Insidenova.com: “Deshundra Jefferson on Tuesday night was heading toward upsetting incumbent Prince William Board of County Supervisors Chair Ann Wheeler in the Democratic primary.”
“Jefferson’s apparent narrow victory marked voters’ rejection of Wheeler and her backing of the growing data center industry in the county.”
“Jefferson, a single mom who lives in Montclair and is a communications professional and former journalist, had 52% of the vote with 96% of the precincts reporting, according to preliminary results from the Virginia Department of Elections. She held a lead of over 1,000 votes out of nearly 25,000 cast.”
Look at the creative ways they try to exploit your inattention. Did you know that our board of county supervisors has authorized a water study of the Occoquan watershed, a Sustainability Commission Report, development of a revised noise ordinance, and considering enhanced building code standards for data centers?
The results are due back about the same time as they finish pouring cement for the millions of square feet of data centers they already rushed to approve.
You’d think if they were really interested in what they claim, they might have looked into these issues before sealing our fates with their pre-determined decisions. After all, there were certainly enough informed citizens lining up at Public Comment time pleading for them to do so. They finally got the message after the damage was done. Better late than never.
For the next few months of election season, you will hear nothing but accomplishments from this board. Just don’t look too closely out your car window, and for some neighborhoods, don’t even look out your back door, or you will see the reality of their “accomplishments.”
Chair Ann Wheeler is the chief practitioner of the drive-by photo op and the innocuous “proclamation.” Throw in buttering-up a few select community members with appointments to commissions (our equivalent of ambassadorship), and you’ve built a superficial following.
How’s that working for us?
Paula Daly
Gainesville
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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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A judge tossed a lawsuit against Prince William County Supervisor Peter Candland, representing the Gainesville District.
On November 10, U.S. Eastern District Court Judge Michael S. Nachmanoff granted the motion to dismiss a lawsuit against Candland. With the dismissal, the judge gave Plaintiff 15 days to file an amended complaint to address the issues brought up by the motion to dismiss. Plaintiff failed to meet the deadline. Thus the lawsuit remains dismissed, according to a press release from Candland.
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We are Democrats, neighbors, and fellow citizens of Prince William County who find ourselves on different sides of an issue that has pitched your fellow landowners along Pageland Lane against a huge majority of residents in the county and surrounding jurisdictions.
We respect the right you and other property owners have to your personal financial interests in this issue, and we had hoped you would show others the same respect.
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Opponents of data centers will hold a protest outside the Prince Wiliam County Government Center.
Drivers on Prince William Parkway should see the protesters at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, September 13, at the county government center, 1 County Complex Court in Woodbridge.
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It's a bit unusual to have one-quarter of your county supervisors facing recall petitions from their constituents. It's also unusual that Prince William County has no Ombudsman or Ethics Office. So, what other recourse do our citizens have?
In the Navy, when a commanding officer is relieved for cause, it is usually not for specific misdeeds but for leadership failures that adversely affected subordinates or enabled their substandard performance. You'll hear terms like "loss of trust and confidence in the ability to command" or "cultivating a poor command climate." There is a recognition that bad leadership is unacceptably corrosive to an organization.
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However, those same safeguards wouldn't apply to locally-elected officials.
Since 2020, Spanberger has sought to ban politicians from trading single stocks. Spanberger introduced the Transparent Representation Upholding Service and Trust in Congress Act. She has also gone so far as to recommend that family members of sitting members of Congress should not be allowed to buy or sell individual stocks due to the privileged information that may find its way into their hands.
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Ann Wheeler has much to say in a fundraising email to constituents following bi-partisan calls for her to resign or be removed from office.
Wheeler, the top locally-elected policy maker in Prince William County, dodged a question from this news organization about her reaction to a bi-partisan effort to recall the Democrat, who's served as the At-large Chair of the Prince William Board of County Supervisors since 2020. However, in an email posted to the Coalition to Protect Prince William's website, one of the groups calling on Wheeler to resign, the chairwoman July 17, said those calling for her recall are detractors of the Board's progressive agenda.
