The Virginia Beach swamp is being drained. Very, very slowly.
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After reviewing the files, one obvious question jumps out: If they can’t vote, then why are they on the VBDA in the first place?
Virginia Beach’s most famous developer, a man who’s financed his projects with tens of millions of tax dollars, is threatening to pack up and pull out of the resort area if good-government types are elected in November.
It wouldn’t be the last time the VBDA lavished dollars on companies associated with Thompson, of course. And it wouldn’t be the last time Branch supported Thompson while serving on that body. Special reporting by John Holland.