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.

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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.

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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. On Monday, October 24, Vega rallied with Texas Senator Ted Cruz (R) and Youngkin at Montclair Tabernacle Church near Dumfries in an all-out push to urge voters to head to the polls to support the Republican. Vega is attacking her Democrat opponent Abigail Spanberger and, by extension, the Biden Administration for rising inflation, the botched pullout of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, and policies in public schools that allow children to use pronouns other than what their parents might refer to them as without seeking parental consent. Furthermore, Republicans have successfully tied their opponents to Elizabeth Guzman (D), who represents Prince William and Fauquier counties in the Virginia House of Delegates. Earlier this month, Guzman told WJLA-TV she would reintroduce failed legislation allowing social workers to investigate parents and potentially jail them if parents don't affirm their child's chosen gender identity. After the story aired and fellow Virginia Democrats balked, Guzman said she won't file the bill during the upcoming January 2023 legislative session. During a campaign event in Dumfries on Wednesday, October 26, Insidenova reports Guzman focused on abortion issues and continues to talk about Vega's comments made during a campaign rally this past spring where she said women are less likely to get pregnant in cases of rape. The Supreme Court overturned the nearly 40-year-old Roe v. Wade ruling in a landmark decision earlier this year, allowing individual states' legislatures to decide if abortion should be legal in their states. Since then, Vega has said it's now up to states to decide on abortion, not the Federal government.

"My opponent has "endorsed a national abortion ban. My opponent has doubted whether women can get pregnant from rape," Insidenova quoted Spanberger as saying. "My opponent has advocated for shutting down the federal government. My opponent has called the FBI corrupt."

House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D) of South Carolina appeared with Spanberger in Dumfries.

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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.

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Democratic Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger visited one of her party's strongholds in the new 7th District on Tuesday, meeting voters in Dumfries with one of the nation's longest-serving congressmen, House Majority Whip James Clyburn of South Carolina, in tow.

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Yesli Vega rode into her campaign, standing atop a motorcoach, waiving at a crowd of more than 400 people gathered near Dumfries to see her.

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The Prince William County Electoral Board will meet at 4 p.m. Wednesday, October 26 in Manassas.

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Some Abigail Spanberger campaign signs were found defaced this morning in Woodbridge.

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Texas Senator Ted Cruz and Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin will join Yesli Vega for a campaign rally.

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Former Democratic Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard made the trip from Hawaii to Quantico Marine Corps Base to campaign for Republican Yesli Vega.

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