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June 10, 2021 | Vol. 20, No. 23 | www.princewilliamtimes.com | $1.00 Covering Prince William County and surrounding communities, including Gainesville, Haymarket, Dumfries, Occoquan, Quantico and the cities of Manassas and Manassas Park.
McAuliffe, Ayala to lead Del. Lee Carter in primary Dems’ statewide ticket ousted King, Guzman, Cox win nominations Mark Herring wins nod for 3rd term
By Daniel Berti
Times Staff Writer
Virginia’s only socialist lawmaker lost a close Democratic primary fight to a political newcomer in Manassas Tuesday. Michelle Maldonado beat Del. Lee Carter, D-50th, by 200 votes, outpacing Carter in voting precincts in the City of Manassas and Bristow. Maldonado received 44% of the vote; Carter received 38%; and Manassas community activist Helen Zurita received 18%. Maldonado, 52, is a small business owner and former
By Daniel Berti and Jill Palermo Times Staff Writers
Virginia’s Democratic voters chose two familiar candidates – former governor Terry McAuliffe and incumbent Attorney General Mark Herring – to top their statewide ticket along with Prince William County’s Hala Ayala, who made history Tuesday as the first woman of color to win the Democratic nomination for Virginia’s lieutenant governor. McAuliffe, 64, won every county and city in Virginia in the June 8 primary, garnering more than 300,000 votes or 62% of the ballots cast, according to still unofficial results from the Virginia Department of Elections. McAuliffe did not make campaign appearances at the polls, but tweeted his thanks to Virginians shortly after the race was called in his favor just before 8 p.m. “I am running for governor to create great paying jobs. To reduce health care costs. To build the best education system in the country,” McAuliffe wrote. Former delegate Jennifer Carroll Foy, 39, of Woodbridge, came in second in the five-way race for the nomination with about 20% of the vote. Carroll Foy did better in Prince William County, where she won nearly 29% of the vote. Carroll Foy gathered with supporters in Lake Ridge Tuesday night and issued a statement thanking her supporters saying, in part: “Never did I imagine that in the former capital of the Confederacy, a girl from Pe-
Terry McAuliffe
Mark Herring
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Del. Hala Ayala, campaigns outside Swans Creek Elementary School in Dumfries.
Michelle Maldonado attorney. She has never run for political office. Maldonado will face Republican Steve Pleickhardt of Bristow in the November general election. See DELEGATES, page 4
County among the first to launch MARCUS alert By Daniel Berti
tersburg could come this far.” Carroll Foy resigned from her 2nd District seat in the Virginia House of Delegates in December to focus on her run for governor. Although no longer an elected official, Carroll Foy vowed to remain involved. “I pledge to stay in this fight to uplift marginalized communities, to uplift people who need the help and to be a fighter for those who can’t fight for themselves,” she said in a tweet. Carroll Foy, along with state Sen. Jennifer McClellan, D-9th, was vying to make history as the first African American woman elected governor of Virginia -- or any state. McClellan, 48, came in third place with about 12% of the vote. McAuliffe will face Republican Glenn Youngkin in the November election.
Prince William County’s community services board has been selected as one of five in Virginia that will be the first to implement the commonwealth’s MARCUS Alert mental health crisis response system with the goal of partial implementation by December, according to county officials. The mental health awareness response and community understanding services, or MARCUS Alert, was signed by Gov. Ralph Northam in November 2020. It requires localities to establish regional crisis call centers to work alongside 911 dispatchers to send mental health clinicians, law enforcement officers, or both depending on the situation, to respond to mental health and substance abuse-related emergency calls. The law is named for Marcus-David Peters, a 24-year-old, African American high school teacher who was shot and killed by a Richmond police officer in 2017 while suffering a severe mental health crisis. Police officers in the United
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See MARCUS, page 2
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Class of 2021 bids farewell to a ‘really tough year.’
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