BrianSchoeneman Wrote:
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> Wanted to make sure you all saw this in the Post
> today.
>
> And if you're in Sully, don't make sure to come
> out on Saturday, from 10-4 at Westfield High
> School for the primary.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/republicans-vy
> e-to-replace-retiring-fairfax-supervisor-in-sully-
> district/2015/04/22/ccedd046-e783-11e4-9767-6276fc
> 9b0ada_story.html
>
> Republicans vie to replace retiring supervisor in
> Fairfax’s Sully District
>
> by Tony Olivo
>
> Twenty-four years have passed since Republican
> Michael R. Frey became supervisor of the newly
> created Sully District in western Fairfax County.
> Now, Frey is retiring, and the once-rural area,
> which has become a hub for businesses and
> immigration, must launch a new political era.
>
> The first step comes Saturday at Westfield High
> School in Chantilly. Three Republican candidates
> will compete for the nomination in a firehouse
> canvass that is expected to draw about 2,000
> voters from a population of 130,000 residents.
>
> The candidates — John Guevara, John L.
> Litzenberger Jr. and Brian Schoeneman — are all
> more conservative than Frey, who has not endorsed
> anyone. Whoever wins will face Democratic nominee
> Kathy Smith — a longtime School Board member who
> has pushed for more schools funding — in
> November’s general election.
>
> Although Sully has known only a Republican
> supervisor, it leans Democratic in state and
> national races, backing President Obama in both
> his White House bids and Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.)
> last year.
>
> But the supervisor’s race has focused mostly on
> local issues that resonate through much of
> Fairfax: clogged roads, crowded schools and
> cultural rifts triggered by the steady arrival of
> Asian and Latin American immigrants in
> historically white neighborhoods.
>
> “We are in the city now,” said Denise
> Benedict, 52, as she stood on her porch in
> Chantilly one recent day. She complained about
> cars speeding through quiet streets, and a nearby
> drug problem that recently led to a heroin ring
> bust.
>
> Frey’s successor will be one of at least two new
> members on a county Board of Supervisors where
> Democrats hold a 7-3 majority; the other open seat
> is in the heavily Democratic Mount Vernon
> District, where supervisor Gerald W. Hyland is
> retiring.
>
> In Sully, the Republican hopefuls have campaigned
> by scouring lists of consistent Republican voters
> who they believe are most likely to participate in
> the canvass, which runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
>
> Each candidate enters the election with some
> advantages.
>
> Guevara, a Mexican American, received a letter of
> support from the state Republican Party chairman,
> John Whitbeck, who says he wants more diversity in
> the party. Schoeneman, a former electoral board
> secretary, has raised the most money — $21,700
> since January. And Litzenberger, a member of the
> county Planning Commission, has been a fixture in
> Sully politics nearly as long as Frey.
>
> The candidates praise Frey, who remains popular,
> even as they argue that he and the rest of the
> board allowed property taxes to get too high and
> roads to become too congested.
>
> They also break with Frey on dealing with
> residents’ concerns related to new immigrants
> — such as the mostly Guatemalan day laborers who
> crowd in front of the Centreville public library
> in search of work. While Frey — who helped
> establish a nonprofit labor center for the workers
> — asserts that the men have a right to stand on
> the corner, the three candidates all say they’d
> explore ways to clear them out.
>
> “If it came to me to make it illegal to stand in
> front of the library, I would support that 100
> percent,” Guevara, 41, said to applause at a
> recent candidate’s forum.
>
> The most pressing issue for Sully voters is
> traffic.
>
> When Schoeneman met Patricia Crowley, 80, she
> complained about years of unfulfilled promises to
> fix the often clogged intersection of Routes 28
> and 50 in Herndon. “I don’t think they ought
> to say they’ll spend the money if they don’t
> mean it,” said Crowley, as Schoeneman nodded in
> agreement.
>
> Litzenberger said that as a planning commissioner,
> he knows how to pressure developers into helping
> to pay for road improvements. “Not one penny in
> taxes is used in those proffers,” he said.
>
> Schoeneman said that he would push for more
> projects to relieve congestion. Guevara faulted
> the planning commission for past failure, a
> viewpoint Litzenberger called naive in a region
> that is still growing.
>
> On county taxes, all three advocate freezing tax
> rates or rolling them back.
>
> Guevara, an IT manager at the AT&T Consulting
> Services company, wants to eliminate a business,
> professional, occupational license tax in the
> county — known as the BPOL tax — that
> generates about $150 million per year for
> Fairfax.
>
> He says he would boost the tax base by luring more
> large employers into the area, which that is
> primed to benefit from development plans near
> Dulles International Airport.
>
> Schoeneman called eliminating the tax impractical
> without finding a way to replace lost revenue.
>
> He, in turn, has been criticized by the other
> candidates because he has lived in the Sully
> District only since January. Guevara also has
> criticized Schoeneman, 37, for having ties to
> organized labor — he is legislative director of
> the International Seafarers Union, and some
> workers have contributed to his campaign.
>
> “How often do you see Republicans working for
> unions?” said Guevara, 41. “There’s a big
> difference here, in whether the party goes
> moderate, to the left or remains conservative.”
>
> Litzenberger, who at age 64 is a generation older
> than his opponents, calls them both inexperienced.
> “In eight years, they would be where I was in
> 1983,” he said.
>
> On a recent day, Guevara knocked on the door of
> the Chantilly home of Christina Dingman, a
> sixth-grade teacher. Although she is a reliable
> Republican voter, she gave him an earful about
> nearly flat teacher salaries in the county — a
> result of the still-anemic local economy and a
> concern more typical among Democrats.
>
> “I’ve gotten less than $5,000 in raises over
> the past seven years,” Dingman said. “There
> are young teachers out here who can’t make
> it.”
>
> Guevara, caught slightly off guard, talked about
> the need for growing the county’s economic base.
> Then he moved on to the next voter.
Wow, no one will ever read that.
You, sir, are a dumbass.