Favola, Areizaga-Soto to Attend AGLA Forum Tonight

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by ARLnow.com August 9, 2011 at 3:56 pm 3,099 18 Comments

Democratic arch-rivals Barbara Favola and Jaime Areizaga-Soto will both attend an Arlington Gay and Lesbian Alliance candidates forum tonight.

The forum, which will start at 7:00 p.m. at the NRECA building in Ballston (4301 Wilson Blvd), will give Favola, Areizaga-Soto and other Democratic candidates (there’s no contested Republican primary in Arlington this year) a chance to woo a group of largely Democratic voters just 14 days before the Aug. 23 primary.

House of Delegates candidates Stephanie Clifford and Alfonso Lopez are both expected to attend the forum. Other invited candidates include Adam Ebbin, Libby Garvey and Rob Krupicka (30th state Senate District) as well as Theo Stamos and David Deane (Commonwealth’s Attorney).

BIGPICTUREVA

How about we start talking more about Marriage Equality and less about bike lanes and complete streets?
- Jake
  
  +100
Jeff

Because more people care about bike lanes and complete streets than a fabricated claim to a manufactured “right”?
- jjbug1
  
  Jeff, Your hatred is vivid. How does it help you get thru each day.
- normal
  
  I didn’t hear anyone say “right.”
BIGPICTUREVA

As a Mason-Dixon Pennsylvanian/Marylander by birth, a DC resident of ten years and now a Virginian, Governor O’Malley of Maryland makes me proud. I will hold out hope for Pennsylvania and Virginia. Someday we’ll all get there:

http://www.governor.maryland.gov/blog/?p=1498

I’ll get off the soapbox now.
- Dr. Kwok
  
  Go back to Maryland.
  - AllenB
    
    Sorry, Qwack, BIGPICTUREVA and his/her views are more than welcome here.
Dr. Kwok

So are mine, Al….
- Juanita de Talmas
  
  You should go back to Alabama.
  - Dr. Kwok
    
    Juanita, how close-minded of you. You should be ashamed.
- Why
  
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  - ARLnow.com
    
    We try to play “hockey ref” to some of the unpleasantness in the comments section, but two facts remain:
    
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    - SouthArlingtonReady
      
      Comments by only registered posters would help. No anon-posts would cut down on the juvenile behavior.
    - G
      
      I agree, they are definitely a net plus. Maybe you could force people to use their Facebook account to post comments like many other websites do.
      - Maria
        
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      - Bemused bystander
        
        Please don’t require a Facebook account. Some of us are boycotting it.
Why

…thankful to *no* longer be tempted…

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