Past County Leaders Back Metro

As deadline nears, more weigh in with the hope of influencing board on Silver Line vote.

Seven former members of the Loudoun Board of Supervisors and the Loudoun County School Board signed a letter Monday encouraging the current board to participate in the Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project: Dear Members of the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors, Loudoun County has waited decades for Metro. It is time for that wait to end. Generations of business and regional planning decisions have been based on the goal of bringing Metro access to Dulles Airport and into Eastern Loudoun. Numerous government entities and hundreds of commercial businesses have spent thousands of hours and countless resources considering and deciding how best to organize our community around that outcome. And the people of Loudoun County, ourselves included, …

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8:21 am on Thursday, June 28, 2012

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McGimsey Touts Background, Experience in Campaign

Broad Run supervisor candidate pushes back against Independent opponent Keirce.

Potomac Supervisor Andrea McGimsey faces a three-way race and a slew of new voters in her bid for a second term on the Loudoun Board of Supervisors. After redistricting, the incumbent Democrat found herself written into a new district – the Sterling and newly created Algonkian districts essentially swallowed Potomac. So McGimsey is running for the Broad Run seat. McGimsey ensures that her campaign will be focused on the issues during the election season. She sees traffic and economic development as the two chief issues in Ashburn, and she plans to address them both, if elected Broad Run supervisor. A former Ashburn resident, McGimsey believes she’s amply suited to the serve the district – which includes the Metrorail extension planned to …

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Letter to the Editor

LTE: Reader Questions Validity of Keirce Statements

Ashburn Patch draws fire from LCDC VP irked about gerrymandering comment.

To the editor: Your recent portrait of Cliff Keirce, Independent candidate for Supervisor from the Broad Run District (“Keirce Lets Loose on Broad Run Opponents,” September 22, 2011) cannot be allowed to stand without rebuttal. If he is quoted correctly, Kierce states that “[t]he Broad Run District is completely gerrymandered [and that Supervisor Andrea McGimsey] created this District for her own interests.” Kierce cites no evidence for this belief, but it takes no particular stretch to realize that he is channeling the false claim being propagated by his biggest patron, Supervisor Stevens Miller (D-Dulles). Unfortunately for Supervisor Miller, a detailed record exists of the Board of Supervisors’ actions on March 15, when the final …

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