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Haymarket Mayor Says Election Settles Things

Submitted by Webmaster on Wed, 06/28/2006 - 11:51am. Washington Post

Haymarket Mayor Says Election Settles Things
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After Storm, Town 'Needs to Move On'

By Nikita Stewart
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, May 7, 2006; Page PW01

Haymarket Mayor Pam E. Stutz said her decisive reelection last Tuesday was a vote of confidence from the public that she and the Town Council made good decisions this past year.

But what an election.

Stutz won about 72 percent of the vote, while her challenger, Timothy M. Benjamin Jr., a former auxiliary police officer, drew 26 percent.

Incumbent council members Robert B. Weir, John C. Cole, Sheila L. Jarboe and Natasha A. Sikorsky were also reelected and will be joined by newcomers and surprise winners Ozzie Vazquez and Susan Shuryn, who are married to each other.

The campaigns by Vazquez and Shuryn and by Benjamin and his wife, Vicki, who ran unsuccessfully for council, added more quirkiness to the election in a town with a $1.5 million budget and a continuous rumor mill.

The town of 1,000 people has been embroiled in controversy since a probe last year into accusations of sexual harassment by Police Chief James E. Roop and Sgt. Gregory Breeden. The Town Council suspended Roop and Breeden for 15 days without pay after a lawyer hired by the council found that the men created a "hostile work environment" through sexually offensive comments.

Months later, the council fired a police officer who was accused of standing guard at an illegal poker game in Fairfax County and shut down an auxiliary police program indefinitely. Most recently, Stutz was criticized after she did not immediately show the council a March 29 resignation letter from former prosecutor Cynthia A. Dupray that questioned Roop's integrity.

All of the town's happenings were reported on Townofhaymarket.info, a Web site that Stutz criticized because it posted Dupray's confidential letter.

Stutz said the election results showed that......

Haymarket Mayor Says Election Settles Things
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keep movin on

Submitted by Ef U on Thu, 07/06/2006 - 9:43pm.

Not sure who she thinks she's fooling. She needs to fix a lot of problems first before the Town moves on. Too many irons in the fire to fix them all at once.

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settled? not yet!

Submitted by SkinsFan on Tue, 08/01/2006 - 4:28pm.

come on now - what has changed since May?

• you've got a council re-inventing the due process procedures when it comes to making motions and trying to back date them
• you've got a police chief still not being able to properly schedule his officers.
• you still don't really have a properly working reserve program.
• you still don't have a plan for the Harrover property.
• you still don't have a plan for the Town Center property.

nothing has changed!

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