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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To some extent the governor's race will have an impact on my votes for City Council and School Board.  We live in Alexandria.  Both my husband and I will likely vote for McAuliffe.  We know the family and we like them all a lot.  We have confidence in Terry.  However, we haven't been at all impressed, or even mildly content, with the Democrats like the Mayor or those who serve on the City Council and School Board.  So we are looking at other candidates.

Our feeling is that if we vote for Terry then we're still voting our party but at the local level, where the party is completely off the rails, we can help get them back on the rails by voting against them as a wake-up call.  This was all reinforced when this weekend we read the voter information page in the Washington Post.  Only two candidates for City Council were willing to express support for SROs.  The rest waffled, even those who claim publicly that they support SROs.  You know, if you're not willing to put it in writing, I'm not willing to believe what you say.  The safety of the children and staff at our schools is too important.  If the principals at the schools believe that SROs are necessary then you better believe that my husband and I support them.

Right now we're voting only for the two City Council candidates (an Independent and a Republican) who express support for SROs.  For the School Board we're voting for Pree Ann Johnson, Tammy Ignacio and we're undecided if we'll vote for a third.  For Mayor we're writing in for Dopey, one of the seven dwarfs; he will undoubtedly do a much better job than Wilson and they look like they're related so at least it is all in the family.

Basically the governor's race is impacting our votes on the school board (and other elections) because voting our party for governor is freeing us to vote outside of the part at the local level.[/quote]

this reads like “As long as it doesn’t’ affect MY family…”[/quote]

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