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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tholen is a nice person.

Tholen flip flopped on One Fairfax the same way the SB flip flopped on the McLean overcrowding issue.

Tholen clearly wants to go back to her old position.[/quote]

You might like Elaine Tholen to remain in her current position. She, on the other hand, has been campaigning hard for a School Board seat.

It’s clear from the negative posts that Karloutsos probably is not a nice person, but what matters most is that she’s unfit to represent the Dranesville District.  She is the latest in a string of Republican-endorsed candidates who only care about a single pyramid within Dranesville - Langley.  If you’re in DD and zoned for Herndon, McLean, Marshall or Westfield, you are just an afterthought for her.  
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Nah.  I've seen and talked to her multiple times since this whole thing started.  She doesn't  want it.  
I'm not saying she doesn't think it's for the best or that she won't exert the effort to muster up the energy to do a good job, but she doesn't want it.
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You are generalizing the irritation at Mobasheri. The only ones irritated are the Republicans who somehow think that elections should be limited to the two parties and that anyone else is acting like a spoiler. He is taking votes away from them and in significant numbers in Great Falls and McLean. Karloutsos is very disliked in Herndon and he's gained on her there as well. The Republicans who supported him in the early stages couldn't divorce themselves from their party loyalties once Karloutsos announced her candidacy and are now stuck in no man's land worried that they have a weak candidate, a strong independent and a solidly blue district.

I said she doesn't want the job, not that she dislikes campaigning.  Thankfully everyone is pretty much being nice to Elaine because why not?  
She flipped on One Fairfax after an early engagement with the public let her know people were unhappy.  Then all the glowing support was scrubbed from her site.

People are irritated at Mobasheri, ignoring or making sarcastic comments on his constant campaign posts on nextdoor, putting up screenshots on dcum of him downtalking McLean and Herndon, pointing out that he thinks he's the only one with kids in fcps.

Everyone likes Elaine.  She may get elected, certainly preferable to Mobasheri who everyone is tired of already.  (well. Most people)

Anyone firmly against the school board's current nonsense is voting Karloutsos.

That changes my view not one iota. Better to have a competent and committed School Board member who dislikes the ugly parts of a campaign than someone with fire in their belly, but who is running for the wrong reasons.[/quote][/quote][/quote]

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