Purcellville Deserves Better

4/23/25 - we have the final push for signatures today! The more we have the better. The next step is to submit the signatures. Once the signatures are reviewed by the elections board to confirm that all are registered voters who reside in Purcellville. (we have been doing quality check on our own to prevent signatures not counting) the petitions are turned over to the Commonwealth Attorney’s office for review. Should they decide the recall is warranted it goes to a judge for trial. This has been a huge step in the process but there is more to come! Please consider donating to the Recall as we have more steps and expenses to go. We did make adjustment to the funds needed to get through the next steps of the recall process.

We have heard you, Purcellville! We are initiating a recall for Mayor Bertaut, Vice Mayor Nett, Councilwoman Luke, and Councilwoman Khalil. These four have committed FOIA violations, shown incompetence, misuse of office, and neglect of duty. They have shown cronyism by hiring their political ally as Interim Town Manager without interviewing any other candidates or including other town council members. They then decreased the required qualifications for the permanent Town Manager position so their political ally would actually qualify for the position. They have done town business in emails and on systems that prevent public awareness, skirting FOIA requirements. They act like the middle school popular clique by appointing themselves to preferred Town committee liaison positions with less experience in the committee's focus area than other town council members. They have allowed VM Nett to vote on issues that he should have been recused from due to conflict of interest. They continue to support VM Nett even though he has been found to be untrustworthy by the Commonwealth's Attorney. They promised to lower utility bills by subsidizing water/sewer by moving $1.6M from general funds but haven't answered how they are going to make up this money in the general fund. They were voted in by a small majority of town voters and promised to work for the whole town, but that vote tally represents only a third of the registered voters of Purcellville. Rather than working with the whole Town Council and our Town Staff for the benefit of all our residents, the nearly 9,000 that make up the Council's constituency, they have rammed through the positions of a minority of our residents. They have divided our community as no other Mayor and Town Council have in the past.

These four need to go! Virginia's recall process is time consuming and labor intensive. We have retained legal counsel to help guide our efforts to the best chance of success. We have operated with personal contributions up to this point, we need your help to defray the costs of pursuing this effort for the benefit of our Town, to ensure the future fiscal health for all of Purcellville. Contributions in excess of the needs of this recall campaign will be donated in a manner that will benefit our Purcellville community.

Thank you for your help... Purcellville Deserves Better!

Update: we appreciate all the support! As many of you know Vice Mayor Nett threatened us with civil and criminal charges. While we know we are doing everything right we have put a lawyer on retainer to assist us through this process. Due to that we increased the hoped for donations to cover just the retainer.

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Update - they continue to show their corruption by making Kwasi Fraser Town Manager while ignoring the 80 resumes submitted - many who had actual experience. They continue to do their backdoor politics by announcing the disbandment of the Purcellville Police Department without any input from other council members or the public. That isn’t the transparency they promised. We need to push hard for signatures so we can recall them.

Update 4/15 - Signatures are going very well! Thank you for the support and spread the word. Expenses are adding up with $10K for legal, insurance costs, printing, advertising and event costs. The next week is a big push to get the signatures needed and your help is appreciated!

4/23/25 - we have the final push for signatures today! The more we have the better. The next step is to submit the signatures. Once the signatures are reviewed by the elections board to confirm that all are registered voters who reside in Purcellville. (we have been doing quality check on our own to prevent signatures not counting) the petitions are turned over to the Commonwealth Attorney’s office for review. Should they decide the recall is warranted it goes to a judge for trial. This has been a huge step in the process but there is more to come! Please confer donating to the Recall as we have more steps and expenses to go. We did make adjustment to the funds needed to get through the next steps of the recall process.