Is Great Falls all Republican?

[Anonymous]

Upzone GF and Rezone HHS and Langley!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread is akin to sharing news about the sky being blue.

Seriously. Everyone who lives locally knows Great Falls has been heavily Republican for years. Anyone who falls in love with the semi-pastoral landscape, the small-town feel and a home with a larger-than-normal for the area lot and then clutches their pearls in horror is a big fat phony. If it's any comfort, I believe it's gotten substantially less repub in the last 10 years especially.

Agree. It is mostly hyper successful tech executives who are cynical about politics and more interested in their personal tax rates than what is good for the Commonwealth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just moved from Reston (a whopping 3 miles) and am in a bit of culture shock. Not bad, necessarily, just a different vibe. Besides the one guy I saw with a bumper sticker saying “yes democrats do live in great falls” everyone I have met this far seems pretty conservative…

Why did you move then?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just moved from Reston (a whopping 3 miles) and am in a bit of culture shock. Not bad, necessarily, just a different vibe. Besides the one guy I saw with a bumper sticker saying “yes democrats do live in great falls” everyone I have met this far seems pretty conservative…

Lots of democrats. But if the amount of republicans bothers you, you can move back to Reston, which is a stone's throw away as you said.

Why would I do that?

Here for Langley I bet.

[Anonymous]

The "Democratic" politicians in Great Falls are often closet Republicans who register as Democrats so they can get elected and then make sure that Great Falls doesn't get upzoned or have to send its kids to the "wrong" schools. I can't think of one who isn't a big phony.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The "Democratic" politicians in Great Falls are often closet Republicans who register as Democrats so they can get elected and then make sure that Great Falls doesn't get upzoned or have to send its kids to the "wrong" schools. I can't think of one who isn't a big phony.

Plural?

I can think of only one target of this smear.

Elaine didn't want to run for school board and has been actively Democrat for years. You can be mad at her but making absurd claims about her pretending to be Democrat for years and years, lying in wait until the person who was supposed to run didn't so she could be pressed into service and do Republican tings is ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Tholen is a good example of a DINO from Great Falls but she’s not alone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The "Democratic" politicians in Great Falls are often closet Republicans who register as Democrats so they can get elected and then make sure that Great Falls doesn't get upzoned or have to send its kids to the "wrong" schools. I can't think of one who isn't a big phony.

DINOs solely motivated to stop the upzoning of Great Falls? LOL. You people are funny, ignorant and delusional. I have a friend that lives there and they’re on septic and well water. When the power goes out, which is basically every winter storm, they cannot even take showers because the well water is on an electric pump.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Curious? Why did you move from Reston?

Schools probably.

Maybe the lower crime rate.

But it's too Republican.

I'd run like hell back to Reston.

One of the nicer things about Great Falls is the Memorial Day, Veteran's Day, and 9/11 ceremonies behind the library at the memorial for the five Great Falls residents that died on 9/11

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The "Democratic" politicians in Great Falls are often closet Republicans who register as Democrats so they can get elected and then make sure that Great Falls doesn't get upzoned or have to send its kids to the "wrong" schools. I can't think of one who isn't a big phony.

DINOs solely motivated to stop the upzoning of Great Falls? LOL. You people are funny, ignorant and delusional. I have a friend that lives there and they’re on septic and well water. When the power goes out, which is basically every winter storm, they cannot even take showers because the well water is on an electric pump.

Lots of people here are penny wise and pound foolish. If you live like that, you must have a generator.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The "Democratic" politicians in Great Falls are often closet Republicans who register as Democrats so they can get elected and then make sure that Great Falls doesn't get upzoned or have to send its kids to the "wrong" schools. I can't think of one who isn't a big phony.

DINOs solely motivated to stop the upzoning of Great Falls? LOL. You people are funny, ignorant and delusional. I have a friend that lives there and they’re on septic and well water. When the power goes out, which is basically every winter storm, they cannot even take showers because the well water is on an electric pump.

Lots of people here are penny wise and pound foolish. If you live like that, you must have a generator.

The point is that they don't have municipal services so its a joke to talk about upzoning in that context.

[Anonymous]

I don't know why anyone who thinks Great Falls should be population-dense would move there anyway. If you don't like semi-rural areas you wouldn't choose one.

It's like moving to Manhattan and then lobbying for demolishing every other high rise and replacing them with trees and flowers or small goat farms to make it a little pastoral.

Every place does not have to look and operate like every other place.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, not at all.

Just some of the left over Frat boys from the 1970's and 1980's living off of family monies.

Keep looking OP you will find your people.

Great Falls has always been a destination for self-made / immigrant wealth.

Family money never went to Great Falls. Your cliche is very wrong.

^What in the world? Please explain where you got that impression?

[Anonymous]

Even if it is, who cares.


Old money family money whatever, good for them for not losing the money that previous generations made. Where they choose to reside (or not) doesn't make a neighborhood worthy or unworthy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The "Democratic" politicians in Great Falls are often closet Republicans who register as Democrats so they can get elected and then make sure that Great Falls doesn't get upzoned or have to send its kids to the "wrong" schools. I can't think of one who isn't a big phony.

DINOs solely motivated to stop the upzoning of Great Falls? LOL. You people are funny, ignorant and delusional. I have a friend that lives there and they’re on septic and well water. When the power goes out, which is basically every winter storm, they cannot even take showers because the well water is on an electric pump.

Lots of people here are penny wise and pound foolish. If you live like that, you must have a generator.

The point is that they don't have municipal services so its a joke to talk about upzoning in that context.

There’s no inconsistency. They don’t want the county services because their unavailability is what keeps out the people they consider undesirable. Upzoning wouldn’t just entail a change in the approved zoning, but also an expansion of county services.