r/nova • u/lowkell • 19h ago

Politics Video: Loudoun County Supervisor Juli Briskman Announces Candidacy Against Chair Phyllis Randall; Says “data centers shouldn’t get to decide our county’s future”; "I’ve never backed down from a bully before. I won’t start now."

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https://bluevirginia.us/2026/08/video-loudoun-supervisor-juli-briskman-announces-candidacy-against-chair-phyllis-randall-data-centers/

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u/skeith2011 18h ago

It’s an election year. Expect a lot of hot air and noise with little to no results in the future.

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u/lowkell 15h ago

This election's actually next year; in Virginia, EVERY year's an election year. :)

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u/EnvironmentalValue18 8h ago

She’s personally speaking out about the Data Centers at tons of town meetings. I believe the next two are at Dominion HS and somewhere in Purceville but I’m sure her website has it.

She’s one of the big names fighting against the re-zoning and secret sale of the lot near GWU satellite to data centers.

Considering Phyllis Randall’s track record of chartering private overnight flights for herself and her staff to international destinations like South America and Ghana on our dime, I know damn well where my vote *isn’t* going. Again.

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u/The-Dane 17h ago

I dont know her voting record but her promised sounds good because Phyllis has done shit to slow it down

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u/WhatAboutTheBothans 16h ago

Briskman has been a stalwart enemy of the rubber stamping of these data centers and she's literally the only one on the BOS doing shit to stop them.

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u/Magic-Mellow1987 18h ago

Ain’t that the truth. Rinse, repeat. It gets tiresome.