Jack Dobbyn, a small business owner, has announced his candidacy for Mount Vernon Supervisor and has received the endorsement of former Attorney General candidate Justin Fairfax.
Dobbyn is currently a member of the Board of Supervisors’ Human Services Council and is a co-chair of the Board of Supervisors’ and School Board’s joint working committee, the Successful Children and Youth Policy Team. He is also a former chair of the Mount Vernon District Democratic Committee.
Delegate Scott Surovell announced that he would be running for Linda “Toddy” Puller’s State Senate seat in the 36th district.
Puller has served in the State Senate since 1992 and announced her decision to retire from her seat this year.
The $65 million effort to widen Route 1 in Triangle to six lanes was completed in 2012, and it took with it many of the roadside businesses that once lined the busy thoroughfare – fast food joints, used car dealerships, and a Greyhound Bus station. Bringing new economic development to the area to coincide with the National Museum of the Marine Corps will be her full-time focus.
After the businesses were gone, it brought disapproval from some of her toughest critics.
Jason Pelt, a partner with the Law Firm of Goodall, Pelt & Carper, P.C., is seeking to run for the Stafford Commonwealth Attorney seat for the second time.
Pelt first ran back in 2011 against Eric Olsen, who currently holds the position, after Daniel Chichester, the preceding Commonwealth Attorney, decided to retire.
Austin Haynes, a commercial developer, has announced that he will be running against Michelle McQuigg, the incumbent, for the Clerk of the Court seat.
Haynes and McQuigg will be up against one another for the Republican primary for Clerk, which is on June 9.
Delegate Luke Torian’s bill to create a “Work and Save” group passed on the floor at the General Assembly today.
The delegate from House District 52 drafted the legislation as a way to boost the amount of citizens saving for retirement.
Chapman, a graduate of Prince William County Public Schools, and graduate of George Mason University has been running his own business for 20 years.
In the community, Chapman has worked as an ESL teacher, and has served as Chairman of the Prince William County Family Alliance, Vice Chairman of the Prince William County Schools Career and Technical Education Committee, and the Vice Chairman of the Prince William Tax Payers Alliance.
Manassas Mayor Hal Parrish has announced his campaign for State Senate in Virginia’s 29th District.
Democratic Senator Chuck Colgan, who has served as Senator in the District since 1976, currently holds the seat.
Mike May officially kicked off his run for the Prince William County Commonwealth Attorney’s Office.
May, an attorney at Albo & Oblon, L.L.P. and currently Prince William’s Occoquan District Supervisor, looks to unseat the long-serving Paul Ebert, who’s been in office since the late 1960s.
Justin Wilk, an education consultant, and former Prince William County teacher, is running for the Potomac District seat on the Prince William County School Board.
The incumbent, Betty Covington, has not declared her candidacy to run for re-election, but Wilk feels that there needs to be a change on the School Board.
