Corey Stewart, a household name in Prince William County politics for 15 years, is pushing a new T.V. ad attacking Democrat Abigail Spanberger.
It’s the first time Stewart has made a public political statement after he stepped down from the Prince William Board of County Supervisors on December 31, 2019.
Affordable housing, education, taxes and transparency are the top campaign issues cited by six candidates vying for three Manassas City Council seats on the ballot Nov. 8.
Republican incumbent Councilmembers Theresa Coates Ellis and Lynn Forkell Greene are trying to hold onto their seats and elect fellow Republican and political newcomer R. E. “Rick” Bookwalter to increase their party’s influence on the city council, which now has a 5-2 Democratic majority.
Even the allure of new digs at Manassas Park’s recently-opened city hall building hasn’t drawn more candidates into a three-way race for City Council this year, leading some to consider reducing the small city’s governing body from seven seats to five.
Gov. Glenn Youngkin will hold a rally for Yesli Vega, the Republican seeking Virginia’s 7th District Congressional seat, at the Stafford County Courthouse.
The event begins at 12:30 at the courthouse, 1300 Courthouse Road, and is organized by the governor’s Spirit of Virginia PAC. The rally will be the second for Vega this week in which the governor has participated and the third overall since October 17.
After a protracted battle with a lender, Prince William County Supervisor and Republican congressional candidate Yesli Vega paid off her student loans to a shuttered for-profit college that the federal government said defrauded hundreds of thousands of students.
The Prince William Board of County Supervisors will appoint a Baltimore City Administrator to lead the local government in Virginia’s second-largest jurisdiction. The Prince William Board of County Supervisors will appoint a Baltimore City Administrator to lead the local government in Virginia’s second-largest jurisdiction.
According to multiple sources, Christopher Shorter will be appointed the new County Executive following a closed-session meeting at 10 a.m. Tuesday, October 25. A media report indicates Short is telling others in Baltimore he is leaving Maryland for a new job in Northern Virgina.
Prince William County’s Racial and Social Justice passed two resolutions outlining its concern over to plan to pave over areas next to Manassas National Battlefield to build data centers.
The Board has had a tumultuous past, rarely finding common ground. The resolutions come as the Board of County Supervisors is set to hear the case for the data center project on November 1 and must decide whether to rezone 2,100 acres next to the battlefield for Prince William Digital Gateway. These server farms would help power the internet.
Former Democratic Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard made the trip from Hawaii to Quantico Marine Corps Base to campaign for Republican Yesli Vega.
Gabbard joined Vega on the stump at her campaign headquarters, at the Quantico Gateway office complex just outside the base Saturday, October 22, 2022. Gabbard outlined why she left the Democratic Party earlier this month and urged voters to round up their friends and head to the polls to cast their ballot for Vega.
A year ago, Republicans swept Democrats from statewide offices in Richmond, from the governor’s mansion to the attorney general’s office.
Now Virginia Republicans are speaking boldly and hoping the red wave will flow through the halls of Congress in Washington and continue into 2023 in the General Assembly.
Supervisor Yesli Vega, the Republican nominee for U.S. Congress in Virginia’s 7th District, has been critical of President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan and decries “reckless” government spending in a recent TV ad. Yet Vega and her husband filed for personal bankruptcy in 2009 and had more than $96,000 in debts discharged in the proceeding, including more than $46,000 in student loans, according to court records.
