Lawson, an ardent critic of current board chair Ann B. Wheeler (D), ran for Congress last year.
“Under the failed leadership of our current chair, Prince William County has been quickly moving in the wrong direction,” Lawson, who was elected to her seat in 2014, said in her announcement. After Wheeler was elected in 2019 as chair of the board where Democrats hold a 5-3 majority, “we’ve watched her lead with extreme and reckless policies, while putting her political agenda first and Prince William families last,” she said.
“We do not need a Trump-style celebrity politician who likes appearing on right-wing radio shows and aspires to higher office,” Wheeler’s statement said, referring to Lawson’sPrince William County is no stranger to confrontational politics, dating back at least to the early 2000s, when former board chair
The friction between Lawson and Wheeler has coincided with tensions over how Prince William responded to the In her announcement, Lawson accused Wheeler of shepherding in a period of “unchecked development” in that portion of the county, arguing that valuable open space has been wiped away, allowing urban runoff to flow into surrounding streams.
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