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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Unpopular boundary review, 24/7 security team, possible failure to comply with Title IX, vouchers part of BBB, are a perfect storm.

If the school board fails to step in now, these B-level politicians won’t have any political future.  [/quote]

No doubt it makes you feel good to say that, but what's happening now is just more of the same from the School Board, and we've got Storck, Smith, and Palchik (all former School Board members) sitting on the Board of Supervisors; Cohen, Keys Gamarra, and Pekarsky (former School Board members) sitting in the state legislature; and Moon and Sizemore-Heizer (current School Board members) the likely successor to Walkinshaw on the Board of Supervisors. There have been a few School Board members whose political ambitions have been thwarted (Frisch lost a primary for state house of delegates, McElveen lost a primary for Board of Supervisors chair, and Moon lost a prior election for the Braddock seat on the Board of Supervisors), but mostly these folks rise through the ranks by being Democrats and having more name recognition than other candidates.

The things that you think will create a perfect storm, depending on how they play out, could put a few local seats (Dranesville, Springfield, Sully, and maybe an at-large seat) in play, but that's about it.  That would change the dynamics somewhat because having a few members on the SB or BOS from the other party means the decisions of the majority may get challenged in public settings (think of Schultz when she was on the SB and Herrity on the BOS now) as opposed to rubber-stamped.  But we live in a blue county, and voters in low-information elections will continue to vote blue, especially when you've got MAGA Republicans at the national level constantly looking for new ways to throw local residents out of work.  [/quote]

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