The Northern Virginia Association of Realtors (NVAR) has endorsed three of the six candidates seeking the Democratic nomination for Arlington County Board.
Maureen Coffey, J.D. Spain Sr. and Tony Weaver have won the organization’s nod, a spokesperson for the real-estate trade organization said.
That trio will be on the June ballot along with Jonathan Dromgoole, Natalie Roy and Susan Cunningham. The latter two have voiced the most public discontent among the candidates on the Arlington County Board’s recent enactment of Missing Middle zoning and housing-policy changes.
Established with 40 members in 1921 as the Alexandria-Arlington-Fairfax Real Estate Board (serving a community whose population then was just 60,000), NVAR has grown to more than 12,500 members that, each year, transacts more than $15 billion in real-estate sales across the region.
The NV/RPAC – the organization’s political-action committee – uses voluntary contributions from its members to engage in political advocacy.
Democrats will select their nominees for County Board in a ranked-choice primary that will give voters the chance to rank their top three choices for the post. The two eventual winners will move on to become the odds-on favorites in the general election.
