NoVa HOA Roundtable Endorses Candidates in PWC Board Chair Primary

The HOA Roundtable believes a new Board Chair is needed to restore sound leadership, respect for constituents, and responsiveness to resident concerns.”

The HOA Roundtable of Northern Virginia announces its endorsement of Deshundra Jefferson (D) & Jeanine Lawson (R) in the June 20 Primary Elections for Chair of the Prince William Board of County Supervisors

The HOA Roundtable of Northern Virginia is a coalition of HOAs, Civic Associations, and independent homeowners who represent more than 150,000 households across the region. Local government decisions on land use, and other issues, affect residential quality of life and property value. These core tenets of successful communities include environmental protection, historic preservation, and sustainable economic activity. All contribute to a favorable environment where communities grow in a healthy and vigorous way, resulting in flourishing residential property values, the most important financial asset for average American families.

The June 20th primary is the most consequential local election in decades. The race for Chair of the Prince William Board of County Supervisors is critical because of the leadership role the office affords. We are taking the extraordinary step of endorsing candidates who support our mission, and the values of our participating HOAs and Civic organizations. This decision to endorse is not politically inspired, but one of civic responsibility.

The current majority of the Prince William Board of County Supervisors approved massive industrial development outside of established zones, creating a precedent for more of the same next to residential communities, schools, parks, and national historic sites in areas of sensitive environmental resources. The

The board ignored dangers to resident health and safety, such as the coal ash dump at Potomac Shores contaminating ground water and imperiling marine life in Quantico Creek and wildlife in the Prince William Forest National Park, which is further endangered by the Potomac Technology Park proposal. Their decisions also threaten the desecration of Civil War and post-war African American historic sites adjacent to the Manassas National Battlefield Park and numerous open space amenities at residential communities across the County.

Without a change in the Board of Supervisors, Prince William will cease to be a County for residential communities and families to thrive and for retirees to enjoy. In a few short years, it will become an industrial wasteland, with County officials bought by the most powerful industry ever in the history of mankind. Other economic opportunities, and businesses that provide vital goods and services, will be forced out of Prince William. They simply cannot afford to pay artificially inflated commercial land prices driven by the data center developers. These unprecedented circumstances were championed by incumbent Board Chair Ann Wheeler (D).

The HOA Roundtable believes a new Board Chair is needed to restore sound leadership, respect for constituents, and responsiveness to resident concerns. The influence of money in Chair Wheeler’s campaign and that of Kenn Knarr, running in the Republican primary, is unprecedented in local elections. Knarr is a highly conflicted property owner who stands to reap millions from data center developers. The public interest cannot be served unless candidates free from this corrosive influence are able to fairly campaign in the November general election. The campaign will then be about the issues and not the money.

We are proud to endorse the following candidates to become their respective Party’s nominees for Chair, Prince William Board of County Supervisors. We endorse them because they support residential quality of life and property values, not developer influence and intimidation: Democrat: Deshundra Jefferson and Republican: Jeanine Lawson.