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Two more political ads are coming to a TV near you.

President Obama will begin airing a pair of positive TV ads in swing states, including Virginia, this week.

The first ad, “Sacred Trust,” touts Obama’s commitment to helping veterans as he continues his effort to win over military families in a handful of important swing states. And yes, this ad mentions Osama bin Laden.

Last week, Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, oldest son of Vice President Biden and a major in the Delaware Army National Guard, came to Virginia to kick off the national launch of veterans and military families for Obama.

The second ad, “Personal,” touts Obama’s desire to preserve Medicare for current seniors and future generations.

The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors gave approval Tuesday to a tentative plan by the Fairfax-Falls Church Community Services Board to address an $8 million funding gap that threatens to reduce social services for some of the county’s most vulnerable people.

But several supervisors seemed uncertain about what their approval actually meant, or whether it was even necessary for a social services agency that is supposed to be overseen by a board of its own. Others expressed annoyance over the agency’s lack of transparency and deteriorating financial situation.

“It’s really mush,” said Supervisor Penelope A. Gross (D-Mason) told the Community Services Board’s executive director.

Supervisor John W. Foust (D-Dranesville) wanted to know why the agency still lacked a basic computer program to track finances. Supervisor Patrick S. Herrity (R-Springfield) urged the agency to become more aggressive about ensuring that families who have health care insurance or the means to pay for the CSB’s services. Supervisor Jeffrey McKay (D-Lee) wanted to know why no one at the CSB -- or its governing body — has taken decisive action sooner.

“Why are we acting on this, period?” McKay wondered.

Red ink at the Fairfax-Falls Church Community Services Board, which provides services to thousands of people, has forced the publicly funded agency to freeze hiring and limit access to some programs.

With the deficit projected to grow next year to nearly $9.5 million, the Community Services Board, also known as the CSB, is considering more drastic measures, including closing treatment centers, eliminating all but the most crucial services and reducing staff.

CSB staff have said the shortfalls have been created by increased post-recessionary needs and reduced funding from the federal and state governments that mandate many of the services.

Eunice Johnson, 85, in September 2011, three weeks after her home in the Huntington neighborhood was flooded. (Katherine Frey/The Washington Post)

The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors agreed Tuesday to set up a referendum for voters this fall on whether to issue a $30 million bond for a long-awaited flood protection project in Huntington.

Less than a year after a devastating flood swept through the county, the board voted 6 to 3 to add the proposed levee bond to a $155 million bond package for parks, libraries and public safety projects.

Mount Vernon Supervisor Gerald Hyland (D-Mount Vernon), who requested the bond for flood protection, argued that the county should fulfill a 40-year-old promise to protect the middle-class enclave along Cameron Run. He said residents in the neighborhood overwhelmingly would prefer to protect their existing homes rather than support redevelopment.

The board’s three Republican supervisors – John C. Cook (Braddock), Michael R. Frey (Sully) and Patrick S. Herrity (Springfield) – opposed the extra bond referendum for flooding.

The board also considered but ultimately rejected the idea of issuing a $50 million bond that would pay for flood protection in Huntington and other stormwater needs around the county.

A conservative group will begin airing a new TV ad on Wednesday in Virginia.

Crossroads GPS is spending $9.7 million on the ad, “Basketball,” in 10 swing states -- part of the $25 million the group plans to spend this month.

Priorities USA Action, a pro-Obama super PAC, will launch its own ad on Tuesday.

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Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) weighed in on the debate over Bain Capital Tuesday, calling Mitt Romney’s former firm “a valid topic of debate” but also praising it as “a very successful business” that did “what they were supposed to do.”

Warner made millions in venture capital before being elected governor and senator, so it’s not surprising he would be asked his thoughts on the Obama campaign’s attacks on the company Romney, the former Massachusetts governor and presumptive Republican presidential nominee, used to run. The discussion has heated up in recent days in the wake of Newark Mayor Cory Booker’s (D) mixed answers on the subject.

Warner, a moderate who prizes bipartisan compromise, took a middle ground on MSNBC (beginning at the 5:45 mark below).

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