The I Love CVille Show With Jerry Miller! - Highlights/Lowlights From 10/6 City Council Meeting; City Manager On $6.2M Homeless Shelter Purchase

Episode Date: October 7, 2025

The I Love CVille Show headlines: Highlights/Lowlights From 10/06 City Council Meeting City Manager On $6.2M Homeless Shelter Purchase Fired Police Chief Brackney Speaks Before Council Is There A Recall Movement To Oust Allison Spillman? WAHS Petition: Keep Males Out Of Women’s Restrooms Why Do AlbCo Public Schools Seem Unstable Right Now? Expectations For UVA Going Into Bye Week If You Need CVille Office Space, Contact Jerry Miller Read Viewer & Listener Comments Live On-Air The I Love CVille Show airs live Monday – Friday from 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm on The I Love CVille Network. Watch and listen to The I Love CVille Show on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, iTunes, Apple Podcast, YouTube, Spotify, Fountain, Amazon Music, Audible, Rumble and iLoveCVille.com.

Welcome to the I Love Seville Show, guys. My name is Jerry Miller. Thank you kindly for joining us on a Tuesday in downtown Charleston. Last night, a city council meeting. Last night we saw a fired police chief, Rishall Brackney, Dr. Brackney, speaking before city council in the public comments, the public speaking portion of the meeting. We'll play her commentary.

to counsel, which was a cornucopia of thoughts on policing in the state of the union of policing locally. We're going to talk on today's show the expectations from the city manager of Charlottesville for this $6.2 million homeless shelter. I think shelter is not the best use of the best description of what we're trying to do here. you know next to the bypass it was it 2000 holiday drive is the address juna yeah um campus strikes me as a better word campus because shelter is too typecasted but we're going to offer city manager sam sanders thoughts on what he says should be the narrative his narrative of the six point two million dollars to create a shelter campus dormitory whatever we're going to call

we're going to talk on on today's program about alison spillman i am told by reliable people that there is a movement to uh launch a recall campaign uh against alison spillman i want to break down and analyze the pros and cons of a recall campaign to force alison spillman off the almore county school board. It's a complicated endeavor, but there is a discussion at the very least. In fact, organization is happening now to potentially rally against

Spillman in a recall campaign. We're going to talk on today's program about something that I find incredibly what's the what am I feeling here with this change.org petition? Can you give me a clue? Angry, confused, befuddled.

There's a campaign that has now 635 signatures that is asking at Western Amar High School for biological males to stay out of girls' locker rooms at the school. I'll read you a couple paragraphs from the campaign. Recently in Almore County, our high school, Western Almore High School, has had an increase of incidents with biological males entering the girls' bathrooms. They do not go in there to use the restroom. Rather, they just stand there and talk to people. It has been continually voiced to these male students and administrators

that this makes the women, the girls, and the restroom, uncomfortable, but we have been repeatedly told that there is nothing they can do. Our school has multiple gender-neutral bathrooms throughout it, and we believe that if boys are not comfortable in their assault, restroom that they should go to the gender neutral ones rather than making the majority of girls feel uncomfortable for their own benefit. The Virginia Board of Education has stated that biological males are not allowed in women's restrooms or changing rooms, but Alamaro County's inclusivity policy states that boys are

allowed in women's girls' restrooms. What the hell is going on in this world that we live in right now? What is going on? and now obviously these are my words. At Alboro County Public Schools, where is the leadership at ACPS? What is Dr. Haas doing? What is the school board doing?

I get this petition sent to me by parents today that they literally are having to pass a digital petition around begging Almeral County Public Schools to keep boys, men out of girls, locker rooms. And the men and the boys that are going into women's locker rooms are doing it under the guise of they may be transitioning from male to female and are considering it. It doesn't even, you think that's what it is?

Oh, I know that's what it is, yeah. Oh. Yeah. Weird. It's leveraging, it's leveraging the inclusivity policy. Yeah. as a back door to go into girls' locker rooms as a biological male. I'd say it's front door.

It's some kind of door. A lot we're going to cover on today's program, ladies and gentlemen, including the expectations for the University of Virginia football team as they head into the bye week. So much to cover on the show. We'll highlight Sir Speedy of Central Virginia. Conan Owen is a Darden graduate. Conan Owen owned. CIRSPidea, Central Virginia, locally owned and operated, if you have a need, a signage need,

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He's trying to set the record of what he wants the community to hear from him about his narrative on what this $6.2 million taxpayer purchase that in 5-0 capacity, 5-0 capacity was approved by counsel last night, $6.2 million for a 27,000 square foot office building at 2,000 Holiday Drive next to a couple of hotels within walking distance of a bus stop, walking distance of Whole Foods,

walking distance of the Rivana Trail. He's going to give you about two or three minutes of commentary. We cut that clip. We're going to play it. for you as one of the highlights of the meeting. Then as we cover the meeting in a couple of different ways, we're also going to play a clip of fired police chief Dr. Brackney and her, air quotes, state of the union for policing in Charlottesville in 2025 as we headed to 26. Nikaya Walker also in attendance at last night's meeting. Nikaya Walker also spoke before

counsel. Nakaya Walker, Chief Brackney, sitting next to each other. in this council meeting, Nakaya Walker dressed in all pink shirt and headdress. Both were sitting in council chambers masked in council chambers and both spoke to council. We'll talk about that, play those clips

here in a matter of moments. I'm going to ask you, the viewer and listener, I'm going to ask you this question. I'm going to ask you first this question. Are Almore County Public Schools unstable right now? Yeah, I think they're Beset by the same trouble we've been seeing across the United States, there was after the tragic shooting of a public figure, Charlie Kirk.

I think we've seen a lot of clashing between the left and the right. We see a continuation of what followed Charlie Kirk's death in a lot of poorly thought out social media post, to put it lightly. We see that now in the assistant, I mean, the district attorney, what's sort of I'm looking for, Jay Jones, in his statements from a few years ago. Attorney General candidate. Yeah. And I think that we're just seeing a clash of ideals come to the four across the board. And we're especially seeing that in the Albemarle County Schools where there was a continuation of poorly thought-out social media posts, the most recent from Allison Spillman, equating a group in her school system with the KKK. And we're seeing ideals, you know, opposing ideals, whether it's bringing SROs back into the schools,

whether it's allowing young men into young women's restrooms, whether it's, you know, allowing a speaker come and talk to a group of students during lunch. So much to cover on the program today. Jim Hingley, I'll get to these comments here in a matter of moments. These will be as they apply to Allison Spiltman and a campaign or a petition to remove an elected official. There's multiple steps that need to happen, and there is an active campaign behind the scenes materializing for this. They had to get 10% of the votes. There were roughly 40,000 votes in the Meg Bryce, Allison Spillman, at large race.

10% of the votes are 4,000. I think this group that is actively working or considering this removal of Allison Spillman from the school board push can get 4,000 votes. But then there's a number of other steps besides that, that they have to go through a number of other hurdles. And I think this group, and they, watch and they listen to the show. I spoke to one of the key members of the group this morning and off the record capacity. He reached out to me. One of the reasons we get the information that we get, which we relayed to you, is because we respect on the record and off the record requests by the people that are relaying the information to us. I was able to tell you weeks before the

news broke that the city was in negotiating a purchase $6.2 million of a 27,000 square foot office building before the news actually hit the agenda of city council last week. We were talking about this weeks in advance because the provider of the information understood that I would respect his identity and his request for anonymity. He also understands that the platform we have here has a lot of reach and like every day all media is watching us now. So for the media that are watching us now, I would suggest that you cover Thursday's school board meeting where it's going to be just a clash of ideologies. Thursday's school board meeting will be one of the most populated and attended school board meetings in the history of Elmore County. Thursday's school board meeting is going to require a lot of police attention.

attention from Colonel Sean Reeves. Albemarle County's head honcho. Thursday's school board meeting is going to be volatile in nature, temperamental, explosive, and let's hope to God not dangerous. Amen. Thursday's school board meeting will unfortunately, unfortunately, have a lot of outsiders who do not live in Alamara or Charlestville or Central Virginia. attending the meeting, outsiders that could be better characterized as activists are or extremely

far right and extremely far left. Agitators. Agitators is a better description. I mean, do we go as far as calling them Antifa? I mean, essentially the people that we saw take over our city at A-12. Yeah. I mean, it's Thursday School Board of Meaning is a scary one. And it's a it's scary because of Spillman's word choice. And because of Spillman's word choice in her linking and labeling of students at Western Amora High School to the Ku Klux Klan,

there's now a behind-the-scenes movement that's happening to recall or to push Allison Spillman, force Allison Spillman off the school board and out of her at-large seat that she earned. Goodness gracious. And talking with this parent, today. That was in 2023 that she won the race. She's in finishing her second year.

A recall vote. Has there ever been Jim, a recall vote successfully executed in Almore County history? John Blair and Jim Hingley, both watching the program, you would be best suited for answering that question. Has there ever been a successful recall vote executed in Almeral County history? I don't have that answer. I'd like to crowdsource that answer. Judeo, I think, is Googling it. I'm going to try it. Jim would know that. John, I think, would know that. But that's happening now. The caution that I offered the parent that is leading this recall charge, I offered these words of caution. Okay, hear me out, viewers and listeners. Do I think Allison Spillman should resign from the Almore County School Board? In fact,

emphatically and firmly, I say yes, because she's put students within her school system in danger through her word choice, through negligently and downright dangerously or linking these students to the Ku Klux Klan. The fact that Allison Spillman has not resigned at this point is an indication to me that she will not resign on her own accord, because if she was going to offer her resignation, it would have already happened. Perhaps there's a sliver of a chance

the resignation happens during the school board meeting on Thursday night, but if you're Spillman, why would you resign on Thursday night when you're in front of an auditorium where half the room is probably going to despise you, hate your guts, and want to hang you, an effigy, or literally. you would do it beforehand to keep the damage, the collateral damage she's facing right now to a minimum.

So as a result, I don't think Spillman will resign willingly. If she's not willingly going to resign, the next step is to force Spilman to resign in a parent leading this charge with a very strategic and organized effort and very strategic and organized thinkers is called me today asking for our council, asking questions, offered me the green light that I could talk about this on the show today without linking who's leading the charge at this moment. And my counsel to this parent, this team that is leading it, said, you have to be really careful because if you do issue this recall, if you go with this

recall movement to get her ousted and you do not win and Spillman beats you and stays on the school board for the remaining two years and change of her term, then all you have done is emboldened her, empowered her. You've fueled her fire and perhaps have made her teflon. if Allison Spillman comes on the other side of this basically unscathed and unscathed I mean she has been pierced with arrows personally professionally in the media and that arrow piercing has unfortunately and unfairly spilled over to her family her husband his business online and his ties to this are not fair. I hope to Spillman family

hears this. The ire and the nastiness, you get in the game of politics. She entered this with her word choice should be directed at her. But it should not be directed to her husband like it's been done

and her kids like it's been done. 100%. I don't believe that her husband, her children, or even close friends, or any extended family should be in this swimming pool of nastiness that Allison chose to enter herself. In fact, she filled the swimming pool of nastiness first. She deserves it. Her husband and extended family and kids do not, but they're facing it, such as the era we live in. Okay. My caution to this group that's doing this recall movement, actively working with attorneys. I have their approval to talk kind of the strategy they're doing. Actively working with attorneys is to be very, very careful

because if you lose and Spillman stays on the board and finishes her term, all they've done is empowered Spillman for another school board run, empowered her platform where she can potentially trampoline into higher office, board of supervisors, state delegate any kind of other office. So tread cautiously

because if you lose this fight, then all you've done is made your enemy stronger. That was my pro bono counsel today in about a 25 minute phone call. And for the

record, Those are generally, you know, something like that we don't charge, but that's, that is how we make our living. It's offering counsel like this. So for Allison Spillman, who watches the program and her camp, you should know this. There is a recall campaign that is being organized right now by people of influence in Almar County to try to oust you from the school board. and I caution this campaign to be very careful with doing this because it's not a slam dunk that they will be able to recall and beat you. Jim Hingley has offered this comment.

First, he's offered the, is the right phrase here, the procedure here, the procedure to petition for the removal of an officer from a, you know, a position of elected office. And it's a lengthy message he sent from the Virginia State Code. It's a very complicated process. Jim says, I have previously served as a special prosecutor on a removal petition in another jurisdiction because that prosecutor recused himself.

that's how that works. A Commonwealth's attorney may not properly prosecute a removal petition against an elected official in his or her own jurisdiction. So if this happens, Jim Hingley would recuse himself and a Commonwealth's attorney from another jurisdiction would serve as the special prosecutor on the removal of the petition. John Blair's offering some comments. He's number two in the family.

Did you get Jim's photo on screen? Yeah. Fantastic. Always, always like Mr. Hingley's commentary. Let's see. Yeah, John's right. You have to get 10% of the signatures to get that before you go to court. 10% of the signatures would be roughly 4,000 of the 40,000. I think this organization team can get 4,000 signatures. I think they can get 4,000 signatures. I said that.

I think you can get $4,000 because Spillman's comments were so nasty. The rest of the stuff I don't think you're going to get. He says, here's a warning about recalls in Virginia, John. The locality has to pay the office holder's legal fees if the court finds that there is not malfeasance. He says, a forgotten piece of Albor history, the petitions did qualify for a recall, but a judge found that Chris Dumbler, yes, that's right, did not commit malfeasance. The county had to pay for Dumbler's legal fees. Chris Dumbler, if memory serves correct, was the embattled Alburo County Board of Supervisor from the Scottsville District, a young attorney who stepped in a pile of doo-doo. Was it because of, I want to, I got to choose my words carefully.

It's Chris Dumbler. I need to choose my words carefully here before saying this, so I'm not, uh, and do-do myself. Al Morrow County Board of Supervisors. So I'm going to straight up Google this and read from Sevillepedia. Chris Dumbler resigned from the Board of Supervisors on June 5th, 2013, ending a 17-month tenure that was embroiled in controversy following his arrest on sexual assault charges. I thought it was sexual assault charges. Dumbler was elected to Almore County Board of Supervisors in 2011 to represent the Scottsville

Magisterial District where he has lived since 2006. he runs an independent law practice or did in the town of Scottsville. This is from Sevillepedia. Dumbler has lived in the Scottsville Magisterial District since graduating from college in 2006. He was a resident of the town of Scottsville at the time. He was arrested by Abmore County Police in charge with one count of forcible sodomy.

He later pled guilty to Mr. Meeter's sexual battery and was sentenced to 30 days in jail. Dumbler resign following the end of the petition process. So they tried to recall Dumbler. As John Blair said, a forgotten piece of history,

the petitions did qualify for a recall, but a judge found that Chris Dumbler did not commit malfeasance, and then the county had to pay for Chris Dumbler's legal fees. So if Chris Dumbler, who was charged with forcible sodomy, and later pled guilty to misdemeanor sexual battery

when he was a board of supervisors member was not pushed off the board through this petition process. He later resigned on his own accord. Is Allison Spillman going to get pushed out through the petition process? It would be tough. And that's why the counsel to the parent today was be careful because all you're going to do

is potentially maybe almost make her a martyr, which is crazy to say. I think that does a disservice to the word martyr. But you could martyr her and could fuel a platform and strengthen the brand. Regardless, her resignation, if she was going to offer it, I thought would have happened by now. Don Gathers continues to leave comments in the comment section of this show that he admires Allison Spillman for her stance. I responded to his comment yesterday that I was disappointed in Mr. Gathers for admiring Allison Spillman, and I left that in a comment.

I didn't say it on the show. Now I'm going to respond to Mr. Gathers, the known activist in Charlottesville, who routinely speaks before city council meeting, with my words by saying, Mr. Gathers, I'm disappointed that you're supporting Allison Spillman. The Don Gathers, I know, does not leave comments on a daily basis championing the Allison Spillman commentary of linking students to the Ku Klux Klan.

These comments of these words of support, Don Gathers, do not in line with the character I know that you very, that you have, a man of noteworthy character, Don Gathers. We don't always agree on stuff, but goodness gracious, how do you admire somebody that's linking children to the Ku Klux Klan? Yeah. What are you doing here, sir? And Bob Yarborough is right.

He says the recall petition is not enough for her to remove, to be removed, right? That just advances it to the circuit court where, where, a judge decides. Yeah. I'm looking at some information here. This is also from the CIVOPD, and it says that if the 10% is met, then instead of a public vote, a judge would hold a trial to determine if the elected official violated a specified list of statutory rules, including neglect of duty, misuse of office, incompetence,

and conviction on a number of misdemeanors. I would think that anyone attempting to get this started look very closely at what those statutory rules are because that's the bar that you need to meet. Yeah, I, yeah. I mean, if anything, there should be a recall for Matthew Haas' job. I don't see this. This is only going to strengthen

than Spillman. Potentially. We'll wait and see what happens on Thursday night. If you were a betting man, you know I'm a betting man.

How's this for a proposition bet? A prop bet. I'll give you, do you think Allison Spillman resigns on Thursday at the school board meeting? No. You do not? I don't think so.

But who knows? It would be crazy. I don't think she's going to resign. either. So maybe we don't have a prop out there. All right, why don't we go to highlights and low lights from city council's meeting. Let me set the stage

first. You still have this. Deep Throat's got some comments here. The only question I have about the Spillman recall effort is, where do I send my check? You know, the thing is, is this. Allison Spillman, she crushed Meg Bryce in the race.

She also got a lot of money. They both got a lot of money. And it wasn't because of money. They both got a ton of money. Allison Spillman got 61.8% of the vote. Call it 62% of the vote. Meg Bryce got 38% of the vote. She lost by, I mean, doing some quick math, 24 points, 24 percentage points.

Allison Spillman had 24,174 votes. Meg Bryce had 14,815. Have some of the 24,174 people that voted for Allison Spillman? Have they spilled away from her because of these comments? Yes, some of them have. but the ones that stand by Alison Spillman are probably standing by her at an even more significant level of loyalty.

Yeah. And if I'm seeing somebody like Don Gathers, who I respect on three or four days in a row on this show in the comments section next to his name saying, I stand with Spilman and support what she did, And he's a man who I respect saying it.

How about all these people out there that I think are wackadoos? They must be thinking it as well. Yeah. Is that a wrong read? No, definitely. As we talked about in previous shows, the fact that the message from Alba Morrow County, Alamar County's supervisor of the schools, along with his chairs, was essentially a tacit, you know, a tacit agreement with her statement.

I mean, what's happening at Albor County Public Schools right now? We're all in agreement that Alamoa County Public Schools right now seem unstable, right? they seem unstable. The superintendent, the school board chair, and the vice chair basically penned a letter of support for Allison Spillman without denouncing her word choice. It was... They didn't even touch Spilman's.

Their unwillingness to denounce Spilman and say, we don't stand with her, basically puts them in support of Spilman's word choice. Yeah. Then you have this petition that's circling Jesus. Let's talk about. about this. There's a petition that's circulating that's been originated by, by inspired by female minors by girls at Western Admiral High School. Girls at Western Admiral High School are

are literally legitimately, ladies and gentlemen, doing a change.org petition, you read the petition here, J. Dobs, that is basically begging people to sign a petition to keep boys out of the girls' locker rooms. Boys are going into the girls' locker rooms at Western Almoral High School under the guise that they're transcurious, considering transitioning,

and because Albemarle County Public Schools has this inclusivity, is it a policy? What's the word? It's in the petition. Amara inclusivity policy. Because there's this policy out there, if you're trans curious genuinely,

or if you're just a guy that wants to go into a girl's locker rooms and look at girls as they're changing and undressing, you can do this and not face retribution from Almore County Public Schools. What the hell's going on here? I wouldn't even say anything about whether or not they're trans curious. I mean, there's no, how do you prove that? Essentially, it's young men being able to go into young women's bathrooms, which is crazy.

you want to set the stage for the viewers and listeners yeah i will share the petition in the comment section of my personal facebook page find me on facebook follow me on facebook you'll see it i'll also share it on twitter and a couple of other places i'll share it on the i love sevo facebook page so you can see it and sign it jude to set the stage or you can just google petition biological males albemarle i found it really easily that way set the stage here's the here's the issue um Recently in Albemarle, our high school, Western Albemarle, has had an increase of incidents with biological males entering the girls' bathroom. They do not go there to use the restroom,

rather just stand there and talk to people. It has been continually voiced to these male students and administrators that this makes the women in the restroom uncomfortable, but we have been repeatedly told that there is nothing they can do. Our school has multiple gender-neutral bathroom, throughout it, and we believe that if men are not comfortable in their assigned restroom, that they should be going to said gender-neutral ones, rather than making the majority of women feel uncomfortable for their own benefit. The Virginia Board of Education

has stated that biological males are not allowed in women's restrooms or changing rooms, but Albemarle County's inclusivity policy states that they are allowed. While we support everyone and believe people should be allowed to express themselves freely. We also believe students' privacy and safety should be equally prioritized without bias. This petition is for the purpose of changing the Albemarle County policy to no longer allow biological men into the women's restrooms, and we would appreciate every vote we can get to help make this change happen. And I know that there's going to be pushback saying that this is directly targeted at trans

kids and trying to push them out of what they believe to be their appropriate bathroom of choice but I think the inclusivity policy is far too lax

and leaves open the fact that young men can enter a young woman's bathroom without repercussion. Exactly. This is so obvious. Ginny Who is watching the program on Twitter.

The show airs on 15 Facebook pages, 15 Twitter accounts, YouTube, iTunes, Apple Podcasts, the Fountain app, LinkedIn, wherever you get your social media and podcasting content. Ginny Who's photo on screen. She says, anyone who didn't already know there would be people taking advantage of this inclusivity policy is an absolute idiot. She can't say it any more straightforwardly than that. I rarely talk about this on the show. I rarely talk about what I'm going to say on the show.

My wife and I have chosen the private school route for our oldest son who's in second grade. And it's not cheap. We're talking soup to nuts about 25 grand a year for second grade. Would we like an additional $25,000 a year for ourselves? Of course we would. He started in kindergarten. Kindergarten, first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, tenth, eleventh, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, twelfth. We're talking 13 years.

Let's just use 25K as a base in times it by 13 years. That's $325,000. Okay? The reality is the cost of tuition escalates every year to keep up with inflation, to keep up with other costs that are out there. We're basically in this 13-year period of time, soup to nuts probably at 400,000 plus. And then we have a second kid coming. How can you do it for the first one and not do it for the second? it would be as parents

to you would feel like you're doing a disservice to your second child so if it's 400 for the first one by the time the second one is done who's two years old now so he's not close to entry in kindergarten

costs are going to go up it's probably going to be 500 for him by the time we're done educating our kids through high school and into a high school diploma combined we're talking 900 grand that otherwise we could have to do whatever we want with invest however we choose but we love our children so much we choose to do it this way and one of the primary reasons that

i felt inspired to do this and why my amazing wife chose as well is because the absolute terrible way almeral county public schools handled COVID in the pandemic and since COVID in the pandemic, Albemarle County Public Schools have worsened in leadership and have worsened in KPIs, have worsened in execution, and have worsened in the business of public education. Third grade SOLs and reading and math standards are down.

Reading and writing is down. Diplomacy is down. Graduation, truancy is up. You now at Western Memorial High School, who is monikered St. Anne's West, because Crozay and Old Trail have become so wealthy that it's nicknamed Stab West, you now have a petition that is circulating that's been authored by high school girls begging people to sign because they have boys going into their locker rooms and watching them undress and change. change in their most intimate of moment at a school. Hunter Craig watching the program, front of the program. He says, Hunter does, competition and education will solve all problems.

Imagine if you were limited to shopping at only one grocery store depending on where you live. You would not want to eat the produce or the meat if you only could shop at one grocery store, depending on where you live. he makes a reference to what Yonkin trying to push, I think the reference Hunter Craig is making, to the voucher program where parents would be given a voucher equivalent to the cost of a year's education. And then said, you can spend this money for education how you see fit.

I had no problem with the voucher program. Jesus, use the money how you see fit. the activists the far left in our community immediately started crapping all over the voucher program because they knew if if the voucher program was out there that would shrink potentially enrollment at the schools and the schools are funded in part by headcount the far left also probably knew that the private schools would get sharp and wise and they would increase the cost of tuition probably to the tune of what the voucher was offered to the parents I would hope not, but... They're a business.

They're a business. Cap-X programs, Cap-X funding, athletic department funding, teacher funding, curriculum funding, expansion funding. They're a business. Of course the private schools

would uptick tuition based on the delta that the voucher offered. How are we at a world? where teenage girls are having to beg and a change.org petition is digital begging they're digitally begging for the support of people to keep them safe in their most intimate moments while away from their parents in a one week period of time Almore County Public Schools has had a school board member

link students at Western Almore High School to the Ku Klux Klan and in that same week period of time a petition has circulated begging people to keep boys out of the girls' locker rooms. I said are Albor County Public Schools unsafe?

Did I not make a convincing argument that yes they are? And now on Thursday night in front of an auditorium of outsiders folks not tied to this region, thanks to Spillman's word choice, Colonel Sean Reeves, the Almore County Police Chief, is going to have to have extra law enforcement there and pray to God.

I am a God-fearing person. I am a God-fearing person. I am literally going to pray on air. Lord, I thank you for everything you have blessed this community with, and thank you so much for our family and our health and this wonderful family you have given us. Please do not allow. please violence of any kind on Thursday night at this Almore County School Board meeting.

Amen. Please. And if there is, it's on Spillman. And straight up, leadership negligence and malpractice and malfeasance. And it's crazy. Yon can oust Burt Ellis from the Board of Visitors for Malfecent's and Malfecent's. practice and Yonkin position Ellis on the board of visitors

at UVA to do exactly what Ellis did and then he oust him terminates him but Spillman can run a muck without any accountability or oversight and then after running a muck

without accountability and oversight have the backing in print on the record with the signature of her vice chair chair and superintendent. It's fucking wild world

we're living in right now. Definitely is. All right. I need to get to highlights and low lights of last night's Charlottesville City Council meeting. We have the Sam Sanders clip.

Here's city manager Sam Sanders talking about the $6.2 million deal that's in play. Overwhelming support last night. Overwhelming support. Can we put a couple of the flyers from the listing, from the marketing listing for the building on screen? You still have those, right? Yeah, you're talking about the...

2000 Holiday Drive. You still have the marketing collateral from the listing. Put them on screen, if you could, please, sir. And ladies and gentlemen, And tomorrow on the show we have a school board candidate Jim Dillon Beck, who Judah knows well. So here's the building that's now under study period. The city's got a deal in place for $6.2 million. It's under study period now.

Show a couple of the other slides if you can. Here's the location. I mean, just a phenomenal piece of property. A phenomenal piece of property. A couple other slides put on screen. There's the first floor footprint. You got what, the second floor in basement footprint? Phenomenal piece of property here.

Sam Sanders, we're going to play a clip for you from last night's meeting of Sam trying to set the record of what's happening here. I appreciate what Sam tries to do here. Sanders, you get props for me here. Sam Sanders is turning things around a little bit from my standpoint. My perception of Sam is turning around. This is a highlight from last night's city council meeting. Do we have that sound ready to go? Yeah.

All right, let's play that sound in three. Let's play that sound in two. Let's play that sound now. Sam Sanders. But ideally, the priority that has been expressed and committed as it relates to homelessness in the city of Charlottesville is that we have a great need for low barrier shelter. That is what I have committed to working on for two years now, I recently expressed in sharing the homeless intervention plan that we have been

working on all this time and we have successfully found an opportunity to acquire a substantial piece of property not just the building itself but the land that is available as well allows us to attack this issue from multiple angles and while it may be viewed as an attempt to move people away from other people it doesn't because they're still in the city and they're still adjacent to folks who are probably going to express concerns when they ultimately find out what it is that we're proposing to do at the site. It is important that we remember, and I have stated clearly, my position on this matter

on behalf of counsel is that this is a human issue, and we need to have people have a place to live inside as many people as we possibly can get inside, and that is what this priority project has been about. So the goal is for us to get this site acquired, and it has not been a perfect process. a real estate transaction is really all that we have in front of you at this time. There is a lot of work that has to be done to determine how to activate

the space because it is an office building today. It is not meant for people to sleep in it overnight and to do all the many things that we need to do to serve their needs. But we will continue to work on those things and make sure that we can get a plan together as quickly as we possible can and activate that site as

soon as possible. So again, I'd like to write my own headlines and my own narrative because it always gets written for me and I want to make sure that it's accurate. Okay, that's Sam Sanders. So props, props to Sam for trying to set the stage here. My mic's back on? Props to Sam for trying to set the stage here.

Props to Hunter who's watching the program for helping put this deal together. It was extremely important that you heard the city manager say that this is not us trying to pocket the homeless or push them out, it's literally giving them the hand-up, not hand-out, but the hand-up they need to transition back into society.

Yeah. Okay? And a couple of words of advice that I want to offer on the show with our platform, we need a different moniker than the word shelter here. Shelter is too restrictive on what this is. Maybe the word is best suited for campus. don't know, this is a branding strategy here. It's one of our specialties. Shelter is too restrictive. It's not just a shelter. We're talking like literally a campus, right? Maybe it's

like some kind of like, I don't know. It's like, it's a, it's a transitional opportunity is what's being offered here to get back into society. It might be a little early to label it anything since we don't know what ultimately they're going to use it for. Very fair. There is certainly some opposition to it, but the fact that people... What opposition is? I'm not hearing much opposition to this. I mean, there was a... There was a homeless gentleman that spoke before counsel last night who said, you are trying to pocket us away from everyone else. And I think we both know that I don't think that's accurate, nor do I buy that.

I don't necessarily buy it either. It's within walking distance of a bus station. The fact of the matter is that Charlottesville is a tiny city. There is no pushing someone out. If they mean pushing them away from the downtown mall, yes, that's the point. And I think that Conan Owen said something very wise the other day. when he was here, talking about the fact that there's nothing that is owed to anyone in Charlottesville and the fact that, you know, we're doing this to try to help people. And if someone doesn't

appreciate the hand up, there's nothing you can do. All we can do is our best, and clearly Sam Sanders is doing his best in this matter. Yeah, I mean, I said yesterday when all your sales tax collection, when all your levers to fund your yearly budget are down, and they've been down for back-to-back years, Houston, you got a problem. And most business people would say Houston, you got a problem in the first six months of year one that they're down. The city didn't start realizing it had a problem until the second year and six months into the second year. If my business, my rent collections, the revenue we generate, our top line revenue we generate for the parent company, the Miller organization, the consulting, the advertising, if we're down on a 30-day period, I'm trying to figure out what the issue is. the city's waited 18 months before trying to figure out a solution literally 18 months now we're trying to figure it out here okay six months into year

two and and to judas point taking the house list off the business district and positioning them on a 27,000 square foot building within a 27,000 square foot building on acreage that's within feet of a bus stop within feet of the Rivana Trail probably in better proximity definitely in better proximity to Elmore County Yeah

is running the border Is a success You can maybe if you're out of County residents be like this this moves it closer to the county But it's still in the city This is a success

And what Sam offered commentary-wise I respect it took some courage to do this is a win win win win this is a win for the city this is a win for taxpayers this is a win for homeowners this is a win for tenants this is a win for business owners this is a win for students this is a win for tourists this is a win for city hall this is a win for this is a win for the homeless i was going to sit here you're forgetting someone this is a win for there's no one that loses here yeah highlights and low lights from city Council meeting. Last night we had Chief Brackney in the house, sitting next to former Mayor

Nakaya Walker, both masked up in council chambers. Nakaya Walker, clad in pink, headdress, and shirt, Chief Brackney had some very straightforward commentary on the state of union, the state of the union on policing in Charlottesville today. I had, I had a very straightforward commentary on have a bone to pick with Juan Diego Wade and how he's managing these meetings, when you're given three minutes to speak and you allow somebody to go 30 to 40 seconds over, that's against the rules. It's cutting into someone else's time. It's not cutting into somebody else's time.

It just makes the meeting long and it sets a bad precedent. That's fair. It's a poor parliamentary procedure. Robert would be very disappointed on how his rules are being executed and managed. Let's play Brackney. What is Brackney doing here? Brackney in three, Brackney two, Brackney and one. Good evening.

Good evening. Dr. Rochelle Brackney, the former police chief for Charlottesville Police Department. Counselors, when you allocated $1 million to a clean team as ambassadors for the Charlottesville Mall, when you started down the road of trying to criminalize the

unsheltered and the housing insecure under the guise of safety and support, and as you are considering allocating $1 million to establish, re-establish school resource officers in our schools, I ask one simple, urgent question.

What problem are you attempting to solve? Because I can tell you what problem I was attempting to solve when I made the difficult, often unpopular decisions rooted in equity, dignity, and justice. When I disband the SWAT team, I was trying to solve the problem of racism, misogyny, and homophobia, the kind that thrives unchecked in militarized, specialized policing units. In 2022, SWAT had $8,000.

allocated and a special response team zero. In 2026, SWAT has zero and a specialized response team $60,000. Who are the special responders and what are the problem they are attempting to solve? When I disassociated CPD from Jade, the task force, I was trying to solve the problem of addiction being treated as a crime rather than a public health crisis. I was working to stop the cycle of locking up people who need treatment, not jail. So I ask you again, when you fund by an additional $2 million this year to the budget, when you fund militarized operations like the 3A task force against your residents, what problem are you really attempting to solve?

When I removed the school resource officers from classrooms five years ago, I was trying to solve the problem of the criminalization of normal teen behavior, things like talking back in class or skipping classes, which should never result in handcuffs. I was solving the problem of school resource officers being used to enforce administrative rules, not protect our students. I wanted to decouple law enforcement from the classroom, the cafeteria, and the in-school suspensions, and to return education to educators, to care to those who are most in need. Those actions were not about being soft. They were about being smart. They were not anti-safety. They a pro-humanity. So I ask you again, what problem are you attempting to solve when you propose

millions of punitive programs in the name of safety? Is a $1 million clean team about cleanliness or about sanitizing public space who may make people who may make us uncomfortable? Is recriminalizing homelessness really about support or about control? Our SRO is about keeping students safe or putting police back in a system that disproportionately disciplines black and brown youth. You say these measures about help, about order, about community care,

but the path you are taking looks a lot like the old system of punishment, policing, and exclusion, just with a softer name. Thank you. So as you continue down this road of criminalization under the guise of support, I leave you with this. What problem

are you really trying to solve and who will be hurt if you get it wrong. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. First thing is this. Mayor Juan Diego Wade.

Mayor Wade, take control of the meeting, please. There is a limited time per speaker to speak. You let Brackney go more than 30 seconds over the three minutes. over the three-minute threshold. Who is the walking activists? Who's the pedestrian crosswalk activist? What's his name?

Kevin Cox. If Kevin Cox went 45 seconds over his time limit, Juan Diego Wade, I assured you, would have stopped him from talking well before going 45 seconds over. Last night, he does not keep Brackney from going 45 seconds over the limit. Mayor Wade, why is there a standard for Kevin Cox

and activists who must stop at the three-minute marker for public speaking, and Dr. Brackney, who is not a medical doctor, we're talking to Ph.D. here, using the word doctor. I don't know a lot of PhDs that use the word doctor in their name. She does. going 45 seconds over with a red carpet basically offered to her by

one way to go extended. At this point, Brackney is an activist. She's talking about school resource officers hating on them. She's hating on the homeless ordinance, calling it criminalization. She's hating on the police. She's hating on the SWAT team.

She's hating on spending. she's hating on schools and how they manage troubled kids how the system manages people of color but brackney was given 45 seconds of extra time with a red carpet offered by Wadiega Wade Kevin Cox goes five seconds over the three minutes he's immediately shut up and shut down by the same man

that is a double standard hypocrisy rooted in you finish the blank. My next point on Brackney, you ready for this? My next point on Brackney, why is the fired police chief

coming back to meetings to speak before the city she had a lawsuit against for wrongful termination? Good question. Brackney literally rolled out a lawyer from the Johnny Cochran law firm, trotted him out in front of city hall and next to the free speech wall,

and tried to sue the city for millions of dollars for wrongful termination because she claimed that she was fired because she was a black woman. It wasn't fire. She doesn't remember that she was fired because the police department, had vacancies all over the wazoo, that the police department was fractured in morale, that the crime rate was up, murders were prolific,

that the brand of Charlottesville policing was one that was splintered and dirtied. None of all those things she remembers, But I do. I do. And now the brand that Charlottesville policing is one of a full department, no vacancies, graduating rookies from academies, graduating police from academies into rookies, morale is up, crime is down.

violent crime is being solved criminals are apprehended and arrested and the image in the brand of policing is one of clean something's got to be

in the water something's in the water how else do you explain in a one week period we didn't even show Nakaya's clip from from last night's

Council meeting. Last night's council meeting had a fired police chief offer her state of the union on Charlottesville and last night's council meeting had an embattled former mayor who compared the city of Charlottesville

to rape and poetry and allegory that was covered by every national and global media platform in the world. All speak before council. Only in Charlottesville had one week period of time a week's period of time

does an school board member compare high school students to the Ku Klux Klan only in the Charlottesville area in a one week's period of time do high school girls have to beg the community to sign a digital petition to keep boys from

staring at their naked bodies in locker rooms under the guise of being trans curious and considering transitioning to female only in the Charlottesville area does a fired former police chief

that sued the city for $10 million trying to shake down the city for $10 million claiming black woman fired got nothing from the city comes back to council, speaks before them and does a state of the union on what's

going on and only in the Charlottesville area does the embattled former mayor who compared the city she represented to being raped that then led to coverage of the New York Times also speak before counsel on the same night the former police chief spoke before counsel

only in Charlottesville, only in Charleston the Tuesday edition of the I Love Seville show Judah Wickhauer and Jerry Miller. Tomorrow we have an Almore County school board candidate name Jim Dylan Dylan back on the show. I don't know much of this guy. Judah's vouched for him speaks for him. Bank Bryce vouched

vouched for him. You know, I Judith's opinion carries a lot of weight for me. He's got competition here, right? He does have competition. I don't know if the competition wants to be competition, but... If this guy wants to win, he's got to use the Spillman fallout to his advantage. Yeah. He's got to do it.

He can't do what, you know, who was the person in the Jack Jewett district? that came on the program, that rode the motorcycle, and that came by here? Was that, no, that wasn't Smith. That was... Who lost to the lady, who seems to be of the Allison Spillman family tree? You know who I'm talking about?

Yeah. We're both Googling. What is this old age right here? Sally Duncan, the winner. Dave Shreve. Yeah. Comes by with his motorcycle helmet in hand. Shreve refused to go after Sally Duncan

in her ties to activism in Charlottesville got slaughtered I predicted a 10 point defeat more than 10 points he didn't go on the offensive you tell your boy Jim Dillonback if Jim Dillenbeck doesn't want to lose by 10 plus points in super blue

Alamor County that's getting bluer every day that he better go on the offensive on the Allison Spillman stuff I'm sure you'll tell them because if he doesn't go offensive on the Allison's spillment and stuff, dude's going to lose by 10 plus points. He's on the show tomorrow at 12.30.

So long. Thank you.