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Culpeper Supervisor Bill Chase faces two opponents in bid for record eighth term Date published: 10/13/2009
BY DONNIE JOHNSTON Bill Chase will be trying to establish a record in the Nov. 3 election. Not since the beginning of Reconstruction in 1872 has any person been elected to the Culpeper County Board of Supervisors for more than seven terms. Next month, Chase, 72, will be seeking his eighth. Only Abe White (Cedar Mountain District, 1920-48) served as long as the present supervisors chairman, who was first elected in 1982. An eighth term, however, will not come easy because the retired Army officer and West Point graduate has plenty of competition this time around. Gardiner Mulford, a 48-year-old Realtor, and Dewayne Payne, a 28-year-old farmer, are both challenging Chase for the Stevensburg District seat. Both are considered formidable opponents. Mulford has long been an outspoken critic of Chase and last year the two engaged in a heated verbal exchange during a Board of Supervisors meeting. But Mulford insists that it is patriotism and not his dislike for Chase that is the motivating force in his run for supervisor. "I want to serve on the BOS because it is my duty and responsibility to serve my community, as it was for me to serve my country," he says. Mulford was an Army Ranger and an officer. Besides being the owner of a real estate company, Mulford is also a farmer and an avid horseman. He is president of the Culpeper Horse Owners Association and has pushed for a series of public riding trails in the county for several years. He is a past member of the Brandy Station Foundation board of directors and graduated from the University of Alaska-Fairbanks. Although he considers himself "a Reagan Republican," Mulford is running as an independent. He had sought the local Republican Party's nomination, but was not considered because of deadline issues. Mulford, who has never held public office, considers growth, education and transportation the three major issues facing Culpeper County in the near future. Payne, the Republican nominee from Stevensburg District, was less than 2 years old when Chase was first elected to the Board of Supervisors. The James Madison University graduate, together with his father, operate the largest commercial hay-making operation in Culpeper County.
Date published: 10/13/2009
Gotta love the internet! Where your words and misdeeds are saved forever!!
Between 2004 and this past August in Orange and Culpeper counties, Mulford's convictions:
6 speeding tickets
Expired state (vehicle) inspection
Defective (vehicle) equipment
2 times caught driving w/out valid driver's license
Suspended driver's license
Failure to obey highway sign
Trespass
Unlawful detainer
Warrant in deb
This article does the citizens of Culpeper County no justice as it does not portray Mr. Mulford's views on animal neglect and abuse and women.
Here's some other articles
http://www2.starexponent.com/cse/news/local/article/mulford_in_a_war_of_words_with_former_horse_owners/43684/
http://www2.starexponent.com/cse/news/opinion/op_ed/article/our_view_mulfords_combative_style_does_him_no_good/44090/
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