Weir, 59, will serve for the remainder of former supervisor Pete Candland's (R-Gainesville) term in a county where data center development has sparked controversy.
Prince William County Republican Bob Weir won the vacant Gainesville District supervisor’s seat in a special election Tuesday, reinserting a GOP voice to the county board controlled by Democrats after former supervisor Pete Candland With only some absentee and provisional ballots still uncounted Wednesday morning, Weir led Democrat Kerensa G. Sumers by 21 percentage points in the solidly red western county district, according to unofficial results.
During the special-election race, the Haymarket Town Council member and planning commission member promised a common-sense approach to the county’s most pressing issues, most notably the controversy surrounding data center development.“Long term, I want to look at land use,” he said Wednesday, vowing to bring “a sense of reality” to the county’s efforts to attract more of the rapidly growing data center industry.
data center complex in Gainesville that triggered Candland’s resignation after he agreed to sell his family’s home to one of the data center companies involved in that project.Sumers raised nearly six times as much money as Weir, with much of her $42,000 coming from Democrats seeking to capture the long-held Republican district.
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