Frank Wolf is playing politics with our safety. He participated in a campaign event last year in Loudoun that was styled a Gang Violence Seminar, but only members of his own Republican party were invited, and no one notified the board of supervisors.

More recently, he organized a Lyme Disease Forum at Heritage High. Who did he invite to speak as elected officials? Again, only Republicans. Again, the Loudoun board was not informed.

Violence and disease are not political stepping stones. They are threats to the people of Loudoun and it is the duty of all of us elected to serve them to put politics aside and work together to eliminate those threats.

Republicans, Independents, and Democrats have repeatedly worked together and ignored politics on the Loudoun board. Members of all political stripes joined to celebrate the opening of the new Sterling sheriff’s substation and our Democratic majority happily shared the event with Republican legislators.

If we can do it here at the humble level of the county board, a 30-year member of congress ought to be able to do it too. I call upon Mr. Wolf to follow our lead and stop using public health and safety for partisan gains.

Stevens Miller

Dulles District Supervisor