No, we don't have any choice in the matter in Arlington either. The Arlington Dems game the system and a few hundred votes determine the outcome for a system with 27K kids. It's the illusion of choice. |
I guess it did not if you didn't know the background. Weiss didn't run in the Dems caucus. Kathleen and Zuraya did and won, so they picked up the Dem endorsement. Then Paul entered the race. Even though he skipped the Dem caucus and didn't even try for the endorsement, he's advertising himself as a Dem. I think that's misleading. |
That's fine, but then don't advertise yourself as a Dem. |
Technically no one is running as a Dem. There are no party markers on the ballot. If he is in fact a Dem there’s nothing stopping him from telling people that. |
Technically perhaps, but it's misleading. He didn't enter or win the Dem caucus but is advertising like he did. |
I know the background. I didn't understand why the poster was saying it's ok not to run in the Dem caucus but then in the same sentence saying it's not ok to "not run" and then say you are a Dem. I think PP is actually saying it's never ok to skip the Dem caucus if you want to say you are a Dem. If you lose that caucus, you arent allowed to run as a Dem. So someone who is a Dem but doesn't think they can win the caucus would do better not to run in that ridiculous little race that hardly anyone votes in. |
The Dem Caucus exists solely for the endorsement of Arlington Dems and a listing on the sample ballot they hand out. That’s it. It does not determine who is and is not a Dem in the non partisan race. This is why everyone hates the Arlington Dems organization btw. Bunch of aholes. There will be plenty of low information voters blindly following the sample ballot because it’s a presidential year. Your candidates will win anyway. |
The majority of voters won't know whether he ran for the democratic endorsement or not. They just vote according to who has the endorsement and the ACDC will make sure voters know who those candidates are via making them feel awkward standing out front waving "sample ballots" as they enter. |
That was my point. He tried to get onto the sample ballot by saying he’s a Democrat. |
I really don't think he tried to get on the sample ballot--anyone with half a brain would know that wouldn't happen. Since he is, in fact, a dem, I think it's fine to signal the attendant alignment in values and priorities. Whatever the reasons he missed the caucus for the endorsement, it will probably doom his campaign and so I think it's unhelpful for this thread to dwell on it.
What matters to me most as a voter is who will actually push back on the bizarrely inept leadership in Syphax. Whoever wins, I am praying for Board Members more like Kadera than the (IMO awful) Priddy and Diaz-torres. Does anyone here have a strong sense of who would have the spine to ever challenge Duran and his "Cabinet"? |
Kathleen |
Weiss and Rives But people here don't want pushback from people they disagree with (Rives) |
I'm voting for him, too, for this reason. And for Weiss. |
Yes, Kathleen. She has the track record of doing this already. It's why she's running. But she also gets the realities of how you accomplish change. Paul I think wants to but doesn't have the first clue how, his burn it down rhetoric isn't going to work and will be counter productive. |
yeah I don't want Rivers because he's anti trans. |