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Honoring a Neighbor, Redistricting McLean, MCC Election

People and Doings Around McLean

Honoring a Neighbor. Our neighbor state Del. Barbara Comstock, R-34, successfully introduced a special resolution in the General Assembly to honor another neighbor Robert H. Bork. The resolution was passed unanimously. 

The resolution recognized Judge Bork’s distinguished career of public service, as a professor at Yale Law School; as Solicitor General of the United States; as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia; and as a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy.

Bork lives in Langley Farms where he's neighbors with former Vice President Dick Cheney and TV weatherman Bob Ryan. Bork was also an unsuccessful nominee to the Supreme Court.

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McLean Redistricting.  Fairfax politicos are quietly wondering if McLean could be in play as redistricting games begin in Richmond. The Washington Post reported last week there may be some thought to changing  our state senate district lines. Let the political games begin.

Local Election Games. The head of the McLean Community Center Election committee had an an idea to make it easier for the neighbors to vote in the upcoming MCC board elections .

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Susan Bourgeois wanted to allow the neighbors to be able to print out an absentee ballot at home. Her fellow board members raised concerns of ballot security and ballot secrecy. One of the wariest members was Risa Sanders who may be a candidate in the election. “I don’t think it gets us ---I don’t think it makes it that much easier,”  said Sanders, one of five members whose terms expire this year.

Board members have said the secret to winning a seat on the 11-member board is organizing your supporters to cast absentee ballots.

McLean residents can go to the McLean Community Center and pickup an absentee ballot from Monday, April 11, to Wednesday, May 18 or vote at  McLean Day Saturday, May 21  from 10:30am-5 pm.  

 


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