The I Love CVille Show With Jerry Miller! - Thoughts On Joe Biden v Donald Trump Debate; Youngkin Names 5 New UVA Board Of Visitors

Episode Date: July 1, 2024

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Good Monday afternoon, guys. My name is Jerry Miller, and thank you kindly for joining us on the I Love Seville Show. We enjoy connecting with you through a network that has a studio located in downtown Charlottesville, a network that utilizes social media and podcasting platforms to connect with you, the viewer and listener, about topics that are tied to the Charlottesville, Alamaro County and Central Virginia communities. Today's show is a reflection of those ties.

We'll take a macro topic like the presidential debate and try to localize it on the program today. We'll talk Glenn Youngkin. He now has appointed 13 of 17 Board of Visitors members, and we'll discuss this or unpack this. How will the Youngkin appointees change the University of Virginia, influence the University of Virginia, and how will the Youngkin appointees change, influence, and impact Charlottesville City, Albemarle County and Central Virginia in totality. I have a lot to unpack with that topic. We'll talk a parent suing the

Virginia School Board Association. One of our valued viewers and listeners sent us to this topic via Facebook message earlier today. I thank her for sending us this topic. I did not see it. I encourage all the viewers and listeners that listen or watch this program, if there's something that you want to hear discussed on the show, send it to Judah and I. We're available via DMs, email, just let us know, and most likely the program, your topic, will come on the program. This parent is a Hanover County parent. She filed a Freedom of Information Act request, wanted copies of the Virginia School Board Association's financial records.

The VSBA said, no way, Jose. You're not getting our money. You're not seeing how we spend our money. You're not getting these documents. And the parent has now filed a lawsuit demanding these financial records, insisting that the FOIA is legitimate because the VSBA is a governmental organization that receives a majority of its fund from tax dollars. The VSBA has attempted to have the lawsuit dismissed, but a circuit court judge ruled against them. Ladies and gentlemen, the crossroads of politics in our public school system continue,

continue, if anything, gain momentum. Judah Wickhauer and I will talk about Richmond, Virginia, named as the best town to visit in 2024 by CNN. We'll talk Charlottesville's new tax rates, which go into effect, is it today, Judah? I believe it is today. Go into effect today. It's the 1st of July. 1st of July. So less money in our pocket. Yeah.

More money in the hands of local government. I've already seen restaurants starting to put up notices about it. Just asking people to be kind. Can you imagine the headwinds that restaurants face right now? And now they're having to put signs in their windows saying, the man is taking more of your money. It's not us. It's the man.

We'll talk about that on today's program as well. We'll talk Reese Beekman signing a two-way contract. This is something we'll cover with Jerry Ratcliffe, the Virginia Sports Hall of Famer, on the Jerry and Jerry Show tomorrow. For the first lower third, Judah Wickauer, why don't you put the Joe Biden-Donald Trump debate on screen? We'll shift up the headlines and talk Donald Trump-Joe Biden.

This was Thursday night. We were all fair on Friday. My family was moving as a result. We did not do a show. Moving is the absolute worst, especially when you have children that are as young as 19 months and six years old. All things considering, happy to be in the new house. Happy that process is behind us. But I miss connecting with you on Friday, in particular because of this presidential debate. Donald Trump, I thought he stuck his foot in his mouth when it came to Charlottesville. I was disheartened. I couldn't believe that Biden even brought it up,

especially considering the last week of top of the headline news about it. I was disheartened to see Donald Trump say Charlottesville was debunked. I was disheartened to see Joe Biden again, again, leverage Charlottesville for political purposes. Both men, Joe Biden and Donald Trump are utilizing Charlottesville as if we are pawns on a chessboard for political purposes. The debate was a disaster. If there's a winner of this debate, clearly it's Donald Trump. And that's not an endorsement for Trump, but it's a sad state that is Joe Biden. Although at the very end, I was giving it to Biden. He was actually answering the question.

He was actually making points, whereas Trump wouldn't even answer the final questions and just kept going on and on about the same BS that he kept going back to. I'll push back on that, Judah Wickhauer. Even the Democratic Party is trying to distance itself from Joe Biden. Joe Biden came across as a man. I'm not surprised. That was not mentally coherent, was struggling to string sentences together and keep his train of thought going. Today on CNBC, squawk on the street, one of the morning shows on CNBC, I was watching Andrew Ross Sorkin say this. Very well watched show.

He said this. We have all been fleeced by the current president. They roll the current president out and have him read a teleprompter and utilize him as a puppet for pomp and circumstance purposes. But when he is having to think on his feet, ad lib on the fly, or answer questions on the fly, he does not have the mental capacity to do so. And Andrew Ross can ask his guests, does that gaslighting impact how the media covers Joe Biden moving forward during this race? That is a great question. If we have been fleeced the wool over our eyes by whoever, whomever, about Joe Biden's mental capacity, mental capabilities, and just being coherent, if they used him as a puppet for kissing babies,

for shaking hands and reading teleprompters, covering who he really is mentally, should we not all be angry, concerned, frustrated? We were tricked. And we saw it firsthand on Thursday night. I'm no Trump fan. I'm no Biden fan. Hell, I'm no RFK fan.

But what I do know is one of the guys that was on stage on Thursday evening, if he's asked to represent the country for the next four years when he's 81 right now, that is a terrifying proposition. No doubt. Anything you want to add to this before the next topic? Yeah, like I said, I thought he had his lucid moments, but when I first started watching, I missed the very beginning and I came on to Biden giving his, what would you call it, a frown, a scowl. It just looked like confusion writ large across his face. How many times did the camera catch Joe Biden, eyes frozen without blinking?

Why was the man not blinking? Kevin Yancey pushes back on me and says, so Jerry, you're 100% every day, 24-7? My response to Kevin Yancey is, I host the I Love Seville show. I'm not the leader of the free union. Very big difference in job description. I'm not negotiating treaties, driving economic policy, keeping our country out of wars, preventing wars, interacting with bureaucrats,

Congress, U.S. senators, contemplating tax cuts or tax spending. I sit here 1230 to 130 for the most part and talk about Charlottesville. And no, Mr. Kevin Yancey, public speaking is not public speaking. Public speaking, when you're the President of the United States, is the most basic description of your job. The most basic description

is public speaking. And on Thursday night, we didn't get that. And the interesting aspect of this, Judah, is navigating this topic. Navigating the crossroads

between ageism, becoming geriatric, mental capabilities, and losing them. It's a sad state of affairs because we struggle. It's like the conversation I had this morning with a doctor when it came to obesity. You struggle to have conversations like, you know, I'm overweight. I need to lose, I'm just talking in general terms, 20, 30, or 40 pounds for health purposes. A family member will struggle to tell another family member, another loved one, that you are overweight, you need to lose this weight. We care about you. We want you to live a long time. Exercise, eat better, drink less, less ice cream, get yourself

in better shape. We struggle with that conversation. Just like we struggle when a grandmother or a grandfather or someone that we love becomes older and we see their mental capabilities and their physical capabilities disintegrating before our own eyes. The terrible thing is that disintegration is happening before the entire world. As opposed to in the confines, the comfortable, trustworthy, and friendly confines of someone's house where they grew up amongst their loved ones. If Donald Trump plays his cards right, this is what he does. And he's not going to be able to do this because he's Donald Trump. He just stays quiet. Just toes the company line the rest of the way and let Joe Biden implode.

All right, next topic. Unless you want to add anything to this. Yeah, I thought the, well, just one last thing. I thought the Charlottesville thing was a little overblown. Like I said, I can't believe that Biden even brought it up. But is it still a thing to everyone? Like, is there any, has anyone proven that he was talking about anything other than people? I mean, can we all agree

that there were people who did not want the statues taken down? And that had nothing to do with racism or white supremacy or the KKK. There were some people that just didn't feel the monuments should be removed. Can we agree on that? We know that there are people that did not want the monuments removed. Yeah.

Trump made a mistake with his phrasing. Okay. And how he phrased it and that phrasing was taking out of context right as someone locally in charlottesville who has a platform and says things all the time opinions all the time some of them taken out of context i'm very well aware of how phrasing yeah and sound bites can be misconstrued. And how he phrased what happened in Charlottesville was optics-wise, not strategic. The fact that Biden continues to bring it up, what, five, seven years later, seven years later, is to drive headlines, clickbait, and get an emotional response. He's using us. He's using us as if we were pawns on a chessboard. Janice Boyce Trevelyan, some photos on screen. Let's get Janice's photo on screen.

Stephanie Wells Rhodes, your comment is on deck. And before I read your comments, I was most humiliated for not the current president, not the former president. I was most humiliated for us as Americans. Yeah, definitely. As Americans, I was humiliated to watch that. And if you watched Jill Biden giving Joe Biden props.

She gave him props the next day and said, honey, you did a great job. That was, oh, she did more than just say, honey, you did a great job. That was even more embarrassing. It was humiliating. Yeah. Humiliating. Janice Boyce Trevelyan's photo on screen. She says this, Janice Boyce Trevelyan, JBT, we love when you watch the show

She says, I am angry about Biden People have been saying for months That there is something going on The media has totally ignored covering his health Until the debate To put Biden out to debate looking like he did Makes the US look weak like a laughing stock They invited Biden to Charlottesville

He keeps using the city and has never been. Bingo. JBT, bingo. She says, if you have eyes, you know he's been in trouble. He was awful in France. His family should be ashamed. Janice Boyce Trevelyan, there has been going on much, this has been going on much more before this debate.

Go back and watch him falling up and down the stairs, wandering around podiums, 100%. No doubt. But in this debate, we back and watch him falling up and down the stairs, wandering around podiums, 100%. No doubt. But in this debate, we saw it in its truest, rawest, most authentic form. Stephanie Wells Rhodes, her photo on screen. She says, amen, Jerry Miller. And she says, he looks hollow to me,

just like my grandmother who has Alzheimer's and is in memory care. I saw the same thing. I saw the same thing Stephanie Wells wrote. Yeah. A man that was hollow is a great description. All right, we've got to go off topic. The reason I bring up the debate

is because I didn't have a chance to talk about it on Friday and because Charlottesville was a point made in the debate by both parties. And I'm tired of it being used. Let's go, Youngkin Board of Visitors. I believe you have three headlines that we can rotate through here. I'll set the stage on this. This is a big story.

This is a big story that impacts the University of Virginia. This is a big story that impacts the city of Charlottesville, Alamaro County, and a big story that impacts Central Virginia. The governor, Glenn Youngkin, named five new appointments to the University of Virginia Governing Board of Visitors. He now has 13 of 17 board members as appointments. How is this going to impact UVA, the city of Charlottesville, Albemarle County, and Central Virginia? First, we should talk the University of Virginia.

The Yunkin appointments, 13 of them, will most certainly galvanize to control the board. The Yunkin appointments will most certainly galvanize to change the narrative. And the narrative of the University of Virginia right now is one that is rooted in diversity, equity, inclusion, and initiatives around that DEI acronym. Which we're seeing a lot of. The 13 of 17 appointees will push to make the honor code front and center again. The UVA one sanction honor code has been diminished and marginalized to the point my father, an alum of the university, says, I don't even recognize the school anymore.

The 13 of 17 appointees will influence the university and how it portrays Thomas Jefferson. The founder of the university has been stigmatized and scarlet lettered. He's been villainized by the current board and the current administration and the left-leaning influence at the school. That will change. My prediction, and I'm curious of your thoughts, viewers and listeners, and you, Judah B. Wickhauer, in a nutshell, to summarize, with Yunkin, 13 of 17 appointees on the board,

you will see diversity, equity, and inclusion, its momentum stifled and slowed. You will see the honor code return front and center. You will see Thomas Jefferson return front and center. And you may see Jim Ryan on the hot seat, the type of hot seat that the head football coach, Tony Elliott, is currently sitting on. Your thoughts, viewers and listeners.

Your thoughts, Judah B. Wickhauer. I'm very curious to see how the rector, Robert Hardy, how this impacts him. Robert Hardy no longer has the influence and control he once did. And I'm very curious to see what Jim Ryan is thinking right now. I'll go to Judah first, then you viewers and listeners. I mean, I think you've pretty much said it. He's got whatever he needs on the board to do what he wants. I don't necessarily

think that's a bad thing in TJ as the founder of UVA, as an historical figure who, I mean, we can all agree that there's no doubt that he had slaves but that doesn't invalidate building one of the top universities in the United States right now Viewers and listeners let us know your thoughts.

We'll mention them live on air. The next questions we should be asking ourselves is how will this permeate through the city of Charlottesville and Alamaro County? Because UVA drives the city of Charlottesville and Alamaro County. And UVA drives the city of Charlottesville and Alamaro County, and UVA drives central Virginia. Also, on Friday, over the weekend, I don't know if you saw, and he's a valued viewer and listener. He's come on the show. I have tremendous respect for him.

The Alamaro County Commonwealth's attorney, Jim Hingely. His moving to keep the audit report about the killing on grounds at the University of Virginia with the three football players? Yeah. Sealed. Right. Did you see that? Vaguely, yeah.

I saw a little of it. I didn't really dig into it. Do you have a take on that? I mean, we both like Jim Hingely. I think he's probably got, he's, you know, I doubt this is some kind of, he's not like working with the university to hide anything.

I think it's safe to say. He's likely doing this for a good, a very good reason. And I think I'll speak for myself when I say that I trust him in this. And if this is what he's pushing for, then we'll have to wait and find out if they decide to release it later. Here was the headline from Haw Spencer in the Daily Progress over the weekend. Albemarle County prosecutor moves to prevent release of UVA shooting report. The report originally promised to the public costs some $1.5 million in

taxpayer money. $1,500,000. This report was initially promised to the public. It is now being capped on the hush-hush and on the DL. I, like you, have significant respect for Jim Hingely,

the two-term Albemarle Commonwealth attorney. I think the man is excellent at his job. I appreciate his time on this program, the handful of times he's been on here. Mm-hmm. I will say this. The optics of not releasing this report leaves the average, common, everyday man and woman, including yours truly, asking, what are they hiding? Does it have to be hiding, or can't it be that there's information that could be damaging to a court case down the road?

The killing of these three football players at the hands of a former football player and UVA student and the injury of Mike Hollins and another UVA student all that were shot three killed this consumed Charlottesville

Albemarle County and Central Virginia for weeks. And for good reason. The day this happened, the town, the region, was glued to their screens and nothing else. The school shut down. The city was on lockdown. The county was on lockdown. There was a manhunt with multiple police agencies

hunting a 20-something student. We know over the course of what happened that this student was rumored and reported to have a gun on his person and on grounds over a number of times. He had brushes and run-ins with the law. And when it comes to our students in a public university and the safety of our kids, we should know what went wrong. We deserve to know. We deserve to know the skeletons in the closet because it's taxpayer dollars funding the school

and our kids are the ones attending just like when we get to this Virginia School Board Association the VSBA with a parent and don't put that headline on screen yet a parent has FOIA'd, Freedom of Information Act, a Hanover County parent, the VSBA, wanting to know how they're spending their money. The VSBA said,

we're not going to release that information to you. And that parent is now suing the Virginia School Board Association saying, this is sketchy. You're getting taxpayer dollars. We deserve to know how you allocate getting taxpayer dollars. We deserve to know how you allocate them. Just like we deserve to know what the UVA administration and the UVA infrastructure did to keep students safe or not safe. Now, I owe you an answer. And before I give

you this answer, I encourage you, the viewer and listener, to let us know your thoughts on these topics. We'll relay them live on air. How will this impact the city of Charlottesville and Albemarle County? Youngkin, 13 of 17 appointments on the Board of Visitors. What is your thoughts on that, Judah B. Wickauer? Jack of all trades, Jack of all wits. Say that again? Sherry Wolcombe, welcome to the show.

How will it affect what? Youngkin has total control of the board. How will that impact the city of Charlottesville and Alamaro County in central Virginia from your standpoint? Like you, I think there'll be in-depth look into the discrepancy between, you know, reporting on what, I don't remember the exact number, but how much UVA is spending on DEI hires and programs, the discrepancy between the number that we've heard and the number that UVA says, I think I can definitely see them pushing to serious thoughts about how to continue with some of those hires, whether we need all of that, whether we need to be spending all of that money,

however much the real number is. How it will affect our town, I couldn't say. Kevin Yancey says that case, where they're keeping the report on the DL and the hush-hush, he says that case is a slam dunk. Whatever is in that report, how could that possibly compromise the case? They have the culprit, the alleged murderer,

and the smoking gun. It's a slam dunk case. Release the report. Kevin Yancey, great comment right there. That's fair, but... That's a pushback to you there. I mean, I'm not saying he's wrong, but UVA wants to keep it on the DL. Why does UVA want to keep it on the DL. Do we really think... Why does UVA want to keep it on the DL?

Because I would bet the report makes them look bad. Oh, I'm sure it does. But why would Jim Hingely go along with that? That's a great question. That's what doesn't add up. That is a great question. If Jim Hingely is saying that this report should remain hidden, there's got to be a good reason.

I don't think that he would just side with UVA to protect them. We asked the question, why did President Jim Ryan militarize the state police and pepper spray students when they were peacefully protesting? I mean, I don't know that he... Did we not ask that? Did that not seem out of character for Jim Ryan? Oh, it's very out of character. Does this not seem out of character for Jim Ryan? Oh, it's very out of character.

Does this not seem out of character for Jim Hingeley? Do we really think he authorized the pepper spray, though? Do we think Jim Ryan authorized the pepper spraying of students in that pro-Palestine protest? Hell no, Jim Ryan didn't authorize that. Exactly. I can see him calling out... Not a chance at H-E double hockey sticks. Do we think Mr. Hingely

is leading the charge in authorizing, sealing and hiding this report that cost a million five hundred thousand dollars of taxpayer resources? Or is there alternative pressure doing it? Is there a connection?

Is there any kind of comparison? Is it a comp? Is there any kind of comparison? Is it a comp with Ryan acting out of character with the management of the pro-Palestine protest, militarizing the Virginia State Police, using Red Rover military tactics, pepper-spraying peaceful protesting students, and Mr. Hindley, who is one of the most transparent people you will know.

Transparent. Hiding this report. So is the implication that Jim Hingeley is on someone's leash? Is the implication that Youngkin and the Board of Visitors have this kind of influence? That they can dictate what a president does and perhaps influence what a Commonwealth attorney does? Why is a report not being released when the case is a slam-effing-dunk?

That's a good question. Great question. But maybe the report would... Maybe the report would make that slam-du dunk not so much a sure thing. Kevin Yancey says they want to maintain their image, that's why. I.e., they have something to hide. But again, why would Jim Hingley care about UVA's image? I don't think it's Mr. Hingley.

You think somebody's telling Jim Hingley, here's what you're going to say? If the same logic pertained to Jim Ryan was being told what to do, why wouldn't it pertain here? They're two very different people. I can see... I can see Ryan being affected by the Board of Visitors is

hingely bound by the same thing that By the governor and his reach and influence? The most powerful guy in the Commonwealth? Fair enough. So that's what you think it is.

I think it's a conversation worth having. Because this seems out of character to me when it comes to the Mr. Jim Hingely that I know. I agree. If it's just a matter of protecting UVA's image, it seems very out of character for Jim Hingely. Right. And the case he's prosecuting is a slam dunk. Now, I owe you this answer.

How is Yunkin having 13 of 17 appointments on the board going to impact the city of Charlottesville, Albemarle County, and Central Virginia? I have very succinct and clear-cut answers for that. When the Board of Visitors, ladies and gentlemen, pushes UVA to distance itself from diversity, equity, and inclusion momentum and efforts, when the Board of Visitors pushes Thomas Jefferson front and center and returns him to the founder status at UVA and de-villainizes him, de-stigmatizes him. And when the Board of Visitors pushes the honor code front and center,

and when the Board of Visitors takes away the wokeism and left-leaning nature of the university, as we've seen over the last 10 to 20 years, when the Board of Visitors does all of the above, this is how it's going to impact the city of Charlottesville and Alamaro County. Are you ready? You will see more protesting. You will see more student angst. You will see more professorial angst. You will see more divisiveness and division. You will see more freedom of speech in the form of large groups gathering, protesting their beliefs than we have ever seen at the University of Virginia. Those pro-Palestine protests from earlier this year, They shut down traffic on the corner. They got Alamo County, City of Charlottesville, UVA, and Virginia State Police all in one area. They made national

news. As the Board of Visitors looks to reimagine or reinvent or reposition UVA. That will be a lightning rod for 18 to 22-year-olds that have a lot of free time on their hands and feel emboldened to follow beliefs and passions. That's my prediction. You will see more protests at UVA because of this, And that will impact Charlottesville and Albarr County. Okay. Get the politics out of schools. You start it at the top at the university and college level, and you trick it all the way down. Great lead-in to VSBA. Perfect segue.

Set the stage. Virginia School Board Association with the lower third, and what's going down? With the parents suing the board, I mean, there's a lot in there. I thank the viewer and listener for sending us this story. We recently had a member of the newly, well, fairly newly created... School Board Member Alliance. Yeah. And maybe they, I don't, I think this is a prime time for SBMA to be on the scene, especially with what we're learning about VSBA.

VSBA may... They may allege themselves to be nonpartisan, but I think it's pretty clear that they are. This article that you sent is telling. I'll set the stage here for the viewers and listeners. The who, what, when, where, why. On June 26, 2023, a parent in Hanover County filed a Freedom of Information Act request for copies of the Virginia School Board Association's financial records, only to have her request denied. The Virginia School Board Association says it is not subject to FOIA requests despite being a public organization.

The mom, the Hanover County mom, turned to the Founding Freedoms Law Center, which is the legal arm for the Family Foundation. And the Founding Freedoms Law Center, in conjunction with the mom, filed a lawsuit against the VSBA, arguing that the VSBA is subject to Freedom of Information Act requests because it is a government organization that receives a majority of its funds from tax dollars. The VSBA attempted to have the lawsuit dismissed, but a circuit court judge ruled against them. Now, a date for the next hearing is being set. Time will tell.

This is what is the alarming aspect of this story. The Virginia School Board Association is supposed to be nonpartisan. And that's what it claims. By their own claim. Their own claim. On their website. But many would argue, parents across the Commonwealth would argue, By their own claim. agenda, which has become obvious to parents in recent years. Now, parents are asking the VSBA to open their books and demand to know how they're spending their money.

Yeah. And not just obvious to parents. I mean, read on, and it says, filing a show the VSBA keeps three paid lobbyists to actively oppose Republican sponsored legislation. I mean, if that's not picking sides, I don't know what is. A leaked video from a 2022 VSBA conference in Richmond reveals their chief lobbyist, Stacey Haney, attacking Republican legislation that advocates for parental rights as unconstitutional.

We have an association, the Virginia School Board Association, that actively works with school boards in the Commonwealth of Virginia, elected officials, and trains the school boards how to act, how to vote, how to pass policy, how to align with superintendents, basically how to shape public schools in the Commonwealth. We have a lobbying group funded by taxpayer dollars that tells the elected officials who determine how budgets for public school systems are spent. And they are refusing to open their books on how they spend their money. Yeah. A common question of today's show. What is there to hide?

Yeah. What is there to hide in the $1,500,000 report with the UVA shooter that killed three football players and shot two others? What is there to hide with the Virginia School Board Association? Yeah. If this doesn't sketch you out, ladies and gentlemen, I don't know what sketches you out. Especially where

people's kids are involved. Exactly. Our children. People that were being fleeced again. If there's any organization that should be transparent, it's any organization that should be transparent, it's an organization that has control over how our children are taught. There it is.

Judah B. Wickhauer. Bingo. We're being fleeced with how they're positioning Joe Biden. We're being fleeced by who called the shots in the pro-Palestine protest where the Virginia State Police was militarized and students were pepper sprayed. We're being fleeced with a $1,500,000 taxpayer audit on the shooting on grounds and now it's not being released or they're trying to prevent it from being released. And we're being fleeced by the Virginia School Board Association

and how they're spending taxpayer dollars. That ain't right. It's definitely disturbing. It is disturbing. Follow the money, ladies and gentlemen, always. Follow the money. Anything else you want to add to this topic? I mean, my last thought is prop to this woman for bulldogging this and not letting go. Amen, brother.

Amen, brother. And props to the SBMA for creating an alternative option despite facing backlash. Yeah. What's the next headline? Oh, the taxes. Actually, we got CNN names Richmond best town to visit in 2024. This is a headline that caught my eye. Richmond, Virginia was named by CNN Travel as the number one city...

This isn't just Virginia. Did they say Virginia on the headline? I don't know. I've never seen the headline. It's best town to travel in the United States. Is that what you have for the headline? Let's see. CNN names Richmond best town to visit in 24. Okay. That's what you gave me. Thank you. CNN Travel is calling Richmond, Virginia the number one town to visit in the entire nation in 2024. Richmond, Virginia one, Providence, Rhode Island two, Tacoma, Washington three, Portland, Maine four, and St. Louis, Obispo.. St. Louis Obispo. That's your stopping grounds.

It's not my stopping grounds, but it's still in California. California 5. Ladies and gentlemen, I want to highlight this to you. When I was growing up as a tyke, as a lad

in Williamsburg, Virginia. Richmond, Virginia was the murder capital of the United States. When I was growing up 50 miles from Richmond in Williamsburg, my family used to joke, that's where you don't want to go. And in a very short time, Richmond has reinvented itself, repositioned itself, rebranded itself. And now CNN Travel is calling it the best town to visit in the country. Richmond, Virginia has housing affordability.

Richmond, Virginia has a fantastic food scene. Touch museums. Incredible museum ecosystem. Walkability, bikeability, neighborhoods, a big town with small flair, incredible music. Did I say housing affordability? And a lot of ways, Richmond, Virginia, is the ying to the Charlottesville yang.

The ying to the Charlottesville yang. The ying to the Charlottesville yang. And Charlottesville's housing affordability issues are now seeping into Stanton, Augusta, and Waynesboro. Headline Daily Progress today. Stanton, Augusta, and Waynesboro housing market squeezing out renters and buyers, expert says. We also have one of I think Charlottesville's last last

trailer parks getting sold. Which is terrifying for the residents and one can only hope that they're not all pushed out as well. Where is that? Down Carlton.

Who's buying that? I don't think anyone knows the buyer yet. Where was that, and which article, and which media outlet? Let's see. I think it's on Charlottesville Tomorrow. The trailer park was formerly owned by three companies, which I believe are owned by three siblings. Carleton Mobile Home Park residents fear losing their homes as news arrives that the park will be sold.

Yeah. The owners receive $7 million offer for the property. It's unclear who made the offer. Yeah. A lot of people don't realize this with trailer parks. You own the trailer, you don't own the dirt. Right. And I believe if the new owners want to kick them out,

they have to provide, like, I believe it may be like $5,000 to help them move. But as the article states, that is oftentimes severely below what somebody would need to move all the stuff you've got in a place like that. And even if it does cover

the cost, where do you take it? The six-acre property is located in Charlottesville's Belmont neighborhood. Six acres in Belmont. Damn. Yeah. How many $700,000, $800,000 houses can you build on six acres in Belmont? Those would sell in hotcakes. Yeah. It's one of just two mobile home parks remaining in the city.

The other is Mountain View Mobile Home Park on 6th Street Southeast. This is a topic we should talk about on tomorrow's program. I didn't read this. Thank you for bringing this to my attention. Make this the lead if you can or one of the top three headlines for tomorrow's show. 60 families call this park their home. The future of this park ain't a mobile home park. Probably not, sadly.

Let's go to Deep Throat, number one in the family. There's not a universe in all of the multiverse in which I would choose to go to Richmond over San Luis Obispo. There is not a universe, Deep Throat says, in all the multiverse where I would spend a day willingly in Tacoma. Have you ever been? I have not. I have not been to Tacoma either. He says the Carlton mobile home park, our affordability geniuses on the planning commission completely forgot to do a mandatory chapter and the CP about using manufactured housing to promote affordability. They only did it and did it perfunctorily when it was pointed out in a lawsuit and now we see Carlton about to be wiped out. Nice work planners from Deep Throat.

It's a shame and it's definitely not something I'm going to laugh about. Well, how about this headline in the Daily Progress that says Stan Augusta in Waynesboro is becoming expensive and folks are getting squeezed out that are renters and buyers. You know what that's a byproduct of? That's a byproduct of middle class and upper middle class families not being able to afford to live in Charlottesville and Albemarle County. So as your middle class and upper class can't afford to live in the city and in Albamaro County,

they go to the adjacent communities, Waynesboro, Augusta, and Stanton, and scoop up that real estate, gentrifying that real estate. Well, the middle class is disappearing. And not just because they're moving out. Middle class is getting squeezed. I wouldn't say it's disappeared yet. Follow 303 Alderman Road closely. squeezed. I wouldn't say it's disappeared yet. Follow 303 Alderman Road closely. Because if 303

Alderman Road, that million dollar rancher that traded for $835,000 turns into a $1.4, $1.5, $1.6 million single family detached listing, then the new zoning ordinance is backfired. Set the stage for the tax storyline, and then I'll cover Reese Beekman. I'm going to talk

Reese Beekman and the two-way contract with the Golden State Warriors on the Jerry and Jerry show tomorrow with Virginia Sports Hall of Famer Jerry Hootie Rackliff at 10.15 a.m. We'll talk Ryan Dunn getting drafted and Reese Beekman. You're looking at one of the best defensive players in UVA history, what a two-time defensive player of the year, one of the best point guards in UVA history, one of the best players in UVA history. And the best he could do was sign a two-way contract

with the Golden State Warriors. That shows you how difficult it is to make an NBA roster, especially with the influx of European talent. Tax storyline. Headline on screen. Stage. Who, what, when, where, why? Judah Wickhardt. The Charlottesville City Council has voted to raise the taxes, and those taxes are now going into effect.

Unbelievable. I believe the food tax is going up to 12.3%. Unbelievable. And there's also a rise in the transient occupancy tax. I don't remember the exact number of that. But I don't know if anybody else has noticed this. I had lunch at a restaurant yesterday and they had a sign up on their glass door mentioning the fact that they are sorry and that this is something that they are complying with the city with.

Which restaurant was that? Can I ask that question? Sure. It was, well, I believe they changed their name, or at least their menus are now going by M Sushi. It was the former Sushi Love King, Love Sushi King. I always get the order mixed up. But they had a sign front and center on the door saying,

hey, don't hate us, please. At a time when everything is more expensive, we have local government making things even more expensive. And they're doing it to an industry that hasn't recovered since COVID. And they're doing it to an industry that's being revolutionized before our eyes by delivery and takeout and third-party apps. And they're doing it to an industry that's getting ravaged by increased labor costs. And they're doing it to an industry that's getting hammered by cost of good increases.

And they're doing it to an industry whose customer bases are shrinking. And they're doing it to an industry that may be the most competitive in Charlottesville and Elmira County restaurants. Raising the meals tax is the antithesis of good business. It will shrink customer pools, which means the city will get less tax revenue. If you make something more expensive, fewer people can afford it. If fewer people can afford it, fewer people buy it. If fewer people buy it, there's less tax money. Common sense, business 101, you don't touch it. I feel for the restaurant owners. And that's why you're seeing so many of these restaurants for sale.

Yeah. Get out before no one will buy your restaurant. That's why you're seeing. And that's why you'll probably start seeing surge pricing. Can you really blame a restaurant for surge pricing? You might not like it, but can you blame them? We'll talk Reese Beekman, two-way contract,

Golden State Warriors tomorrow, 2.15 p.m., the Jerry and Jerry Show. If you have not caught the newest show to our network, it airs Tuesdays at 2.30 p.m. It's called the White Mountain Ministry Show with Nate Kibler, who's a preacher. It's pretty darn good. It's very good. Tuesday is a three-show day for the I Love Seville Network. We take content that is local to Charlottesville, Alamo County, and Central Virginia, and we talk about it. And we ask you, the viewer and listener, to listen, to watch, and to comment. That's the concept.

For Judah B. Wickauer, my name is Jerry Miller, and this is the Monday edition of the show. So long. Thank you.