The Loudoun County board voted 7 yes to 1 no, with one supervisor absent (though I am 99.9 percent sure this guy would have voted yes), to overrule the committees decision. So Leesburg's Courthouse lawn can be used to celebrate Christmas after all.
What a great example of citizens banning together to force a change of policy. People emailed, spoke at meetings, and signed petitions. People started finding out about the problem over Thanksgiving break, yet they were still on the ball. Some even put up Christmas lights early just to show their support for Christmas. What a great county. Thankfully, they had it a bit easy as they had many government officials on their side, and one extremely irate supervisor.
Overall, it was the most perfect scenario. A committee made a crappy decision, people got mad, banned together to show their disapproval, a proposal was written and presented, and the decision was overruled. All within a week (well the committee made the decision more than a week ago but didn't announce it until last week)! It's too bad this situation doesn't happen more often. It's too bad committees even have to make stupid decisions. And worse of all, it's too bad that there are people who hate Christmas and other holidays.
MERRY CHRISTMAS IN 23 DAYS!!! IF MY COUNT IS CORRECT.
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