The I Love CVille Show With Jerry Miller! - AlbCo School Board Member Dillenbeck Hosts Town Hall; 15 ACPS Staffers On Leave In Last 30 Days

Episode Date: October 1, 2026

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Welcome to the I Love Sevo Show, guys. My name is Jerry Miller, and thank you kindly for joining us on a glorious, gorgeous Thursday afternoon in downtown Charlestville. We are sitting in a building, 408 East Market Street, where we own a large chunk of. We're the largest owners in this building. And at storefront level, it's a three-floor building, we've built a studio where we host the I Love Seville Show and where we own. own and manage a network called the I Love Seville Network. And the entire premise of the I Love Seville Network is to feature content that's local

to Charlottesville, Almarrow, and Central Virginia. This network has got a decade of history and it's morphed and evolved and changed. It hasn't been, it was at one time interview segments done on location with business owners. And goodness gracious, that required tremendous human capital and a sizable production effort. Now, over time, and it's taken us an extended period of time to get to this point,

a lot of money to get to this point. We have a studio that rivals any in the region. What we can do here at our studio on Market Street is more significant with reach than what NBC29 can do just a block away. And we're doing it because we're taking content and we're long-forming it and we're positioning it on social media and podcasting platforms that are in the palm of your hands

as opposed to airing content at set times on a box in front of a couch and hoping that consumers and viewers and listeners will make that box and that couch a part of their appointment calendar. It doesn't work that way anymore. I'm grateful for you, the viewer and listener, for watching and listening to the show because without you guys, we don't have a network.

And today's program, I think, embodies a lot of what we're trying to do. We are going to talk schools and politics and the intersection of both. They were on display last night with the town hall hosted by Jim Dillonbeck, the rookie Almaro County supervisor. He's in his first year of a four-year term. He just completed month number nine on the job. And his first nine months on the job have probably been akin to a living hell. Anyone on the dais in Elmeral County is living hell as a school board leader.

Dylan Beck promised us when running for this position that he would be a voice of accountability and he promised us when running this for this position that he would he had the courage and the gumption and the chutzpah to be a voice of accountability and a naysay saying voice that was willing to paper to pepper the record and for nine months Jim Dillonback did not live up to his word but last night on Wednesday September 30th the Ryo District school board member finally

delivered on his promise. And for most of this year, yours truly, I'm not going to include Judah on this because he's in an interesting position with Jim Dillon back a churchgoer with Judah, the same church.

I mean, that's all it is. We go to the same church. You can, you can, you can choose what you want with your commentary here when we go to a two-shot. But I certainly on this program have raked Dillonback over the coals for failed campaign promises. The type of smoke and mirroring campaigning that we're accustomed to from politicians that promise us transparency and communication and accountability and honesty and free candy and more pizza and all the recess that you want.

It's a song as old as anything. These campaign promises, you make them when you're in elementary school and you continue if you stay in politics all through adulthood. Frankly, Dillon back had been doing that, has been doing that. Last night was a different story. He hosted a town hall for Ryo District. No, townsfolk, citizens, voters. And in this town hall, Dillon Beck was transparent and communicative.

He was honest. And he papered the trail with a voice of accountability that was rooted in transparency and authenticity. In this town hall, Jim Dillenbeck explained that in the last 30 days, 15 Amar County Public School staffers have been put on paid leave, including three principals. In this town hall, Jim Dillonback highlighted that Almaro County Public Schools is a system that's absolutely in crisis right now. In this town hall, Jim Dillonback said, I am doing something that my fellow school board members do not agree with, and I don't care. In this town hall, he references an Alamara County school board staffer that's been put on paid administrative leave, and he literally says on the record, if I was her, I would lawyer the F up and potentially pursue a lawsuit against the school system. It's literally what he said. It was as eye-opening

of an experience or event that you will see in politics in Central Virginia or in Almaro County, period, bar none. And we're going to unpack it for you, the viewer and listener today. And if you're a mom, if you're a dad, if you're a parent of a student at ACPS, you should, without question be concerned. Because one of its seven school board leaders, seven school board members, are saying this system is on the cusp of collapse. And a system that is without question in crisis, his exact words. So giddy up and get ready. On the program today, we're going to talk Zion Bryant.

Diana Bryant, ladies and gentlemen, may be your most powerful person in Charlottesville, Virginia right now. Ziona Bryant at a recent town hall for the 10th and page neighborhood with significant amount of people in attendance, including local media, called former Charlottesville City Councilor West Bellamy, Dr. Bellamy, now a professor and businessman. She called him an Uncle Tom.

Diana Bryant. And she basically scared the living bejebus out of Juan Diego Wade, whose top campaign contributor is

Chris Henry, the president of Sony Point Development, a development company that's looking to build 278 apartments in a 133-room hotel on the Preston quarter right next to

historically black 10th and page. We'll talk about Diana Bryant and her power that she's accumulated on the show today. How it applies to Chris Henry, how it applies to West Bellamy, how it applies to Charlottesville City Schools. She's a school board member and how it applies to taxpayers on the program today. I had a conversation yesterday on the downtown mall. One of the reasons I love being on the downtown mall is because this is where the epicenter is of movers and shakers. I'm walking down the downtown mall yesterday.

Heading to the post office, and I won't use names, while heading to the post office, I have a conversation with a prominent defense attorney in town. While I'm having a conversation with a prominent defense attorney in town, a former city counselor joins us in that conversation. A city counselor to be someone who's going to make his or her announcement for counsel in January, join us in that conversation. The three of us then are discussing what the landscape for Charlottesville City Council with the next election cycle, what it looks like. And in that conversation, one of the individuals I won't utilize their name confirms Matthew Gilliken is going to run for counsel. I've been hearing that scuttlebutt for a number of people. Yesterday I heard it from someone as close to the source as possible. Someone entrenched in the Charlottesville Democratic Party.

Gilliken, the co-founder of livable Seaville. If you've noticed he's been very active on social media, posting political content on his Facebook page. I'm sure he's active on blue sky. I'm not on that platform. So that's some news. Someone high up in the Democratic Party of Charlottesville confirmed yesterday that he is in fact doing it.

I heard through the grapevine that Natalie Oshrin is considering a second term very seriously. Remember, I have a proposition bet with the fixer. I had to give the fixer four to one odds my C-note versus $25 about Natalie Osron and whether she would finish her first term or not. I said, hell yeah, Oshronomics is finishing her first term. The fixer said, nah, dog, she's not finishing her first term. Let's put some paper on that. I said, he asked, what kind of odds do you want?

I said, I'll give you four to one. He said, let's do it. My 25 against your Hyundai. I think I'm going to win that bet. And now the chitter-channer is Oceanomics is going to run for. for a second term. I heard through the great find that Michael Payne is a grant writer now.

So your two-term city counselor, Michael Payne, who recently moved out of his parents' basement, now appears to have maybe his first big boy job. It's only taken him 30 plus years, 35 plus years, before he put his big boy professional pants on. And evidently, he's a grant writer now. So he's complimented that $36,000 salary I think it's 38K for the mayor, 36 for other counselors, with a big boy job as a grant writer,

and he's seriously contemplating another run at council, which would give him a third term. Lloyd Snook is hitting the road, Jack. He wants nothing to do with local politics now once his second term finishes. I saw Lloyd this morning. In our building, his law firm is, he owns a piece of the building that I'm the largest owner in here where this studio sits. saw Lloyd this morning. He looked tired. Lloyd looked tired.

Lloyd looked tired. So we have a crowded playing field. I know one candidate, I've been sworn to secrecy. This individual is going to make an announcement in January, a known commodity. That's one. I'm not going to say who it is. This person promised I wouldn't offer this information. Two, Matthew Gilliken, three oceanomics, four if pain decides to run again.

and Snook's not running. So that's some fresh news for the you, the viewer, and listener. The chatter has Zion Bryant politically ambitious. And the curiosity there is she's in her first year of a four-year term on the school board. Would someone like Zionne Bryant jettison the school board to make a run for counsel, then leaving the school board to find her replacement? We'll have that conversation on the program. I think she's extremely electable, which is a terrifying proposition.

Those are my words. Terrifying proposition. But I think she's extremely electable. And then we're going to talk Silk, Silk Purse Properties LLC. This was a tip of the cap. I'm giving a tip of the cap to deep throat on this. Yesterday I talked about the Charlottesville Redevelopment and Housing Authority, $12,600,000 buying spree for existing real estate in the city.

A buying spree funded, of course, in large part, by taxpayer dollars. And tip of the cap to deep throat, he DMs me this morning after watching and listening to the show yesterday evening, not in real time, but yesterday evening. And he said, you should consider who the seller is. Of course you have to talk about CRHA and the buyer. But how about the seller? Well, I want to offer some information into Silk Purse Properties, who is selling 11 of the 70 properties the portfolio owns to the Charlottesville Redevelopment and Housing Authority. What do we know about silk purse properties and its principal, Jeremy Kaplan? That's a program.

That's a topic I want to discuss on the program today. It's a busy show. It's a very busy show. We'll also congratulate Conan Owen and we'll give him some love. He's a partner of the program. He and I text often with each other. He's the owner of Sir Speedy, Central Virginia. September 2026 was the number one month from a revenue standpoint.

for Sir Speedy Charlottes, Charlottesville, the franchise, and the franchise is 35-year history. Conan is the owner of Sir Speedy of Central Virginia, and this past month, he's owned the business now for four years. This past month, he posted the top monthly revenue number in a 35-year Charlottesville franchise history. Congratulations, Conan Owen. And thank you for being a part the show, and congratulations on your successor. Why that's significant, I think, is he's in the signage business. And if signage in a lot of ways can be a leading indicator, one of the reasons I like to track mortgage applications with like a Scott Morris or an Annie Zeman or a Mike Bittrick, or Mike Bittrick passed away. Excuse me, I was thinking Michael Bucenski, Bittrick passed

away. RIP, Mike Bittrick. But with Morris and Zeman and Vucensky, it's an indicator of what the market's going to do, applications. I think part of what Conan does with this signed business is an indicator of what the market's going to do because he does a lot of signage for openings or expansion. That being said, he also does signage for closings as well. So you really have to decipher the data closely.

This show is busy today. I want to weave Judah into the mix on a two shot. He's the Jack of All Wits. Frankly, he's a trusted voice in the community. We were looking at the data yesterday, or the data this morning, in 2026 across all platforms. In 2026, this year alone, we're nine months in across all platforms. More than 900,000 viewers and listeners on our I Love 7th. Seville Network. More than 900,000 ladies and gentlemen on our network across all platforms.

Where do you want to start first? Where do you want to begin first? Do we begin with the Dillonback Town Hall? I got another piece of fresh news that I haven't even reported yet on August of 28, or excuse me, August 28, 26, so about a month and a few days ago, I passed along to you, the viewer and listener about the Doyle Hotel, owned by Blue Suede Hospitality, a technology and private equity group that is in the hotel space that purchased the Quirk Hotel from the Quirk family in Richmond. This is the one across from the ABC store next to Public and Blackout Shop House. Blue Suede Hospitality purchased it. Last month, I passed along to you, the viewer and listener, thanks to a tip from someone in the hotel business that the Doyle was about to be a part of

the Hilton Tapestry Collection. And I confirmed this morning what I reported in August again that the Doyle Hotel is joining the Hilton Tapestry Collection. Now it's important to emphasize they maintain their identity as the Doyle Hotel, but they

joined the Tapestry Collection, Hilton digital and marketing infrastructure that allows potential hotel guests to search the Hilton app or Hilton website and find a room to stay at the Doyle in Charleston. while still logging their Hilton points. My family, for example, prioritizes Marriott,

where Marriott Bonvoy members. So when we travel, we pursue Marriott Bonvoy properties. We've accumulated a lot of points. Our son is going to play in a squash tournament in November in Stanford, Connecticut. He is eight years old and is going to play in the under 11 division. We'll be the youngest in it by far. And that hotel stay is two nights. The first night's completely free because of Bonvoy points we've accumulated. So the Doyle is considering joining the Hilton Tapestry Collection for a similar reason, exposure to a customer base that prides itself in luxury hotel stays. So that news I reported last month is again confirmed that the Doyle is joining the Hilton Tapestry Collection while maintaining its Doyle identity. Ladies and gentlemen,

all right, Judah, I've talked enough. Why don't you jump in the mix here on what is the number one media platform in Charlottesville and central Virginia. And frankly, there's no better way to get your business message out to our region than by having your business message within this show. I mean, that's facts on facts, folks. That's the value of the I love C-Ville show. Judah, Dillonback to start for you, Zayana Bryant, most powerful to start, Jeremy Kaplan, where do you want to start?

I think we start with Dillonback. I think that's got to be on everybody's, mind, everybody's tongues, it's quite a bit of interesting information he revealed to the Rio District parents at the town hall. And I think it should have all of us worried.

Something is going on. And there is clearly should be a pun because there's nothing clear about what's going on at the ACPS. Fifteen Abmaral County Public School staff members have been placed on administrative leave

akin to double secret probation from Animal House. Administrative leave in the last 30 dates. Fifteen, including three principals. The situation with Admiral County Public Schools is so significant and grave that a school board member, Jim Dillonbeck, said on the record in front of parents, voters, and taxpayers that Almer County Public Schools is a school system

that is an absolute crisis. I doubt we needed him to tell us that. But you rarely hear school board members speak this frankly. Dylan Beck also says in this town hall, my fellow school board members do not want me doing this town hall. I'm irritating and pissing him off by doing this, basically not towing the company line. And then he says, I don't care. I'm doing it anyway. This is what I campaigned on. It took nine months for Jim Dellenbeck to live up to his campaign promises

of transparency, accountability, and papering the trail with a naysayers voice that's back with reasoning. Nine months. And on the 30th of September in his first year, Wednesday, September 30th, Dylan Beck lived up to his word and his campaign promises. I cannot tell you the last time I've heard a school board member speak in terms like school system and crisis. My fellow school board members, I'm pissing them off by doing this town hall. One of the 15 staffers from Almore County Public Schools that was placed on administrative leave should absolutely lawyer the F up and sue the school system. he also says that this investigative third party that Alamara County Public Schools

has hired this law firm that is actively representing the school system in other cases is bogus in BS and that he will push with his bully pulpit he will push a true third party investigative team and he even highlights who that may be

let me see if I can find it here. Yeah. You have it? Yeah. He says, with regard to, let's see, I had it. Here we go. Whether that's at state level or it's possible that the Office of Civil Rights or Federal

Department of Education might have a group to do an investigation as well. Ladies and gentlemen, imagine a world where Jim Dillon Beck papers the trail and says Trump's Federal Department of Education is going to offer a third-party investigation of Almarl County Public Schools. We open the books, the curriculum, the criteria, air the dirty laundry, pull the door open of the closet for the skeletons to be investigated by the Donald Trump Federal Department of Education. Grab your popcorn, put some butter on it, make sure you salt it. The popcorn I prefer is from the bar at Vivachi restaurant

because ladies and gentlemen, we got a story that is brewing that is going to be significant. Donald Trump, Donald Trump, the Fox in the Henhouse right here in Amar County, Virginia. Judah Wickhauer.

Oh man. How do I follow that? There's so much in here that it's personally I think that that Dylan Beck was probably holding back hoping that that the school system would

would do the right thing. He probably also, I wouldn't be surprised if he's spoken with a lawyer about... Oh my God, Jim Dylanback, I really hope you've lawyered up to. Yeah. Especially considering his suggestion that

one of the principals. Christy Isaiah get a lawyer. It didn't sound to me like he was suggesting she'd sue anyone, but that she'd be sure that she's ready for whatever's coming. Absolutely said that. He said principal

Isaiah should lawyer up because what the Amar County Public School System has done, putting her on paid administrative leave, is crippling and damning to her professional career. And this is the point I made yesterday. I pushed back on you who kind of diminished these principles going on paid administrative

leave. When I said, when I use the word dismissed and you kind of push back, oh, it's paid administrative leave, not that big of a deal. It's extremely hard to recover if you're a principal and you've been put on paid administrative leave. I don't remember saying it wasn't a big deal. I remember saying that dismissal is not the same thing as being on leave. If you're on paid administrative leave, the likelihood of you returning as a principal is...

Okay, but it's still not dismissal yet. They have an assistant superintendent and Patrick McLaughlin, the doctor, who for some reason Dr. Patrick McLaughlin thought it was a good idea to find photos from a colleague in her dance team uniform while this adult female colleague was in college. So he's like, let me Google pictures of Heidi Gilman Bennett. This guy gives me the same. When she was in college in a dance team outfit, and I'm going to take those dance team photos of Heidi Gilman Bennett

and put them on the projector screen during an all-hands-on-deck staff meeting and make comments about her when she was 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 in college, despite the fact that she's a grown-ass woman and a professional. right now serving the Amar County Public School System. He's on double secret probation, paid administrative leave. Like, what is going out of this school system right here? And can you imagine if the feds actually investigate ACPS right now? What are we going to find here?

And this question was brought to my attention. I think Deep Throat brought this to my attention. Let me see if I can find it. I think it was him. is the collateral damage of what we are seeing now the result of the Haas regime and how poorly the school system was run? Or is the collateral damage we're seeing now the result of whistleblower efforts that got so frustrated and fed up with the school system

and the straw that broke the eventual camels back, the David Storm appointment to fill Allison Spillman's spot, a man that is nothing more than an Almore County Democrat that toes the company line. Those were two, those weren't like one or the other when I heard them. What was that? You made it sound like there was a one or the other there, and I didn't get that from you. How do we get in this position? Yeah.

I mean, whistleblowers obviously don't get us into situations. Hopefully they get us out of them. Yeah, I mean, who else do you blame except the host regime? Viewers and listeners, listen to your thoughts, we'll relay them live on air. Let's go to comments. Ultimately, the buck has to stop somewhere. And if there was enough information out there that, that, that, and people like, you know, somebody's calling it out on the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors,

clearly there was enough going on. Sally Duncan is now ripping the school board. One of six people that controls the purse strings for ACPS is now calling into question the leadership or the malfecese and malpractice that is the leadership of the current school board. Georgia Gilmer's photo on screen. The whistleblowers need to step up along with those who may have signed NDAs. There's a whisper network that alleges a lot of the kids that faced either criminal or academic or gray area hardship while students at ACPS have had a funding source, have had their private school tuition,

paid for by ACPS in some capacity. I continue to get messages from people at ACPS that some of these kids that had something bad happened to them while a student at ACPS have then had an exit strategy or a golden parachute for them at a local private school with the tuition covered by taxpayer dollars. I'd love to learn more on that information. Don't have anything besides a lot of people telling me about it. Viewers and listeners, let us know your thoughts. We'll relay them live on air and what is the number one platform in the community.

I'll conclude the first topic by thanking Jim Dillon back. Jim, you watch and listen to the program, sir. Thank you for what you did last night. It took you nine months to deliver on your campaign promise. But last month, last night you did that. So thank you. And, sir, now that you've done this, the expectation is, this type of leadership from you moving forward, because that's what you ran on.

And by all accounts, you're a man of character and principle and integrity. Anything you want to add before we finish the first topic? Tom Sarger will get to your comment. Judah Wickhauer's show is yours. Yeah, you mentioned NDAs. Who would, I'm curious, who you think would have an NDA in all this, if anyone? And then... I have heard that...

that have gotten into trouble by no fault of their own and can no longer stay in the school where trouble was a part of their lives, again, by no fault of their own, have been given a golden transition plan to local private schools with tuitions covered by the public school system with non-disclosure agreements associated there. Gotcha. That is what I have heard. Gotcha. Tom Stardgel, the Golden Apple Award winner and the Ritling.

retired Almore County Public School teacher as this comment. Hooray for Jim Dillonback and his words. Words aren't worth anything if you don't follow through. Let's see if Jim Dillenbeck follows through. Let's see if this opposition language continues. Given his track record, I'm not holding my breath. And he says everything going on now is a Matt Haas offshoot. 100%.

Yeah. Carol Thorpe, Logan Wells Claylow, Spencer Pushard, Philip Dow, Vanessa Parkhill, Patricia Ritz-McNamee watching the program, and Patricia Ritz-Mackamy highlights that all this trouble is a direct correlation of one-party rule with ACPS. One-party rule is a direct correlation. All right, we need to go to the next topic. Before we go to the next topic, we need to highlight a partner of this program,

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our point of contact there next topic judahara what do you got next we have CRHA why don't we table the CRHA and go to the zayana bryant lower third I'm hearing through the great vibe that Zion Bryant is considering a run for counsel. I'm curious to see if this Zionabriant consideration for counsel coincides with the next election cycle, which would clearly cannibalize her four-year, her first term on the Charlottesville School Board. She's not even a year into her term on the school board. is she considering a run for council next year, which would mean she's completed two of four years on the school board and still has two years left?

And in that scenario, who would replace Sianna Bryant or even more importantly, what does that do to Charlottesville's future, having one of the most notorious activists in city history, Ziana Bryant on council at the same time that Matthew Gilliken, maybe the second most notorious activist in Charlottesville history, is also on the dais. if you're a city business owner, a city property owner, if you're a city homeowner, I'm curious to your thoughts on having two of the most notorious activists in

Charlottesville history, considering council pushes or council runs. I can see the two of them budding heads the entire time. If she doesn't like... I mean, you basically got two people who think they're never wrong and always right. Yeah. And if she doesn't like West Bellamy and said what she said about him about skinfolk, not being kinfolk, she called out West Bellamy and Uncle Tom. I do not think she's going to make nice with Gilligan. She basically called into question West Bellamy's character and what he was willing to do for the 10th of Page neighborhood in the black community in Charlestville.

And whether if it was truly genuine or authentic or not, or instead, she said, whether it was more inclined to line his pockets and best serve him. That's what she said. There's extremely few people in this community that can make or offer commentary like that. There's extremely few people in this community that can quake and terrify and make the mayor of Charlottesville, Juan Diego Wade, also a black man, quake in his boots, in his loafers. She did that in front of a room of a lot of people, and she said, Juan, this man, Chris Henry, the developer, the man behind Stony Point Development, one of the most prominent

developers in town, was your top campaign contributor. Are you going to side with your top campaign contributor? Or are you going to tell us right here in this room that you will push a zoning change in a zoning text amendment? And Juan Wade

with a quivering voice, with a bottom lip that was shaking, with his teeth rattling, and with his eyes affixed on the floor, and his vest. Hespa helmet on his side under his arm perched with humble and slump shoulders explained to the pack room of 10th and page residents. I will push a zoning text amendment. And at that point, the developer that is Chris Henry and Stony Point and every developer in this community, literally, lack of better phrase, shadow brick. because that's a politician, the mayor, saying,

I'm going to change the rules of the game in the third quarter and not even wait until the season's over. That's what he's doing. And then Michael Payne, the eager beaver who just moved out of his parents' basement, who we just found out has a job as a grant writer and is considering a third term for counsel, the same Michael Payne who pushed a council salary increase from $18,000 to $36,000.

thousand dollars round about is like oh yeah dude zoning text amendment let's go i'm all for it let's rock and roll and that's changing the rules of game and that's to the demise or the standstill of future development or current development is going to ramrod or push quickly move forward every project they have yeah for fear that the code's going to change yet again yeah it brings us into question. Is this going to happen every time there's a disagreement or a... Well, with Diana Bryant in the room it is.

Yeah. Well... I talked to somebody yesterday outside City Hall. I'm not going to mention who this person is. The reason I get information, the information we get is because we honor anonymity and discretion. That's how we're breaking all this news. That's how we're passing on information to you that

print, radio, and television does not have. It's because we understand the concept of code of silence and respecting people's anonymity. They trust us. I've been in this community 26 years. We have track record. The individual I'm talking to yesterday was at this event, and this individual said barely into the meeting, Zayana Bryant assumed total control of the event. And at that point, she was the most powerful person in the room. And this includes a developer that's financed by a billionaire father-in-law. I want you to think about that.

And it begs the question, is she the most powerful person in Charlestville right now? Carol Thorpe's photo on screen. The Queen of Jack Jewett. Let's get to Carol's comments. Put your comments in the feed. I will relay them live on air on the number one media platform here in Charleston in Central Virginia. The queen of Jack Jewett, someone I trust. She says, with respect, Jerry, I personally do not care to give Diana Bryant any further oxygen.

Cover specifics when news calls for it. but I don't want her to feel any elevation by conversation that assigns her importance. I believe one applicable phrase may be, don't feed the beast. Just my opinion. I respect that from the Queen of Jack Jewett and Carol Thorpe. I'm also mindful of your words feeding the beast. But I also host and own the number one media platform in Charlottesville,

and I see someone who's on the school board contemplating a run for counsel, who got the Lee statue out of Lee Park, despite Paul Goodloe McIntyre's documented wishes of what to do with this park. He said, City, if you want this land for free for this park one block on Market Street, that's incredibly valuable, I will give it to you if you keep the park called Lee Park, if you keep the park with this already Lee statue in it, and you keep it apart in perpetuity. The city changed the name, took out the statue,

and then turned it into a tent town, a Sandersville, but then returned it to a park. So two of the three promises, it's broken. And that was due to, in very large part, to Zion and Bryant. Working in conjunction with West Belmi at the time, who she's now calling in Uncle Tom. Deep Throat has this comment, This is an intriguing one that got my wheels moving.

Deep Throat says this, number one in the family. On Diana Bryant v. West Bellamy, do you think this is a fight over who gets the proceeds of shaking down Chris Henry? This is the game of selling racial indulgences. Activists acquire this power by organizing angry but poorly informed communities. Then they get paid to keep them quiet or in check. pay me and I keep the mob at home and don't call you a racist. In New York in the 1980s and 1990s, this was Al Sharpton's grift.

He says the Sharpton, is it Roy Inis? I don't know that last name, Deep Throat. Feud looks a lot like Zai versus Wes. Zai thought her projects would be able to squeeze out some community benefit money, but it looks like Wes got to Chris first, and he smeared him with a cheap lease on a laundromat and community room, and maybe other things we can't see, who knows, just a hunch. And to add a little color to this story here,

West does own the tonsler league, which is extremely well-funded, ladies and gentlemen, through taxpayer resources and grants, to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Hundreds of thousands of dollars, the tonsler League. Janice Boyce Trevillian's photo on screen. I don't think that Zai Bryant, Janice Bois Trevillian, says, is the most powerful person, just the loudest person. Carol Thorpe says, the activist who really quakes the boots in this town is Tenisha Hudson.

Zai Bryant is a wannabe by comparison. I'll push back respectfully on that, Carol Thorpe. Tenisha Hudson has been extremely quiet over the last few years. It's been extremely out of the news cycle the last few years. Remember, there was a story in the local media about Tenisha Hudson voting and not being tied to the address, not living at the address that she provided while voting.

And that story materialized, and I think she ended up losing a job and some government clearance. In fact, Elliot Harding, I believe, was her defense attorney in this. You could look that up with the new cycle. and Google folks. I do

have concern of this, ladies and gentlemen, that if Matthew Gilliken is on counsel, he's going to make a push to defund the police. He will make a push Matthew Gilliken to defund the police. If Zai Bryant gets on council in cahoots, they will make a push to

defund the police. That's a terrifying proposition. I'm quite confident. I can speak with some confidence and conviction here that the black community is very much in favor of what my conscious and the police department have done. He's seen as being a man of trustworthiness and fairness, a man that does policing back by what's right. He also spent a significant period of time in Charlestville living in the 10th and Page neighborhood.

Hank Martin watching the program, handsome Hank's photo on screen. Jerry, he has a comment about the Almore County Public School System. This is the cumulative effect of Almore County Public Schools not having filled the superintendent position properly since 1995. The last true candidate correctly hired was Kevin Castor at that time. The installation and coronation started with him to Pam Moran to Haas. That's where it can be traced and directly tracked back to. Juan Sarmiento is watching the program. We appreciate you, Juan. Aaron Davidson watching the program. We appreciate you, Aaron Davison. Due to Wick Cowher, anything you want to add to the program before we get to some other topics?

Yeah. My phone is blowing up right now. Go ahead. I can only imagine Gilliken or Bryant on the city council. Having both on would be, actually, it might be fun. They might just butt heads and essentially cancel each other out. but I definitely would not put money on that happening. Now let's get to this Charlottesville Redevelopment and Housing Authority story we talked about yesterday.

Before we get to the CRHA story and what we discussed yesterday, we'll highlight Virginia Vacuum Company, the sister business to Charlestville Sanitary Supply. Look, it's the fourth quarter of the year. You've got guests coming to your home and you need to get it ready for the holidays. It's also allergy season in the fall. If you don't have a MILA vacuum, you don't have a real vacuum. If you don't have a Mela vacuum, you don't have the best vacuum. Mila is the best vacuum on the market.

And the only authorized dealer in this market is the guys at Charlestville Sanitary Supply, John and Andrew Vermillion. They've been in business for 63 years. You don't stay in business for 63 years in Charlottesville unless you're doing business the right way, the honest way, the communicative way. go to Charlottesville Sanitary Supply, talk to John and Andrew Vermillion, let them know that Jerry and the I Love Seville Show talk meal of vacuums, and you want to demo or you want to touch them, you want to see them, learn more about them. Because once you see them and you learn more about them, goodness gracious, great balls of fire. If you have pets, if you have allergies, or you want your house ready for the holidays, or you want, if you just want your house cleaned, it's the most obvious vacuum purchase, and it's not even close. Charlottesville Redevelopment and Housing Authority yesterday, we talked about a $12.6 million buying spree.

And I put into question this $12.6 million buying spree because it's taxpayer money. Of course I put into question $12.6 million. It's a lot of money. No doubt. And it's taxpayer dollars. And I also put into question $12.6 million because the Charlottesville Redevelopment and Housing Authority is losing its executive director, John Sayle. Salas, sales?

Yeah. He's piecing. He's hitting the road jack. The Charlestville Redevelopment and Housing Authority has an active fraud investigation with the feds going on as it applies to PPP loans during COVID. And even more concerning and importantly,

you track crime, especially crime of the violent nature in Charlottesville. And crime of the violent nature in Charlottesville is often originated by renter in Charlottesville redevelopment and housing authority properties. There is a direct correlation to hot spots of crime and violent crime committed in Charlottesville and living in CRHA properties.

No one wants to talk about it, but we're honest and frank and straightforward with you, and that's why you watch and listen, and that's why the platforms become number one. So when CRHA says they're going to go on a $12.6 million buying spree, Judah, and they're pursuing major transactions like Rivena Terraces, a 48-unit garden-style apartment complex off River Road,

where two-bedroom units currently rent for about 1,500 a month. When CRHA wants to purchase 11 of 70 properties or homes from an entity, that's one of the largest landlords in Charlottesville silk purse properties, 11 of 70, you start asking questions. What's going on here? Why is so much money being spent here? Are they good stewards for the community? Are they vetting tenants?

If the tenants commit violent crime, are they evicted from their leases? What's the contribution? What is the correlation with violent crime in Charlestville and CRAHA and its tenants? What are they doing from an accountability standpoint to ensure safety and quality of life for city residents, for taxpayers, for folks that are honest and stay out of trouble. These are questions we should all ask. And I talked about that on yesterday's show. I thought I did a good job of it on yesterday show. And then I get a direct message from Deep Throat who did not watch the show on real time yesterday. There's a reason he's number one in the family. He says you did a good

job with the commentary on CRHA. But Jerry, what you should have also done is this. You should have also talked about Silk Purse Properties LLC and this seller. This Jeremy Kaplan fella. He owns 70 homes in Charlottesville. And he's created a business model that's rooted in conscious capitalism, meaning he's a social entrepreneur. He runs a business in the black for profit, but he doesn't in a way where he's focused on leaving his community

and a better place than when he first arrived. So a capitalist, but not a money-hungry capitalist. But this fellow, this Jeremy Kaplan, goodness gracious, great balls of fire, he's done some fantastic real estate deals. Let's talk about 74, 745 West Street. I think you have that photo. Do you have that photo from Google Maps, J-Dubs?

7-14. Is it 745 West Street? You told me 7-1-4, I believe. I don't think I told you that at all. 745 West Street. Did you call that up? You get a screen grab of that from Google Maps? I had 7-14.

Let me find a step. Well, don't show that one. I won't. Let's see. Now, I'm going to put into perspective and working on that computer just freezes the network, as you know. Oh, I stand corrected. I stand corrected. I apologize.

You are 100% right. I'm 100% wrong. Little dyslexia for me here. You're 100% right. 714. I sincerely apologize. You're 100% right. I thought I'd gone crazy.

I stand corrected. You are right. I am wrong. I apologize. guys, 714. Can you put it on screen, please? Yeah, I got two pictures. 714 West Street. It's on screen? Yeah. Thank you, sir.

714 West Street was purchased in March. Judea, listen to this return here. You ready for this? Yeah. March of 2016. March of 2016, 714 West Street, for $110,000. This home was sold nine years later, October of 2025. So that's nine and a half years later. For $671,650, that's a $561,650 increase or about a 510% or about 510% above its initial purchase price in nine and a half years. The question I have for you is this.

The CRAHA understand the strategy is to purchase existing stock because purchase. existing stock is more affordable than developing real estate locally? That's one question. Is CRHA is its preservation strategy that homes are appreciating so quickly we have to do this? In regards to Jeremy Kaplan and Silk Purse properties, goodness gracious, look at what he is selling. 701 Anderson Street. This home was built in 1936. 1105 Page Street

This home was built in 1920 833 Page Street This home was built in 1951 835 page street This home was built in 1925 305 10th Street Northwest This home was built in 1920 Is he getting the same?

311 10th Street Northwest 19206 11th Street Northwest 1949 346 11th Street Northwest 1920-605 11th Street Northwest, 19202, 12th Street Northwest, 1920, 6, 604, 12th Street Northwest. Built in 1900.

Eight of the 11 homes he's selling were built in 1936 or earlier. This asked the question, is CRHA having inspections done? Is CRHA doing an appraisal? How much additional money will CRHA need to purchase these 11 homes? that are old as duck. And if they need additional money for the roof, for HVAC, for electrical, for anything, where's that going to come from?

Is it going to come from us? Is this $12.6 million buying spree opening Pandora's box to shake down taxpayers for future ass? Wouldn't be surprised. When does the spending stop? The purchase price here is not necessarily the true cost of preserving. these homes for another 30 years.

They're buying what looks like the afterthoughts from the Kaplan portfolio. You don't get to 70 properties of ownership in Charlottesville City without being kind of smart. Are we unloading the afterthoughts or the red-headed stepchildren of the portfolio onto the Charlottesville Redevelopment and Housing Authority, who is at a time about to be without its executive director

and being investigated by the feds for a payment protection program potential scam during COVID. All funded the money by taxpayers. Well, has he gotten that kind of, has he gotten the same return on all of these properties? And if so, maybe it's just a matter of seeing the top of the market and saying, now's a good time to divest myself of some of these rat traps. Michael Payne, the city council representative on the board of directors for the Charlottesville

Redevelopment and Housing Authority. This is the same Charlottesville Redevelopment and Housing Authority that purchased the building on the downtown mall where Henry's restaurant used to be, where Vita Nova Pizza used to be, and is now transitioning that building into its headquarters for the Charlestville Redevelopment and housing authority, because it makes perfect sense to have your leasing office, an office on the downtown mall, the most important eight blocks in the region, a leasing office that will be populated by a customer base that historically and from past president suggests violent criminals and violent crime. Why is nobody else asking these questions? You have a private landlord who

accumulated a portfolio of 70 units that purchased afterthought old homes and distressed neighborhoods, distressed, dilapidated neighborhoods, accumulated a portfolio so significant, land banked them, watched as land values exploded, watched as affordability became an issue, so much so that it became the talking point for elected officials for a general of political cycles, election cycles. Then the owner realizes there's a redevelopment and housing authority that's financed by taxpayers that currently doesn't have an executive director that has a federal investigation to the tune of PPP fraud going on, has the only council board member, the only member from council that's

on his board, is got the business acumen of a numb nuts. And he's selling 11 of the 70 properties. and 11 of the 70 properties, eight of those 11 were built in 1936 or earlier. Who is doing the home inspections? Who is doing the appraisals? And how are the rehabilitations, the remodeling or upfit costs?

Who's going to finance them? And props to Kaplan. The conscious capitalist looks like a pure board. Straight up pure capitalist to me. 714 West Street. Put it on screen again. $110,000 purchase. $671,650 exit.

And less than a decade. Damn good right there. And that's right there while you watch and listen to the show. That right there is why you watch and listen to the show. Jeremy Kaplan, I believe, is the son of Mortimer Kaplan, the former University of Virginia law professor who served as commissioner of the internal revenue

under President John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. This family memory serves because I've been here 26 years. This family moved to Charlottesville in the early 1950s when his father, Moremore Kaplan, joined the UVA law school faculty. Jeremy's mom, Ruth, was deeply involved in what, the arts and the education if memory serves. I believe this is the family behind UVA's Ruth Kaplan Theater, a theater funded with a $4 million donation. So Jeremy, you know, comes from a family with longstanding ties to the University of Virginia,

public service, philanthropy, and Seaville. A 2022 analysis, 2022 of the year of Charlottesville Public Property Records, this is 2022. So this is four years ago, found 55 parcels registered to silk purse properties, making it the third largest property owner in Charlottesville by parcel count. This is 2022. and now own 70 parcels. City land book records independently show numerous silk purse properties concentrated around the 10th and page neighborhood.

10th Street, 10th and a half street, 11th Street. This is as significant a rental portfolios you'll find in Charlottesville. Oftentimes what you see when you start owning portfolios of this significance is you change, this is what I've done. what I've been instructed to do by our finance, by our CPA and our attorney, is each time I make a purchase, and we try to make a purchase every 18 to 24 months with the portfolio funding the next purchase without our debt to equity ratio getting out of whack. Initially, what I was doing because I was young, dumb, and full of, I guess I shouldn't say

that, it's a PG-13 movie. I'll just say young and dumb when I got into the business. this. It's PG-13. I'm staying in PG-13 rounds. If I finished that line, I would have probably gone into R, don't you think? Potentially. Potentially. So I stopped myself. That's judgment. When I initially got into this, what, 15 years ago or so, I was doing it with my name associated with each LLC that I started. So if you look at the GIS, you'll find them. I did one with the brand I Love Seville associated with the purchase. If you look at the GIS, you'll find them. See him with my name, see him without it.

Now it's completely ambiguous, untrackable. The LLCs that own them. And generally, that's how it's done. Generally. He's done them all under Silk Purse Properties LLC, so you can easily search the GIS to find them. I'm curious to know from Jeremy Kaplan, why are you selling these 11 properties right now?

Did you approach CRHA or did CRHA approach you? is the $3 million the purchase price or simply the amount CRHA is requesting from the city how many individual rental units and tenants are contained in those 11 homes

what are those current tenants paying per month in rent how far below market rate are those rents currently are you planning to sell the remainder of silk purses roughly 70 property

portfolio anytime soon? Have private developers approach you about buying your portfolio? Is your priority maximizing the sale price or ensuring these homes remain affordable after you're no longer the owner? That last question could produce a tremendous answer. Who's asking these questions besides me? And why aren't others asking these questions? like someone like Zion and Bryant why is she using her robust power and influence

to bully the mayor and Chris Henry as opposed to figuring out these questions the answers to these questions from Jeremy Kaplan I mean I would have to guess that a person like her is

has no familiarity with building things she's used to tearing things down whether they're statues or you know, West Bellamy, other people in her community, the, you know, phase three of dairy market, everything we've seen from her says that she can destroy things, but has she ever built anything? That's a great question.

I'll close the program with this comment that's come in via direct text message to my phone from Jim Hingley. Jim says when on the UVA law faculty in 1950, Mortimer Kaplan advocated for the admission of Gregory Swanson, who became the first African-American admitted into the University of Virginia. It took a federal court order to force UVA to admit Gregory Swanson. Thank you, Jim Hingley, for that text. We appreciate you, sir. And that's the talk show.

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