Latest Desperate Janet Oleszek Smear: John Cook Has Job, Supports Family

 As we come down to the wire, Janet Oleszek and her Traveling Circus of Comedy and Failure has revealed their final, diabolical plan to turn the public against Supervisor John Cook. If you have a weak stomach or are reading this with minors, you may want to stop here, as the truth about Cook I’m about to divulge is grotesque and abominable: It turns out John Cook founded his own business, and continues working in that business to this day.

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If you’re done throwing up for how appaling such behavior is, I encourage you to take a deep breath. It’s okay. In fact, the position of Supervisor is a part-time position, much like that of a Delegate or State Senator. And while the paygrade for a Supervisor isn’t as low as those two offices, its far below the median county income.

Ah, but voters demand a full-time representative at the County level, which is why its important for that Supervisor to have flexibility at his other job. As it is, Cook owns his own law firm, so he can bend his legal schedule around the duties of being a Supervisor. Which is why he’s never missed a Board Meeting, goes to Braddock District Council meetings, attends almost every Braddock Night (held on Fridays during the summer and free to the public), attends HOA meetings when asked, schedules multiple meetings with the community anytime a land use case comes up, meets with citizen-led groups that he’s formed to tackle important issues, like the West Campus Connector, meets with neigborhoods about community issues like swimming pools, attends every high school graduation, and shows up at ribbon cuttings and community events all the time.

In fact, it’s pretty damn hard to miss Supervisor John Cook at these events… unless you don’t go yourself. So I suppose it’s not surprising that Janet Oleszek is uninformed about Cook’s committment to Braddock District, considering all the Braddock District events she never attends. Maybe if she attended one of John’s meetings about community pools, for instance, she’d learn about the issue rather than believing that local pools are losing membership because, quote, “older people don’t like to splash around.” That is actually something she said, out loud, in front of real people.

Ah, but simply attending all the events and being everywhere in the district must not be good enough for Janet Oleszek. You need a full-time Supervisor, she says, to take care of important things like constituent services. After all, no less than the Washington Post pointed to excellent constituent services as one of the deciding factors when they endorsed… John Cook.

Okay, that’s a bad example for Janet. But still, it’s critically important that your Supervisor doesn’t have a part-time job on the side. Otherwise, they will end up spending too much of their time being, say, a managing partner at a crisis management firm you founded with your wife, like Frank Principi (D), Supervisor from Prince William County is. Or they’ll spend too much time as a public affairs consultant for a major regional employer, as Gerry Connolly (D) was when he was on the Fairfax Board. Or maybe they’ll just be too busy being a special education teacher, as Kelly Burk (D) of Leesburg is.

In fact, Janet Oleszek said at a debate “I think it is WRONG to accept a public policy position and only do it part-time.” Under normal circumstances, we’d give Janet the benefit of the doubt and say that she obviously isn’t referring to the part-time Delegates and Senators [like Chap! Petersen] who endorsed her campaign, but she’s too dim-witted to have earned that benefit. Either way, she thinks Kelly Burk is unfit to be a Loudoun County Supervisor. She thinks Frank Principi is uncommitted to serving his Prince William County constituents. She thinks it is WRONG for Gerry Connolly to have worked as SAIC.

The truth is that the Supervisor position is nominally a part-time postion that requires full-time attention, and that’s exactly what Braddock District is getting from John Cook. Janet Oleszek is running a negative, cynical, and half-baked attack, hoping that voters will be as stupid as she is in thinking that just because you have a job in the real world, you aren’t devoting your time to being in elected office. The fact that the Oleszek campaign is using this line of attack on one of the precious few mailers they’re able to send out is indicative of how completely unsubstantive her campaign has been, and how completely out of her depth Janet Oleszek is.

Fairfax County has one of the most educated and engaged electorates in the country. It would be a travesty if they wake up on November 9th and find out that Janet Oleszek will be making decisions for them. John Cook needs whatever help you can lend.