{Loudoun County, Virginia} Controversial Library Board Appointee Resigns [View all]

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Source: Leesburg Today

Posted: Monday, January 13, 2014 10:32 am | Updated: 11:05 am, Mon Jan 13, 2014.

The man who came under fire for his extreme political stances after he was appointed to the Loudoun Library Board of Trustees earlier this month has resigned.
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Supervisor Eugene Delgaudio (R-Sterling) nominated Beacham for the vacant Sterling District seat on the Library Board of Trustees in December. As is the process set out by the board, nominations are made at one meeting and the appointees are confirmed at the following meeting.

But after Beacham's appointment controversy arose in the public because of his previous political activity. Beacham recently ran for Congress in Kentucky and is an outspoken tea party member and anti-abortion activist, known for tearing up the pages of the Koran in front of the White House in 2010. A Google search of his name brings up information on his Congressional run—with the exception of recent news reports about his Loudoun appointment.
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Delgaudio also challenged assertions that he knew Beacham previous to nominating him and was aware of his strong political views—stemming mostly from photos found from a 2009 protest by Delgaudio's organization, Public Advocate of the United States, at an Arlington high school where the two men were seen standing close to each other. Delgaudio noted he had done several TV and other media interviews leading up to the protest. ... "Everybody knew there was a protest against the president in Arlington, and anyone could have come," he said. "And they did."


Read more: http://www.leesburgtoday.com/news/controversial-library-board-appointee-resigns/article_8258a638-7c67-11e3-ba0c-0019bb2963f4.html

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I'll have lots of commentary about this. There's almost too much to say about this guy.

Hat tip: JoeMyGod

Eugene Delgaudio Just Got This Guy Appointed To The County Library Board
http://www.joemygod.blogspot.com/2014/01/eugene-delgaudio-just-got-this-guy.html#disqus_thread

Loudoun names Andrew Beacham, who once tore pages out of Koran, to library board
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/local/wp/2014/01/10/loudoun-names-andrew-beacham-who-once-tore-pages-out-of-koran-to-library-board/

By Tom Jackman
January 10 at 5:00 am

UPDATE, Saturday, 1:30 p.m.: Delgaudio said today he will seek to rescind Beacham’s appointment to the library board. A short story on that is here.

A Sterling man who once tore out pages of the Koran in front of the White House, and whose fierce rhetoric on Twitter included declaring “the only good progressive is a dead progressive,” has been approved by the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors to sit on the county library’s board of trustees for the next four years.

The Loudoun supervisors last week confirmed Andrew Beacham, 31, a recently defeated candidate for Congress in Kentucky, to the library board. But several supervisors, including Eugene Delgaudio (R-Sterling) who nominated him, said they were unaware of Beacham’s colorful past.

"Unaware of Beacham’s colorful past?" The instant I saw that, I knew he was lying.

Photos from 2009 Public Advocate stunt show Delgaudio working with his new extremist Library Board appointee
http://www.loudounprogress.org/2014/01/10/photos-from-2009-public-advocate-stunt-show-delgaudio-working-with-his-new-extremist-library-board-appointee/#comments

Posted on January 10, 2014 at 3:33 pm by Epluribusunum |

Sometimes a picture really is worth a thousand words. We don’t yet know how many words Sterling supervisor Eugene Delgaudio will emit claiming that he didn’t know “much of anything” about Andrew Beacham, his nominee for Loudoun County’s Library Board – but we do know that they will be arranged into falsehoods.
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Below is a photo from the 2009 protest at Wakefield High School, mentioned by Tom Jackman in the article linked above. What Jackman’s article doesn’t say is that this tiny protest, entitled “Mr. President, Stay Away From Our Kids!” was the creation of Mr. Delgaudio’s hate group Public Advocate. Given what we have since learned about the operations of Mr. Delgaudio’s county office, it’s probable that Loudoun County resources in one form or another were involved in its creation.



That’s Andrew Beacham holding the Gadsden flag. In the next photo, there’s Beacham again on the right, and Mr. Delgaudio being interviewed right next to him, in a group with another Gadsden flag. The entire protest – which was really just a media stunt – was comprised of no more than eight people. Again, this was in 2009. Delgaudio and Beacham are active in the same circles and engaged in the same kind of political activity. Delgaudio may even have been training Beacham; in fact, it’s likely. That sort of training is what Delgaudio has done since he was Executive Director, and later served on the board, of “Young Americans for Freedom/Young America’s Foundation.” Other things they’ve being doing together will no doubt come to light.

Delgaudio is the individual in the white long sleeve dress shirt above the fire hydrant in the second photograph.

Delgaudio says he will withdraw Andrew Beacham’s nomination to Loudoun library board
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/local/wp/2014/01/11/delgaudio-says-he-will-withdraw-beachams-nomination-to-loudoun-library-board/

In a September 2009 protest outside Wakefield High School in Arlington, Eugene Delgaudio is seen in a white shirt holding a sign which advises President Obama to “Stay away from our kids.” About 15 feet to the right, Andrew Beacham is interviewed by a local TV news crew while holding a tea party flag. Delgaudio said Beacham was not part of his group and he did not recall meeting Beacham then. (Public Advocate of the United States)

Delgaudio's outfit, Public Advocate, even provided the two photographs showing Delgaudio and Beacham near each other at the barely attended rally. He really needs to keep better track of his lies. I wonder if any of those videos taken by TV crews show Delgaudio and Beacham chatting with each other.

Here is the video provided by Public Advocate of that demonstration.

Big, big thanks to commenter comchay999 for his link at 1/11/2014 1:01 PM EST to Beacham's résumé. Who could be better?



Man Who Tore Out Pages Of Koran In Front Of White House Appointed To Loudoun Library Board
http://dcist.com/2014/01/man_who_tore_out_pages_of_koran.php

Andrew Beacham resigns from Loudoun library board
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/local/wp/2014/01/13/andrew-beacham-resigns-from-loudoun-library-board/

By Tom Jackman January 13 at 12:32 pm

Andrew Beacham, the Sterling man who was appointed to the Loudoun County library board of trustees by the county board of supervisors on Jan. 2, submitted his resignation Sunday. The move eliminates the possibly tricky legal question of the board trying to remove someone from a board once they have been nominated and confirmed.

On Friday, the State of NoVa reported that Beacham had a colorful past as an anti-abortion protester, including tearing pages from a Koran in front of the White House on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. His Twitter feed includes vehement denunciations of liberals, gays and Nelson Mandela. He has twice stood and disrupted speeches by President Obama. More details about all that are here.

Following uproar, Loudoun library board appointee resigns
http://www.loudountimes.com/news/article/following_uproar_loudoun_library_board_appointee_resigns543

Monday, Jan. 13, 2014 by Trevor Baratko

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Despite pictures showing Mr. Beacham at a Public Advocate protest in 2009, Mr. Delgaudio maintained Monday he met Mr. Beacham in fall 2013.

What happens when you let the GOP run Loudoun
http://realloudoun.com/2014/01/11/what-happens-when-you-let-the-gop-run-loudoun/

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Of course, the striking similarity between Beacham’s anti-gay provocations and those of Delgaudio might have been a clue that that was not completely 100% true; and Loudoun Progress quickly dug up a picture of Beacham and Delgaudio together at one of Eugene’s phony media-event anti-gay “protests” (attended by 8 people) back in 2009.

Delgaudio . . . He’s baaaaaaack
http://realloudoun.com/2014/01/09/delgaudio-hes-baaaaaaack/

In case you missed it, all is apparently forgiven: as its first order of business for the new year, the all-Republican Loudoun Board of Supervisors named disgraced, censured, corrupt, and all-around wacko fellow-Supervisor Eugene Delgaudio (R-Sterling) to a spot on the Board’s powerful Transportation and Land Use Committee.

Delgaudio had been stripped of his committee assignments last January when the Board wanted to pretend it was doing something about the unfolding scandal surrounding “the clown” (as Chairman Scott York termed Delgaudio in one of his more lucid moments) — but not actually say they were doing anything lest they upset Eugene’s very loyal following among the Loudoun Republican Party poo-bahs.

Most normal people probably assumed that in June, when the Board finally addressed Delgaudio’s little problems head-on by censuring him and taking away his office staff and office budget, the punishment of being stripped of committee assignments would continue as well.

Can the restoration of Eugene’s office budget be far behind now? Then he can get back to running his full-time fundraising office on the public’s dime once again, an activity that he has never explained or apologized for.

Eugene Delgaudio’s Really Weird Rant: Beware the RADICAL Homosexuals
http://washingtonnote.com/eugene_delgaudi/