During a December 3 joint meeting of the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors and the Albemarle County School Board, Scottsville District Supervisor, Mike Pruitt, dropped an “F-Bomb” in televised remarks (video time-marker 1:48).
During his preliminaries to the bottommost of public profanity, “Tax-hike Mike”:
- Passionately recounted promising his “priest” and his “church” to spend $10M tax dollars (OPM) on “affordable housing”
- Told of proposing “a lot of cuts” to garner the necessary funds, including “raising” the personal property tax
- Ruefully admits confessing mission-failure to his “priest,” in attempting to extort the aforementioned $10M
- Pretentiously depicts the School Board’s $215M new-school request as “impossible”
- Primes the unsuspecting audience by using “damn” and then “hell” in run-up sentences
Following his long-winded and emotionally delicate discourse, Pruitt concluded his public observations by righteously uttering, “I fucking love to build schools.”
While there was delayed nervous laughter in the room following Pruitt’s tactical gaffe, none of three hapless County staffers framed in the video feed even flinched at the profane interjection. (Which might indicate that they were sleeping at the time….)
Watch the video:
Waiting for Pruitt’s apology. Tick, tick, tick . . . . I don’t want his speech censored, but his behavior censured. Wonder if his Democrat colleagues on the Board of Supervisors will have the courage to censure Mike at the next meeting in January.
Sadly this is more and more representative of the atrocious behavior, lack of moral compass, character and state of mind of many of the “so-called public servants” in our county and our state. Case in point we have a state Attorney General coming on board who has documented expressions of homicidal ideations!
Locally, the Virginia Citizens Defense League has reported that a citizen of Albemarle County has been denied issuance of a temporary concealed handgun permit (CHP) when his application for renewal was delayed beyond the 45 day turnaround time specified by state law. Virginia State Law requires the clerk of the Albemarle County Circuit Court to send out a temporary permit when the 45-day limit is exceeded (Virginia Code § 18.2-308.05. Issuance of a de facto permit). The Clerk of Court, Jon Zug acknowledges that he knows what the law is but states that HIS policy is to NOT comply with that law. Such blatant disregard for the rule of law is beyond reproach! What if I was pulled over for not coming to a complete stop at a stop sign and I declared that I know it’s the law, but it’s not my policy to comply with that law?! If our elected officials have such discard for the rule of law, how can we expect the public to follow the law?!