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Anonymous wrote:I’m confused. Did McKay intend to text her in a GC? Or was did he think he was texting just another person? Also who is this third person and why did she/he not speak up?

I do wish she had handled this differently and with dignity. A public Facebook post is messy.

You wish SHE had handled it differently? GtFOH. She handled it appropriately and shed slight on his sexist comment. He's a public servant and so it should have been put out there for all to see.

Anonymous wrote:I’m confused. Did McKay intend to text her in a GC? Or was did he think he was texting just another person? Also who is this third person and why did she/he not speak up?

I do wish she had handled this differently and with dignity. A public Facebook post is messy.

Anonymous wrote:I am the first to admit I am not a Meren Stan, but seeing the conversation she just posted I’m appalled. Who in this day and age calls women bimbos and then doubles down on it when confronted?! I can post her commentary but the screen shots are in her FB post.

“What I sent the Bimbo”: Fairfax County Board of Supervisors Chairman Jeff McKay defunds High School Crossing Guards, then Criticizes Board Member Melanie Meren about Her Objection

Crossing guards will no longer be stationed on roadways to public high schools in Fairfax County, and I think this is the wrong decision for our community. My position aligns with my years of advocacy for public safety investments near our schools to prevent traffic incidents harming children and adults.

On May 5, the Board of Supervisors approved a budget that eliminated these crossing guards. I protested this cut in my latest newsletter, on May 7. On May 13, the Chairman sent me texts criticizing my public statement and demanding an apology.

Chairman McKay then called me a “bimbo” in an apparent text to the County Executive, Bryan Hill, that I was included on. When I asked him to confirm if I was “the bimbo”, Chairman McKay doubled down: “Yes because everyone here is angry as heck and it costs the schools.”

As shocked as I was to be degraded by the highest-level countywide elected official in Fairfax County, I am more concerned about the Chairman’s sense of entitlement about having unilateral authority on public spending.

To be clear: the Board of Supervisors does not fund anything. The taxpayers fund the government, and our elected officials are stewards of public dollars. When the Board of Supervisors makes decisions about how to spend public monies, they must answer for those decisions. Attempts to stifle criticism and accountability are not signs of strength, but weakness.

I will continue speaking truth to power and standing up for student safety. I hope others will show up and speak up to do the same.

Melanie Meren
Hunter Mill District Representative
Fairfax County School Board

From the 5/7/26 newsletter:

This month, on Thursday, May 21, the School Board will adopt publicly the final budget for School Year 26-27, which is Fiscal Year (FY) 27. The FCPS budget relies heavily on local funding approved by the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, who transfer funds to FCPS based on the School Board’s request made on February 26.

FCPS faces a budget shortfall between our transfer request and what the Board of Supervisors have allotted to FCPS, a difference of $43.8 Million. Supervisors have kept this proposed allotment level since February, including during their budget markups on Tuesday, April 28 that would be the opportunity for any final adjustments.

The Board of Supervisors also upholds the recommendation of County Executive, Bryan Hill, to shift the $4 Million responsibility to FCPS from the County’s Health and Human Services youth gang-prevention program - the Middle School After-School Program (MSASP). Basically, the Board of Supervisors is indicating how FCPS should spend its funding, which is not how the budgeting is supposed to happen.
Lastly, the Board of Supervisors denied funding for high school crossing guards! So in the exact locations with the newest drivers, safety precautions are being removed! Our teen drivers and pedestrians are Fairfax residents who have a right to public safety services that enforce safe transportation where thousands of people commute daily. That the County Executive continues to balance the budget on the backs of our kids’ safety, and the Supervisors allow this, is truly a neglect of public safety services in Fairfax County. I do thank Hunter Mill Supervisor Walter Alcorn, for rejecting the budget markups, and Franconia District Supervisor Rodney Lusk, for trying to protect the high school crossing guard program.

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Anonymous wrote:Mckay is a moron for calling her a bimbo and the Fairfax County spending needs to be looked at closely. Between the resturant tax, fees for plastic shopping bags and real estate tax revenue increases where does our tax dollars go? What is the county spending it on?For FCPS, I know there are teachers unions now. We certainly aren’t getting textbooks.

+1

The only county supervisor who pushes back is Herrity. He is an island.

So many County residents willingly roll with the tax increases. It’s out of control

He's an island because he's a Republican. This is why purple areas tend to be the best to live in - when one party (either one!) controls too long with no pushback, bad patterns get entrenched. This is why Rudy Guiliani, before he became a laughingstock, was actually a decent mayor. He came in and undid entrenched bad habits by coming from the other party.

If our whole county government was Republican a lone Dem would look smart too.

Herrity is an island in a sea of insanity. Wish he could replace mckay. He is the only one with a working brain.

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Anonymous wrote:I hate the work Meren has done but she's totally in the right and he in the wrong on both behavior and policy. Politicians are the worst. To call someone a bimbo in a group text with them in it is appalling.

How is it professional for Meren to post what she did?

This is what women all over the US are dealing with from many men in the workforce and at home since Trump made it acceptable to call people names publicly and especially in politics. I applaud anyone who brings it to light.

Problem easily solved by women leaving the workforce and wearing niqab. Women working is a Democrat plot to flood the labor force to drive down wages, and promote homosexuality.

Anonymous wrote:She did not 'attack' the County Executive. She stated that "The Board of Supervisors also upholds the recommendation of County Executive, Bryan Hill, to shift the $4 Million responsibility to FCPS from the County’s Health and Human Services youth gang-prevention program - the Middle School After-School Program (MSASP). Basically, the Board of Supervisors is indicating how FCPS should spend its funding, which is not how the budgeting is supposed to happen.". She stated factual information and stated her opinion on the budgeting process.

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Anonymous wrote:Mckay is a moron for calling her a bimbo and the Fairfax County spending needs to be looked at closely. Between the resturant tax, fees for plastic shopping bags and real estate tax revenue increases where does our tax dollars go? What is the county spending it on?For FCPS, I know there are teachers unions now. We certainly aren’t getting textbooks.

+1

The only county supervisor who pushes back is Herrity. He is an island.

So many County residents willingly roll with the tax increases. It’s out of control

He's an island because he's a Republican. This is why purple areas tend to be the best to live in - when one party (either one!) controls too long with no pushback, bad patterns get entrenched. This is why Rudy Guiliani, before he became a laughingstock, was actually a decent mayor. He came in and undid entrenched bad habits by coming from the other party.

If our whole county government was Republican a lone Dem would look smart too.

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Anonymous wrote:I can’t believe McKay called her a bimbo. That is very bad.

But we don’t need high school crossing guards. Fairfax is the only nearby jurisdiction that had them. Budget responses showed there were not accidents in those areas. Of course there might be more if the guards are removed but we don’t know.

A kid was hit by a car at our ES -- in MM's district. Crossing guard was there and it still happened but I think it could be worse without. I'd at least keep them at elementary schools.

The bimbo comment does not surprise me sadly. We have learned in the past several years just how misogynistic so many men are.

One does wonder if Meren would have been quite so quick to attack the County Executive publicly in one of her FB screeds if he was not a Black man. We have learned in the past several years just how racist and condescending so many white women are.

LOL! Is this a troll? McKay is a boomer.

No. Boomers were born before 1964.

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Anonymous wrote:I can’t believe McKay called her a bimbo. That is very bad.

But we don’t need high school crossing guards. Fairfax is the only nearby jurisdiction that had them. Budget responses showed there were not accidents in those areas. Of course there might be more if the guards are removed but we don’t know.

A kid was hit by a car at our ES -- in MM's district. Crossing guard was there and it still happened but I think it could be worse without. I'd at least keep them at elementary schools.

The bimbo comment does not surprise me sadly. We have learned in the past several years just how misogynistic so many men are.

One does wonder if Meren would have been quite so quick to attack the County Executive publicly in one of her FB screeds if he was not a Black man. We have learned in the past several years just how racist and condescending so many white women are.

She did not 'attack' the County Executive. She stated that "The Board of Supervisors also upholds the recommendation of County Executive, Bryan Hill, to shift the $4 Million responsibility to FCPS from the County’s Health and Human Services youth gang-prevention program - the Middle School After-School Program (MSASP). Basically, the Board of Supervisors is indicating how FCPS should spend its funding, which is not how the budgeting is supposed to happen.". She stated factual information and stated her opinion on the budgeting process.

Obvious troll is obvious.

I see you have no substantive response. Meren had no problem unleashing an attack in public on the county’s County Executive for not funding her priorities.

If Bryan Hill had been white, perhaps she wouldn’t have been so quick to treat him like the hired help.

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Anonymous wrote:I can’t believe McKay called her a bimbo. That is very bad.

But we don’t need high school crossing guards. Fairfax is the only nearby jurisdiction that had them. Budget responses showed there were not accidents in those areas. Of course there might be more if the guards are removed but we don’t know.

A kid was hit by a car at our ES -- in MM's district. Crossing guard was there and it still happened but I think it could be worse without. I'd at least keep them at elementary schools.

The bimbo comment does not surprise me sadly. We have learned in the past several years just how misogynistic so many men are.

One does wonder if Meren would have been quite so quick to attack the County Executive publicly in one of her FB screeds if he was not a Black man. We have learned in the past several years just how racist and condescending so many white women are.

Obvious troll is obvious.

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Anonymous wrote:I can’t believe McKay called her a bimbo. That is very bad.

But we don’t need high school crossing guards. Fairfax is the only nearby jurisdiction that had them. Budget responses showed there were not accidents in those areas. Of course there might be more if the guards are removed but we don’t know.

A kid was hit by a car at our ES -- in MM's district. Crossing guard was there and it still happened but I think it could be worse without. I'd at least keep them at elementary schools.

The bimbo comment does not surprise me sadly. We have learned in the past several years just how misogynistic so many men are.

One does wonder if Meren would have been quite so quick to attack the County Executive publicly in one of her FB screeds if he was not a Black man. We have learned in the past several years just how racist and condescending so many white women are.

Obvious troll is obvious.