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Osborn's experience: Not what we need
Osborn's experience: Not what we need
Date published: 10/28/2009

Osborn's experience: Not what we need

After reading Mark Osborn's repackaging of himself as Falmouth supervisor, I had to respond.

What he fails to mention is that he lost his re-election bid in 2005. There was a reason he lost to a relative unknown, Democrat George Schwartz. Voters rejected his tax-and-spend record.

Mr. Osborn admits that he oversaw the largest growth in Stafford County history and that he laid out a blueprint to deal with it.

Talk is cheap. His blueprint consisted of a bloated county budget going from $120 million in 2002 to almost $200 million in 2005 and a hike in homeowners' real estate taxes by $6.2 million in 2004.

The very year he raised taxes, Mr. Osborn made a motion to raid our rainy day fund by $5.2 million to balance the budget--and it wasn't even raining!

Mr. Osborn thinks experience matters. I agree. Our experience of his past voting record is enough indication that it's not the kind of experience the Falmouth District needs.

Terry Di Caro

Stafford



Date published: 10/28/2009



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