One perspective on Front Royal Town government and those governing

The recent talk by Matt Tederick to Town Council cannot be laughable when many memories exist of his damaging tenure in positions of local governmental power. In contrast, those who know Walt Mabe and Darryl Merchant can have confidence in their integrity and service to foster the best interests of the community.

Then, there is the not-so-small matter of Scott Lloyd as the opening feature on a Rachel Maddow newscast recently indicated. The unpleasant details of Mr. Lloyd’s work as director over some shelters housing girls as part of the Office of Refugee Resettlement were laid out for a national audience.

Who escapes noticing the antics of the Mayor, Chris Holloway? Did he learn to tie his shoelaces but fail to master zippers? Whatever the answer to that question, it seemed clear in his previous tenure on Town Council that he was there for his own property development interests, and it appears not much has changed.

The examples above are far from the whole story of shoddy ethics and dysfunction in town governance.

Linda Allen
former Front Royal resident