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Candidates For Manassas City Council
By Greg L | 2 January 2007 | Manassas City | 18 Comments
This Wednesday and Thursday the Manassas City Council will hold public hearings on the 11 applicants who are seeking appointment to the Manassas City Council. All of the applicants have submitted resumes and questionnaire responses which can be read in their entirety here (for January 3rd) and here (for January 4th). To save readers the trouble of reading through almost a hundred pages of occasionally mind-numbing platitudes, here’s a summary of the applicants:
Robert Schilpp
Robert is a retiree and the current chairman of the Board of Zoning Appeals, and has significant experience in programming, planning and budgeting from his work for the government. He appears to be a fiscal moderate and weak on illegal immigration. Closest to councilman Steve Smith.
Pamela Kincheloe
Pamela is an attorney specializing in medical and insurance law, and formerly a nurse. She has limited budgeting experience, is fiscally liberal, and makes no mention of immigration. Closest to no current councilman, as no current councilmembers are this liberal.
Deirdre Pennefefather
Deirdre is a database manager for a non-profit and a former teacher. She has no apparent budgeting experience, but seems eager to do her own research and learn. She seems to be a fiscal moderate, but is concerned about overcrowding and illegal immigration. Closest to councilman Steven Randolph.
Sheryl Bass
Sheryl is on the school board a professional volunteer. Having been on the school board, she has budgeting experience. She is a fiscal liberal and weak on overcrowding an immigration. Closest to councilman Hal Parrish.
Harry Clark
Harry works as a DoD contractor and serves on the Recreation and Parks Committee. He has some budgeting experience from that his experience at DoD. He is a fiscal liberal, and a moderate on overcrowding and immigration. Closest to councilman Steven Randolph.
Phil Kiver
Phil is a political media consultant and Iraq veteran. He has some budgeting experience. He is a strong fiscal conservative and strong on overcrowding and illegal immigration. Closest to councilman Marc Aveni.
Jonathan Way
Jonathan is a retiree from a management position in the oil industry and chairman of the Planning Commission. He has budgeting experience, is a fiscal moderate and is strong on illegal immigration. Closest to councilman Andy Harrover.
Mark Wolfe
Mark is a manager for Ameriprise and a member of the Board of Zoning Appeals and the Board of Equalization. He has strong budgeting experience, is a fiscal liberal and doesn’t mention illegal immigration or overcrowding. Closest to councilman Steve Smith.
Maureen Wood
Maureen is a long-time community activist and substitute teacher, Chairman of the Family Services Advisory Board and has served on the R-7 zoning committee. She has some budgeting experience as Harry Parrish’s 2005 general election campaign manager. She is a fiscal conservative and is very strong on overcrowding and illegal immigration. Closest to former councilman Jackson Miller.
Charles Sturms
Charles is the owner of Fairfax Jewlers and a retiree. He has solid budgeting experience. He is fiscally somewhat liberal and doesn’t mention overcrowding or illegal immigration in his sparse questionnaire responses. Closest to councilman Steve Smith.
Rich Seraydarian
Richard is Lockheed Martin retiree and veteran. He seems to have budgeting experience. He seems to be a fiscal moderate and lilberal on illegal immigration. Closest to councilman Hal Parrish.
Summary
There are a number of candidates here who I hope to see remain active if they do not get appointed to the council, chief among them would be Phil Kiver who probably would benefit from more community experience before getting the nod. Among these candidates Maureen Wood really stands out as the candidate who is best person to continue Jackson Miller’s legacy. I very much hope that she will be selected for this position, and heartily endorse her candidacy.
Go Maureen Wood!
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Looks like a first rate field of candidates. The council has
a real job ahead of them to select the best of these
eleven folks.
Question: What role, if any, should party history have in
the process? (Think Charlie Sturms ran for mayor in
2004 as a Democrat and Maureen Wood ran as a
Republican for the council in 2006. Sheryl Bass serves
on the non-partisan Manassas School Board, but
is active in the local GOP. Also, Sheryl is the
only candidate that has won elective office in the city.)
Jackson Miller was elected as a conservative Republican. His replacement should be a conservative republican. While the council may see fit to appoint a moderate, if they appoint anyone other than a bona fide Republican, there should be hell to pay.
I would be very surprised to see Maureen Wood appointed. After all, the voters already rejected her for this exact position.
First off, Maureen Wood is an idiot, have you ever spoken to her? If thats the consevative republican your looking for, then please put your head in the oven. Replacing Jackson Miller with a robot is not who the City Council is looking to accept but someone, most likely a woman, who is THE MOST QUALIFIED. A republican is a republican whether more left or right and people who need to make the serious distincition between the two should be embarrased and make me embarrased to be a republican.
I’ve spoken a lot with Maureen, and I would strongly disagree with your assessment. She is principled, has an excellent grasp of the issues, and is almost always at every council meeting in order to keep informed about what’s going on.
She narrowly lost to Marc Aveni in the last municipal election and defeated an incumbent councilmember in the primary in order to make it to the general election. I haven’t seen any of the other candidates have the courage or the drive to run for this office before.
If anyone has got a specific beef with one of her positions, it would make a lot more sense to say what that is rather than simply smear her as an idiot. The reasoned approach you seem to call for somehow got lost in that confusing rant.
Putting one’s head in the oven no longer works since they switched from “town gas” to “natural gas”. “Town gas” has carbon monoxide which is missing from “natural gas”.
By the way, I’ve spoken to Maureen Wood also and I’d vote for her.
Greg,
I appreciate your endorsement very much. I have worked hard for the citizens of Manassas through my volunteer work and interactions with City Officials. I hope to carry forward that service as their representitive on the City Council.
Greg L.
We definitely need some diversity on the council…I know some of the candidates either through business or just living in Manassas…but none of them personally. I would like someone who is frugal with MY money, a little liberal on social issues, but hard on those who do not like to live by the law. Sounds like Maureen to me!
Interestingly Jackson Miller has backed out from speaking on Maureen Wood’s behalf and will be speaking on behalf of Dierdre. If that doesn’t say something important about her replacing him then I don’t know what does. Maureen sounds like a positive person in our community but not the best canditate. I agree with the earlier statment that it needs to be someone with experience and it is still true that Sheryl is the only one who has won and served our city as an elected official.
“Interestingly Jackson Miller has backed out from speaking on Maureen Wood’s behalf and will be speaking on behalf of Dierdre.”
I hope that this is an inaccurate statement. While I am sure that Dierdre is a nice person, she is not a Republican. Delegate Miller shouldn’t be speaking in favor of any candidate who is not a member of the Manassas GOP.
Based on this assessment, GO PHIL KIVER!!!
I was at the meeting, and Jackson Miller did not speak on behalf of Deirdre. I believe he does not intend to speak on anyone’s behalf. Jason, you’re getting really bad information.
Could someone please explain why it would be okay to have two appointments to an elected office? Thats what will happen if Sheryl Bass is appointed. I think Sheryl would do well on the council, but I think that since the voters elected her to the school board, she should stay there.
It’s not right to create a new problem to solve an existing one.
These are elected offices and they should stay that way.
Jackson has not spoken on behalf of anyone.
I was very surprised at how liberal Cheryl Bass seems to be, based on her answers to questions.
Thank you for the support, this is Phil Kiver typing by the way. I really want to have the job of director at the museum. Also get the illegal immigrants that gather every day in Georgetown south waiting for a job the hell out of our community and country. They are commiting a crime every day just by there presence as illegals. If they were legal they would be washing dishes somewhere at a resturant. Or curing cancer for that matter
Good to hear from you, Phil. Above all, join the Manassas committee and help in the fight!
Your passion for history will definitely help in your quest to get the museum job, although it’s not clear whether under the developing budget there will be funding for the position. In the meantime, pitch in there when you can, and it’ll help when they can hire someone.
I enjoyed seeing you at the council hearing, and hope to run into you again soon.