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Beach officials' feuding grows
Colonial Beach mayor wants his office back, but Town Council won't budge
Date published: 6/27/2009
BY FRANK DELANO Give him back his Town Hall office and access to staff, an attorney for Colonial Beach Mayor Frederick C. Rummage has demanded of the Town Council. No way, the town's attorney has replied. The exchange of letters was the latest in a running feud between Rummage and the council. The dispute includes a raucous June 11 argument between Rummage and Vice Mayor P.A. "Trish" King that has now landed on the desk of the Westmoreland County prosecutor. Claiming his presence at Town Hall was disruptive, the council voted in April to evict Rummage from his second-floor office. Three weeks later, it barred him from the private offices of Town Hall employees unless he had an invitation or an appointment. The council's actions are "a thinly disguised--and illegal--attempt to nullify the popular election of Mayor Rummage by the citizens of Colonial Beach," Vienna attorney Henry F. Brandenstein Jr. wrote in a June 19 letter to Town Attorney Andrea Erard. In a response authorized Thursday by the Town Council, Erard said the council's actions "were necessary in order to permit the staff at Town Hall to do their jobs. Numerous witnesses can verify how the specific actions of Mayor Rummage interfered with and affected the ability of Town staff to perform their jobs." Rummage continues to preside at Town Council meetings. He is also "pivotal in the construction of every Town Council agenda and, if he wants to raise an issue or address a concern, he has every opportunity to do so," Erard wrote. "The Mayor has a vote just like any other member of Council and there has been no infringement upon his ability to vote. If the Mayor is experiencing difficulty in discharging the duties of his office, perhaps it is attributable to his actions and his manner," she wrote. Vice Mayor King also created a recent difficulty, according to Brandenstein. He charged in his letter that King unleashed "an unprovoked and completely unprofessional verbal assault" on Rummage after a June 11 council meeting. The dispute was over membership of council committees, the lawyer said.
Date published: 6/27/2009
seems like the news out of CB
(posted by
larryg
, June 28, 2009 8:38 am)
whether it be about the major's office, the schools, the law
enforcement tends toward the outrageous and even bizarre.
CB is unique apparently.
I can just imagine having other localities like
Fredericksburg or Bowling Green operate like CB does.
From an outsider
(posted by
RahOoh
, June 28, 2009 12:38 am)
it would appear that the government has a problem with the elected voice of the people. Doesn't that mean the government has a problem with the people, the ones whose taxes pay their pay checks? Maybe more needs to be heard from the Mayor?
sounds like the
(posted by
Ron_C
, June 27, 2009 11:56 pm)
Kids all need to be given a "time out" till they learn to act their respective ages
Comparison
(posted by
JonB
, June 27, 2009 6:40 pm)
Colonial Beach and Tehran seem to have some things in common.
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