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Milde wants new connections
New Stafford supervisor wants to make sure green space is preserved and infrastructure is in place before development comes.
By MEGHANN COTTER
Date published: 1/8/2006
Driving the back roads of the Aquia District, Supervisor Paul Milde can name the residents in nearly every house.
He'll tell you stories about pioneer settlements, environmental sanctuaries and Civil War strongholds in the area.
And he might stop in the country store up the road from his own home at Marlborough Point, where the employees know exactly what he wants: Doritos, a Slim Jim and water.
Such community connections, the Republican says, are going to help him be the kind of representative his district deserves.
"I want to try a consensus-building approach to governing," Milde said. "By the time I go in and dig my feet into an issue, I hope to have talked to enough people that I know what decision my constituents want me to make"
He'll have plenty of time to talk with Aquia residents and research issues, he said, because running Stafford County will be split with few other responsibilities.
Milde grew up in Prince William County, but he moved to Stafford when he was 21 because it was the only area where he could afford a house.
The 38-year-old has made several real-estate investments in the last few years that have worked out well for him financially, he said.
And he is president of Closet Interiors Plus, in Stafford, which installs door hardware, bath accessories and wire shelving. He founded the firm at age 19, after briefly working for a similar company. While he serves as a county supervisor, a partner in his business will be taking over many of the operational obligations.
Milde is also the father of two children, Travis, 14, and Bailey, 9. And he participates with the Aquia Lions Club, the Adopt-A-Classroom program and Adopt-A-Highway.
But Milde's record also includes several bouts with the law.
At 18, he served 12 weeks in jail for possession of cocaine with intent to distribute--a felony.
And in 1994, he pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor charge of attempted statutory burglary as an accessory after the fact.
Milde has said previously that he was not involved in the crime, but one of the people he was mentoring through Narcotics Anonymous confessed to him. And he has said he could not give the information to the police without violating the organization's commitment to anonymity.
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Date published: 1/8/2006
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