Eh, hardly close to the biggest brush fire over there over the years.

Wouldn't call it massive.

In Fairfax? Yes $3 billion annually for schools. $5b total budget. They spend more than two states and about as much as Montana does on their own.

Fairfax definitely spends on those things. They spend $70m on parks and libraries. $611m on public safety. They spend over half the budget of Delaware on school operation alone.

57k is not a modest living in Fairfax. Fairfax is the 5th wealthiest county in the country.

The median household income there is $127k. Falls Church is right there as well. It’s median is $146k, the second richest county/city in the country by a margin.

They’re making about median if they’re the sole earner. That seems right for people running a county more populous than Montana.

As an edit, those median incomes are a few years ago. Wages have gone up in VA since, both on min wage increases and in general. 130k is probably the median now.

The salaries they list would barely put them over median household income there if they’re the sole earner.

It seems nuts but Fairfax is one of the richest counties in the country. The board of supervisors there getting $130k, that’s comparable to the salary of the governor of Montana. Which may seem odd, but Fairfax is more populous than Montana.

The salaries seem ok in context.

Depending on how long its been since they did an actual value on the houses around there, it's quite possible this is correct, and they've just been undercharging for years.

Tax breaks for some areas ending, not sure if Henrico has them there. Otherwise prices in areas are through the roof, and if they're looking at what houses are valued at around that neighborhood that kind of increase is possible.

That said, Henrico sucks at taxes so could be just totally wrong.

If you build enough housing, pricing will go down.

Supply and demand is real, you're talking about a situation where supply never is allowed to catch up.

Nah, him being a total piece of shit is priced in at this point.

Doubt anything changes his supporters minds.

He’s been a better governor than previous.

The bar is really low.

The VA Supreme Court isn’t crazy partisan either though.

And the maps are fair, it’s just that the district with those cities in it will be insanely Dem.

The flu is running rampant right now.

And even with medicine and the flu shot it hits like a truck this year.

McEachin is one of the safest of safe seats.

If he loses, you're looking at a bloodbath we've never seen at the polls, 300+ R House seats, they'll win every close Senate race. And so on.

If you've been in Chesterfield for a while, you're probably used to competitive races in the 7th lately, the 4th is absolutely not competitive.

If Benjamin wins the Republicans are winning 350+ seats.

Probably just not worth spending the money on the signs when it's a non-competitive seat.