springfield district school board options

[Anonymous]

I went for Bixby. At least he'll go into it without the baggage of trying to appease either political party.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I voted last week and went with Sandy Anderson. I'm an independent voter and I actually looked up all of the at-large candidates etc to look at their platforms. I should have just gone to the Moms for Liberty site to see who they endorsed and just voted for someone else.

I don't think having an all-Dem board worked but I also don't want to see a bunch of Republicans get on there and spend all their time trying to make trans kids' lives harder. Enough of that crap. Let's focus on getting kids caught up from pandemic learning loss and improving the schools.

(So I voted for Sandy, Moon and two others who weren't endorsed by Fairfax Democrats.)

I agree and have also voted for Sandy. I couldn’t bring myself to vote for 3 at large candidates. The Republicans are too extreme and so angry at the schools. The Dems seemed just in it for the politics or without educational knowledge or too extremely liberal. So I only voted for the guy who is a teacher for the at large candidates.

I voted for Moon. I just don’t see him in it for the politics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I went for Bixby. At least he'll go into it without the baggage of trying to appease either political party.

I would have, but he didn’t seem to do any campaigning. And he had no donors except for himself and his wife. If you’re not working hard to get elected, can we count on you when you get elected?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I went for Bixby. At least he'll go into it without the baggage of trying to appease either political party.

I would have, but he didn’t seem to do any campaigning. And he had no donors except for himself and his wife. If you’re not working hard to get elected, can we count on you when you get elected?

Unless his strategy was the others were so bad he didn’t have to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I went for Bixby. At least he'll go into it without the baggage of trying to appease either political party.

I would have, but he didn’t seem to do any campaigning. And he had no donors except for himself and his wife. If you’re not working hard to get elected, can we count on you when you get elected?

That’s exactly what makes you a politician. I’ll take someone with no donors, please. School board is a side job where you get paid something like $32,000. Who has the time and money to campaign if they aren’t a full on politician?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I went for Bixby. At least he'll go into it without the baggage of trying to appease either political party.

I would have, but he didn’t seem to do any campaigning. And he had no donors except for himself and his wife. If you’re not working hard to get elected, can we count on you when you get elected?

That’s exactly what makes you a politician. I’ll take someone with no donors, please. School board is a side job where you get paid something like $32,000. Who has the time and money to campaign if they aren’t a full on politician?

Fair points, but we still deserve to know what they stand for and let them elaborate on their positions, and you need to be out and about to do it. And to be fair, many local politicians have jobs where they can do both. Like Laura Jane Cohen, who owns a store…which she felt was safe to open during Covid when she felt schools needed to be closed. But I digress.

[Anonymous]

You aren’t wrong and Yes. Many thanks to good LJC I had to vote Republican this year because I will never vote for her

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I voted last week and went with Sandy Anderson. I'm an independent voter and I actually looked up all of the at-large candidates etc to look at their platforms. I should have just gone to the Moms for Liberty site to see who they endorsed and just voted for someone else.

I don't think having an all-Dem board worked but I also don't want to see a bunch of Republicans get on there and spend all their time trying to make trans kids' lives harder. Enough of that crap. Let's focus on getting kids caught up from pandemic learning loss and improving the schools.

(So I voted for Sandy, Moon and two others who weren't endorsed by Fairfax Democrats.)

I agree and have also voted for Sandy. I couldn’t bring myself to vote for 3 at large candidates. The Republicans are too extreme and so angry at the schools. The Dems seemed just in it for the politics or without educational knowledge or too extremely liberal. So I only voted for the guy who is a teacher for the at large candidates.

I voted for Moon. I just don’t see him in it for the politics.

Maybe he has given up on that. He definitely did it for that reason and then pretty much for TJ issues before.

[Anonymous]

Update
Early Votes Tallied, 0 of 35 Precincts In:

Sandy B. Anderson 5,884... 52.69%
Debra A. Tisler 4,850... 43.43%
Peter J. Bixby-Eberhardt 402... 3.60%
Write-In 31... 0.28%

At-Large
Early Votes Tallied, 0 of 265 Precincts:

Ryan L. McElveen 47,627... 20.70%
Ilryong Moon 47,349... 20.58%
"Kyle" McDaniel 45,986... 19.99%
Saundra T. Davis 25,385... 11.04%
Maureen T. Brody 24,071... 10.46%
Cassandra R. Aucoin 23,223...10.10%
Linda A. Pellegrino 6,046... 2.63%
Ahmed Mahdi Hussein 5,138... 2.23%
Peter C. Gabor 4,591... 2.00%
Write-In 613... 0.27%

[Anonymous]

Updated results are easy to see here:

https://www.vpap.org/electionresults/20231107/local/fairfax-county-va/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Updated results are easy to see here:

https://www.vpap.org/electionresults/20231107/local/fairfax-county-va/

Wow, not even close!