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Fauquier Times | www.fauquier.com | April 4, 2018
Marshall Middle School Busy Williams thinks outside-the-box, 3rd Nine Weeks 2017-2018 aims for Congress ALL A HONOR ROLL
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By Jonathan Hunley Times Staff Writer
Vangie Williams is busy. She’s working on a doctorate; she’s employed full-time by government contractor SAIC; and she runs a household that’s home to six daughters, her husband and her mother. With all that going on, it might seem unlikely that the 49-year-old King George County resident would also be running for Congress. But Williams is doing that, too, trying to be the first woman of color — she’s African-American — to represent Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives. She’s one of three candidates for the Democratic nomination in the 1st Congresote 2018 sional District, which stretches from Hampton Roads all the way to Prince William County and includes part of Fauquier. Williams faces Edwin Santana and John Suddarth in a June 12 primary to challenge GOP Rep. Rob Wittman. Being a member of Congress would cap a career for her that has seen project management work in industries including aerospace, construction, defense contracting, government operations, information technology and national security, according to her campaign website. She has had jobs that dealt with subjects diverse as the Hubble Space Telescope, Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore and the Watergate Hotel in Washington. She also was part of a small group of contractors whose work resulted in the hiring of nearly 70,000 airport security screeners after 9/11. Now she says she wants to toil directly for the people. She would like to see a comprehensive transportation plan for the district, and she’s in favor of single-payer health care. She’s against assault weapons, coining a phrase that she said even Republicans like: “If it takes you 30 bullets to shoot a deer, you need to go fishing.” Williams also would like to see education improved, perhaps to include tax incentives for companies that help students prepare for a career, not just a simple job, and she said thinking outside of the box is only the beginning. For example, why have traditional farms only when solar farms could be a good option for farmers, too? “We need to be more innovative,” Williams said in an interview last week.
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“Instead of using the tax code to benefit the wealthy, let’s use it to fix some of the serious problems facing our communities.” VANGIE WILLIAMS
She also promotes a tax initiative she calls INVEST, which stands for Income Now for Veterans, Enlisted military families, Safety officers and Teachers. It would work like this: The first $50,000 of earnings from people in these situations would be exempted from federal income tax, which means they would be given a boost of up to $6,000 a year in income when that money didn’t come out of their paychecks. Williams estimates the plan would cost $60 billion per year, which she would pay for by closing loopholes from the alternative minimum tax. That tax allows “corporations and the wealthiest 1 percent to hide income,” Williams’ website says. The initiative could be used as a first step toward giving state legislatures, localities and the federal government time to develop strategies to improve long-term compensation for people working in the associated fields, the website says. “These positions are critical to the fabric of our society but rely on public funding,” the site says. “Instead of using the tax code to benefit the wealthy, let’s use it to fix some of the serious problems facing our communities.” In terms of campaign fundraising, Williams had raised $9,630 as of Dec. 31, and had $1,876 on hand. Reach Jonathan Hunley at jhunley@fauquier.com