Jersey barriers near JD Vance’s Alexandria home become chalk graffiti shrine

“NOT GOING BACK” and “CHILDLESS CAT LADIES VOTE” are among a flurry of chalk messages adorning the concrete barriers at a closed-off Alexandria park near the home of Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance.

Pieces of chalk have been left near the Jersey barriers at Judy Lowe Park (7 E. Del Ray Avenue), which is near Vance’s home in Del Ray. The messages have been made recently, as the city announced late last month that the park would be closed when Vance returned home from the campaign.

Pat Miller, an Alexandria Living Legend and member of the Del Ray Business Association, said that the messages were not left by local residents.

“You can see from looking at these messages that these are not Del Ray people doing this,” Miller said. “We wouldn’t do that.”

This isn’t the first time that Republican leaders have been left with chalk messages outside their homes in Alexandria. In 2020, a large spray chalk message was intended for the outside of then-acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf, but the message was sprayed in front of the wrong house.

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