We tried to warn you, Loudoun County.

We told you that Virginia Beach School Superintendent Aaron Spence was trouble. That he was one vote away from being sacked by the newly elected Beach school board when he decided to bolt for greener pastures. That he was a devoted wokester.

We even pointed to his wife’s crude New Year’s Tweet from January 2020 where she hurled a profanity at then-President Trump as she posted a photo of herself draped over her greasy-looking husband.

Spence was pressured to apologize. And he did, twice.

The Fun Couple is your problem now, Loudoun. 

Shoot, the new school year was barely underway before news broke that Spence failed to inform parents - FOR 20 DAYS - that kids were overdosing on fentanyl in one Loudoun high school. He dodged pesky reporters and television cameras with the nerve to ask why he delayed. 

In short, Spence is a public relations nightmare.

So it should come as no surprise that the superintendent’s brought one of his old mouthpieces up from Virginia Beach to run interference for him. 

Natalie Allen is the new Chief Communications Officer for Loudoun County Public Schools.

But her quarter of a million salary has outraged the public, giving Spence yet another fire to extinguish. Nick Minock, an Emmy Award-winning reporter for ABC affiliate WJLA TV, is asking all the right questions about the controversial hire:

According to Minock, not only does Allen have only a dozen years of experience, but she’s hauling in way more loot than others in the department who have been with the school division for 20 years or more. Oh, and it appears that some members of the school board were unaware of her juicy compensation package. And Minock is waiting for answers about whether Allen’s job was advertised and how many others applied for it.

Nice to see reporters committing actual acts of journalism. It doesn’t happen enough these days.

I texted last night with Virginia Beach School Board member Vicky Manning to see what she thought of Allen.

Manning told me that she voted against hiring Allen in 2018 because her salary was “way too high…she also did not have much executive experience at the time.”

And get this:

“She was also hired without the position being publicized.”

Sigh.

By the way, in her new Loudoun job Allen is making more than the governor. Last time I checked, Glenn Youngkin’s salary was $175,000.

Then again, Natalie Allen has a much harder job:

Trying to make Aaron Spence look good.