LETTER: What has John Bell really done?

By: | Stafford County Sun
Published: June 27, 2009

Will the opponents of Del. Bob Marshall please tell us what their Democratic candidate has actually done for our local community as a private citizen rather than continue to make preposterous claims
about Bob Marshall’s transportation record?

They have said NOTHING about their candidate’s record of community service. Why?

Before Bob Marshall was a state legislator he co-founded Citizens for a Trans-County Parkway. He and my wife, Roseleen, were appointed to a Prince William County citizens advisory committee to
evaluate the construction of a new road across the county.

It turned out that the road Bob Marshall, my wife and the citizens committee proposed was eventually accepted by the Board of County Supervisors and by the voters of Prince William at a referendum.

The new road, now called the Prince William Parkway, saved over a hundred homes from destruction, cost many millions less than the original county proposal, took less time to construct and still has
only two traffic signals between Liberia Avenue in Manassas to Hoadly Road, instead of 12 stop lights as had been proposed by PWC.

Bob Marshall’s critic must have blinders on to ignore the VDOT road construction around Prince William. Delegate Marshall is the original Republican sponsor of the Transportation lock box constitutional
amendment to prevent the diversion of transportation taxes to non-transportation uses. Gov. Kaine supports that.

There is much more to Delegate Marshall’s record and I am sure he will address it in the campaign.

Bob Marshall had a record of community service BEFORE he was elected to office. How has Bob Marshall’s Democratic opponent helped our local community? Please answer that.

I have seen two letters throwing mud at Bob Marshall by supporters of Loudoun Democrat John Bell, who, according to press reports and his Web site, thinks two men should be allowed to get “married,”
wants no restrictions of any kind on abortion and says he will consider a gas tax.

That may work in parts of Loudoun, but not here in Prince William.

BOB ALLEN

Manassas