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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't want to vote R but I do not want to vote for the absolute loons who won yesterday.

I live in State Senate district 36 and I am considering casting my vote for the Republican candidate (Julie Perry I think?) this fall. She is a local FCPS teacher and I think the state government would benefit from her perspective.

Pekarsky seems like a nice individual but she has a horrific record and did absolutely nothing on the school board. Don't understand the appeal behind her.

If Perry ends up being some MAGA nutjob I'll just sit this one out.

I really don't think I'm the only one who feels this way and I don't think the local Dem party[/quote]

This election is like many other local elections in that low-knowledge voters cast ballots based largely on name recognition and incumbency.  Peterson was an exception, because the local Democratic establishment invested serious money in unseating him, but otherwise that's why the three School Board members who have accomplished little in office won their primaries.

Barker ended up getting redistricted into a new district that was comprised largely of Pekarsky's magisterial district on the School Board.  Cohen and Keys Gamarra ran in contests with multiple candidates, so they won based on name recognition, not performance.  They might actually do less harm in the state legislature than the local School Board, although it won't help Fairfax to lose people with seniority and instead be represented by folks with neither tenure nor brains.

In other two-person races, incumbents like McKay and Descano didn't exactly blow away their opponents, but again the benefits of incumbency and name recognition can't be exaggerated.  McKay is vanilla on the surface, so people don't pay attention to how he's basically looking to screw northern and western Fairfax. Descano is incompetent as a prosecutor, but benefited from the fact that most people have no interaction with the Commonwealth's Attorney; in addition, he ran a lot of ads to suggest that Nuttell was anti-choice.  [/quote]

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