Arlington elections - which candidates for CB will get resources to the schools?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Cristol also has no substantive ties to Arlington. She is a Marylander that is just trying to use her current gig on the County Board to enter Dem politics at the state and national level.

So that is why her priorities are the way they are. Issues that play in Richmobd and DC, not necessarily nitty gritty local politics.

AC Dems are happy with her and this arrangement

Not sure most Arlington County residents were/are aware she was from Maryland. She played up that she went to UVA and lived off Columbia Pike to make her seem like a local.

Come on dude. She went to UVA and moved to Arlington after college. I think she sucks, but she lives in Arlington.

The residency requirement is only 1 year to run--that doesn't seem like enough for someone to truly understand a community. How much can someone "care" about Arlington after only living here a year? Not much I would imagine...

Look, I am definitely not a fan of hers, but she moved here after getting married. I did the same. I'm not inclined to run for political office, but I would've been well within my rights to do so if I had, once meeting residency requirements. There are plenty of legitimate reasons I no longer support her. Being a carpetbagger isn't one of them.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cristol also has no substantive ties to Arlington. She is a Marylander that is just trying to use her current gig on the County Board to enter Dem politics at the state and national level.

So that is why her priorities are the way they are. Issues that play in Richmobd and DC, not necessarily nitty gritty local politics.

AC Dems are happy with her and this arrangement

Not sure most Arlington County residents were/are aware she was from Maryland. She played up that she went to UVA and lived off Columbia Pike to make her seem like a local.

Come on dude. She went to UVA and moved to Arlington after college. I think she sucks, but she lives in Arlington.

The residency requirement is only 1 year to run--that doesn't seem like enough for someone to truly understand a community. How much can someone "care" about Arlington after only living here a year? Not much I would imagine...

But at a certain point, shouldn't this be something for voters to decide on a case-by-case basis rather than with a blanket restriction that doesn't necessarily makes sense? After all, you could have someone who is a life-long Arlingtonian who moved to another state for a job (their own or a spouse's) for a few years before returning, and then decides to run for office -- would you really say that person needs to have been back for more than one year in order to understand Arlington? One year is sensible because it prevents would-be candidates from jurisdiction-shopping for a weak race to jump into, but I don't see the value to requiring more than that.

[Anonymous]

This residency thing is a red herring, IMO.

The problem DeFerranti faces is that any criticism of Vihstadt is criticism of one person, who cannot act solo. If DeFer criticizes board action/inaction, he's criticizing his own party. See, e.g., his recent comments on commercial vacancies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This residency thing is a red herring, IMO.

The problem DeFerranti faces is that any criticism of Vihstadt is criticism of one person, who cannot act solo. If DeFer criticizes board action/inaction, he's criticizing his own party. See, e.g., his recent comments on commercial vacancies.

I've only read the ArlNow piece on last week's debate (https://www.arlnow.com/2018/10/15/de-ferranti-goes-on-the-offensive-over-vihstadts-handling-of-arlingtons-office-vacancy-rate/), but de Ferranti's comments seem so weird. How do you blame Vihstadt for the last four year's of county board action/inaction on commercial vacancies? I think it's telling that he doesn't seem to have pointed to a single thing that Vihstadt actually did to frustrate efforts by the rest of the board, it makes de Ferranti seem deeply disingenuous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Vihstadt. Post it to social media and make sure all your Dem friends know that if they care about APS then they should NOT vote Democrat for the County Board in the next few elections. I vote Democrat almost entirely but not at the County Board level.

Can not wait for my chance to vote against Katie Cristol. I voted for her last go-around after a small group coffee with her focused on schools. She couldn’t care any less about the future of APS if she tried.

Vihstadt got his political start in the schools and was president if the Yorktown HS PTA. He was one of the first people decades ago to tell the Dem school board not to close the Reed School in Westover because of the demographic changes he saw in his own Arlington neighborhood

Twenty years later, the Reed School is being expanded and returned to a neighborhood school. This will take pressure off (primarily) McKinley which was overcrowded after a large expansion

Vihstadt has his head in the schools because he knows it is so important to Arlington. A major reason Nestle and Gerber came to Arlington is the schools. Although a small portion of County residents have kids in schools, they are the reason for Arlington’s success. Childless board members have no skin in the game and are trying to unseat Vihstadt for the crime of being effective.

Vote the straight Dem ticket and watch the school rankings for the elementary and middle schools plummet as they have already done for Yorktown and Washington-Lee High Schools.

Your $1M shitshack will then be worth $700K.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cristol also has no substantive ties to Arlington. She is a Marylander that is just trying to use her current gig on the County Board to enter Dem politics at the state and national level.

So that is why her priorities are the way they are. Issues that play in Richmobd and DC, not necessarily nitty gritty local politics.

AC Dems are happy with her and this arrangement

Not sure most Arlington County residents were/are aware she was from Maryland. She played up that she went to UVA and lived off Columbia Pike to make her seem like a local.

Come on dude. She went to UVA and moved to Arlington after college. I think she sucks, but she lives in Arlington.

The residency requirement is only 1 year to run--that doesn't seem like enough for someone to truly understand a community. How much can someone "care" about Arlington after only living here a year? Not much I would imagine...

But at a certain point, shouldn't this be something for voters to decide on a case-by-case basis rather than with a blanket restriction that doesn't necessarily makes sense? After all, you could have someone who is a life-long Arlingtonian who moved to another state for a job (their own or a spouse's) for a few years before returning, and then decides to run for office -- would you really say that person needs to have been back for more than one year in order to understand Arlington? One year is sensible because it prevents would-be candidates from jurisdiction-shopping for a weak race to jump into, but I don't see the value to requiring more than that.

True...but still could have been election shopping.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Vihstadt. Post it to social media and make sure all your Dem friends know that if they care about APS then they should NOT vote Democrat for the County Board in the next few elections. I vote Democrat almost entirely but not at the County Board level.

Can not wait for my chance to vote against Katie Cristol. I voted for her last go-around after a small group coffee with her focused on schools. She couldn’t care any less about the future of APS if she tried.

Vihstadt got his political start in the schools and was president if the Yorktown HS PTA. He was one of the first people decades ago to tell the Dem school board not to close the Reed School in Westover because of the demographic changes he saw in his own Arlington neighborhood

Twenty years later, the Reed School is being expanded and returned to a neighborhood school. This will take pressure off (primarily) McKinley which was overcrowded after a large expansion

Vihstadt has his head in the schools because he knows it is so important to Arlington. A major reason Nestle and Gerber came to Arlington is the schools. Although a small portion of County residents have kids in schools, they are the reason for Arlington’s success. Childless board members have no skin in the game and are trying to unseat Vihstadt for the crime of being effective.

Vote the straight Dem ticket and watch the school rankings for the elementary and middle schools plummet as they have already done for Yorktown and Washington-Lee High Schools.

Your $1M shitshack will then be worth $700K.

+100. That's why I'm so upset at the Democrat Party dirty tricks in this race.

I've been driving around the County this weekend and seeing all these "Educator approved" stickers on the DeFerranti signs. Now, I never put anything past a Democrat candidate, especially an Arlington Democrat Party candidate.

But for the Democrat to claim that he is somehow education approved, when Vihstadt is the education candidate, is just utter nonsense. The Democrat Party has launched smear after slander at Vihstadt, but this goes beyond the pale.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Vihstadt. Post it to social media and make sure all your Dem friends know that if they care about APS then they should NOT vote Democrat for the County Board in the next few elections. I vote Democrat almost entirely but not at the County Board level.

Can not wait for my chance to vote against Katie Cristol. I voted for her last go-around after a small group coffee with her focused on schools. She couldn’t care any less about the future of APS if she tried.

Vihstadt got his political start in the schools and was president if the Yorktown HS PTA. He was one of the first people decades ago to tell the Dem school board not to close the Reed School in Westover because of the demographic changes he saw in his own Arlington neighborhood

Twenty years later, the Reed School is being expanded and returned to a neighborhood school. This will take pressure off (primarily) McKinley which was overcrowded after a large expansion

Vihstadt has his head in the schools because he knows it is so important to Arlington. A major reason Nestle and Gerber came to Arlington is the schools. Although a small portion of County residents have kids in schools, they are the reason for Arlington’s success. Childless board members have no skin in the game and are trying to unseat Vihstadt for the crime of being effective.

Vote the straight Dem ticket and watch the school rankings for the elementary and middle schools plummet as they have already done for Yorktown and Washington-Lee High Schools.

Your $1M shitshack will then be worth $700K.

+100. That's why I'm so upset at the Democrat Party dirty tricks in this race.

I've been driving around the County this weekend and seeing all these "Educator approved" stickers on the DeFerranti signs. Now, I never put anything past a Democrat candidate, especially an Arlington Democrat Party candidate.

But for the Democrat to claim that he is somehow education approved, when Vihstadt is the education candidate, is just utter nonsense. The Democrat Party has launched smear after slander at Vihstadt, but this goes beyond the pale.

Those “beyond the pale” signs reflect the Arlington Education Association, composed of Arlington teachers, endorsing deFerranti for County Board.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Vihstadt. Post it to social media and make sure all your Dem friends know that if they care about APS then they should NOT vote Democrat for the County Board in the next few elections. I vote Democrat almost entirely but not at the County Board level.

Can not wait for my chance to vote against Katie Cristol. I voted for her last go-around after a small group coffee with her focused on schools. She couldn’t care any less about the future of APS if she tried.

Vihstadt got his political start in the schools and was president if the Yorktown HS PTA. He was one of the first people decades ago to tell the Dem school board not to close the Reed School in Westover because of the demographic changes he saw in his own Arlington neighborhood

Twenty years later, the Reed School is being expanded and returned to a neighborhood school. This will take pressure off (primarily) McKinley which was overcrowded after a large expansion

Vihstadt has his head in the schools because he knows it is so important to Arlington. A major reason Nestle and Gerber came to Arlington is the schools. Although a small portion of County residents have kids in schools, they are the reason for Arlington’s success. Childless board members have no skin in the game and are trying to unseat Vihstadt for the crime of being effective.

Vote the straight Dem ticket and watch the school rankings for the elementary and middle schools plummet as they have already done for Yorktown and Washington-Lee High Schools.

Your $1M shitshack will then be worth $700K.

+100. That's why I'm so upset at the Democrat Party dirty tricks in this race.

I've been driving around the County this weekend and seeing all these "Educator approved" stickers on the DeFerranti signs. Now, I never put anything past a Democrat candidate, especially an Arlington Democrat Party candidate.

But for the Democrat to claim that he is somehow education approved, when Vihstadt is the education candidate, is just utter nonsense. The Democrat Party has launched smear after slander at Vihstadt, but this goes beyond the pale.

Those “beyond the pale” signs reflect the Arlington Education Association, composed of Arlington teachers, endorsing deFerranti for County Board.

How many of those Arlington teachers live in Arlington and can vote for deFerranti?

[Anonymous]

Looks like the Dems got their revenge by getting rid of Vihstadt. No one will champion schools any more.

[Anonymous]

It ain't over--next CB election will clean house.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It ain't over--next CB election will clean house.

Yeah but who’s gonna run? Vihstadt was a one-in-a-million type. Decades of civic engagement without becoming totally aligned with ACDC, but also not delving into Audrey Clement type frank-status. The man campaigned harder than any other CB member or challenger in recent memory. I don’t live in a particularly important neighborhood. He’s knocked on my door like three separate times over the years. He remembered my name when he ran into me at the farmers market (I’m about as basic a white guy as you can be). Good luck finding someone to run with that kind of experience, work ethic and political acumen. Especially after this election.

[Anonymous]

Yep. We're probably in for another long run of Democratic dominance in Arlington.

All of the excesses, poor planning, and blinders, are going to come back soon enough.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It ain't over--next CB election will clean house.

Yeah but who’s gonna run? Vihstadt was a one-in-a-million type. Decades of civic engagement without becoming totally aligned with ACDC, but also not delving into Audrey Clement type frank-status. The man campaigned harder than any other CB member or challenger in recent memory. I don’t live in a particularly important neighborhood. He’s knocked on my door like three separate times over the years. He remembered my name when he ran into me at the farmers market (I’m about as basic a white guy as you can be). Good luck finding someone to run with that kind of experience, work ethic and political acumen. Especially after this election.

Vihstadt is the last of old Arlington. We are now in the hands of a board who want dog parks over people parks, public housing over public schools, and bike lanes over building permits.

The Democratic board will have no governor and as a Dem I think that’s a shame.