Matt DeFerranti v. John Vihstadt

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The reason JV lost is b/c of the stupid sample ballots. People want to send a message of the national level, but don't realize how different politics are at the county level. Uninformed or unmotivated voters take the sample ballot and just check off whatever is on the blue sheet. I know, I used to be like that, too. It's easy, but it sucks.

I keep hearing this, yet I never received nor saw anyone handing out sample ballots. Also, I don't recall seeing party affiliation listed for ACB on the actual ballot.

The gymnastics people are going through over this are entertaining, though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The reason JV lost is b/c of the stupid sample ballots. People want to send a message of the national level, but don't realize how different politics are at the county level. Uninformed or unmotivated voters take the sample ballot and just check off whatever is on the blue sheet. I know, I used to be like that, too. It's easy, but it sucks.

I keep hearing this, yet I never received nor saw anyone handing out sample ballots. Also, I don't recall seeing party affiliation listed for ACB on the actual ballot.

The gymnastics people are going through over this are entertaining, though.

1. At my polling place, the Dems were handing out sample ballots.
2. At the library (polling place) I visited to drop off a book, the Dems were handing out sample ballots.
3. A friend posted a picture of herself handing out sample ballots at her polling place.
4. When I took my son to gymnastics (another polling place), the Dems were handing out sample ballots.

I don't know how you missed them b/c they come at you like a mattress salesperson.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The reason JV lost is b/c of the stupid sample ballots. People want to send a message of the national level, but don't realize how different politics are at the county level. Uninformed or unmotivated voters take the sample ballot and just check off whatever is on the blue sheet. I know, I used to be like that, too. It's easy, but it sucks.

I keep hearing this, yet I never received nor saw anyone handing out sample ballots. Also, I don't recall seeing party affiliation listed for ACB on the actual ballot.

The gymnastics people are going through over this are entertaining, though.

3 people at the polls tried to give me sample ballots for Democrats. They do it every election.

So, despite what you think (speaking of mental gymnastics) we are not the ones that are crazy.

[Anonymous]

Every time I have voted in Arlington in the past 15 years there have been Democratic sample ballots offered outside the building.

[Anonymous]

At our polling location (McKinley), not only were there 5 people handing out sample ballots, but they weren't following the election law that requires you to stand 40 feet from the door entrance. In the morning, there was an older guy from the ACDC who was actually passing out sample ballots at the curb directly in front of the entrance door.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The reason JV lost is b/c of the stupid sample ballots. People want to send a message of the national level, but don't realize how different politics are at the county level. Uninformed or unmotivated voters take the sample ballot and just check off whatever is on the blue sheet. I know, I used to be like that, too. It's easy, but it sucks.

I keep hearing this, yet I never received nor saw anyone handing out sample ballots. Also, I don't recall seeing party affiliation listed for ACB on the actual ballot.

The gymnastics people are going through over this are entertaining, though.

1. At my polling place, the Dems were handing out sample ballots.
2. At the library (polling place) I visited to drop off a book, the Dems were handing out sample ballots.
3. A friend posted a picture of herself handing out sample ballots at her polling place.
4. When I took my son to gymnastics (another polling place), the Dems were handing out sample ballots.

I don't know how you missed them b/c they come at you like a mattress salesperson.

The only person outside my polling place, both when I went in the morning and when I walked back home at 430PM, was one dude in a purple Vihstadt shirt (standing way too close to the polling entrance) trying to give a JV flier to everyone in the area. No sample ballots, no party line checklists, no ArlCo Democratic Party thugs threatening to knife me if I didn't vote for Matt, despite it being the lawless meanstreets of South Arlington.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The reason JV lost is b/c of the stupid sample ballots. People want to send a message of the national level, but don't realize how different politics are at the county level. Uninformed or unmotivated voters take the sample ballot and just check off whatever is on the blue sheet. I know, I used to be like that, too. It's easy, but it sucks.

I keep hearing this, yet I never received nor saw anyone handing out sample ballots. Also, I don't recall seeing party affiliation listed for ACB on the actual ballot.

The gymnastics people are going through over this are entertaining, though.

1. At my polling place, the Dems were handing out sample ballots.
2. At the library (polling place) I visited to drop off a book, the Dems were handing out sample ballots.
3. A friend posted a picture of herself handing out sample ballots at her polling place.
4. When I took my son to gymnastics (another polling place), the Dems were handing out sample ballots.

I don't know how you missed them b/c they come at you like a mattress salesperson.

The only person outside my polling place, both when I went in the morning and when I walked back home at 430PM, was one dude in a purple Vihstadt shirt (standing way too close to the polling entrance) trying to give a JV flier to everyone in the area. No sample ballots, no party line checklists, no ArlCo Democratic Party thugs threatening to knife me if I didn't vote for Matt, despite it being the lawless meanstreets of South Arlington.

At my polling place in SA there were two people who offered me a sample ballot. I assume one was D and one was R, that's usually been the case in the past. I declined the sample ballots because I already knew who I was voting for and I think a lot of people also already knew which way they were voting. As I said before, there are a lot of SA who are angry about the Streetcar and blame V. He was never going to win here, despite being not a despicable person while on the board. Between the GGW types and the Streetcar advocates (who I actually agree with for the most part), the granola Ds who will never vote for anyone who was ever an R, it was a lost cause here. He needed to win NA by a much wider margin in order to win. Simple math. But I give him credit for trying to win over voters in SA anyway. It would be nice if I saw other future candidates and current board members working as hard to be in the community and solving things that affect quality of life like when an abandoned/condemned house was left to sit for years so that its roof blew off in a storm and damaged an adjacent house rather than enforcing the tear down in a timely fashion.

[Anonymous]

Give a Dem sample ballot to a bunch of childless millennial ArlinDrones and they’ll just vote the party ticket.

[Anonymous]

I wonder if Mr. Bezos will reconsider now.

[Anonymous]

My N. Arl polling place had 5 Dems standing around giving out sample ballots and one Vihstadt person.

[Anonymous]

The only person outside my polling place, both when I went in the morning and when I walked back home at 430PM, was one dude in a purple Vihstadt shirt (standing way too close to the polling entrance) trying to give a JV flier to everyone in the area. No sample ballots, no party line checklists, no ArlCo Democratic Party thugs threatening to knife me if I didn't vote for Matt, despite it being the lawless meanstreets of South Arlington.



Oh no, another example of SA not getting what NA gets.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Congrats, mindless voters. You got what you deserved. I'll sit happy here in NA, but I'm sad today b/c one of the few politicians who actually cared about Arlington got drowned out in your stupid blue wave. Trump minions are bad, but so are you.

Yeah, the “NA screws over SA politically” trope is officially dead now.

SA actually screws themselves over

Or all the childless millennials along the Orange Line screwed themselves ten years from now.

If they don’t build a fourth high school, my only hope is people with more money than me all send their kids to provate school or move.

Yup, also was/am one. Except we just bought a house and it got me really interested in the SA boundary process. Though we tended to pay more attention than most cause we're political dorks, I completely understand why deF won with the number of 20 something apt dwellers who voted straight dem. I almost don't blame them since at the federal level party dictates most of your voting behavior, but until you get local politics you don't get it.

So you’re saying that voters who aren’t old fart homeowners don’t know any better?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The reason JV lost is b/c of the stupid sample ballots. People want to send a message of the national level, but don't realize how different politics are at the county level. Uninformed or unmotivated voters take the sample ballot and just check off whatever is on the blue sheet. I know, I used to be like that, too. It's easy, but it sucks.

I keep hearing this, yet I never received nor saw anyone handing out sample ballots. Also, I don't recall seeing party affiliation listed for ACB on the actual ballot.

The gymnastics people are going through over this are entertaining, though.

1. At my polling place, the Dems were handing out sample ballots.
2. At the library (polling place) I visited to drop off a book, the Dems were handing out sample ballots.
3. A friend posted a picture of herself handing out sample ballots at her polling place.
4. When I took my son to gymnastics (another polling place), the Dems were handing out sample ballots.

I don't know how you missed them b/c they come at you like a mattress salesperson.

The only person outside my polling place, both when I went in the morning and when I walked back home at 430PM, was one dude in a purple Vihstadt shirt (standing way too close to the polling entrance) trying to give a JV flier to everyone in the area. No sample ballots, no party line checklists, no ArlCo Democratic Party thugs threatening to knife me if I didn't vote for Matt, despite it being the lawless meanstreets of South Arlington.

NP. My polling place (Walter Reed CC) had plenty of people giving out Democratic sample ballots and always has. Why are you being deliberately obtuse despite every other poster telling you that this happened at their polling place? Just because you didn’t personally see it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Vihstadt should turn and run for school board

He has already said he won’t run for office again. And so begins another 30 years of all Democrats on the County Board. I’m sure they are already hatching a plan to cram more AF along the Pike. Maybe they already have a high rise planned at the Madison Community Center. Schools will never get the money or land for a fourth high school.

An affordable high rise in the 22207 would be a refreshingly bold and much needed idea.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The reason JV lost is b/c of the stupid sample ballots. People want to send a message of the national level, but don't realize how different politics are at the county level. Uninformed or unmotivated voters take the sample ballot and just check off whatever is on the blue sheet. I know, I used to be like that, too. It's easy, but it sucks.

I keep hearing this, yet I never received nor saw anyone handing out sample ballots. Also, I don't recall seeing party affiliation listed for ACB on the actual ballot.

The gymnastics people are going through over this are entertaining, though.

1. At my polling place, the Dems were handing out sample ballots.
2. At the library (polling place) I visited to drop off a book, the Dems were handing out sample ballots.
3. A friend posted a picture of herself handing out sample ballots at her polling place.
4. When I took my son to gymnastics (another polling place), the Dems were handing out sample ballots.

I don't know how you missed them b/c they come at you like a mattress salesperson.

The only person outside my polling place, both when I went in the morning and when I walked back home at 430PM, was one dude in a purple Vihstadt shirt (standing way too close to the polling entrance) trying to give a JV flier to everyone in the area. No sample ballots, no party line checklists, no ArlCo Democratic Party thugs threatening to knife me if I didn't vote for Matt, despite it being the lawless meanstreets of South Arlington.

NP. My polling place (Walter Reed CC) had plenty of people giving out Democratic sample ballots and always has. Why are you being deliberately obtuse despite every other poster telling you that this happened at their polling place? Just because you didn’t personally see it?

That's my polling place as well and I also saw a person giving out a Dem sample ballot. 9:15 a.m. or so.