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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That question was terrible but it was also baffling (and related) that they endorsed only men.

WaPo endorsement: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/endorsements-for-the-fairfax-county-board-of-supervisors/2019/05/27/03133fc0-7b38-11e9-8bb7-0fc796cf2ec0_story.html?utm_term=.a70d692d291d

Article about it: https://bluevirginia.us/2019/05/wapo-endorses-all-men-in-fairfax-county-reportedly-asked-female-candidate-how-will-you-be-chairman-with-two-young-children?fbclid=IwAR1WfASkoRWx3R1e6nLvEGaCevR1xxtVQGmB4lAddnMZLkRuAuAKnXSWjh8[/quote]

Is it really just one guy who determines the endorsements at the WaPo?  You would think they'd have more than just Lee Hockstader to review candidates.

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I’m not disputing that the Washington Post’s endorsed candidates for Fairfax County Board of Supervisors (James Walkinshaw in Braddock District, Rodney Lusk in Lee District, Walter Alcorn in Hunter Mill District, Phil Niedzelski-Eichner in Providence District, Jeff McKay for Chair) are all well qualified. However…it *is* striking that as we’re seeing – and for good reasons – a surge in female candidates here in Virginia and across the country, the WaPo’s editorial page (ok, yeah, it’s basically one guy, Lee Hockstader) decided to endorse an all-male slate in the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors’ Democratic primaries on June 11 (just two weeks from now).

But even leaving that aside, the reported comments made by Hockstader et al to two of the female candidates – assuming Alicia Plerhoples’ and Larysa Kautz’s accounts are accurate (and I have no reason to doubt that they are) – are simply appalling. Check it out:

Plerhoples reports that they asked her, “how will you be Chairman with two young children?”
Kautz says that they lectured her about how “there are no women with young children on the Board of Supervisors…because ‘there are late night meetings, and it’s hard work’.”[/quote][/quote]

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