The Woodbridge Magisterial District has a Republican seeking the seat on the Prince William Board of County Supervisors for the first time in eight years.
Republican Jeannie LaCroix announced today that she is running in the 2023 general election for the Prince William County (PWC) Board of Supervisors for the Woodbridge District.
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A long-serving Prince William County School Board member won't seek re-election.
Her husband -- an outspoken fixture at county school board meetings -- will run to replace her.
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Deshundra Jefferson said she's about policy, not politics.
The Democrat will challenge Ann Wheeler in a June 20 Primary Election for the At-large Prince William Board of County Supervisors Chairman seat.
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Ian Lovejoy, the former Manassas City Councilman, announced a bid for the Virginia House of Delegates District 22 seat for the November General Election.
Lovejoy (R) had been seeking the Virginia State Senate seat for District 30, which encompasses Manassas. With the announcement, Lovejoy withdrew his bid for the District 30 seat, leaving it without a Republican vying for the seat.
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Kim Short kicked off her campaign for the Potomac District seat on the Prince William Board of County Supervisors.
The Democrat welcomed supporters and those interested in learning more about her to the Montclair Community Library on Saturday, January 14, 2023, where she outlined her platform.
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The Democratic Party charter states: “What we seek for our Nation, we hope for all people – individual freedom in the framework of a just society, political freedom in the framework of meaningful participation by all citizens.
Bound by the U.S. Constitution, aware that a party must be responsive to be worthy of responsibility, we pledge ourselves to open, honest endeavor and to the conduct of public affairs in a manner worthy of a society of free people.”
Those principles have been repeatedly violated by the current Chair of the Prince William Board of County supervisors, Ann Wheeler.
Her blatant servitude to business interests has undermined a just society. Wheeler inhibited meaningful citizen participation by hastily scheduling community engagement meetings at the height of the COVID pandemic, refusing to delay them, and then barely acknowledging resident concerns.
Her disregard for due diligence proves she is insufficiently responsive to be worthy of the responsibility. Under Wheeler’s “leadership,” the county failed to conduct even a basic cost analysis of infrastructure and public services required for the Prince William Digital Gateway, nor did they conduct a noise study or assess electrical power needs.
The board also deliberately deferred a water study recommended by the county’s own Watershed Management branch and neighboring Fairfax County. Wheeler’s aversion to transparency for the sake of political expedience demonstrates she can neither openly nor honestly conduct public affairs in a manner worthy of her constituents.
County staff and supervisors repeatedly hid behind non-disclosure agreements to obscure the truth about the land under development or available for data center use and neglected to respond to multiple inquiries from citizens and their attorneys for essential information to inform the public debate.
Ann Wheeler’s tenure has been dominated by contentiousness, divisiveness, and suspicion. Every day she spends in the office further damages the Democratic brand in Prince William County. She needs to be removed.
It is our civic duty to reject public officials who have betrayed our trust and replace them with better candidates that will restore it. With Deshundra Jefferson’s announcement last Wednesday, Prince William voters now have both a fine candidate and an opportunity for redemption.
Vote for Deshundra Jefferson in the Democratic primary on June 20.
Bill Wright
Gainesville
Former Treasurer, Gainesville Magisterial District Democratic Committee
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Ann Wheeler will seek a second term as chair of the Prince William Board of County Supervisors.
She's led the governing body for Virginia's second-largest jurisdiction since January 2020. Since that time, she's pushed a progressive agenda that has been applauded by her supporters who wish to grow the county's tax commercial tax base and vilified by others who have mounted a recall petition for the Democrat.
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Margaret Franklin will run for a second term on the Prince William Board of County Supervisors. She's represented the Woodbridge District since January 2020.
During her time in office, Franklin has secured half a billion dollars worth of investments into the Woodbridge District, including the Riverside Station Town Center, a new I-95 distribution center, and investments in small businesses, particularly those impacted by the coronavirus.
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Democrat Deshundra Jefferson announced today that she is running for Chair of the Prince William Board of County Supervisors in 2023.
Jefferson will face fellow Democrat Ann Wheeler, who's held the position since 2020. So far, there's no Republican challenger for the seat.
