Alexandria Mayor Race

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Since nobody else has pointed it out yet on this thread, I'm going to point it out:

all those posts I kept reading on this forum, for months, about how Alexandrians don't want more housing, Alexandrians don't want transit and sidewalks and bike lanes, Alexandria don't want more of Justin Wilson's progressive nonsense, and then it turns that actually a majority of Alexandria voters actually do want all those things.

Lol. It’s already been pointed out that turnout was super low at 16 percent. This is terrible turnout, and certainly not a “majority” anything.

This is the problem when you have low turnout in a democracy. You don’t have a mandate for anything, one way or the other.

there was no point in voting here yesterday, none at all.

Choosing not to vote is also a choice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The whole reason the NIMBY clique focuses on the Dem primary instead of putting together a Republican slate for the general election is that the much lower turnout of the primary is favorable to them. And they still can't win.

No, the problem is that a contingent of AlexDems use the term NIMBY to deride everyone who disagrees with them. Most of the people I know who are not happy with the ultra progressive local policies are Dems (mostly because I don’t really hang out with any republicans).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The whole reason the NIMBY clique focuses on the Dem primary instead of putting together a Republican slate for the general election is that the much lower turnout of the primary is favorable to them. And they still can't win.

No, the problem is that a contingent of AlexDems use the term NIMBY to deride everyone who disagrees with them. Most of the people I know who are not happy with the ultra progressive local policies are Dems (mostly because I don’t really hang out with any republicans).

Yes, and they voted in the Dem primary. And lost. Stop pretending you're the great silent majority. That line has been tried and found wanting. Brown people in the West End (the bulk of non-voters) want development.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The whole reason the NIMBY clique focuses on the Dem primary instead of putting together a Republican slate for the general election is that the much lower turnout of the primary is favorable to them. And they still can't win.

No, the problem is that a contingent of AlexDems use the term NIMBY to deride everyone who disagrees with them. Most of the people I know who are not happy with the ultra progressive local policies are Dems (mostly because I don’t really hang out with any republicans).

Yes, and they voted in the Dem primary. And lost. Stop pretending you're the great silent majority. That line has been tried and found wanting. Brown people in the West End (the bulk of non-voters) want development.

So right! I forget that 9.5-11.6% of 16% is a majority.

Turn out was crazy low. Why? Why did so many of our fellow Dems fail to vote? Or is that a good thing as long as it doesn’t happen this November?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The whole reason the NIMBY clique focuses on the Dem primary instead of putting together a Republican slate for the general election is that the much lower turnout of the primary is favorable to them. And they still can't win.

No, the problem is that a contingent of AlexDems use the term NIMBY to deride everyone who disagrees with them. Most of the people I know who are not happy with the ultra progressive local policies are Dems (mostly because I don’t really hang out with any republicans).

Yes, and they voted in the Dem primary. And lost. Stop pretending you're the great silent majority. That line has been tried and found wanting. Brown people in the West End (the bulk of non-voters) want development.

So right! I forget that 9.5-11.6% of 16% is a majority.

Turn out was crazy low. Why? Why did so many of our fellow Dems fail to vote? Or is that a good thing as long as it doesn’t happen this November?

Because they didn't care and/or weren't interested. If they had been super upset, they would have cared/been interested and voted. Ergo, they are not super upset.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The whole reason the NIMBY clique focuses on the Dem primary instead of putting together a Republican slate for the general election is that the much lower turnout of the primary is favorable to them. And they still can't win.

No, the problem is that a contingent of AlexDems use the term NIMBY to deride everyone who disagrees with them. Most of the people I know who are not happy with the ultra progressive local policies are Dems (mostly because I don’t really hang out with any republicans).

Yes, and they voted in the Dem primary. And lost. Stop pretending you're the great silent majority. That line has been tried and found wanting. Brown people in the West End (the bulk of non-voters) want development.

So right! I forget that 9.5-11.6% of 16% is a majority.

Turn out was crazy low. Why? Why did so many of our fellow Dems fail to vote? Or is that a good thing as long as it doesn’t happen this November?

Because they didn't care and/or weren't interested. If they had been super upset, they would have cared/been interested and voted. Ergo, they are not super upset.

Whatever fits your narrative.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The whole reason the NIMBY clique focuses on the Dem primary instead of putting together a Republican slate for the general election is that the much lower turnout of the primary is favorable to them. And they still can't win.

No, the problem is that a contingent of AlexDems use the term NIMBY to deride everyone who disagrees with them. Most of the people I know who are not happy with the ultra progressive local policies are Dems (mostly because I don’t really hang out with any republicans).

Yes, and they voted in the Dem primary. And lost. Stop pretending you're the great silent majority. That line has been tried and found wanting. Brown people in the West End (the bulk of non-voters) want development.

So right! I forget that 9.5-11.6% of 16% is a majority.

Turn out was crazy low. Why? Why did so many of our fellow Dems fail to vote? Or is that a good thing as long as it doesn’t happen this November?

Because they didn't care and/or weren't interested. If they had been super upset, they would have cared/been interested and voted. Ergo, they are not super upset.

Whatever fits your narrative.

1. We should have higher turnout. If you hand me a petition to sync up the state primary with the presidential one, or something like that, I will sign it.
2. The voting patterns for Hometown Girl Any Jackson and Steve "Hospitalized in CO" Peterson (concentrated on a handful of already high-turnout precincts) make it very clear that whatever an expanded electorate might or might not favor, it would not be their brand of low growth policies.

[Anonymous]

Why is Steve Peterson hospitalized?

[Anonymous]

What's the over/under on her husband getting arrested within her first year?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The whole reason the NIMBY clique focuses on the Dem primary instead of putting together a Republican slate for the general election is that the much lower turnout of the primary is favorable to them. And they still can't win.

No, the problem is that a contingent of AlexDems use the term NIMBY to deride everyone who disagrees with them. Most of the people I know who are not happy with the ultra progressive local policies are Dems (mostly because I don’t really hang out with any republicans).

Yes, and they voted in the Dem primary. And lost. Stop pretending you're the great silent majority. That line has been tried and found wanting. Brown people in the West End (the bulk of non-voters) want development.

So right! I forget that 9.5-11.6% of 16% is a majority.

Turn out was crazy low. Why? Why did so many of our fellow Dems fail to vote? Or is that a good thing as long as it doesn’t happen this November?

Because they didn't care and/or weren't interested. If they had been super upset, they would have cared/been interested and voted. Ergo, they are not super upset.

Whatever fits your narrative.

1. We should have higher turnout. If you hand me a petition to sync up the state primary with the presidential one, or something like that, I will sign it.
2. The voting patterns for Hometown Girl Any Jackson and Steve "Hospitalized in CO" Peterson (concentrated on a handful of already high-turnout precincts) make it very clear that whatever an expanded electorate might or might not favor, it would not be their brand of low growth policies.

AlexDems moved the primary to suppress the vote. There is no interest in cultivating higher turnout.

As rest of your language isn’t worthy of a response, but good to know misogyny is alive and well with AlxDems. And yes, you can vote for a woman and still be a misogynist.

[Anonymous]

I live right by a voting location and I was totally unsurprised to see that the only candidate who hasn’t removed his signs post election is Steve Peterson.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I live right by a voting location and I was totally unsurprised to see that the only candidate who hasn’t removed his signs post election is Steve Peterson.

I am across the street from one and there are a bunch still up form different candidates.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The whole reason the NIMBY clique focuses on the Dem primary instead of putting together a Republican slate for the general election is that the much lower turnout of the primary is favorable to them. And they still can't win.

No, the problem is that a contingent of AlexDems use the term NIMBY to deride everyone who disagrees with them. Most of the people I know who are not happy with the ultra progressive local policies are Dems (mostly because I don’t really hang out with any republicans).

Yes, and they voted in the Dem primary. And lost. Stop pretending you're the great silent majority. That line has been tried and found wanting. Brown people in the West End (the bulk of non-voters) want development.

So right! I forget that 9.5-11.6% of 16% is a majority.

Turn out was crazy low. Why? Why did so many of our fellow Dems fail to vote? Or is that a good thing as long as it doesn’t happen this November?

Because they didn't care and/or weren't interested. If they had been super upset, they would have cared/been interested and voted. Ergo, they are not super upset.

Whatever fits your narrative.

1. We should have higher turnout. If you hand me a petition to sync up the state primary with the presidential one, or something like that, I will sign it.
2. The voting patterns for Hometown Girl Any Jackson and Steve "Hospitalized in CO" Peterson (concentrated on a handful of already high-turnout precincts) make it very clear that whatever an expanded electorate might or might not favor, it would not be their brand of low growth policies.

AlexDems moved the primary to suppress the vote. There is no interest in cultivating higher turnout.

As rest of your language isn’t worthy of a response, but good to know misogyny is alive and well with AlxDems. And yes, you can vote for a woman and still be a misogynist.

I don't get it. They moved the primary, to the day of the general Virginia primary, to suppress the vote? There would be higher turnout at a just-for-Alexandria election?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The whole reason the NIMBY clique focuses on the Dem primary instead of putting together a Republican slate for the general election is that the much lower turnout of the primary is favorable to them. And they still can't win.

No, the problem is that a contingent of AlexDems use the term NIMBY to deride everyone who disagrees with them. Most of the people I know who are not happy with the ultra progressive local policies are Dems (mostly because I don’t really hang out with any republicans).

Yes, and they voted in the Dem primary. And lost. Stop pretending you're the great silent majority. That line has been tried and found wanting. Brown people in the West End (the bulk of non-voters) want development.

So right! I forget that 9.5-11.6% of 16% is a majority.

Turn out was crazy low. Why? Why did so many of our fellow Dems fail to vote? Or is that a good thing as long as it doesn’t happen this November?

Because they didn't care and/or weren't interested. If they had been super upset, they would have cared/been interested and voted. Ergo, they are not super upset.

Whatever fits your narrative.

1. We should have higher turnout. If you hand me a petition to sync up the state primary with the presidential one, or something like that, I will sign it.
2. The voting patterns for Hometown Girl Any Jackson and Steve "Hospitalized in CO" Peterson (concentrated on a handful of already high-turnout precincts) make it very clear that whatever an expanded electorate might or might not favor, it would not be their brand of low growth policies.

AlexDems moved the primary to suppress the vote. There is no interest in cultivating higher turnout.

As rest of your language isn’t worthy of a response, but good to know misogyny is alive and well with AlxDems. And yes, you can vote for a woman and still be a misogynist.

I don't get it. They moved the primary, to the day of the general Virginia primary, to suppress the vote? There would be higher turnout at a just-for-Alexandria election?

I don’t recall what the older dates aligned with; I don’t think it was Alexandria only.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I live right by a voting location and I was totally unsurprised to see that the only candidate who hasn’t removed his signs post election is Steve Peterson.

I am across the street from one and there are a bunch still up form different candidates.

I’ve seen signs up for the different candidates as well.