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JR Hoeft

Conservative to the core; liberal with his opinion! J.R. has been involved in politics for over a decade and has worked on several campaigns in Hampton Roads. He has served on the Executive Committee of the Republican Party of Chesapeake and the Central Committee of the Republican Party of Virginia. He is also the director of “Blogs United” in Virginia. E-mail J.R.. Follow J.R. on Twitter.

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13 Responses to "Not authorized by Fluvanna County"

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   Joshua January 4, 2011 13:52 pm

   I don’t get it.

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   JR Hoeft January 4, 2011 13:56 pm

   Sorry, Josh. I assumed people were going to read the linked to article.

   Use of the Fluvanna County Seal on anything not authorized by the government carries a nice penalty:

   Under the county code, a violation of the ordinance is a Class 1 misdemeanor, which carries a maximum sentence of 12 months in jail and/or a fine of up to $2,500.

   They’re now being sued.

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   Conservativa January 4, 2011 14:18 pm

   Are you kidding me? He’s not making money with it and he’s not impersonating the County with it. That said, why go to the trouble of suing about it? I think mockage would work as well and cost less.

   Or, instead of using the seal as is he could go take a photo of the seal as it appears on some building and post that. (Standing on public property as he takes the photo, just in case). Would they try to prohibit that too?

   Doesn’t FluCo have better things to do?

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   CatHouse Chat January 4, 2011 14:28 pm

   Fluvanna County Board of Supervisors: Constitutional Illiterates?…

   My dear friend Shaun Kenney, who is a member of the Fluvanna BOS, was the sole dissenting vote – The owner of The Fluco Blog, a Fluvanna County-based news site, has filed a lawsuit over an ordinance limiting the use of the official Fluvanna County seal…

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   Joshua January 4, 2011 14:29 pm

   Yeah, I see it now. Didn’t realize that the seal contained a link. I’m on the trolley now.

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   Greg LETIECQ January 4, 2011 14:56 pm

   Boy, this is going to be a problem.

   I had planned on using that logo for our Spanish language advertising campaign here in Prince William County encouraging illegal aliens to relocate to Fluvanna since there’s a member of the Board who seems to like them so much. The county seal would have been a nice addition to that campaign, since the policy is coming from an elected official.

   Now that the seal is out, I suppose we have to come up with some other ideas…

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   Steve Vaughan January 4, 2011 15:05 pm

   This is boneheaded. But typical of local governments in Virginia. We use the seals of all our local governments to illustrate Board of Supervisors stories, etc. It’s good visual shorthand for readers who are only interested in stories from their locality.

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   HisRoc January 4, 2011 16:44 pm

   SV,

   This is far worse than boneheaded. If the assertions are true that this is in retaliation for unfavorable comments about the BOS on The Fluco Blog, then this is nothing less than a direct assault on the First Amendment.

   Shame on the BOS for such an arrogant abuse of the Bill of Rights and congratulations to Shaun for calling them out.

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    James "turbo" Cohen January 4, 2011 18:19 pm

    Shaun will run for higher office someday and he can count on my vote. Thank god we have at least a few sane people in office.

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    Shaun Kenney January 5, 2011 10:45 am

    Greg –

    I thought the illegal immigration issue wasn’t about Hispanics or Spanish-speaking peoples?

    Just wanted to be clear on that.

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    HisRoc January 5, 2011 16:59 pm

    Shaun,

    Ouch!

    

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    Tim J January 5, 2011 18:13 pm

    Why would any county want to have an “Acorn” on their seal, much less having an ordinance with stiff fines against unauthorized use? Are they lobbying to become a new “sanctuary county” for Acorn operations or the location of an Obama presidential library?