The I Love CVille Show With Jerry Miller! - Another Sexual Assault At Free Bridge Tent Town; Teardown Of Tent Town Put City Mgr On Hot Seat?

Episode Date: July 28, 2026

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Welcome to the I Love Seville Show, guys. My name is Jerry Miller, and thank you kindly for joining us on a glorious and gorgeous. Tuesday afternoon in downtown Charlottesville. Where I sit right now is less than two miles from the University of Virginia, from the grounds of a visionary Thomas Jefferson. I spent this past weekend walking UVA grounds with my wife and our two sons, an eight-year-old and a three-year-old. They are like Jack Russell Terrier puppy.

high on mountain dew. And if we spend time inside the house, I know for certain our family, German Shepherd, Maximus Miller, will be tormented and our home, our wonderful

home and ivy will be in some ways destroyed. That's how much high energy they have. So on Saturday, we had a great day. We played some squash in the morning at Borset. I've really bonding with our eight-year-old over the sport. He's really taking to it. Our three-year-old also

hopped on court. His big brother showed him some of the basics, if you may. My wife got a little time to herself, and then we headed to Mellow Mushroom on the UVA corner for some pretzel rolls, some dough-based pretzel rolls, and some sausage pizza. My wife and I had a cold beer, and then we decided to walk grounds. We walked around. We walked. the rotunda. We took a tour of the rotunda. Frankly, I was terrified. My 8-year-old and our 3-year-old in the rotunda on an open-aired, unchaperone tour. I was walking on eggshells. Fortunately, nothing disastrous happened. Then we walked down the lawn. We walked through Cabal Hall, the range. We walk into Brian Hall, where I took creative writing in English.

We walked through around the Ampla Theater, and it was just a special day. It was a special day. We had a lot of fun and then we finished with the fire pit at our home, just watching a movie outside by the fire pit. And it was extremely enjoyable. I enjoy living here. I enjoy raising, my wife and I enjoy raising our boys here. She works in the business. The business is 18 years old. We have an excited series, an exciting series, a docu series that we're going to release in August. And it's going to be the behind the scenes of our family, the Millers, and some of our day-to-day activity with a docu-series, a documentary team following us around, including an outdoor rehabilitation and remodeling project, a project that is going to try the family, as we do this together,

my family and I and our two sons in conjunction with a very prominent business locally. We're going to document that process. in kind of Netflix docu-series capacity. It'll be the first of its kind in Charlottesville, Almaro, and Central Virginia, a docu-series featuring a local family, and I'm excited to embark on that journey. This is a tease of what we're going to do,

but that series will launch in August in conjunction with a very, very prominent business locally. A lot I want to cover on today's show, and I encourage you to look at the screen for today's headlines. Unfortunately, terribly, there's another sexual assault at Tentown under Free Bridge on East High Street on the banks of the Ribana River. This is the second one. There has been two deaths, two people died at Tentown so far. Remember, this is about a year Tentown's been around.

Two people have died. There's been a number of overdoses. there's been alleged arsons and two fires that we know of. There's been now two sexual assaults. I hesitate to use the R word with sexual assault. I'm just going to call it a sexual assault. But there's been two of the R word. There's been violence.

There's been threats. And it's just frankly, it's turned into the type of nightmare that you see in like a Portland or like a Seattle or like you saw in like a San Francisco or some of those mean streets in like a major metropolitan area. But it's here in Charlottesville and it's it's an awakening. It's a horrific awakening. I never thought when I moved here 26 years ago was the first year at the University of Virginia. I never thought as I matured from an 18 year old through my 20s into my early 30s when I met my wife on an airplane, persuaded her somehow to leave a job in high finance,

working for a hedge fund, a global hedge fund, Blackstone, to come down here to Charlottesville, to live at a previous house in the Redfield's neighborhood. And then to say yes when I dropped on one knee outside the downtown grill and asked her to marry me, a mere, what, nine months, 10 months after meeting her. She said yes, have a wedding at Trump Vineyard before Trump was president, at the old Clugie estate with the most gorgeous views,

sweeping Blue Ridge Mountain views. My wife's family, New Yorkers, they came down to this venue and they're like, good God, this is God's country here. This is absolutely gorgeous. Patricia Kulugi's old house we got married in, seeing these sweeping Blue Ridge Mountain views. And we get married in June of 2017, go off to Maui and Kauai for our honeymoon for 14 days,

and come back with the surprise bun in the oven. Pull the goalie over honeymoon, and evidently the slap shot scored a game winner. Our oldest son born nine months later. I never thought in this progression, this maturation here in Charlestville, 26 years now, that I would see some of the storylines we're seeing now. Never thought we would be having a special meeting called for the Almore County Public School System about alleged sexual assaults of children, elementary age school children,

on grounds at an elementary school. And now we've got to start asking very real questions. It's important as taxpayers, it's important as residents, as important as Charlottesvillians and Almar Countyans to ask this question. Why is this all happening? What is leading to this? And look, having a platform being a leader in this community is not always rainbows and sunshines. Often it's asking difficult questions and having difficult conversations. And I said yesterday, I'm 44 years old.

I have found that the right way and getting to the right way is often the hard way and a hard path. The shortcut rarely works, whether that's fitness, exercise, diet, business, marriage, love, you name it. The hard way is often the right way. And it's time we start asking these questions, how did we get here? Is it leadership malpractice with the school board? Is it city hall malpractice with the city manager and his lieutenants? Is it city council that is letting us down?

You know, when Michael Payne, who I saw outside the post office on the downtown mall today, we have a P.O. box with our firm. I check the post office once a day. One of the things I enjoy doing, walking from our perch on the corner of Fourth and Market Street, and trotting to the post office to see, you know, obviously you want to see some receivables. That's your favorite part. But I like getting out and seeing people.

I saw Michael Payne there. And it immediately dawned on me again that here's a two-term city councilor Michael Payne on paper as experienced as it gets from a leadership standpoint. There's not many two-term city counselors in Charlottesville history. Sure, we've had the Kathy Galvins of the world

that embody that. The Lloyd Snooks of the world that embody that, the Juan Diego Wades of the world, the David Tiscanos of the world that embodied that kind of council civic experience, but it's rare. And Michael Payne, Amir 10 days ago, said City Hall and City Council has failed Charlottesville. Brian Pinkston's got a substack. This is a former city counselor, Brian Pinkston. He publishes on the record, talks to the media and says,

Charlottesville City Council has failed taxpayers with how it's managed the homeless. It's time we ask these questions. How did we get to this point? And unfortunately, ladies and gentlemen, I have to ask it in very frank capacity as it applies to our city manager, Sam Sanders. Okay? He's the CEO of Charlottesville. In total compensation, soup to nuts compensation,

Sam Sanders is earning about 300,000. a year. We know viewers and listeners, according to HUD, housing and urban development, that organization, that the median family household income for the Charlottesville metro area is 140K. This is family income. Multiple earners, partners, mom and moms, dad and dads, whatever your family dynamic is, I don't really care. Okay. 140,000 is the median family household income that was released a couple of weeks ago. So here you're city manager is making what? 2x, more than

2x that? And in sports, in business, in C-suite, if you're running a law firm and you're the managing director of the law firm, the managing partner, if you're running an automobile dealership and you're the head of the automobile dealership, if you're running

a chain of car washes, and you're the head of the chain of car washes, if you're running a real estate investment or brokerage firm or investment outfit like us, and if it's not performing, the buck stops at the leader. Always. Athletic director, head coach, president, CEO.

The buck must stop with the city manager. City Hall's watching this program. I saw Sam Sanders. Nice guy. Smart guy. Biggest champion of Sam Sanders, yours truly when he got the job. I've been championing Sam Sanders throughout this entire time he's been the CEO of Charlottesville. But I've got to ask you a question extremely straightforwardly,

okay? Extremely straightforwardly. The Office of Inspectors, the building inspectors, the folks that do the inspection when you do remodeling or you do upfit or retrofit at a house or a commercial building, it's depleted. They have one person on payroll right now. A former building inspector tracked my phone number down and left me a voice message. And now, wants to comment and contact and chat with me. He's done some anonymous posting on Reddit. Somehow got my phone number. I'm going to see if I can bring them on the show here, the water cooler of content and conversation. There's one inspector in Charlottesville City right now, ladies and gentlemen. The Office of Economic Development has been led by Chris Engel, who's been around

forever. I've asked you on this program, do you have any proof of performance of what the Office of Economic Development has done in Charlottesville City? I'm asking you straightforwardly. The 50-year anniversary of the downtown mall was a flop. It was an absolute flop, ladies and gentlemen. There's 12 to 14 vacancies on the downtown mall. There's vacancies in the city. Give me an example of what Chris Engel and the Office of Economic Development have done in Charlottesville.

Give me anything. This homelessness issue has been a disaster. The only thing, ladies and gentlemen, I'll choose my words carefully. One of the very few departments in Charlottesville City that are running efficiently and effectively are the police department and the fire department. And the city manager, Sam Sanders,

was not a part of the police department hire. He's not going to like this. I believe he's watching right now. I'm very much asking this question. Should the seat of the city manager here in Charlottesville, not just be hot, but absolutely burning. I compare and contrast it to what's happening in Al Marl County, and I do, my business is based in downtown Charlottesville where we own most of this building. I live in Ivy in Almaral County. Outmorrow's crushing it. Almaral

Secures Rivana Station and Rivana Futures, significant acreage in northern Almaro County. It keeps the defense sector locally. It attracts AstraZeneca and biotechnology and a biotechnology. And a biotechnology Beltway that's going to run through Alamara. I mean, businesses are leaving Charlottesville to go to Alamaro County. You have empty shopping centers like Seminole Square being developed. You have homelessness is not an issue over there. Certainly less violence over there. Outside of this school board, disgusting turn of events,

with the alleged sexual assaults and this Mike Sweeney fellow, the county is clicking on all cylinders. They're separated by an invisible jurisdictional line. How can one jurisdiction be V8 cylinder humming at like 120 miles an hour, while the other jurisdiction, Charlottesville, barely has two cylinders and can't get out of effing neutral? If it wasn't for the University of Virginia, we would all be questioning really what City Hall and Charlottesville is doing from a leadership standpoint and all together. Being very straightforward. I'm going to conclude this monologue, and before I play a video, a three-minute clip of what I think

might be the most delusional woman in Charlottesville, Virginia today. I'm going to play three minutes from a city council meeting that you cannot miss this clip that I'm about to play you. You're about to be appalled by, I mean, honestly, you're going to be flabbergasted stuff. gun, jaw a gape, I mean, gobsmacked. Gobs, that's better. Is it gobsmacked? Yeah. Gob smacked is a perfect example of what's going to happen here. Gob smacked, ladies and gentlemen. Okay. But when I, before I conclude this monologue, I'm going to ask you the viewer and listener. The city manager of Charlottesville, the buck stops there.

How hot should his seat be? Because from my standpoint, the last 12 months for Sam Sanders have not been good. And he's going to hear this. I believe he's watching right now. Sir, I am being extremely straightforward with you with the amount of money you are paid and with the level of responsibility that you have at your desk and your office. And if you don't manage this town transition, sir, it very well could be time for a change. Judah Whitcower, I'd love to give some attention to Charlottesville Sanitary Supply

and Charlottesville Swimming Pool Company. It's John and Andrew Vermilion's business. Three generations of Vermilions have run this business for nearly 63 years. They're building the family owns on East High Street. Sanitary supply, cleaning supplies. Mela vacuums, Bono wood floor product. A swimming pool business, water testing, swimming pool construction, in-ground and above-ground pool.

Swimming pool covers, swimming pool shade, swimming pool robots. We've been working with them for about just under two years now. When we initially started, I said to him, look, as your consultant, legacy media is dying. We need to transition these dollars away from print, radio, and television, and we need to invest them in social media and digital and what we're doing here. And over that period of time, we've done it. Zero invested in legacy media now. Less money than what they were spending before on digital, social media, this talk show. And their top line revenue is uptick even higher. Spending less on advertising, driving more business, and we're on the

cusp of launching a new division that's going to be even more significant for their company. A sister division, a service vertical they're already doing, but we're going to brand it and position it top of mind on digital and search, just like we did with Charlottesville Swimmingpool Company.com. Judah Wickhauer is the badass behind the screen. I want a studio camera and two-shot you. I'm going to offer you an opportunity to pontificate on anything we just discussed. In fact, instead of scatter shooting on any topic, I want to ask you a straightforward one

eyeball to eyeball, man to man. Sam Sanders, the city manager. Yeah. Is he doing a good job? I think it definitely, he definitely leaves a lot to be desired. I think we've seen some wishy-washy. decision making, especially in terms of this, you know, the tent town, what to do with the people, just moving ahead continually with what to outside appearances looks like a lack of a plan.

No plan. No plan. There is no plan. Last week on the show, we talked about the 2025 versus 2026 tourism data, co-star tourism data. Roy Van Dorn, who works in hospitality, share this information. 2025 versus 26. I just put the stats up on the screen. They're on screen? You're crushing it, dude.

Look at the screen, viewers and listeners. Look at the screen. This is factual data. it's comparing Williamsburg, Roanoke, Charlottesville, and Commonwealth-wide data for weekday occupancy, weekend occupancy, and hotel rates. Charlottesville, Virginia, ladies and gentlemen, its weekday occupancy is down 2025 versus 2026. Its weekend occupancy is down.

2025 versus 2026. Its nightly rate is down 2025 versus 2026. Viewers and listeners, the tour. tourists that visit Charlottesville in the months of June and July go a long way in determining the vitality and the vitality and the stability of business in Charlottesville. And, dude, I want to look at business. I'm a guy who offers $2.95 an hour consultation to businesses in Charlestville in Almaro County and Central Virginia and beyond. I care about small cap and mid-cap businesses.

We have clients doing zero revenue that are just coming to market, and we have clients that are doing $50, $60 million a year that are established and have been around for generations. I care about that range. When the city and data from Kostar clearly says that tourists, traffic, and visitation is down substantially, 2026 verse 2025. We have to ask the question why. We have to ask the question why there's 14 vacancies on the downtown mall. We have to ask the question why there's one building inspector

currently on payroll in the city. They're outsourcing the remaining workflow. We have to ask the question why economic development is not a priority. We have to ask the question why a hundred houseless individuals and I hand up them, not hand out, hand up them, but 100 houseless individuals, 125 houseless individuals are commanding police officers on a 24-7-365 resource allocation. Why they're prioritized above taxpaying, law-abiding citizens. This is the definition of leadership malpractice. and as a man with the platform, the largest platform in the region

outside of the University of Virginia is this platform right here. Those are facts on facts, on facts, and cannot be disputed. This show right now is airing on 27 social media platforms at one time. 27. I asked the question, why?

And you know what? there's not enough of us that are of common sense mindset. I don't care about liberal. I don't care about Republican, conservative, Democrat, libertarian, socialists. I'm just talking common sense. There's not enough of us asking these questions. And I'm going to play a clip for you of what I think might be the most delusional woman in Charlottesville, Virginia. That clip, do you have it queued up?

This is from the most recent city council meeting. Ladies and gentlemen, the best thing this woman did who goes by the first name, Lizzie, is wear a COVID mask to this meeting to hide her face. So she could not be identified truly. Okay. You have that clip. I'm going to put my earbuds in and I'm going to be gobsmacked again for the fourth time as I listen to this three minutes. Viewers and listeners, I would say grab your ice coffee or grab your iced tea.

Or your popcorn. Instead, I'm going to say, get your scotch, your bourbon or your chardonnay, because you're going to need it to listen to this. And three, two, one. Hi, my name is Lizzie. I live off of Cherry Avenue, and I have a solution to all of this huge, difficult problem. You guys are going to eat it, but that's fine. If you just magically had like around $24 million that you could put towards housing,

then you could just give people who are currently unhoused. housing because I hear you say that you want to house the people who are currently living in the encampment and I believe that most of them also want to be housed but you mentioned that there's no capacity for it or like capacity to like match people with resources but it seems like what's really missing is the actual like concrete places of like where those houses are that people are going to go or where the shelter space that actually works for everyone is going to go So anyways, this 24 magical $24 million could perhaps come out of the police budget. You can literally just abolish the police and then instead give everyone who needs a house a house for the $24 million. You could actually buy like 48 single family homes in Charlottesville, but probably that's kind of weird. So maybe you would rather do like apartments. So you could just buy 100 apartments and just give them to people. and then everyone has housing and they're not criminalized.

And it really does solve all those problems. I know you're not going to do that, so I'm going to talk about some other stuff too during my time, but just for your consideration. It kind of seems to me like you guys are all talk when it comes to the emergency shelter. Like you want it to happen and be ready, but it's not. And I think part of that is, like I've heard people

saying, you know, we're going out there, we're surveying people to find out what their needs are. I think everybody has already been surveyed. Their needs are already captured by the Haven, and it's just like the capacity and the resources don't exist. So I'm hoping that either you guys are just paying lip service about this September 1st thing so that the Redditors leave you alone and you won't actually do anything. You'll kind of be like, oh, hey, we'll take care of it September 1st and September 1st and you don't rather than just put people in jail or put them in places against their will. But I, yeah, I guess what I'm saying is like if you're just going to give empty words, like please give it to the people who are opposed to people just existing on the Rivana Trail

and like actually do something for the people who are living there. It would also mean a lot to them if you called out the TikTokers who are going down there and harassing them. like that would really mean something. Also like the police driving through there every night is keeping people awake and they have health conditions and they're not sleeping while it's making everything worse. So if you could call out the police and ask them not to do that, that would be helpful. Thank you. Thank you. I mean, do you want to start?

Do you want to start? I'm gobsmacked. I don't know what to say. It's, uh, Yeah. It's delusional. It's, I mean, you know, I feel like she left a lot of magic out of the second half of her speech. I don't know where this magic comes from. But, yes, I certainly wish myself that I had $24 million magical dollars. I mean, the crazy thing is that magic money, Jen Fleischer about a month ago, a month and a half ago said the same thing. Do we have magic money, Jen Fleischer, that clip still? Did you save it as magic money, Jen Fleischer? I definitely don't have anything.

A Jen Fleischer's Sizzle Rio. I know I'm asking you to go into the library here. Do you have that at all? I'll have to take a look. Okay. If we don't have it, totally fine. I'm asking you on the spot here. I watched this clip and I watched Lizzie speak to counsel as if it was a car accident on Interstate 64. or I'm driving by in the family explorer, and I'm rubbernecking, slowing down traffic because I can't stop looking.

The best thing that she did right there is wear a mask to disguise her face. She did say she lived on Cherry Avenue. She talked about completely abolishing the police department for the $24 million. And then giving all the homeless people free housing. What is going on? What are we doing here?

It was not, I've been here 26 years. It was not like this. Yeah. It was not. Conan Owen and Sir Speedy, Central Virginia, a partner of this program. Hispanic-owned, Conan Owen and Sir Speedy, Central Virginia, your point of contact for anything signage-related. Our firm is using them. Rec mail, stickers, window decals, vinyl lettering, uniforms, lanyards, stickers, the banner behind me.

He's a Darden graduate Conan Owen, Sir Speedy, Central Virginia. A lot I want to cover on the program today. Deep Throat number one in the family, he's got a comment. I'm actually communicating with Deep Throat during the show right now. The Sam Sanders Tale of the Tape, Deep Throat says. taxable retail sales lagging all surrounding jurisdictions for the city of Charlottesville.

Tourism lagging. Essentially zero job growth within the city in the last half decade. Big zoning reform, but we have neighborhood development services with one inspector which causes delay that is much more costly than anything in the old zoning.

Traffic engineering is a bad joke. A weird vindictive prosecutor of Kevin Cox, the pedestrian advocate. Market Street, Shantytown, crazy overpayment for 2000 Holiday Drive. This is the Sam Sanders' tale of the tape, courtesy of number one in the family Deep Throat. Charlottesville City argument succeeds at one thing only,

making an argument for considering anarchy as a political system. Oh, and let's not forget about the police civilian oversight review board, getting $600,000 a year for the last several years, and it's done absolutely zero investigations. Like, I could put up a chart, a production chart. Holiday Drive purchase under his watch, Sam Sanders. It will be the most significant boondoggle in Charlottesville history. 6.2 million to purchase, another 14 million to upfit,

years away from opening and $500,000 to $600,000 in today's money needed to manage it per year, every year in perpetuity. Zoning, this new zoning ordinance didn't work well. Turnover left and right at City Hall and Chanty Towns, dominating the brand and perception. Viewers and listeners, put your comments in the feed, I will relay it live on air. And then we'll get to Tom Perriello selecting Ziana Bryant to be his deputy

political director. Was that the title on the rundown? Let's see. Ginny Who, number one in the family watching the show? Ginny says, Jerry, being good citizens and given us an excellent reason to day drink, reminded me of listening to a recent

presidential candidate's word salad. 100%. 100%. Day drink, no doubt. even encourage you to do it. Lizzie, presidential word salad, exact example.

I mean, I don't even know if I'd call that word salad. She's fairly well-spoken if you disregard the fact that it's nuts. Well, word salad is just saying stuff that doesn't have any meaning. She, I mean,

she put enough thought into it to think that that abolishing the police, to come up with $24 million to buy houses for the houseless in Charlottesville. That's a fairly complex chain of ideas for someone that thinks that those things are actually possible. Stacey Baker-Patti said that had to be a parody, right? That had to be a parody. No, actually, and I thought the same, Stacey Baker-Patti, we appreciate your comments.

That's actually real life, that three minutes. Carol Thorpe. I think Charlottesville Dems have found their next candidate for City Council. Lizzie, 2028. I like it. Carol Thorpe.

Philip Dow. She's been listening to Mom Donnie. The mayor of Scottsville. Conan Owen, the Police Civilian Review Board and Human Rights Commission combined cost almost $1 million a year and have done nothing.

Conan Owen, the Police Civilian Review Board and the Human Rights Commission, combined cost taxpayers $1 million per year and literally have done nothing. Yeah. Martha Freeman, Aaron King, watching the broadcast right now. Raina Bouchard, Patricia Mesa,

watching the broadcast, Wanda Morris. Every media outlet in town is watching the show. I have elected officials, left and right watching the program right now, more than I can frankly count. Just being extremely straightforward right now. William McChesney, the Mayor of McIntyre watching the program right now. John Blair, who I'm going to tell you right now, and this is going to make him uncomfortable, and I mean this as sincere as anything I've ever said on the show.

This hot seat for Sam Sanders, and it's burning his buns. The replacement for Sam Sanders is John Blair. former city attorney of Charlottesville, interim city manager, government experience left and right. This is your city manager of Charlottesville right here, John Blair. And this guy would do a phenomenal job in Charleston. A phenomenal job in Charlottesville, Virginia, John Blair would do. Lives in the Charlottesville metro area. I know where I'm not going to say where.

Commuting to Stanton, but is 10 minutes from City Hall and where he lives. Holly Foster is watching in Henrico. Lizzie must be on drugs. She's crazy. She's saying to get rid of the police. Yeah. And not just to get rid of the police. I mean, if it was just to get rid of the police,

that would be unhinged enough. But get rid of the police in order to buy houses and or apartments, whichever city hall prefers, and give them to the houseless. Well, I got a question. We already know what they're their problems are. I got a question for you, Lizzie. If the $24 million is taken from the police

fund and the police abolished, who is going to prosecute, who's going to investigate the two sexual assaults that happen at Tentown? Yeah, but you don't understand, Jerry. If we give them houses, there won't be any more sexual assaults at Tentown. If we give the homeless housing, there won't be any more crime. There will be no more crime. That's what she's saying. That's what she said. And that was real. That might be on the list of best piece of content I've seen in 2026 right there next to Roscoe and Don Gathers. Save that. Put that on the list. Don't we have a list? 2026 best pieces of content. Don Gathers, city council, what he told city council, what you're doing is like you're changing your shirt because you cropped your pants. The snookinator. No, snookering.

Do we also put her in a famous one-name celebs list? Lizzie is a famous one-name celebrity along with Roscoe. Lizzie and Roscoe. This was all the same meeting. Yep. The gift that keeps on giving. I'm communicating with Deep Throat, who's providing me some advice here via DM. Do you think I can mention this on air?

Are you certain? I'm literally doing five things at one time here. All right. Next piece of content. Tom Perriello named Ziona Bryant Deputy. What's the title? Let's see. It is Deputy Political Director.

What is the political science with naming Ziona Bryant Deputy Political Director? And let's have a very frank conversation here. Carol Thorpe, this is right up your alley. You're at one time the head of the T party locally. I have what, the chair of the Republican Party watching in Amar County. Okay. Judah, straightforward commentary.

We're going to spare no expense. Tom Perriello is running for Congress, fifth district that is overwhelmingly and historically right-leaning. If there's a congressman that's beatable, It's John McGuire. John McGuire does have an advantage of being the incumbent and the known brand. But if there's a beatable incumbent, it's John McGuire. Bob Good was another beatable Republican. I do think that John McGuire is going to make it through the Republican primary.

Tom Perriello is the golden boy of local Democrats. Oh, yeah. What is the political science of naming Ziona Bryant, your deputy, is it, what's the title? It's literally, she just posted this on her LinkedIn. Deputy political director. Hat tip to Conan Owen for sending this to me. Deputy political director.

So you have a man that's running for Congress that has named the most notorious activist in Charlottesville, Virginia history and a school board member in Charlottesville, his deputy political director. Why? If I had to give a reason, I would say it's to get the, it's to get the extremists out and into the voting booths.

He probably knows that he doesn't have much chance of getting the red vote. And he's already got, like you said, He's already got his own cheerleaders in the Democratic Party. And what Zionabriant brings is, you know, a large activist class that will probably leave the House and go vote if she tells them to. Carol Thorpe, what's your take? What's your take, Carol Thorpe?

I'm going to be extremely straightforward on the show. This is why the show works. This is why the show is popular. Tom Perriello, on the end of July, waiting till the end of July. This effing race is decided in, what, November 3rd? What's the day? I'm pulling out my calendar.

This race is decided on November 3rd. So we're talking, 1, 2, 3rd. four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fourteen, fourteen weeks from today, the fifth district has clarity on its congressman. Fourteen weeks. So Periello waiting to the top of the eighth inning, baseball analogy, top of the eighth inning, to name Zion and Bryant, his deputy political director, is a move that is his perceived ace up his sleeve. And it's to corner or garner is a better word, garner motivate the black vote for periello's campaign, being extremely straightforward. You have white men that are

McGuire and periello that are pretty much the guys that are going to fight for your next congressman. So he went to this strategy. Who is the most known black woman in the fifth district that can drive engagement for my campaign? And it's Zion Bryant. That's the political science. Does this backfire on Tom Perrello or is this the proverbial metaphorical ace up his

sleeve that he utilizes 14 weeks before election day? If this was a true, true, true strategy, this would have been done months ago. This is an indication that he's behind. This is an indication that he is not front running right now. Historically, he would not be front running. Bob Good, John McGuire, Denver Riggleman. This is a political move of garnering and motivating the black vote and the top of the eighth inning.

Prove me wrong, viewers and listeners. Carol Thorpe, I was really hoping you would offer your commentary and you have. She knows politics like the Pope knows Holy Water. The vote from the city of Charlottesville is in the bag for Tom anyway. It really doesn't matter who he picked. He may be trying to energize the black vote, which has actually begun to wake up to democratic shenanigans during the last two election cycles. one-term Tom entered the race because he smelled blood in the water to retake his seat

with the now-failed Virginia gerrymandering effort. That was his shoe-in ticket. Carol Thorpe, you know this inside and out. She's 100% right. Perryiello jumped in the race. He cock-blocked Mike Pruitt, who was already in the race. Yep. And Periello got in the race because his tea leaves suggested redistricting

and the 5th District from going conservative stranglehold to being a liberal hotbed. Louise Lucas led that effort, and are you following the storylines with Senator Louise Lucas? Evidently, $300,000 of campaign financing she utilized in her defense with the Federal Bureau of Investigation as Donald Trump has dropped the iron fist on Louise Lucas for being outspoken against him. and her weed shops all over the Commonwealth, I am shocked, ladies and gentlemen, that Ziana Bryant has been named the Deputy Political Director of Tom Perry-Ello's campaign.

Shocked. Really? Shocked. The upside and the downside. The downside weighs just as heavy with Ziana Bryant, just as heavy with Ziana Bryant, just as heavy with Ziana Bryant, as the upside.

as the upside. Just as heavy. Next comment, what do you got, Judah Wickauer? Next headline. Next, we got, I mean, I guess we've already gone through the sexual assault and the tear down. Yes. It's got to be Lewis Street. Large block of purchases.

You want to do that? Yeah, let's get to Lewis Street. I promised the viewers and listeners from yesterday. Look, there's not often $2 million real estate transactions in the city of Charlottesville. And what we do with our business is follow real estate data, real estate trends. We own 24 doors. We help people get in and out of positions, connect capital, drive market share, drive return on investment. For our own portfolio, which I'm doing for my family currently, and for our sons in the future, and for our clients as well.

So we track data, GIS data, Alamo, GIS data, Charlottesville, Fluvana, Orange, Central Virginia data. We aggregate, collect, and organize that data on our I Love Seville substack where it's offered at an $8 a month subscription, which I think is extremely reasonable. Does it not take time and effort to aggregate and collect this data? Oh, yeah. $8 a month. That's all we're asking for it. Occasionally, I'll relay to you what I find compelling about the individual days' data scrape and data aggregation. I found a couple of transactions compelling to the point of taking them from paywall to free for you, the viewer and listener.

And one of them is this transaction at 108 Lewis Street. I think you have those details, photos, and a map you can put on screen. Do you not? Let us know when they're on screen. And let us know what we're seeing. Here is the image. It is, what is that? I can barely read it.

It's small for me. Charlottesville, something or other. 108 Lewis Street, Seville Imports, an independent auto repair shop at a 10,219 square foot warehouse and building. It sold a few days ago for $2 million. 108 Lewis Street. Judah's showing you the street view from Google. You also have a Google map, right?

The map is on screen now. Okay. You characterize this area as Jefferson Park Avenue, right? Mori Avenue, Jefferson Park Avenue, Fry Springs. In the map, you can see JPA and Fontaine. I'm like, I don't see, I've been doing this data aggregation. The firm has for a while. I don't see a lot of two million transactions.

So I personally do a deep dive on this because I'm intrigued. And doing in my deep dive, I see that the owner is Lewis Street Real Estate LLC. Then I'm like, okay, the registered agent, the owner's address for Lewis Street Real Estate LLC, the registered agent. Interestingly, the buyer here used their personal residence as the registered agent's owner address. I'm not going to reveal the personal residence because there's thousands of people. watching right now. Generally, and I'm speaking from personal experience as someone who owns 24 doors, I own each of these doors in an individual LLC, and then I utilize a nondescript PO box as the owner's location. For me personally, I even identify the ownership as Jerry Miller

Real Estate 4 LLC, Jerry Miller Real Estate 5 LLC, Jerry Miller, Real State 6 LLC, and so on. I do that because maybe a little vanity, if you may. Maybe it's a little vanity. A lot of people do this in nondescript ways where it's just the address of the property they purchase and turn it into an LLC and then they shelter their anonymity by linking it to a PO box where it's very difficult to find. In this particular circumstance, it was not. The registered agent had their home address. I took that home address and pumped it into the Almorro GIS. When I pumped it into the Almaro GIS, when I pumped it to the Almorahs, I then found the owners of the property. And when I did a little basic Google search of the owners of the property, I realized that the owners of this $2 million purchase, the people

behind this $2 million transaction just a few days ago are Michelle and Jeff Sprouse. And Michelle and Jeff Spouse, I hope they hear this. I'm speaking nothing but positively about you, are the phenomenal family behind legacy markets, legacy fuel, and legacy car wash. They are absolutely phenomenal people. I got to know this family, ladies and gentlemen, when we were living in the Glenmore neighborhood. There was a legacy market at Shadwell, right there at the intersection of Shadwell. I'd go there, I'd get gas, I'd get cold beer, I'd get sandwiches, chicken, breakfast, tall boys, whatever it was. So the family that's been in this convenience business since 2000, Jeff Spouse is a native of Crozay, Virginia, a graduate of Western Admiral High School.

He has made a career in food service with young success, first purchasing the Brownsville Market at age 25 in 1990. He operated Brownsville for 20 years before selling it in 2008. He later moved on to building Legacy Market Crozay and then purchased Legacy Market Shadwell, legacy market call pepper, legacy fuels and legacy car wash. Now he owns a position in Fry Springs, a $2 million position. I find that to be news. I'm not speaking out of turn. I'm respecting the privacy of their home address, and I'm championing a locally owned and operated business that's run by a family locally. I've taken a transaction that's behind an $8 a month paywall on I Love Seville and giving it to the viewer and listening public at pro bono zero charge,

despite this taking me and my team probably 45 minutes or so to source. That's why this show works, local content. So props Michelle, props Jeff, props legacy market brand, legacy fuel brand, legacy car wash brand. I'm extremely intrigued to see what you do with this $2 million position, and I salute you, Sprouse family, for being fantastic. of this community. Stewards that make this community great, thank you.

I also, and this data source, this data aggregation, found another set of transactions extremely intriguing. We can put another lower third on screen. There's a nondescript LLC, and this one

a little bit more disguise with its cover, but still someone who's got some savvy and sophistication was able to figure this out, and then I go to a friend of mine, Deep Throat for some more advice. And Deep Throat offers a little more analysis and cover here for me. Okay. The LLC is Charlottesville-Alborrow Affordable Housing LLC. Very interesting name to choose here. Charlestville-Dash-Alborrow Affordable Housing LLC is the name. And what day was the transactions recorded, Judah? That was on the 15th of July.

So the 15th of July, Charlottesville-Albore Affordable Housing LLC purchased, and you're going to give any information that I don't give, have it ready to give. This LLC purchased 1132 Preston Avenue, 1134 Preston Avenue, 1136 Preston Avenue, 1138 Preston Avenue,

97 Barber Drive, 99 Barber Drive, 101 Barber Drive, 103 Barber Drive, and 105 Barber Drive. Deep Throat, you're watching the program. Jump in here. What's your bet on what's at play here with the purchase of 1132 Preston Avenue, 1134 Preston Avenue, 1136 Preston Avenue, 1138 Preston Avenue, 97 Barber Drive, 98 Barber Drive, 101 Barber Drive, 103 Barber Drive, 103 Barber Drive, 105 Barber This is assemblage. Under an aggregated sale price. Under an aggregate...

What was that? Well, I don't know what you call it, but... One transaction, all these pieces of property. Right. They're not listed separately with different prices. This is the definition of assemblage. Preston Commons LLC, your previous owner. Is that right, Judah? Remember how I taught you how to use it?

Go to ownership history. Track previous owners. Preston Commons LLC. What's your bet deep throat here with assemblage? I do a data search on this LLC, and I find the registered agent is linked, ladies and gentlemen, to an individual that has a very unique last name, frankly, very unique first and last name. This very unique first and last name individual, this is all available if you know where to look, is Ila Kimada.

I'm butchering her name. I apologize. I-L-A-1-1-1-T-A-L-A-L-A-L-A-L-A last name, I-L-A-K-A-L-A-L-A-L-A-Las-N-N. I'm like, okay, this is helpful. This is a very unique name. I pump that into LinkedIn. Mm-hmm. And when I pump it into LinkedIn, I'm going to send her a Connect, actually.

And when I pump her into LinkedIn, I-L-L-A-K-M-A-M-A-M-A, I see she's the director of operations at Hunter Lewis LLC. I'm like, that's interesting, Hunter Lewis LLC. Then I go to Hunter Lewis LLC.com. And I see at Hunter Lewis LLC.com some information about Hunter Lewis, best known as one of two co-founders and former CEO of Cambridge Associates LLC, an investment firm that has advised research universities and colleges representing over three quarters of U.S. Higher Education Endowment assets, along with lead. not-for-profit and high net worth families. Cambridge Associates is now a global firm with offices around the world and 2.6 trillion in assets under advisement as of 2018 the

year he left. Okay, so I'm now trying to connect some dots. So assemblage, Charlottesville City, registered agent, Ila Kamada, the director of operations at Hunter Lewis LLC, the namesake of Hunter Lewis. I then go to Hunter Lewis LLC and I'm like, geez, Louise, great balls of fire. 2.6 trillion under assets advising college endowments and university endowments, heavy hitter. I'm then intrigued of the choice of LLC. Charlottesville, what's the LLC's name, Judah? Charlottesville, Albemarle Affordable Housing LLC. Very clever. an LLC name tied to Charlottesville, Al Marl, and Affordable Housing. Remember, you can pick whatever name you want for your LLC if it's available.

Very clever. I then get my friend Deep Throat, who's very smart, involved in the discussion via direct message. I protect his anonymity, because if I protect his anonymity, I trust him. I know that he's going to shoot me straight and will continue to shoot me straight, because the information he's going to give me is not going to be linked to him personally or professionally. He offers some color into this. He says,

Cambridge Associates was a big partner of his firm. The set of plots that was purchased was rezoned a few years ago. The entity that rezoned it never bothered to build out. It was listed for sale and it sat for a while. Hunter Lewis is basically what on the most prominent advisors to big university endowments, which turn into this firm Cambridge Associates. Many people say Hunter Lewis is the true visionary of the endowment model, even though

David Swenson gets most of the credit. That's out of my pay grade, what he's talking about right there. Those are deep throats words. Deep throat further ads, the same address for the Charlottesville Almore Affordable Housing LLC is an address for the Hunter Lewis Foundation. I think you do this, Jerry, but all those addresses were until the rezoning a few years ago, one parcel. The rezoning split it and it got approved for, I believe, nine total units. The entity that got it rezoned and never started to build it. They marketed it, the land, and the plan. So I would imagine the new owner will execute on the existing plan, otherwise they have to go back and do the rezoning nonsense. I've been a part, now these are my words, that's deep throats color there. I've been a part of a deal

where we, a small group of us, acquired property, I found it, we found property that was opportunistic and had upside, got it positioned the right way permitting wise, zoning wise, plans and play, did not put a shovel in the ground, and exited the deal at a significant multiplier of purchase price, about 17 months later, without lifting a finger of actual shovel in the ground, dirt in the ground. Showed what was capable and got it to the point of capability and said, we can't do that, but we know someone who can. And then people got paid.

I found this compelling. And as a result, I'm relaying that to you, the viewer and listener. That's what this show is all about. I didn't violate any privacy. I didn't speak out of turn. I didn't throw any shade. I found data that was online. Judah found it.

Passed it on to me. then I took my experience and put it into play, got to a point and brought in somebody like Deep Throat, who's super savvy, to dot the eyes and cross the T's with me. And now we pass it on to you, the viewer and listener. That's crowdsource content at its finest, and what makes this talk show, the I Love Seville show, the source of the source of what matters in this community.

There is not a media platform in Charlottesville that can do this. Not one. I'm going to close the program with this. I have a client, ladies and gentlemen, that is financed and vetted, that is looking to purchase a service business, lower third on screen. He does not want a service business that requires a license like electrical, class A contracting, or plumbing. wants another service business to purchase that is cleaning, pool service, rug cleaning, house cleaning,

power washing. If you got one to sell, let me know. My percentage is 8% of transaction price. This is one of the ways we make our living. If you don't have a succession or transition plan, let us know. And I'll close the program by highlighting partner of the show, Stanley Martin Holmes. Did you know Stanley Martin has built more than 600 homes in the last two years in central Virginia? Hundreds of homes, ladies and gentlemen, 600 plus across Central Virginia. They're bringing nearly 50 to the Fry Springs neighborhood.

80 or so outside of Glenmore at Breezy Hill. hundreds of newly constructed homes in the Kesswick and the Green County area, excuse me. The most significant and prominent developer and builder locally is Stanley Martin Holmes. Honest, communicative, straightforward. Holmes constructed and innovative capacities that are made to last. Stanley Martin Holmes. This 68 minutes of context. was an example of arguably one of the best pieces of content we've created in our time here at the I Love Seville Network.

Very straightforwardly. For Judah Wickhauer, my name is Jerry Miller.