Real Estate Taxes: Will you pledge not to raise real estate and
car taxes faster than household income?
Business: Will you pledge to vote against a meals tax?
Unions: Under collective bargaining will the county be able to
lay off underperforming employees or will the union protect them?
Climate: Are we living in an "existential climate crisis"?
If so, what evidence to you have?
Transportation: Next year (FY2025), WMATA is expected to have
a funding shortfall of about $700 million as federal COVID funding ends
and ridership has decreased. Fairfax County's share would be about 13%,
or a $91M increase. How would you fund that?
Mental Health: To what extent did lockdowns contribute to our mental
health crisis?
SCHOOL BOARD CANDIDATES
Achievement: Between 2018 and 2022 Fairfax County Public Schools
SAT scores fell 27 points while Virginia SAT scores increase 14 points.
Is this a crisis? (See accompanying table.)
Achievement: Why does achievement vary so much among high schools?
Math: Should students have memorized the multiplication tables by
fourth grade?
CRT: What has America done right?
Safety: To what extent has the schools' failure to teach reading
and arithmetic by 3rd grade contributed to behavior problems?
STATE DELEGATE AND SENATOR CANDIDATES
Health Care: Would you support requiring hospitals and labs to post
prices of common procedures in an accessible format to the public?
Education: What would improve schools more -- more money or
competition?
Climate: Are we living in an "existential climate crisis"?
If so, what evidence to you have?
Energy: Do you oppose dismantling affordable, reliable energy
before providing affordable, reliable "green" energy?
Crime: How significant are family breakdown, drugs, and the
glorification of violence in entertainment as a cause of gun
violence?
Transportation: Do you support funding transportation from state
income tax revenues, or should those revenues continue to be off-limits
to transportation?
