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Incumbent Del. Ibraheem Samirah (left) and challenger Irene Shin (right) are competing in the Democratic primary for the 86th District (Photos courtesy Ibraheem Samirah, Irene Shin)
Virginia’s political transformation over the past decade can be summed up by the arc of the 86th House District.
10 years ago, former Herndon mayor and Republican Tom Rust was reelected for a sixth term, running unopposed in both the primary and general elections. Two years later, Jennifer Boysko fell just 54 votes shy of ousting Rust, and in 2015, she turned the district blue after he opted not to seek reelection.
Jumping to 2021, the Town of Herndon and western Fairfax County down to Route 50 in Chantilly are represented in the House of Delegates by Del. Ibraheem Samirah, the Palestinian American grandson of refugees who succeeded Boysko in 2019 as part of a new wave of Democratic leaders that gave the party control of the General Assembly.
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This opinion piece from Mary Barthelson, who is challenging Del. Ken Plum in the Democratic primary for the 36th House District seat, was submitted in response to Reston Now’s profile of the race. It does not reflect the opinion of Reston Now. Reston Now runs opinion columns from Plum every Thursday.
While speaking to voters, I have gotten frequent questions about topics ranging from criminal justice reform to my leadership style. Here are my short answers to your top asked questions.
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Police brutality is not something which only happens far away. We have seen police brutality in Virginia, including in Fairfax County. The Fairfax NAACP proposed maintaining the police budget along with 8 critical reforms which I support. In both the Donovan Lynch and Lt. Navario cases there were body camera failures. My background as a security engineer with experience developing body camera programs uniquely qualifies me to navigate expansi
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On Friday, the 16th of April, this week s winning fourth graders will be battling it out in the first #KZNLastKidStanding semi-final!
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But we aren t the only ones who have been enjoying KZN s most exciting spelling bee.
Every day we put three of the best fourth-grade speller s in the province to the ultimate test.
From wheelbarrow to puppies and everything in-between, we threw the toughest words at them and they knocked them down one by one.
Kicking us off on Monday with round one was Peyton from Athlone Primary School, Sadhil from Parkside Primary and Thandolwethu from Virginia Prep:
March 17, 2021 at 3:00pm
For the first time in over two decades, Del. Ken Plum, the state delegate for district 36, has a primary challenger.
Mary Barthelson, 27, is set to challenge incumbent Plum, 79, in the Democratic primary election. Plum, who has been in this office since 1982 and also held the seat from 1978-80, has run unopposed for the seat since 2011 when he faced Republican Hugh Cannon in the general election. The primary winner of the Barthelson-Plum race will face Republican Matthew Lang in the general election.
Barthelson officially announced her candidacy today.
Previously a data analyst, the Northern Virginia native currently works as a security engineer. Barthelson aims to use her engineering background to meet “a growing challenge” that is being presented by emerging technologies.
resign. you ve had no fewer than six declared and predeclared presidential candidates including both african-american candidates and the one latino candidate in the race call on him to resign. the pressure on him is enormous, both from the state level and the national level. we had julian castro on this morning on my show and he said very bluntly, he would not campaign with governor northam if he remains the governor of that state. the crucial virginia primary, march 3rd, super tuesday, a very key primary, virginia is going to be counting on all of those candidates to be coming through and campaigning. they will not be able to be seen with him, pictured with him, campaigning with him. they have critical state elections later on this year. absolutely. which they have a narrow lead the republicans do. he s opened the door. its untenable. i don t see how he continues. so many of the democratic candidates for president have been speaking about this