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Corey Stewart wades back into politics: Former Prince William Board Chairman raising $30K to fund Spanberger attack ad

Published October 28, 2022 at 7:00AM | Updated October 31, 2022 at 10:47AM

Former Prince William Board of County Supervisors Chairman At-large Corey Stewart speaks at a campaign event for Yesli Vega.

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.

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Youngkin to rally with Vega at in Stafford on Friday, October 28

By Potomac Local News

Published October 27, 2022 at 1:59PM

Yesli Vega and Gov. Glenn Youngkin at a campaign rally in Spotsylvania County on October 17, 2022.

Gov. Glenn Youngkin will hold a rally for Yesli Vega, the Republican seeking Virginia’s 7th District Congressional seat, at the Stafford County Courtgovernor’se 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.

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Vega on bankruptcy: Student debt repaid, not forgiven | Insidenova

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Published October 27, 2022 at 8:50AM

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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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Ted Cruz, Youngkin with Vega in Dumfries: ‘Red wave started in Virginia’

By Potomac Local News

Published October 25, 2022 at 9:00AM

Virignia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) with Yesli Vega, a candidate for the 7th Congressional District at campaign rally near Dumfries on October 24, 2022.

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. U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) stood next to the 7th-District Congressional candidate as the bus pulled into Montclair Tabernacle Church, at 16120 Dumfries Road. It was Vega’s second rally with high-profile politicians in Prince William County in the past three days.

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Prince William GOP condemns Spanberger sign defacing

By Potomac Local News

Published October 24, 2022 at 9:01AM

Some Abigail Spanberger campaign signs were found defaced this morning in Woodbridge. The Prince William Republican Committee notified Potomac Local News about the signs found at Route 1 and Cardinal Drive. The Prince William County Democratic Committee notified the county GOP about the signs.

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Cruz, Youngkin to campaign for Vega near Dumfries

By Potomac Local News

Published October 23, 2022 at 3:45PM

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

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Former Democrat Tulsi Gabbard joins Yesli Vega on campaign trail at Quantico

By Potomac Local News

Published October 22, 2022 at 1:53PM | Updated November 3, 2022 at 10:35AM

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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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Virginia GOP files lawsuit in Prince William; Youngkin, Cruz to appear

By Potomac Local News

Published October 21, 2022 at 12:30PM | Updated October 23, 2022 at 2:31PM

The Republican Party of Virginia filed a lawsuit against the Prince William County Elections Office. The GOP says the county has not done its job to allow handpicked party representatives to work as poll chiefs and assistant chiefs on Election Day, November 8, 2022.

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Emboldened Virginia Republicans hopeful for congressional gains, retaking General Assembly

By Uriah Kiser

Published October 18, 2022 at 1:10PM | Updated October 21, 2022 at 7:19PM

Yesli Vega and Gov. Glenn Youngkin at a campaign rally in Spotsylvania County on October 17, 2022.

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. Republicans in the state are feeling ever more confident in the run-up to the November 8 General Election, as most polls of likely voters indicate they are older and plan to vote for Republicans.

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Before Vega decried ‘reckless’ spending, she had $96K in student loans, debts cleared in personal bankruptcy | Prince William Times

By Potomac Local News

Published October 18, 2022 at 9:30AM

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.

Vega, 37, and her husband, Rene Vega, were living in Fort Washington, Maryland, when they filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Maryland, which has not been previously disclosed.

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