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Supporters of the anti-illegal immigration measure adopted in Prince William County last week have argued that its most important purpose is to send a powerful signal to the county's mostly Latino illegal immigrants that they are no longer welcome. It appears the message has already been received: Terrified that new policies will lead to mass deportations, illegal immigrants and the many legal immigrant relatives and friends who live with them have been moving out of Prince William ever since July, when county supervisors first approved the plan's outline.

Prince William Commonwealth's Attorney Paul Ebert has questions about a mailer Supervisor Chairman Corey A. Stewart sent out this week. "It doesn't smell good," Ebert said of the mailer notifying residents that the Prince William Board of County Supervisors will vote Tuesday on its policy to crackdown on illegal immigration and to cut off taxpayer-funded services to illegal immigrants. Ebert said Friday that he will appoint a special prosecutor to look into the mailer that was delivered to area mailboxes Thursday. Stewart, R-at large, said that he paid $30,937 out of his discretionary funds to mail the white, 8 x...

School to be named after John Paul II By AMANDA STEWART astewart@potomacnews.com Thursday, October 11, 2007 Prince William County's first Catholic high school will bear the name of the late Pope John Paul II, Bishop Paul S. Loverde announced Wednesday. The new school, currently under construction on the Cherry Hill Peninsula, will be called Pope John Paul the Great Catholic High School, Arlington Catholic Diocese officials said. The name choice was welcome news to some area residents, who sent letters and a petition to the diocese last year, asking that the new school be named for the late pope. Southbridge...

MANASSAS, Va. - Prince William County's planned illegal immigration crackdown was hampered by state budget cuts, with the board of supervisors on Tuesday delaying any real action until it gets a fuller picture of the county's finances. Supervisors unanimously approved a new police department policy under which officers could check the immigration status of those detained even for minor infractions. But they held off on authorizing an extra $2.5 million a year needed to implement it. The board also heard a report recommending that some county services - including housing assistance, drug rehabilitation for jail inmates and senior programs -...

Worries about budget concerns led the Prince William Board of County Supervisors to unanimously postpone action this afternoon on the proposed resolution to crack down on illegal immigration. The board approved, in theory the resolution directing county police to check the legal status of people if they believe there is probable cause that they are illegal immigrants. They will take up the funding for seven officers to create the criminal alien unit on Oct. 16. The vote stopped short of denying some county services which included prohibiting illegal immigrants from participating in substance abuse programs in the Prince William-Manassas regional...

Web site pits Ebert against salty sandwich Move over Mickey Mouse, Ham Sandwich is working on a write-in campaign. Prince William area Republicans didn't offer a candidate for Commonwealth's Attorney this year, but that hasn't stopped a conservative write-in campaign for Hamilton "Ham" Sandwich, Esq. ... Regarding the candidate's qualifications, one local expert - Mary Ann Kauchak, food columnist for the Potomac News and Manassas Journal Messenger - said that a decent ham sandwich should be "good and smoky." "The Cuban sandwich is the hottest thing in the deli world, right now," Kauchak said. "I'm not really crazy about Virginia...

Ham Sandwich (Candidate for PWC Attorney) has a commercial up on YouTube:

WRITE-IN CANDIDATE FOR PWC COMMONWEALTH’S ATTORNEY LAUNCHES WEB SITE; CHALLENGES EBERT TO SERIES OF DEBATES PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, VA – Republican write-in candidate for Prince William County Commonwealth’s Attorney, Hamilton “Ham” Sandwich, Esq., has launched his new campaign web site. The site, located at http://www.votehamsandwich.com/, provides voters with background information on the candidate, his rationale for running, a critique of his opponent’s record of failure in the job, information on the write-in process and a list of endorsements among other items. Unlike the current office holder, Paul Ebert, whose campaign does not yet have a web site, Sandwich is...

From: epw-announce@equalityprincewilliam.org To: epw-announce@lists.waldo.net Subject: [Equality Prince William] 2007 Board of Supervisors Special Election January 30th Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 12:23:25 -0500 All, While Equality Prince William is a nonpartisan organization which does not endorse candidates, we do feel it appropriate to happily report that one of our own is running for public office. Jeff Dion (D) has announced his candidacy for Prince William County Board of Supervisors - Occoquan District, in the January 30th special election to fill the seat vacated by Corey Stewart (R)-Occoquan, when he won the election for the Board of Supervisors Chair this November....