Is Great Falls all Republican?

[Anonymous]

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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.

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[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…

You could not have made a worse move. Reston was founded by boomer hippies who brought a leftie vibe to Reston that has persisted since Robert Simon laid out the plans for this model community. Because much of Great Falls is on septic systems, it has large lots which appeal to misanthropes who want to live with no intrusion from government or mostly anyone else.

Didn't you get a clue when you saw all the Trump signs when shopping for a house in Great Falls.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's interesting that Jennifer Adeli, who tried unsuccessfully to defeat Kathleen Murphy in the Democratic primary for the VA-34 House seat (and claimed she was more "progressive" than Murphy) has been arguing vociferously against any redrawn boundaries that would include part of Great Falls in the same House district as Herndon.

There is very little difference between Great Falls Democrats and Great Falls Republicans when it comes to local politics - they exemplify privilege hoarding.

We are an International Family. This hoarding of privilege, lack of vibrancy and lack of diversity are all reasons why we decided against settling in Great Falls

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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.

The rest of the county is plenty nice enough. Let them continue to pay high property taxes and get fewer services.

Big frigging deal.

The big deal is that Democrats from Great Falls and western McLean routinely support decisions to increase density elsewhere in the county, while making sure it doesn't affect them in the slightest. You might say you'd rather live in the part of the county that's getting the new developments and amenities, but it places severe strains on the local infrastructure.

Do the people who live elsewhere support the density? Are the residents of great falls and mclean simply going along with what other places want or forcing them to further densify?

I'm not going to try and block different neighborhood or town from getting a new garden apartment complex or high rise if they want it any more that I'm going to attempt to force a semi-rural area that wants to stay somewhat bucolic to put them up.

Other areas are having greater density crammed down their throats by politicians - including some in Great Falls and western McLean - who won't invest in the social infrastructure to support it and don't want it in their own neighborhoods.

It's not intellectually bankrupt to call out these hypocrites.

It is the jealousy that ignited middle schoolers.

Sad

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's interesting that Jennifer Adeli, who tried unsuccessfully to defeat Kathleen Murphy in the Democratic primary for the VA-34 House seat (and claimed she was more "progressive" than Murphy) has been arguing vociferously against any redrawn boundaries that would include part of Great Falls in the same House district as Herndon.

There is very little difference between Great Falls Democrats and Great Falls Republicans when it comes to local politics - they exemplify privilege hoarding.

We are an International Family. This hoarding of privilege, lack of vibrancy and lack of diversity are all reasons why we decided against settling in Great Falls

Good that you have the privilege of living in a vibrant, diverse area pending return to your international locales.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's interesting that Jennifer Adeli, who tried unsuccessfully to defeat Kathleen Murphy in the Democratic primary for the VA-34 House seat (and claimed she was more "progressive" than Murphy) has been arguing vociferously against any redrawn boundaries that would include part of Great Falls in the same House district as Herndon.

There is very little difference between Great Falls Democrats and Great Falls Republicans when it comes to local politics - they exemplify privilege hoarding.

We are an International Family. This hoarding of privilege, lack of vibrancy and lack of diversity are all reasons why we decided against settling in Great Falls

There is not really any difference between Great Falls, Western Mclean, Reston-Vienna-Oakton Hunter Mill corridor, Clifton, FX Station, etc. Where people buy can be based on where they work , where they know people, what was on the RE market when they bought. If you need to go to MD or NW DC for work you likely would start looking in Mclean and work your way west.

Why do so many people whose country of origin is not the USA buy in those areas? You don't notice them because they bought there for larger lots and the ambiance. The critters like deer are vibrant.

What you don't see is clumps of self selected ethnic enclaves. Any given sub area can contain people born in the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Asia. Cordial neighbors irrespective of religion or country of origin. Big property tax bases for Fairfax County and not much in the way of services besides police and fire, EMT.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's interesting that Jennifer Adeli, who tried unsuccessfully to defeat Kathleen Murphy in the Democratic primary for the VA-34 House seat (and claimed she was more "progressive" than Murphy) has been arguing vociferously against any redrawn boundaries that would include part of Great Falls in the same House district as Herndon.

There is very little difference between Great Falls Democrats and Great Falls Republicans when it comes to local politics - they exemplify privilege hoarding.

We are an International Family. This hoarding of privilege, lack of vibrancy and lack of diversity are all reasons why we decided against settling in Great Falls

Good that you have the privilege of living in a vibrant, diverse area pending return to your international locales.

That’s Great Falls-ese for “go back to where you came from.”

PP, you dodged a bullet in avoiding these people.

[Anonymous]

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63% of the Great Falls precinct voted for Trump.

Can you cite a source for this? I believe it but I went looking for this info when the OP started the thread and couldn’t find it.

The precinct data is easily a google away. But there are many precincts in great falls and taken in a whole, the majority went dem in the last election.

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Anonymous wrote:It's interesting that Jennifer Adeli, who tried unsuccessfully to defeat Kathleen Murphy in the Democratic primary for the VA-34 House seat (and claimed she was more "progressive" than Murphy) has been arguing vociferously against any redrawn boundaries that would include part of Great Falls in the same House district as Herndon.

There is very little difference between Great Falls Democrats and Great Falls Republicans when it comes to local politics - they exemplify privilege hoarding.

We are an International Family. This hoarding of privilege, lack of vibrancy and lack of diversity are all reasons why we decided against settling in Great Falls

Good that you have the privilege of living in a vibrant, diverse area pending return to your international locales.

That’s Great Falls-ese for “go back to where you came from.”

PP, you dodged a bullet in avoiding these people.

No, that is Arlington-ese for grateful the “internationals” are not buying in Arlington.

[Anonymous]

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63% of the Great Falls precinct voted for Trump.

Can you cite a source for this? I believe it but I went looking for this info when the OP started the thread and couldn’t find it.

The precinct data is easily a google away. But there are many precincts in great falls and taken in a whole, the majority went dem in the last election.

Plus, many people voted absentee which I don’t think is reflected in precinct data.

[Anonymous]

GF is full of A-holes. It's always been that way.

[Anonymous]

Thus entire area leans more liberal than republican but if you move to Fredericksburg or Front Royal you have Republicans all over the place.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's interesting that Jennifer Adeli, who tried unsuccessfully to defeat Kathleen Murphy in the Democratic primary for the VA-34 House seat (and claimed she was more "progressive" than Murphy) has been arguing vociferously against any redrawn boundaries that would include part of Great Falls in the same House district as Herndon.

There is very little difference between Great Falls Democrats and Great Falls Republicans when it comes to local politics - they exemplify privilege hoarding.

We are an International Family. This hoarding of privilege, lack of vibrancy and lack of diversity are all reasons why we decided against settling in Great Falls

What is “hoarding of privilege”?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's interesting that Jennifer Adeli, who tried unsuccessfully to defeat Kathleen Murphy in the Democratic primary for the VA-34 House seat (and claimed she was more "progressive" than Murphy) has been arguing vociferously against any redrawn boundaries that would include part of Great Falls in the same House district as Herndon.

There is very little difference between Great Falls Democrats and Great Falls Republicans when it comes to local politics - they exemplify privilege hoarding.

We are an International Family. This hoarding of privilege, lack of vibrancy and lack of diversity are all reasons why we decided against settling in Great Falls

What is “hoarding of privilege”?

Private property.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:63% of the Great Fall precinct voted for Trump.

That doesn’t account to people that voted early.