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Volume 57, Number 7 • February 17, 2011
Grubbs resigns after ouster authorized By Ken Odor jodor@goochlandgazette.com
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Susan Lascolette will run for the Republican nomination for the District 1 board of supervisors seat that has been held for almost 40 years by Andrew Pryor.
Lascolette to challenge for seat announced she will seek the Republican nomination for the District 1 supervisor’s Susan Lascolette, known job. Introduced at the Feb. to many for her work with 4 Goochland Republican the local Tea Party, has By Ken Odor jodor@goochlandgazette.com
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Women’s Club by Kathy active in the Tea Party moveCrockett, who ran twice ment since her retirement against long-time District last year. 1incumbent Andrew Pryor, Lascolette described herLascollete has never held public office, but has been see Lascolette > page 3
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GoochlandCountyTreasurer Brenda S. Grubbs has resigned her position. In a letter delivered late Friday to the Chairman of the Board of Supervisors William E. Quarles, the embattled treasurer, who had been arrested and charged with embezzlement, announced she was stepping down immediately. Earlier in the day Gov. Robert McDonnell sent a letter to the attorney general authorizing him to begin the ouster process. “I think it’s best for her and for the county,” said supervisor Malvern R. “Rudy” Butler” Saturday morning. “Now we can settle down and get somebody else in there.” Last week the board of supervisors met and unanimously approved a resolution asking the governor to remove Grubbs and appoint a successor. At that meeting county administrator Rebecca Dickson outlined a two-year long history of difficulties between the county administration and the treasurer’s office even before the alleged embezzlement charge was brought. “The treasurer had made no
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progress on financial improvements, to the point that we were attempting to alleviate her of whatever financial duties we could convince her to let go of since we could not simply mandate that she make changes,” Dickson told the board. Grubbs was arrested Feb. 2 and charged with embezzlement after attempting to cash a $14,000 check at Wachovia Bank. The bank had previously contacted Goochland Sheriff James L. Agnew in January alerting him to unusual activity in county bank accounts involving Grubbs. On her arrest, Grubbs confessed to the sheriff that she had cashed checks she believed to be in the amount of $135,000 and had wired money overseas, according to court documents. see Grubbs > page 2
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