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County chair candidates spar on budget, Clean Water Services, data centers and jail expansion
Summary
A League of Women Voters forum heard three county-chair candidates debate priorities including balanced budgets and economic resiliency, Clean Water Services rate-setting and oversight, whether to encourage data centers, HUD voucher rulemaking affecting affordability, undocumented residents policy, and approaches to the county jail.
The League of Women Voters hosted a county chair forum in Washington County where the three announced candidates outlined sharply contrasting approaches to budgets, utilities and land-use issues.
"This is my home," Jenny Kampreth said in her opening, framing her campaign as an outsider challenge to the status quo. Kampreth criticized prior oversight of Clean Water Services and accused leadership of excessive pay and spending, saying voters are "very, very mad about the situation." She said she would audit and cut red tape to spur business and protect taxpayers.
A second candidate (identified in the forum but not by name in the transcript) described…
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