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Subject: Democrats Nominate Starkey for Garrisonville Supervisor
STAFFORD. VA (Jan. 30,2012)…At a caucus Monday night the Stafford Democratic Party nominated retired Air Force Colonel John A. “Jac” Starkey by acclamation as its nominee for Garrisonville in the April 3rd Special Election.
After retirement from the Air Force in 2006, Jac Starkey settled with his family in their Austin Ridge home which they purchased in 1999. Because of redistricting his neighborhood is now in the Garrisonville District.
Starkey says a motivating factor for his run for office resulted from his attendance at a community meeting related to landslides in Austin Ridge:
“I attended a meeting with my neighbors and by the time it was over most of us left frustrated -- the meeting was long on excuses and short on solutions. We mostly felt the county was too slow to respond to the crisis.”
Starkey says, “It also concerns me that the Republican-controlled Board of Supervisors during the past year weakened environmental regulations intended to protect homeowners. What happened to my neighbors could happen to anyone of us.”