The I Love CVille Show With Jerry Miller! - VA Democrats Introduce 50 New Tax Bills; Jefferson Council Affirms Goluboff As Potential UVA Prez

Episode Date: January 30, 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. The Friday edition of the flagship of our network. This is the water cooler of content and conversation in Charlottesville, Almore County, Central Virginia, the University of Virginia, the Commonwealth, the country, in the world. We are unfiltered. We're unabashed. We're unafraid.

We are, we are real. We're frank. We're authentic. It's not, I don't want you, the viewer and listener, to like and agree or, we're with everything I say. I'm going to relay commentary and analysis that I believe in to you, the viewer and listener, and then it's up to you to determine what you're going to do with it. I am not a journalist. I was one at one time. A lot of the strategies and knowledge and experience I learned working in print, radio and television 19 years ago, I launched my firm, my company

18 years ago in May, self-employed for 18 years. But a lot of the experience that I guard, while working in print, radio, and television nearly 20 years ago, I'm utilizing while doing this show. But this show is not journalism. It is not journalism. It is my commentary and my analysis on what the hell is happening in the world. And today we're going to talk about taxes and Virginia Democrats on from my standpoint, how they're amount to make living in the Commonwealth of Virginia much more expensive as 50 new tax bills have been introduced. and, you know, I'm going to scratch my head and just kind of reflect to just a few months ago

where on the campaign trail, Abigail Spamberger, the newly minted governor of the Commonwealth, the first female governor in Virginia history, how she was promising Virginians on the campaign trail that this was going to be a campaign, and if she's fortunate to get elected as the governor of Virginia, she would be focused on making affordability a priority for Virginians. Well, it looks like already that's not the case. I want to talk about that on the show. I want to talk about 50 new tax bills that have been introduced by Virginia Democrats, including some of them by category and or name.

Judah Wickhauer. We're going to talk the Jefferson Council on today's program. I had a report earlier this week on the I Love Seville Network. It came out on Tuesday. Actually, Monday evening. Came out on Monday evening. I cited two anonymous sources. that were extremely close to the hiring process.

And these two anonymous sources relayed information to me that former UVA law school dean, Risa Golubuff, the first female dean at the UVA School of Laws and the UVA School of Law's history, is atop the short list to replace Scott Beardsley as president of the University of Virginia. We reported that, we stand by it. Risa Goluboff is credentialed, experienced, has degrees from what, Harvard and Yale and Princeton.

She is on paper what a school president looks like. Now the Jefferson Council has some commentary and some analysis and some background and some color and insight into Risa Goluboff and why she may be a shortless candidate to replace Scott Beardsley as, president of the University of Virginia confirming what I published on the I Love Seville Network on Monday evening. We're going to talk about a hit piece, one of the most unethical hit pieces I've seen written in central Virginia. I've been here for 25 years, and I have been in the crossfire of the Seville Weekly personally from a hit piece standpoint three years ago or so. The publication that's called the Seville Weekly,

published an article about GovSmart, a government contracting firm that's based here in Charlottesville, that was co-founded by Brent Lillard. This reporting, I'm calling it a hatchet job effing hit piece, compared in the article GovSmart and Brent Lillard to IBM and it's ties to not-exam Nazi Germany and doxing Jews during a world war. And even that is questionable.

I now have been relayed information that I'm going to pass on to you in minutes on the I Love Seville show, why I can confirm that this was a strategize hit job. That story in about 10 minutes on the I Love Seville show, giddy up and get ready. We'll also talk on the program about Charlottesville City Council during a retreat. They've been briefed by a financial advisor that revenues for this coming fiscal year may be flat or down. This financial advisor highlights macroeconomic circumstances and trends. And this financial advisor also highlights some trends associated with real estate property assessments and how in the city of Charlottesville, they're not increasing or escalating like they once did. Furthermore, I'm going to add a little color to this as well. What no one is

talking about right now is the ice and snow that's impacted Charlottesville and Almore County and Central Virginia and much of the country, certainly here in Charleston, Almore and Central Virginia. This ice, this snow, this precarious, inclement weather, the people that the businesses and the people that are getting hurt the most by this are the locally owned and operated small business mom and pops. This ice, this snow, this inclement weather, these tough driving conditions, the difficulty of parking anywhere, they're not impacting the Fortune 100, the Fortune 500, the Fortune 50, the Big Box brands like the Amazons, the Walmarts, the Targets. They're impacting the beloved businesses that we love, that are closing early, that cannot get staff into work,

don't have customers walking in the door, and it's all happening during the first quarter of the year where shopping was already down because credit card debt was high from the Christmas holiday season. So I'm going to tell you right now, as these frigid temperatures continue in the single digits, and with more snow and ice in the forecast in Charlottesville, Almore and Central Virginia, the outlook for budget season, the outlook for revenue in Almore and Charlestville should be one of concern. And why should it in particularly concern you as a property owner, a business owner, as a real estate owner is because if the meals tax is not what it should be, if the lodging and sales taxes aren't what they should be, then they're going to be coming after you and I

in our pockets and our personal property, our real estate, our investment property. Mark that down. Mark that down. A lot we're going to cover on the broadcast, including Boston College and the University of Virginia, ladies and gentlemen, a matchup tomorrow in Chestnut Hill where the University of Virginia is going to put what is a really solid record on the line against a lowly Boston Eagles basketball team. A lot we're going to cover on the broadcast. I want to give some props to a small business that I stand by. That is the definition of honest, the definition of hardworking and at Charlottesville Sanitary

Supply. This business is run by a father and son named John Vermillion and Andrew Vermillion. And the business has been in operation for three generations on East High Street at Charlottesville Sanitary Supply. online at charlotsful sanitary supply.com. You can buy something on Charlottesville Sanitary Supply. Anything you need. Pool, house, vacuum, cleaning, janitorial, anything on their website. And it's delivered for free on your doorstep in many cases the same day,

faster than the big box brands at a better price point than the big box brands. There is no reason to be shopping for sanitary, cleaning, vacuum, swimming pool, anything tied to hygiene. at any other location except for Charlottesville Sanitary Supply. Put that down, ladies and gentlemen. That's fact. And their sister company, Charlottesville Swimming Pool Company, is who you should be contacting for anything swimming pool related. They're five generations of Almaro County,

and these dudes bust their asses to make our community a better place. They invest in the community. Judah Wickhauer, I'm fired up today. Studio camera, then a two shot. Judah Wickhauer, studio camera, and then a two shot. My friend, I need to talk about. I say on the show all the time, okay? I say literally on the show all the time

that I identify with no political party that's out there. I don't identify as a Trump Republican or MAGA. I don't identify as a Joe Biden and Democrat, a Harris Democrat, a Spanberger Democrat. I'm not a leftist. I'm not a rightist. I'm not an activist. I'm not a protester.

When it's all said and done, I am fiscally conservative and socially liberal. And I think a large portion of central Virginia of the Commonwealth and our country embodies that ideological mindset. Physical conservatism, socially liberal. I don't care who you have sex with. I don't care who you marry. I don't care what you put in your pipe and smoke. I don't care what God you pray to.

I don't care what you do in your free time. Just don't tell me what to do. Don't tell me what to wear. don't tell me to stay in my house don't tell me what to do with my money and don't try to take more of it because I'm working 80 hours a week, busted my ass, creating jobs,

supporting my family, paying a mortgage, paying school tuition. And I'm trying to leave this community in a better footprint that when I first arrived through a conscious capitalistic mindset. I run a business,

multiple businesses in the black and I bust my tail doing it. I pay my taxes. And when I follow Abigail Spamberger and Winston-Murals Sears in 2025 and this push, this race for a hotly contested, it wasn't hotly contested, Spamberger beat her ass, this governor's race. I remember things. Just like when I remember when Terry McCullough said not once but twice,

but three times that parents should not be involved in their school and their children's education in public schools. I remember when Terry McCullough said that once, two, three times, which pushed Glenn Yonkin to victory. I remember when Winsom Earl Sears runs the worst governor campaign maybe in Commonwealth history, when she fires her campaign manager mid-campaign cycle. Because I think he was her pastor. It was her pastor from her church. She hired a campaign manager, a pastor from her church, because she wanted to get the black vote in Virginia.

then she realized, oh my goodness, this guy is a church pastor. He's not good at running campaigns. I need to fire him. I watched as Yonkin and Winston-Murals Sears and as John Reed and Jason Mayori's showed a splintered fractured top of the ticket campaign, top of the ticket strategy, which then trickled down, down the tonal pole at the local level on so many instances. I mean, the fact that Jason Miore's was not able to win the Attorney General spot when his opponent text-messaged other people about politicians dying and their kids dying in their mother's arms. When he was caught speeding recklessly on the campaign trail,

significantly over the speed limit, and trying to use his influence to get out of the ticket, it and he still was able to beat Jason Miari's. That shows you how bad a campaign, Winston Earl Sears, Reed, Miyaris ran this past election cycle. Now Spanberger said all the right things. Spanberger did all the right things. And one of her prime MOs, this election cycle,

was affordability for Virginians. It was a campaign built around affordability for Virginians. Virginians and distancing Virginia from what some would call Maga Trumponian push into Virginia. That's what the whole campaign was about. And Virginians overwhelmingly supported Abigail Spanberger. She dominated Winston Earl Sears. She humiliated Winston Earl Sears. And here we are, what, a couple of weeks after she's been inaugurated and sworn into office.

and Virginia Democrats, Abigail Spanberger, have 50 new tax bills that have been introduced. 50, Judah? To be fair, to be fair to Abigail Spanberger, I don't believe she was behind any of those bills. She also has veto power over any bills that do make it through. Some of these new tax bills, new personal property taxes, gym memberships, taxes on gym, memberships, highway use fees, home repair taxes, vehicle repair taxes, electric leaf blower taxes, electric landscaping equipment taxes, large employer taxes, gun and ammunition taxes, new income tax brackets, event taxes, concert taxes, investment income taxes, storage facility taxes, dog walking taxes, dog grooming

taxes, counseling taxes, digital personal property taxes, new car taxes, concert. I mean, I can continue. Okay. Now, Judah's going to say, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, this is what Judah's saying. It's, it's, it's the, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's a good as good as mine. What's, what's. I don't have a guess. I don't have a guess. Do you think she's going to veto? That's a horrible question. I get a text message. I get a direct message, ladies and gentlemen, from somebody I trust in Ginny Who. And Ginny Who sends me a text message or a Twitter thread that's kind of matriculating on the X platform. Okay?

And already you have folks in Virginia that are pushing Spamberger as a potential presidential or vice presidential candidate, that she's being groomed for this type of run. Nick Friedas, for example, talked about this on Twitter yesterday, and Nick's got a checkered pass. We all know Nick's checkered pass, but he calls

Spamberger someone being groomed for a higher office already. And Jiddy Who strategizes and DM capacity with me about the head of the state senate, Louise Lucas, and how these extremely influential Virginia Democrats are working behind the scenes in concert with Abigail Spamberger.

And it's a give and take this behind the scenes concert. You help us Abigail with reimagining boards of visitors at universities and colleges in the Commonwealth like UVA. And you help us return diversity, equity, and inclusion to universities and colleges like UVA with these 10 appointments that you just made. you help us change the look of President Scott Beardsley and maybe replace Scott Beardsley with the Risa Goluboff. You help us reimagine Virginia Military Institute, one of the most storied institute in America, Virginia Military Institute, ladies and gentlemen. And you help us reimagine this institute, get the president out and make it more diverse and inclusive, more DEI, and we'll back you on this push for higher office to either a very,

vice president conversation or presidential conversation. Help us by reimagining the B.O.V. at VMI, by putting a Ralph Northrum on the board. Imagine the lunacy, the asinine, the hypocrisy. VMI's board of visitors and Ralph Northrum, the former governor on the board at Virginia Military Institute. The same governor that had yearbook photos published when he was in office of him wearing blackface decades ago, this same guy is handpicked by Spamberger for the VMIBOV to help drive diversity, inequity, and inclusion into Virginia Military Institute. We read T. Leaves. That's all we try to do on this talk show, and all we try to do is figure out what's going on around here. That's all I'm trying to do. So if the people of influence

and the General Assembly, Scott, if the people of influence and the general, Assembly, Lucas, are working behind the scenes in concert with Spamberger on certain projects, and in return they get their support for Spamberger. Spamberger gets their support for a totem pole push politically forward. That's what's happening. You need to watch where the rubber meets the road on these 50 introduced tax bills, Virginians. No doubt. And if these tax bills are approved, if they're not vetoed, and the cost of living becomes more expensive here in the Commonwealth, then you have to say that's disingenuous with what you were campaigning upon in 2025.

You disagree? No. I agree with that final statement. Am I missing something? Probably. For example. For example, we don't really know what's in the bills. we've got a political post about all the stuff that's potentially in the bills, about what they're about.

But the details really do matter, I think, in this case. And I think we will have to wait and see if any of these even make it through the assembly and take a look at what's actually in the bills, rather than just saying, oh, man, they're trying to tax dog walkers. I don't think it's as simple as just a list of all the things they're going to add taxes to. Correct me if I'm wrong. There are more than 50 new bills that have been introduced, all associated with increased taxes, on Virginians. Yeah.

Is that correct? Looks that way. That's all I'm saying. Okay. And then I responded by saying, let's watch the rubber meet the road. because if Spamberger does not fight back on these 50 new introduced bills increasing taxes on Virginians, then what she campaigned upon was a lie. The gist of what I just started the show upon was that statement.

Okay. Next headline, Judah Wickcaror, Jefferson Council headline. Please put that on screen. Ladies and gentlemen, on Monday evening, I reported on the Isle of Sings, Evil Network, citing two anonymous sources that are very close to the hiring process, very close to decision makers at the BOV. One of them, you know, I have to choose my words very carefully, one of them as close as possible, have confirmed with me, indicated to me, passed along to me that Risa Goluboff is a potential candidate atop a shortlist to replace Scott Beardsley,

president of the University of Virginia and yet another political move by Abigail Spamberger. Scott Beardsley was appointed president of the University of Virginia by a board of visitors that was embattled and fractured, one appointed by Glenn Yonkin. That board of visitors, by the letter of the law, was not a legitimate board by the letter of the law. It did not have a full board by number count. It did not have the viable amount of Virginians on the board, and it did It did not have the viable amount of University of Virginia alum on the board.

That letter of the law is going to be used if a move is made as leverage to replace Beardsley as President of the University of Virginia. The Board of Visitors is now under Spamberger influence and control. She's made 10 appointments to it. Those 10 appointments are waiting for confirmation from the General Assembly. The General Assembly is controlled by Democrats. Spamberger is a Democrat. 10 appointments will be rubber-stamped.

No doubt. When those 10 appointments are rubber-stamped by the General Assembly, Spamberger's influence over the most prestigious university in the Commonwealth UVA and one of the most prestigious universities in the country, UVA, will be fully flexed. The talk by insiders in the know is that Spamberger is going to use that influence to replace Scott Beersley as president because it was a Yonkin pick, a corporate, world selection, a McKinsey consultant. I need to stand up for Beardsley here.

He was a three-term Darden Dean. He's fantastic at fundraising. The Darden School, one of the best in the world. Well, by all accounts, the search was legitimate, with the exception of the... The viability and legitimacy of the B-O-V. Yeah. Other than that, I mean, it was undertaken by a firm, and it sounds like they were thorough enough.

I mean, I don't think anyone can really call out Beardsley for any particular reason. I agree 100% with you. Except you don't like the fact that he was chosen by the wrong people. And there it is. And that's why Beardsley is going to be called out. Because he was selected by what is perceived to be MAGA Republicans, Yonkanites, who are one branch away and the family tree away from MAGA. And Spamberger knows this, and she has a mindset of being politically ambitious,

and she's going to springboard the tumultuous turn of events and the soap opera saga that is UVA into what is perceived to be a visionary that writes and stables the ship. And one of those riding and stabling of the ships, boys and girls, ladies and gentlemen, will be replacing the president. Jefferson Council, the lobbying group, an entity and nonprofit whose focus the Jefferson Council is to return Jeffersonian principles to the university, the one sanctioned honor code, the Jefferson Council that wants to return tuition affordability to UVA,

the Jefferson Council that wants to remove diversity, equity and inclusion from UVA, the Jefferson Council that wants to return Thomas Jefferson's legacy and reputation to the University of Virginia has now penned reporting on its website that in a lot of ways backs what I said on the I Love Seville Network on Monday evening that Risa Goluboff is in fact a shortlist candidate for president and has been for some time and was Jim Ryan's hand-picked heir apparent. Which I'm sure you'll get to has a deeper well of information. She was very much in alignment with President Ryan. More progressive even than Jim Ryan.

And as you said, he essentially had chosen her as his successor. As we all know that he was planning on leaving the president in the near future. I believe he had planned to exit as president this year if obvious events had not precipitated a quicker exit. Unfortunately, by Jefferson Counsel's reporting, she was originally going to be brought on as the provost. That failed. when her peers did not think that she was, that she was an acceptable choice, they thought that,

that someone better was needed. And so they moved on. And that's why we've had a lack of provost because Ryan was not happy with that and wanted to be, wanted her to be the choice. Then as he left, she was not chosen as one of the four candidates

by the search committee, at which point we got Scott Beardsley. Yeah. Risa Goldilov continues to be in the mix as a replacement for Scott Beardsley, has been in the mix for some time. And it was not until Monday evening when the I Love Seville Network reported on Goalabuff being in the mix. Did we know anything about Goalabuff as a potential candidate for, presidency, provost, any position at the University of Virginia. She was simply and not demeaning in any capacity, the first female law school dean and UVA School of Law History. And by all accounts, intelligent, able, and- By all accounts, definition of presidential. But in the professional

judgment of the presidential search committee, Goluboff was not qualified, at this time to serve as president. And it's important to emphasize the Cavalier Daily offered reporting, if you remember, on how Porter Wilkinson, the vice rector, and now perceived to be a hatchet person for Glenn Yunkin on the board of visitors, how she very much impacted the search that you specifically mentioned, taking the search committee in a different direction from other candidates that they had handpicked into what we have now. if you remember the Cavalier Daily reporting,

some of the best reporting ever done by Cavalier Daily highlights many people on that very search committee that talked about how Porter Wilkinson influenced the committee in ways that the search committee deemed inappropriate, utilizing her vice-rector position to dictate a committee's efforts into one direction that she personally saw fit.

Okay. Jefferson Council did not mention that in its reporting today. regardless, remember the name Risa Goluboff. It continues to be on the short tip, the tip of the tongues of many different platforms and organizations. Next topic, Judah Wickhauer, put it on the feed. Next up, we've got the hit piece. This story is bananas to me. Yeah, no doubt.

Lecebo Weekly on Wednesday, published a huge. hit piece on GovSmart and CEO Brent Lillard, the co-founder of the government contracting firm based in Charlottesville that employs more than 90 people. The hit piece tried to take a sliver of revenue associated with the, the facilitation of services to ICE by GovSmart. Yeah. That facilitation of services to ICE by GovSpart was to the tune of just over $3 million. You're talking a government contracting firm that does north of $500 million.

Yeah. It's 18th revenue stream. Someone would call that insignificant revenue stream. Three million in change when the company's doing $500 million in top line. I would call that peanuts. Miniscule. Regardless, the Seville Weekly chose to highlight a $3 million revenue stream in a company that does north of $500 million as the basis for its reporting.

And I said, Jesus, on Wednesday I said, this is ridiculous. Why would the Seville Weekly, who is barely staying in business, who cannot afford an office anymore, who's literally giving up its office on the downtown mall. The sign's still there. It's a dark hole in a cave. They don't work. They work hybrid.

Who's still clinging to a print advertising business model. Everyone knows that the print advertising business model is the yellow pages. Morse code, the dodo bird, Tom from MySpace. That's what the print. advertising business modelists. They're so desperate that they are running a call to action campaign. Please subscribe to us or donate to us. Why would you subscribe to something when it's given to you for free?

Yet they're running hit pieces on Wednesday on local businesses that support charities, employ more than 90 people, own real estate, and contribute to the community. I was love scratching my head. I'm like, what the hell is going on? This doesn't make strategic sense for its owners, Blair Kelly and Bill Chapman to do. This is just going to alienate other business owners who are the advertisers of this publication.

What are they doing? Then we were passed along information this morning. The author of the hit piece is a gentleman, and I use that word loosely, named Nathan Olderman. The information we were passed on this morning encouraged me to visit a website called Nathan Alderman.com. So I did. I went to Nathan, N-A-T-H-A-N-H-A-N-O-R-M-A-N dot com.

And when I went to Nathan alderman.com, I started scrolling. I'm like, oh, this is a cool website, Nathan. You got a little typewriter in the corner. You get a pretty picture of the sky, Nathan Alderman. A photo of you. I like the cardigan that you're wearing there, Nathan Alderman. And then I clicked something on the home page called Fact. And when I clicked Fact on Nathan Alderman's homepage, I got sent to a URL called Nathan

alderman.com forward slash fact. And next thing I know, in the middle of that page, I click, ladies and gentlemen, on something called Albemro Dems newsletter. And before I know it, I'm realizing that goodness gracious, the author of the hit piece against GovSmart

and Brent Lillard is also the communications director for the Almaro County Democratic Party. Here we have the author of a hit piece, a

hit piece focused on a CEO, named Brent Lillard, who is, I would say probably just like me, fiscally conservative and socially liberal, probably just like me polarized by our two-party system of sleepy Joe Biden, and speak out of one side of your mouth, do something different, Donald Trump, an individual that's exhausted with the taxes that we pay

despite the effort, the growing of economy and supporting the economy and supporting communities that we do. And I'm astonished that the Seville Weekly would hire the comms director for the Almorel County Democratic Party to write a hit piece on somebody that is maybe on paper perceived to be conservative or Republican, but likely is not. likely doesn't matter certainly not in my book

I support businesses based on the service they provide me and the quality of that service not whether or not the founder, the owner of the businesses are liberal or Republican, Democrat, or conservative. Atheist or God-fearing it's on the service you provide me. So I've left asking this question and I'll pass it to you.

Should the comms director for the Almaro County Democratic Party be writing a report in a journalistic setting about a CEO that's a founder of a government contracting business that does 500 million in top line revenue with a peanuts portion 3 million associated with ICE, one of the top agenda items for Almore County Democrats and their activist efforts and certainly all over the newsletter that Nathan Alderman has been publishing. I'm more surprised by the fact that CIVA Weekly actually published the article. If I had to guess, nobody read it,

they just put it up there. The guy that is publishing communications for Almore County Democrats on activism and protests tied to immigration customs enforcement is then moonlighting as a reporter in a newspaper, hatchet jobbing, a government contracting firm that has $3 million in contractual ties indirectly to ICE. The ethics or the crossroads

behind employing a political communications director who also is able to utilize a media platform to attack business owners locally is, I think the Civo Weekly's put this in the past,

dubious at best. That should be on the Charlottesville subreddit. Not the cars the guy drives. Not the hot. hobbies he does in martial arts, not the political leanings from his Facebook page. And if memory serves correct, and I'm going to ask him on Tuesday, because Brent's going to be on the I Love Seville show on Tuesday at 1230 p.m. to talk about this story. I believe his wife is Brazilian. And it's no surprise that that article is not on the Seville Weekly Facebook page or on any of its social media channels.

I can assure you after Tuesday and Wednesday, excuse me, after Wednesday, Thursday, and today's show that Bill Chapman and Blair Kelly told somebody at the Seville Weekly, well, I don't know how they would tell them they don't have an office anymore. I guess they're going to communicate with them through instant messenger, Facebook Messenger, the group WhatsApp, not to social media syndicate this hatchet job. and shame on you guys for doing it

because any other business owner locally in Charlottesville, Almore, and Central Virginia is going to think twice over ever advertising in this publication again. No doubt. Am I missing anything? Yeah. I mean...

Specifically, what am I missing, Judah? You said yes. So specifically what I'm missing. More details? His inclusion of IBM and the Nazis in his article? I mean, that's a joke. There's still debate going on today over whether IBM was complicit in anything that they did. They

essentially made them punch cards. He talks about the 1930s. Nobody even knew, I don't even think there were concentration camps in the 30s. If there were, nobody was aware of them until the 40s. So drawing a line of conclusion between IBM and 950s,000. Nazis and then somehow trying to rope a business owner who has been selling software to government agencies and acting like he's somehow what, somehow complicit in the shootings that have happened with ICE in the last few weeks is just a, how do you even make those jumps of logic. Journalistic malpractice.

Yeah. This is what the paragraph in this article, in the 1930s, IBM via German subsidiary, via German subsidiary lease early computers and customized punch cards to the Nazi government. The data that technology gathered on Germany Jews and other minorities enabled the Nazis later campaign of mass imprisonment and murder. Literally linked that to what Lillard and GovSmart is doing. Yeah. In print.

It's absurd. That would seem to me, especially with the information that I just provided, of the author of the story being the Coms Director of the Almore County Democratic Party, would seem to be meritable or justifiable as a potential suit from Lillard and GovSmart against the Seville Weekly. I'd love to hear from some of our viewers with more knowledge in law than myself. I will ask Lillard on Tuesday if the plan is GovSmart and Lillard, to in any capacity I mean at the very least

there should be an aggressive retraction published including mention that the author is the contractor of the Almore County Democratic Party who is publishing content about the Democrats in Al Morrow protesting and activating against ICE that is

cause for never reading the publication ever again by the community period it's pretty it's definitely egregious next headline juda wickhauer what do you got then we're going to go to comments on the show that are coming in aggressively on the i love seville network next headline what do you got juda wick hour revenue impact to uh charlottesville revenue this from sean tubs's substack the charltsville newsletter ladies and gentlemen there's uh advice locally of the finance variety consulting with Charlottesville City Council and explaining

to Charlottesville City Council that revenue may be a point of concern highlighting macroeconomic headwinds while also speaking to real estate assessments in the city specifically not upticking to the level of consistency and uptics we've seen in years past. This done at a retreat, the macroeconomic headwinds, the national financial picture, are one we all know. Floating debt is expensive. Groceries are expensive. Insurance is expensive.

Gasoline is expensive. Everything is expensive. We are spending less. You talk about job growth. You talk about artificial. intelligence replacing human capital. You talk about headwinds macro-wise. Microw-wise, there are also headwinds for a municipality like Charlottesville. Why don't I just rattle them off? Assessments tied to Charlottesville real estate, market values tied to Charlottesville

real estate, are flat. This has been a bread and butter for the city of Charlottesville for years, counting on increased revenue tied to assessments on rooftops. Now they're flat. How about this, another one for you? She also notes that real property tax makes up 50% of the city's budget. Yeah. I think that's important to note considering the fact that, like you said, with roofs being flat, not raising,

they're not getting any more money from that. And that's a lot. Half the budget. Half the budget. How about more for you? Look at the downtown mall. The most important eight blocks of commerce for the entire central Virginia region, the heartbeat of the region, and clearly one of the drivers of revenue in the city, it's seen way better days, and that's an understatement. It has not recovered post-COVID.

Point in case. Until the city has a true heart to heart about the houseless population and the impact that the houseless population is having in downtown Charlottes, It does not see the force through the trees. We can help the houseless population and offer the houseless population a hand up, not a hand out, but a hand up. But that hand up does not have to be on the effing downtown mall. Where friends of ours, clients of ours, neighbors of ours literally have to do written one-paper agreements with the houseless population and their ability to sleep in their vestibules.

There's one business owner who not only owns the business, but owns the real estate, the business is housed within, that has a napkin written agreement, a written agreement on a napkin with two homeless individuals. And the agreement says if you do not pee, poop, or puke in my vestibule, and if you leave the vestibule by 7 a.m., I will allow you to sleep here overnight. But if you pee, puke, or poop in my vestibule,

and don't leave by 7 a.m., you're not allowed to sleep here. And she's doing this because she has no other choice. At least she can hedge her risk and exposure by putting some kind of rules in place. Yeah. That's a true story. How about another micro-head win? The entire month of January lost for commerce

because of snow and ice, now creeping into February. How about another microheadwind? Did you know that there's an actual protest today, and the protest today is a national protest centered around ice? And the protest is no schools, no local shopping, no... What was the effing? It was mind-boggling, the protest. I want to call it up again.

The protest was mind-boggling. It was, uh, did you see it? I did not see that. I need to get the exact. Well, school was not a problem. No, some people are in school today. Are they? Oh, yeah.

Unfortunately, our maniacs are not. The protests, I literally saw this. It's all over Reddit. It's all over social media. It's, what are they calling it in an ice out? But a national protest on a day when the country, the Mid-Atlantic, the East Coast. It's called ICE Out Everywhere. National shutdown Friday. No work, no school, no shopping. On January 30th, 2026. Do the protesters realize with the no work, no school, no shopping, the ice

out that the only people that they're actually helping is the Jeff Bezos, the Amazons, the Walmarts, and the targets of the world? Yeah. And the people they're actually negatively impacting by the no work, no school, no shopping. The people they're negatively impacting is the stay-at-home mom, the stay-at-home dad, the adolescent, the small shopkeep, the mom-and-pop business owner that is literally trying to rub two pennies together to make three cents to keep the lights on. The level of out of touch with a no-work, no school, no shopping protests during the middle of a. Once in a generation, ice and snowstorm is disheartening at best, disgusting more realistically. Yeah. How's that for another micro headwin for Charlottesville's budget?

Yeah. And the reason I bring this up to the viewers and listeners, the reason I bring this to the attention to the viewers and listeners, is if meals taxes and lodging taxes and sales taxes and property assistance, If meals taxes, lodging taxes, and sales taxes are down, and property assessments are flat, what do you think the lever is going to be, what lever is going to be tweaked? More taxes. Yeah. The rule state tax rate.

The meals tax. And those are regressive taxes. Those are gentrification taxes. The gentrification of dining out is the meals tax. You increase the taxes on dining out. families don't take their kids out to dinner and teach them socialization. And the mom and pop restaurant owner doesn't get the customer base and they go out of business. The real estate tax rate when Almore County last year upped at four cents,

when assessments have increased 13 years in a row, including a double digit assessment in 2023, a four cent real estate tax rate increase in 2025 by the Amor County Board of Supervisors is spitting in the face of Almore County. It is spitting in the face of Almar County. Saying, oh, you can afford it. And then the final headline, and then I'm going to open up the show to comments that are coming in extremely quickly. Okay. Final headline is this.

And it's almost a trivial one, but I'm a sports fan. And it's a show that's the 26th version of the newspaper. So we have different sections or silos of content. Tomorrow there's a basketball game. Boston College and the University of Virginia play in Chestnut Hill. The Eagles are not very good. They're 9-11 overall in 2-and-5 in ACCC play, and Virginia is very good.

They're the 17th ranked team in the nation. They're 17-3 overall in 6-2 in conference play. The game tips off at 1.30 p.m., unfortunately, on the CW network. Virginia should win this game handedly, and if they do, they improve to 7-2 in ACC play. Virginia is looking like a team that can make a deep run into the NCAA tournament. Tomorrow is the halfway marker of the ACC regular season. All right.

Number one in the family, Deep Throat. Deep Throat's family, photo on screen. Literally the number one ranked viewer and listener our family makes the program better every single day. He says this, that is quite a find on Nathan Alderman, the Seville Weekly reporter. I mean, I knew that Seville Weekly wasn't a real journalistic outlet, but it's absolutely ridiculous

having the comms director for the Admiral County Democratic Party as a reporter for the CIVO Weekly talking about business and doxing the co-founder of a firm like GovSmart. Luckily, the only audience for this allegations

are the fish that get wrapped and unread by humans copies of the CIVO Weekly. He's basically saying the newspaper is good for wrapping fish. Yeah. And he also says, yeah, this general strike seemed like a bust. Kids are back in school at Stab and the parking lot of foods of all nations, I could not find a space.

Loud activism does not mean today's reality. That's a good point. And he highlights that assessment should be relatively flat in the city of Charleston, and he provides data points. Deep throat, we appreciate you watching and listening to the show. I sincerely mean that. Comments continue to come in on the I Love Seabold Network. Print radio and television all over the show today.

John Blair, number two in the family. Jerry, I will not comment on whether any of the proposed tax increases by Virginia Democrats are good or bad, but I will point out that it's not the 1970s or the 1980s any longer. What do I mean by that? Capital and wealthy people and businesses have shown that they're no longer tied to places. The explosion in Texas and Florida continues. Last year, per the U.S. census population estimates, Florida, Texas, and South Carolina gained 155,000 migrants. California, New York, lost 3366,000 migrants.

Here's a link to the official numbers. Basically what he's saying, be extremely careful what you do with taxing Virginians because in today's digital nomadic world, the wealthy can work from ISPs and zip codes of their choosing. That's what he's saying. Spencer Pushard is watching the program, and he's giving us the round of the applause, round of applause emojis for our commentary.

Spencer Pushard, we appreciate you. Comments continue to come in. Conan Owen is watching the show, the owner of Sir Speedy Central Virginia. If you have a logo and you need visibility for it, Conan Owen is who you contact and Sir Speedy Central Virginia. Anything signage related, anything direct mail related, anything merchandise, uniform, pamphlet, trifold related. The banner behind us, Sir Speedy Central Virginia. Conan Owen and Sir Speedia Central Virginia. Conan says it's not like ICE isn't going to find a vendor.

Would they rather the contract go to a hardcore MAGA supporter who would just donate their profits to a MAGA cause or have it go to a local company that can contribute more to the community? And where do the local activists draw the line? Do we boycott the Hilton Hotel Group, draftsmen, the graduate, the Hampton Inn? because they have a corporate contract with the feds? By the way, Hilton CEO is a Darden grad, and another UVA grad is behind a $250,000 program with McIntyre.

Should UVA turn down that support? Lonnie Murray watching the program, his photo on screen. Speaking as a citizen, it's important to note that Virginia has balanced budgets. If you only look at the taxes, then you are only looking at one side of the equation. Personally, as a supporter of home rule, I think localities in particular need more flexibility in how they can fund priorities the public wants and needs.

I'm less concerned with what bills allow taxation and more what services are being funded. It's also worth noting that taxes are inherently regressive right now because of tax breaks like land use valuation. Some of the wealthiest people pay very little in taxes relative to their property value because they have some kind of nominal agricultural like low-quality hay. That puts a much higher tax burden on urban residents who have to have to be. make up that difference. In past years, that tax break costs local residents around $15 million. Tax breaks are just spending in a different form. Virginia localities really need to look, really need tools like impact fees so that new development can pay for its own impacts, not just put the burden on existing residents. Anyway, the primary consideration for me is fairness. Are the means

of raising revenues equitable and would the funds go to priorities the public needs? Georgia Gilmer, the potential ban on gas-powered leaf blowers and then attacks on electric power to landscaping equipment is insane. That's from Georgia Gilmer. We're just trying to figure out what's going on here. That's all we're trying to do with this show is figure out what's going on around here. Judah thoughts. Stacey Baker-Patti giving us some props on the show. Logan Wells-Clailo and Randy O'Neill give us props on the show.

Anything you'd like to add before we close, Judah. Yeah, I think I want to just say a quick bit about what are we calling it selective outrage. There's, I'm sure most of you have heard of Tom Homan. He works in ICE, and he worked for ICE under Obama. Obama awarded him the 2015 Presidential Rank Award for Distinguished Service. So are we to go back and be selectively outraged about anything to do with ICE? Are we now outraged at Obama for continuing to use ICE throughout his presidency? And this obviously goes to the point of why are we calling out a business for doing business with a government agency

and being selectively outraged because that agency is behind something horrific that's happened recently. I think it's insanity. It's part of the divide in our country right now, and I'm frankly kind of sick and tired of it. Thank you, Judah. Carol Thorpe, Queen of Jack Jewett. I received my Almore County property assessment yesterday.

They raised it 10%. That means I will start by paying an extra 10% on the 4 cent rate high. they imposed last year, and that's even before they even consider another likely rate hike this year. I never thought I would say this after 30 years in the area, but my husband and I are now considering moving out when he retires in five years. The assessment increases that coincide with real estate tax rate increases, all they do, Almore County supervisors and elected officials that are watching the show right now or will watch this show in archive capacity. All you are doing is making our community wealthier and more homogenous. And what I mean by that is white and rich.

You are gentrifying our community at a quicker, more rapid rate than the University of Virginia. Single income households, retirees, folks living on social security, unemployed households, cannot keep up with assessment increases. At the same time, real estate tax rate increases, at the same. time grocery, gasoline, and every other cost in their budget is going up. They will just move out of Almaro County and they will be replaced by homogenous nomads, carpet baggers, or entries into Almaro County. We'll close the show with the most important three minutes of news and today that you will hear today. Judah Wickhauer, do you have me on a one shot and are you

ready to go on this? I've got you on a one shot. One shot me. Put the people. PTIs on screen. We'll do this for 180 seconds. These are the most important three minutes of news for you on Friday, January 30th. Virginia Democrats right now have 50 new tax bills that they are considering, 5-0. That doesn't mean they are approved, but it should be a point of concern for all of us. If you remember in 2025, Democrats in Virginia, led by Abigail Spamberger with her push to governor, promised us as voters if they were elected affordability. Now, here we are weeks into 26, and more than 50 bills tied to taxes are in front of them, and even worse, in front of us. Next headline, the Jefferson Council has acknowledged the reporting the I Love Seville Network published on Monday evening.

Ladies and gentlemen, as we reported, Risa Golabuff, the first female dean in Virginia Law School history, is absolutely a shortlist candidate potential to replace Scott Beardsley as president of the University of Virginia. We now await Abigail Spamberger, her attend appointments to the Board of Visitors. They will get approved by the General Assembly and the days to come. Once they are approved, the Board of Visitors will be legitimate by the letter of the law, and they will move. We are hearing quickly to potentially boot Beersley out of office with Risa Goloboff as a potential replacement. Next headline.

The Siva Weekly published a hit piece on Brent Lillow. and GovSmart, a government contracting firm that employs more than 90 people locally here in the city of Charlottesville. GovSmart does top line revenue north of $500 million. Three million of that $500 million is tied to ICE, immigration customs enforcement. Somehow the Seville Weekly got its hands on that. The author of this hit piece is Nathan Alderman. He is the comms director of the Almore County Democratic Party, Nathan Alderman. Why is the Communications Director for the Almaro County Democratic Party that is executing protest and activating activist efforts against ICE,

also publishing reporting in the Seville Weekly about locally owned businesses and immigration customs and enforcement revenue streams? That seems like a journalistic conflict of interest and certainly questionable ethics. Next headline. An advisor for the city of Charlottesville is consulting. Charlottesville City Councilors on budgetary headwinds from a macroeconomic standpoint and a microeconomic standpoint. Be careful because if these budgetary headwinds continue, it's going to be you and me, the taxpayer, they're going to have to flip the bill and pay more. And in closing, the University of Virginia faces Boston College tomorrow Saturday. At the midpoint of the ACC season, UVA is a clear-cut favorite to beat the Eagles in Chestnut Hill and climb up the top. 25 rankings. My name is Jerry Miller, and this is the I Love Seville Show.