"You can't fight the Internet". Except when you fight the internet.

Delegate Dave Albo had a classic quote once... "You can't fight the internet".  It looks like Dave has changed his mind!

Waldo caught Albo editing his own Wikipedia page. He even did it under his own account.  Moron. 

Here's what the page said before Albo:

Dave Albo has served his constituents in the House of Delegates since 1993. Albo is most famous for his work in 2007 as the "Chief Architect" of the widely criticized "abusive driver fees" which drastically increased traffic fines for many traffic violations including $1050 in fines for a misdemeanor failure to signal. Albo, as a criminal defense attorney was portrayed by many as set to profit from an increase in clients. He denied this claim "No moron in America is hiring Dave Albo for $1,200 to get them out of a $1,000 ticket. You never hear any criticism about teachers sitting in the General Assembly voting themselves a pay increase. They're cuddly. Lawyers are not." [http://www.alextimes.com/article.asp?article=6658] The abusive driver fees bill was repealed immediately upon the start of the 2008 session and had become so unpopular, that Albo voted against his own legislation [http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/21/2184.asp]. Additionally, the bill had potential equal protection violations, since the fees only applied to Virginians.

And after Albo edited it:

Dave Albo has served his constituents in the House of Delegates since 1993 and has written and passed some of Virginia’s most important legislation in the past 15 years. Due to his experience as an accomplished trial attorney, having prosecuted cases for over three years, and for over 20 years trying cases in all levels of the Virginia Courts, from the District Court to the Supreme Court, Dave has been called upon to write, carry and work on some of the most important legislation passed in Virginia in the past decade and a half.

Apparently Dave Albo wants to rewrite history and exclude any reference to his abuser fee disaster that created a huge public uproar. It's too bad for him, because we will NEVER let the voters forget.

Comments

[Sam]

You can't blame a guy for trying...

Although you CAN blame a guy for being that obvious about it...

What abuser fee issue?

Was someone allowed to abuse someone and not get arrested for it?

Poor guy. You almost have to feel sorry for him. The party likely won't even waste any money on him this time around.

[NoVA]

Anon 7:39. LOL!!!!!

But seriously Nation, he ran unopposed during his last re-election, so whose the asshole? I mean besides him.

[NoVA]

BTW, Please, Please someone, anyone "edit" Albo's page. I just can't trust myself.

The earlier version needed to be edited. It was an editorial within a bio, and should've been corrected... doesn't matter if Albo or someone else did it.

Except the "editor" conveniently omited facts.

Uh, Anon 6:18, I'll highlight Del. Albo's editorial "corrections." served his constituents, some of Virginia’s most important legislation in the past 15 years, Due to his experience as an accomplished trial attorney, having prosecuted cases for over three years, and for over 20 years trying cases in all levels of the Virginia Courts, from the District Court to the Supreme Court, Dave has been called upon to write, carry and work on some of the most important legislation passed in Virginia in the past decade and a half.

Uh, actually, I didn't have to cut out much that wasn't editorial.

[James Young]

I personally liked the original bio. It responded well to the idiocy that was the notion that Albo somehow profited from the abusive driver fees.

[James Young]

That is horrible English. Strike "personally."