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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]IMO, Sandy has run an honorable campaign and is not deserving of these attempts to smear her. No matter who she may or may not have voted for in the past, that's the past. I'm focused on who is best positioned to solve current and future problems of great significance to our children. That's why she's at the top of my still-not-totally-decided list. Honestly, I think we're above all of this negativity or we should try to be anyway. [/quote]

She's at the top of my list for now, but if she supported Trump in 2016 that is a serious deal-breaker for me because it shows extremely poor judgment.

It's not "negativity", it's just looking at facts.

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I want to like her because she is a retired teacher. But she seems out of touch and arrogant. She has few endorsers and couldn't even convince her former colleagues to support her. Whether that is because she is some Trumper or not, it doesn't tell me that she is good at building relationships. We need school board members who can work with the county board and state legislators. Times are going to be tough for APS next year. Actually, they already are. [/quote]

Sandy was endorsed by two current School Board members, who know better than most what the School Board job entails. Most of those other candidate endorsements are pointless. You think Cory Booker, for example, knows anything about what is involved with being on the Arlington County School Board? It sounds to me like the ACDC and the AEA are punishing Sandy for backing John Vihstadt for County Board. For whatever reason, that seems to be an unforgiveable sin among Arlington Democrats. They turned on Libby Garvey over it (she survived) and then they turned on Theo Stamos over it (she didn't). Even the way the ACDC is orchestrating this special election to fill Gutshall's seat with Barbara K is all a defensive play to try to block Vihstadt from running and winning. Once Vihstadt said he wasn't running, then ACDC was fine with a bunch of other new candidates entering the field. ACDC can't let go of a special election that happened six years ago.

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