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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][twitter]https://twitter.com/Josh4Arlington/status/1660994012851974144/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1660994012851974144&currentTweetUser=Josh4Arlington[/twitter]

Paris is stuck trying to explain why the judge wouldn’t follow her recommendation for a heavier sentence and why she wouldn’t pander to the victim’s family. And when you’re explaining, you’re losing.

[url=https://twitter.com/Josh4Arlington/status/1660994012851974144/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1660994012851974144&currentTweetUser=Josh4Arlington]Checkmate[/url]  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:!!![/quote]

While I agree with you I don’t think he’s going to win. The past month I have been inundated with campaign literature from Parisa’s office saying that Josh is endorsed by republicans and calling him the republican candidate. Arlington voters are going to see this and vote for Parisa. Most people don’t know the details of what happened with the case in the clip you shared. They will see Katcher and assume republican and vote for him. Also Parisa’s campaign is clearly better funded. 
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I think Josh can shape the primary electorate and pull this out. His people show up. They don’t have to worry about getting time off to go vote or worrying about passing a cruiser at the polling entrance. Josh has some of the best allies you could want in a turnout election like this, and between getting his people out and challenging Parisa’s potential voters I think he’ll pull this out.[/quote]

This seems like wishful thinking.

Parisa has strong support among traditional Arlington liberals - and among the bulk of the local politicians whose views count among Arlington residents.

Josh has totally tied his campaign now to Rose Kehoe's vengeance tour.  People have enormous sympathy for her loss but many also have juveniles of their own whom they might prefer not be treated as adults if and when they ever do something incredibly stupid and even harmful.

And there is nothing to like about him personally, either.  He is the most transparently ambitious and self-serving young politician on the local scene, and that's no small feat to pull off in Arlington.

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Josh did everything you’re supposed to do in building his career as a prosecutor. He assessed how strong his opponent’s lawyer/s were. He took APD’s arrests and harvested convictions and pleas. He backed the Blue and knew how to have fun with them. He carefully cultivated connections in the political and prosecutorial worlds. He registered his website domain while serving under Theo so that he’d be ready whenever she retired. And then this ACLU card-carrying interloper sashayed her way into office on the back of George Soros and riding the unfortunate overreaction to the George Floyd thing.

So now he’s got a new boss and voters who stupidly threw away the security they have enjoyed all these years. As if it comes by magic rather than knocking heads together and not letting technicalities get in the way of safety. It’s a joke that woman is the CA, and he tried to make it work, but she just kept throwing away all the advantages that keep undesirables locked up. So he had to move forward, fortunately having healthy seed money plus his website set to go after her hard. The silent Arlingtonians are rising up. She’s done.[/quote]

Honey you're complaining that we should feel sorry for him because his former boss whom he loved so much was so unpopular that she lost re-election? This is such an entitled opinion. Nobody is [b]entitled[/b] to be Commonwealth's Attorney. They have to earn the people's vote through good policies, and Katcher hasn't earned my vote. He's indicated in so many ways that he's going to return to the days of Theo.

Also, Parisa was elected before George Floyd was killed. Just shows how little you know about any of this.[/quote]

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