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LeesburgToday Volume 26
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November 6, 2014 Educa t io n
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ome January, Frank Wolf will not be representing Virginia’s 10th Congressional District for the first time in more than three decades. But one of his former aides will be. Del. Barbara Comstock won a decisive victory over Fairfax County Supervisor John Foust on Tuesday night. The Republican took 56.7 percent of the vote to the Democrat’s 40.2 percent, according to unofficial results. “I guess I’m finally going to have a real job,” Comstock said to a roaring crowd of supporters at a victory party in Ashburn. She was acknowledging a gaffe Foust made that
might have scuttled any hopes Democrats had to win the district seat for the first time since 1978. During a campaign stop in Leesburg, Foust said he didn’t think Comstock had ever had a real job, referring to her career in politics, a slip-up that was repeated on Comstock’s campaign ads and mailers. After she was introduced by her daughter as the “first woman to represent the 10th District” Tuesday night, Comstock thanked supporters packed into a conference room at the Hilton Garden Inn for their help on the campaign trail. “I am so proud of the campaign that we ran together. Our positive message of growth and opportunity and the focus on the promise of the future has resonated again here in the 10th District and in the Continued on Page 24
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eesburg voters kept the status quo Tuesday, backing Mayor Kristen Umstattd for a seventh consecutive term and affirming her campaign message that the town is moving in the right direction. Umstattd won by a substantial margin, with 62.4 percent of 11,474 votes cast over challenger Tom Dunn. That was much wider than her 2010 victory of 54 percent over Dunn. “It’s very humbling to have people show some faith in you and realize you’re trying to do a good job,” Umstattd told Leesburg Today on Tuesday night. “I’m very grateful tonight to the citizens. That’s mostly what I feel.” Umstattd was first elected to the Leesburg Town Council in 1992 and named vice mayor in 2000 before assuming the town’s top position in 2002. She’s overseen substantial growth in Virginia’s mostpopulated city in that time and hopes to continue making improvements. “We’ll focus on the issues of the town, which are transportation, maintaining our long-term fiscal plan and trying to make sure Leesburg retains its smalltown feel, which is what I heard as the thing residents love most about this town while doing door-to-door,” she said. Umstattd graduated from Yale University and is a former Naval analyst with the CIA. The Philadelphia native has been a Leesburg resident since 1987 alongside her husband, Charles K. Moss, and their teenage daughter, Kendrick. Tensions were high entering the final days of the mayoral race, with a campaign mailer sent by Umstattd highlighting claims of Dunn’s shortcomings as a council member in response to fliers posted around town making attacks against the mayor and current council members. However, she said that when elections are over, it’s time for everyone to combine forces to make the town better for residents. “Everybody works together in this town, and
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