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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So, how do we stop people like my Dem. obsessed DINK friends who campaign any and all things blue from pushing Christina down our throats?  Anyone who is a parent should vote against her.[/quote]

You can’t. DINKs and Boomers are the core of the local Democratic Party. Parents of school age children are a distinct minority in Arlington County, and the local party doesn’t see this as a school board seat, they see it as a stepping stone and as another place to put policy priorities in action. One of those things is making sure that schools don’t interfere with their AH policy. For example, They just spent the whole 20m amazon wad on bringing more high needs children into APS, and set aside not a cent for schools or resources to serve them. That’s of course because AH is about an industry of players, not poor kids. But it’s also why the party wants someone like her. The other candidates owe the party nothing. She’d owe the party everything, and do whatever they told her to.[/quote]

Childless millennials and DINKs won't show up to the School Board caucus. (Or at least that's my hope.) I think there were fewer than 2,000 voters for the last Priddy/Goldstein caucus. More people showed up when they were joint County Board/School Board caucuses, but now that the County Board moved to a real primary election, the School Board is the only race on the caucus ballot. The key to defeating Christina (as someone said above) is making sure there aren't too many split votes. Ideally, you would only have 3 people running and everyone would vote the other two candidates as #1 and #2. Alternatively, people need to just leave Christina off their ballots completely.

Caucus rules here, but below (#9) is most relevant:

https://arlingtondemocrats.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/2019-SB-Caucus-Rules-1.pdf

9)   ?Elimination and redistribution rounds within each stage ? . In the second and subsequent rounds for each stage, the candidate with the lowest number of votes in the previous round will be eliminated and ballots previously allocated to that candidate will be re-allocated to other candidates according to the next highest preference indicated on the ballot. Those ballots will be sorted, stacked and counted (as needed) in the manner described in this Rule. If a ballot does not indicate a next higher preference, it will be set aside for the remainder of the stage and will not be an active ballot in any further round in that stage. If after any round of counting, one candidate has a majority of active ballots, the preference vote counting for that stage will conclude. If no candidate has a majority, another round will commence (again eliminating the candidate with the fewest votes in the current round and re-allocating the ballots accordingly). [/quote]

Childless DINKs, no. Boomers, yes. I think she’ll get the endorsement. The people who don’t want her aren’t party regulars, and won’t go. But the AH crowd will be there and she’s their pick. The caucus is an internal dem party event, not an open primary. [/quote]

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