Democratic nominee candidates for County Board

Voting among Democrats for the Democratic nominee for the vacant Arlington County Board seat will occur in less than three weeks.  This is an important choice.  Voting will occur on from 7 pm to 9 pm on Jan. 19 at Washington-Lee High School and from 11 am to 7 pm on Jan. 21 at Kenmore Middle School.  

To help voters to consider the nominee candidates, the Arlington County Democratic Committee this past Wednesday organized a candidates' forum.  The nominee candidates, with links to their websites, are:

• Melissa Bondi (website)
• Peter Fallon (website)
• Libby Garvey (website)
• Kim Klingler (website)
• Terron Sims (website)

At the forum, the candidates gave opening statements, each responded to the same six questions, and then they gave closing statements.  The questions were:

1. What's the most important experience or asset that you would bring to the Arlington County Board?
2. What would you do to promote affordable housing for families in Arlington?
3. Does Arlington need a streetcar?
4. What's your view on the relations of the County Board and the School Board?  What works, what could be improved?
5. What would you allow developers to do with pipe-stem lots?
6. What is the biggest challenge that the County faces, and how would you seek to meet that challenge on the Arlington County Board?

The videos below group the candidates' opening statements, questions, and closing statements.  The order of the candidates shown is as occurred at the forum.  Technical limitations prevented the Ode Street Tribune from providing a fully fair selection of video thumbnails (initial static images).  Please ignore the video thumbnails in your consideration of the candidates.  Each video includes presentations from all the candidates.

Candidates' Opening Statements 



What's the most important experience or asset that you would bring to the Arlington County Board? 



What would you do to promote affordable housing for families in Arlington? 



Does Arlington need a streetcar? 



What's your view on the relations of the County Board and the School Board?  What works, what could be improved?



What would you allow developers to do with pipe-stem lots?



What is the biggest challenge that the County faces, and how would you seek to meet that challenge on the Arlington County Board? 



Candidates' Closing Statements