being brought onboard….hmmm
I just spent an hour on the street and in the alley after this meeting talking local politics with long time residents .
One point came through about the difference between Delores and Reggie ( we’re all on a 1st name basis now don’cha know) and that is that Delores is a more aggressive speedbump to Doug Wilder and the big time developers that he tends to rub with than Reggie ever will be….Reggie’s campaign seems to be as much about how tight he is with the MAYOR as anything else.
This is ( as of yet) not a judgement but a revelation to me…a tyro to the community…..
But it helps to draw a dividing line as dramatic as that.
Having said that however, I’m still open to suggestion and will watch this page closely
FYI, here is a list of some the more interesting contributors to McQuinn’s campaign back in 2004: (Source; Virginia Public Access Project)
– Va Assn of Realtors – Richmond (Richmond, VA)
-Sunny Market (Richmond, VA)
-Friends of Loupassi – Manoli (Richmond, VA)
-Rocketts Landing (Richmond, VA)
-Dwight Snead Landscaping & Paving (Glen Allen, VA)
There are also quite a few local realtors on the list. The full list is available at: http://www.vpap.org/cands/cand_donorlist.cfm?ToKey=COM00991&CycleID=2004&CycleType=Regular
I was very excited about the link to VPAP but when I accessed the site the most recent year they have for the city of Richmond is 2004. Wonder why they’ve dropped the ball on this one?
I wouldn’t believe anything that Reggie says. Look at his track record….Nothing but lies and evil.Maybe he needs to take another conflict of interest trip.
Malone followed McQuinn on the School Board in 1998 when McQuinn was elected to City Council. At that time no city schools met Virginia accreditation. Now all of the schools in District 7 meet Virginia accreditation. If you have been following the School Board since 1998 you know that Malone led the effort for school closings and consolidation that got rid of wasted space and saved taxpayer money. Maybe that record means nothing to some people, but it is a record.
McQuinn has had a strifling effect on the seventh as well as poor people’s issues for too long. She runs an efficient political machine through churches and influential black families in the district, with each member desperately holding on to their sliver of status that their connection to her position affords them. Meanwhile, McQuinn claims to be the champion of the downtrodden, painting herself a social justice fighter, and “washed in the blood of Jesus” all the while. However, when it comes down to it, she is as self-interested as the biggest profiteers in the city, perhaps rivaling Doug in her ego and arrogance. She needs to be taken down, not just a peg, off of her public pedistal. Although many of the voices have the flavor white gentrifiers who echo’s McQuinn’s “what are you gonna do for me” attitude, I think it would be wise to look at the multitude of interests in this race. The fact that this is about the Mayor is sad, but that should have been old news for you all.
Yesterday Reggie Malone was making the rounds handing out literature. He broke out into a huge grin when I shook his hand and told him “I am not sure what you stand for, but I know who you stand against and you have my vote”. He seemed to be an attentive candidate. Energetic. Etc. Probably the best possible candidate for a district such as ours.
And of course he did not forget to bring a towel
Towlie-
What’s up with the towel references??? Are you referring to towel-heads?
It’s a reference to a pot-smoking towel character from “South Park.” Seems irrelevant to the topic, but makes me smile none the less.
Thanks j… Got it… haha
I HEARD MRS MCQUINN ACCEPTED MONEY FROM THE DEVELOPERS OF ECHO HARBOR AND HAS IT DISGUISED AS OTHER CAMPAIGN FUNDS?
Too bad they just could not duke it out in a duel to the death THUNDERDOME style for the City Council. I suspect Delores could probably kick some but…so it would be a fair fight. And it would eliminate one useless politician forever.
If only we had that system for President, then we could not have the likes of ALGORE lurking in the shadows, crawling out Gollum like on occasion to consider a second bid for the White House.
does anyone know what Rev McQuinn’s position is on the Echo Harbor project????