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The candidates for the county chairman seat made their pitch to a standing-room-only crowd at Northern Virginia Community College’s Loudoun Campus on Tuesday night. From right are Democrat Phyllis Randall, Republican Charles King, independent Tom Bellanca and incumbent Scott K. York, who is seeking re-election as an independent.
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he policy differences among the four candidates for Loudoun County chairman weren’t as apparent in a voter forum Tuesday night as were their personal differences. The event, the fourth and last in a series put on by the League of Women Voters of Loudoun County, was held before a standing-room-only crowd in the recently opened Higher Education Center at Northern Virginia Community College’s Loudoun Campus in Sterling. And while the questions asked of the hopefuls, most coming from the audience, were substantive, the answers seemed to elicit more personal clashes than contrasts in ideals. For example, all the candidates— incumbent Scott K. York, Republican Charles King, Democrat Phyllis Randall and independent Tom Bellanca— have said they support the expansion of full-day kindergarten in Loudoun, one of only three localities in Virginia that doesn’t offer the option in all elementary schools.
However, they wouldn’t necessarily go about bringing the expansion to the county in the same way. Randall also said Tuesday that York lobbied against full-day kindergarten during this year’s General Assembly session in Richmond. York, though, said that he wasn’t speaking against the notion of full-day kindergarten, but rather against a specific bill that would have called for the expansion as an unfunded mandate from the legislature. “Not only did the Board of Supervisors vote to oppose it, so did the School Board,” said the political veteran, who was elected last as a Republican but is running for reelection as an independent. He said that what’s necessary for full-day kindergarten is a plan that expands the program in a fiscally responsible way. The candidates do differ on the issue of whether Loudoun should create a police department that would take over primary law enforcement in the county from the Sheriff’s Office. King, who was the first in this year’s campaign to call for the change,
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remaining VIP board member, McLaughlin told Judge Burke F. McCahill. One Loudoun representatives have pushed to move the cases to trial as quickly as possible in hopes that resolution of the case would allow them to find a new tenant for the approved 5,000-seat stadium. It was revealed in court Friday that the cases neared settlement during the summer, but Continued on Page 15
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for a series of pre-trial motions. One of those was a request by VIP attorney Bruce McLaughlin to delay the trial after learning that the investment group’s founder and CEO Bob Farren is undergoing treatment for throat cancer. McLaughlin said the diagnosis was made Sept. 12 and that Farren’s treatment and difficulty speaking delayed elements of trial preparation and left his availability in the coming weeks uncertain. Farren is the only
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t appears the battle over control of the land once planned as the site for the Loudoun Hounds baseball stadium will continue in Loudoun Circuit Court next year. The landowner, One Loudoun Holdings, and the sports entertainment group, Virginia Investment Partnership, have been engaged in
competing legal claims since 2014. One Loudoun claims that VIP failed to construct the stadium on time, voiding the long-term lease. VIP claims One Loudoun failed to meet its obligations under the lease and is suing for $30 million in damages. The cases were scheduled for trial over four days starting Oct. 27. That won’t be happening. Attorneys for both sides were in court Friday
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