Franconia SB Candidate St. John-Cunning disqualified

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:NP. I don't live in that district but just took a look at Pinkney's website and he looks pretty good. It's unfortunate that St John Cunning was disqualified but it's a blessing for the school district in disguise.

I do live in this district and you can have him. I will be writing in St John Cunning. This is ridiculous.

You prefer someone who can't follow the rules over someone campaigning on school safety, supporting teachers in the classroom, and academics?

“Can’t follow the rules?” Seems like the board of elections couldn’t follow the rules.

I prefer a candidate with educational experience vs someone whose supporters all peppered me with “parents rights” dog whistles at back-to-school nights.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NP. I don't live in that district but just took a look at Pinkney's website and he looks pretty good. It's unfortunate that St John Cunning was disqualified but it's a blessing for the school district in disguise.

I do live in this district and you can have him. I will be writing in St John Cunning. This is ridiculous.

You prefer someone who can't follow the rules over someone campaigning on school safety, supporting teachers in the classroom, and academics?

“Can’t follow the rules?” Seems like the board of elections couldn’t follow the rules.

I prefer a candidate with educational experience vs someone whose supporters all peppered me with “parents rights” dog whistles at back-to-school nights.

Blaming others for your mistakes isn’t a good quality for a School Board candidate. There’s plenty of that already on the School Board.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NP. I don't live in that district but just took a look at Pinkney's website and he looks pretty good. It's unfortunate that St John Cunning was disqualified but it's a blessing for the school district in disguise.

I do live in this district and you can have him. I will be writing in St John Cunning. This is ridiculous.

You prefer someone who can't follow the rules over someone campaigning on school safety, supporting teachers in the classroom, and academics?

“Can’t follow the rules?” Seems like the board of elections couldn’t follow the rules.

I prefer a candidate with educational experience vs someone whose supporters all peppered me with “parents rights” dog whistles at back-to-school nights.

Blaming others for your mistakes isn’t a good quality for a School Board candidate. There’s plenty of that already on the School Board.

If we are looking at this as a job interview for a person who can do the following:
Developing the annual budget to run the school system
Setting school policies
Hiring and evaluating the superintendent
Setting the vision and goals for the district
Managing the collective bargaining process for employees of the district
Adopting policies and reviewing them for effectiveness
Adopting goals and priorities and monitoring success
Adopting a budget and setting a tax rate
Communicating with the community

It's clear that Pinkney is the fall better qualified candidate due to St. John-Cunnings lack of professional experience and expertise in the above categories.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NP. I don't live in that district but just took a look at Pinkney's website and he looks pretty good. It's unfortunate that St John Cunning was disqualified but it's a blessing for the school district in disguise.

I do live in this district and you can have him. I will be writing in St John Cunning. This is ridiculous.

You prefer someone who can't follow the rules over someone campaigning on school safety, supporting teachers in the classroom, and academics?

“Can’t follow the rules?” Seems like the board of elections couldn’t follow the rules.

I prefer a candidate with educational experience vs someone whose supporters all peppered me with “parents rights” dog whistles at back-to-school nights.

Blaming others for your mistakes isn’t a good quality for a School Board candidate. There’s plenty of that already on the School Board.

I’m uninterested your phony concern for clerical errors as an impeachment of the quality of a school board candidate and I’m uninterested in your conservative religious lawyer pal. And I’m uninterested in your views on who is the best candidate for my district.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Apologies if this is embedded in the School Board threads, but this seems like a big thing:

https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/elections/candidatenotice

Evidently 6 signatures on her campaign petition were invalid.

So, it looks like the School Board may be 11-1 after all. The remaining candidate, Pinckney, is GOP-endorsed.

Total BS. The Office of Elections told her she qualified so she stopped collecting signatures. Then a right-wing NRA judge comes in and throws out a page months after her signatures were filed and after THOUSANDS of people have already voted for her.

My first suspicion was that Trump did this! But you’re telling us it was actually the NRA??

I believe you. The FCPS school board election is the NRA’s number one priority right not, I’m sure (lol).

[Anonymous]

Pinkney is MAGA. No thanks!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s interesting how unconcerned you are with the 3000 Franconia residents who have already voted. The Democrats’ votes did not count due to an error by the registrar. Because of the questionable timing, they never had the opportunity to write in Ms. St. John-Cunning. You can’t be OK with this just because the SB has 12 Democrats. Supporting basically canceling votes should have nothing to do with the makeup of the SB.

I'm OK with it because I moved, and started a family, in Fairfax, for the schools. The extremists running Fairfax Democrats are ruining our investment.

I’m in the same situation with my family.

The only reason we moved to FFX was for our children to attend the once-excellent public schools here.

It is simply a fact that the democrats on the current school board, and the democrats running FCPS, have majorly diminished the quality of public education in Fairfax county public schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s interesting how unconcerned you are with the 3000 Franconia residents who have already voted. The Democrats’ votes did not count due to an error by the registrar. Because of the questionable timing, they never had the opportunity to write in Ms. St. John-Cunning. You can’t be OK with this just because the SB has 12 Democrats. Supporting basically canceling votes should have nothing to do with the makeup of the SB.

3000 voters total? Or 3000 democrat voters?

You forget that thousands of Springfield district voters were redistricted to Franconia last year by the all D minus 1 board of supervisors. Those former springfield district voters tended to vote close to 50/50 R/D.

If the 3000 early votes are the total early votes, it very well could have been only 1500-2000 voters who early voted for the democratic candidate.

Very unfortunate for those voters, but are you certain it was 3000 D votes?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NP. I don't live in that district but just took a look at Pinkney's website and he looks pretty good. It's unfortunate that St John Cunning was disqualified but it's a blessing for the school district in disguise.

I do live in this district and you can have him. I will be writing in St John Cunning. This is ridiculous.

You prefer someone who can't follow the rules over someone campaigning on school safety, supporting teachers in the classroom, and academics?

“Can’t follow the rules?” Seems like the board of elections couldn’t follow the rules.

I prefer a candidate with educational experience vs someone whose supporters all peppered me with “parents rights” dog whistles at back-to-school nights.

Blaming others for your mistakes isn’t a good quality for a School Board candidate. There’s plenty of that already on the School Board.

I’m uninterested your phony concern for clerical errors as an impeachment of the quality of a school board candidate and I’m uninterested in your conservative religious lawyer pal. And I’m uninterested in your views on who is the best candidate for my district.

So because Pinkney is Mormon, you think it's fair game to label him "religious," as if that's an insult? Should others be asking whether St. John-Cunning is an atheist? And someone with a degree from Harvard Law is far more likely to understand budgets and relevant laws affecting FCPS than someone whose main involvement with FCPS has been serving as a volunteer translator.

I'm sorry she can't manage to fill out a form properly, but I'm sure she'll learn from the experience and do a better job the next time she runs for office.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Looks like the republicans found a way to win a seat. When you can't win votes, use the courts.

You're ridiculous. If it had been the R candidate without enough signatures, you would be praising the system for working like it's supposed to.

When has that ever happened in Fairfax? Do you like to make up counter factuals and assume answers? There is one party who seems to have a profound dislike for elections and counting votes and it isn't the democrats

[Anonymous]

The legality of removing a candidate from a ballot after early voting has begun, thereby disenfranchising those voters, seems like a question for the state supreme court or a federal court not for a local circuit court judge. Hopefully this is being appealed

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The legality of removing a candidate from a ballot after early voting has begun, thereby disenfranchising those voters, seems like a question for the state supreme court or a federal court not for a local circuit court judge. Hopefully this is being appealed

What a dumb take. Don't try to pretend to be a lawyer, you aren't even close.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The legality of removing a candidate from a ballot after early voting has begun, thereby disenfranchising those voters, seems like a question for the state supreme court or a federal court not for a local circuit court judge. Hopefully this is being appealed

What a dumb take. Don't try to pretend to be a lawyer, you aren't even close.

Has a candidate ever been removed from a ballot in Virginia after voting has begun?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s interesting how unconcerned you are with the 3000 Franconia residents who have already voted. The Democrats’ votes did not count due to an error by the registrar. Because of the questionable timing, they never had the opportunity to write in Ms. St. John-Cunning. You can’t be OK with this just because the SB has 12 Democrats. Supporting basically canceling votes should have nothing to do with the makeup of the SB.

I'm OK with it because I moved, and started a family, in Fairfax, for the schools. The extremists running Fairfax Democrats are ruining our investment.

I’m in the same situation with my family.

The only reason we moved to FFX was for our children to attend the once-excellent public schools here.

It is simply a fact that the democrats on the current school board, and the democrats running FCPS, have majorly diminished the quality of public education in Fairfax county public schools.

That’s not a fact at all. That is what is called an “opinion.”

[Anonymous]

Is it 3000 voters total?

Or 3000 democratic ballots?