Anonymous
06/21/2023 18:04
Subject: Congratulations for destroying NoVA!
My kids voted for Saldem even tho we had Petterson signs and we told them to vote for Chap.
Anonymous
06/21/2023 18:02
Subject: Congratulations for destroying NoVA!
Anonymous wrote:I’m glad chap lost because of his stance on guns and some other things. But the rest of these races are sad. Low voter turnout in primaries means we are stuck with the choice if party activists and moderates don’t get a voice. The fact that three school board members won yesterday shows how out of touch party activists are with most voters.
If I were you, I would wait until after November 7 to decide who is or isn't out of touch with most voters.
Anonymous
06/21/2023 17:57
Subject: Congratulations for destroying NoVA!
Yup, I voted for Salim because of his strong stance on gun control. Peterson voted against an assault rifle ban in 2020. Voted for Descano bc I think he’s doing a fair job and Nuttal had too many Republican endorsements for my comfort. Voted against McKay but knew that was a long shot. I’m pretty much thrilled with the results.
Anonymous
06/21/2023 17:46
Subject: Congratulations for destroying NoVA!
Anonymous wrote:Loudoun is the place to go at this point. At the very least Republicans usually receive 40% of the vote or more and they have multiple Republican school board members/supervisors.
The Sheriff is also a hardline conservative who makes county liberals angry, I love it.
I'm not opposed to Democrats, it's just that they have basically purged the moderates out of the party.
Because “moderates” = “magas”
Running these traitors out means a stronger, more united party.
Anonymous
06/21/2023 17:30
Subject: Congratulations for destroying NoVA!
Anonymous wrote: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
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.
Anonymous
06/21/2023 17:29
Subject: Congratulations for destroying NoVA!
I’m glad chap lost because of his stance on guns and some other things. But the rest of these races are sad. Low voter turnout in primaries means we are stuck with the choice if party activists and moderates don’t get a voice. The fact that three school board members won yesterday shows how out of touch party activists are with most voters.
Anonymous
06/21/2023 17:21
Subject: Congratulations for destroying NoVA!
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
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
Anonymous
06/21/2023 17:08
Subject: Congratulations for destroying NoVA!
The county, and Ds nationwide, are swing far left in the same way that Rs have swung far right. If you’re in the middle, you’re lost unfortunately
I don’t mind the loss of Chap bc I hated his gun record but the new batch (LJ Cohen, eg) I cannot stomach. I don’t want to vote R so I may just sit out
I don’t mind the loss of Chap bc I hated his gun record but the new batch (LJ Cohen, eg) I cannot stomach. I don’t want to vote R so I may just sit out
Anonymous
06/21/2023 17:00
Subject: Congratulations for destroying NoVA!
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I agree with you. This is not the moderate left-leaning I moved to in 2009. I do think Loudoun has the potential to swing back to the GOP but most of Fairfax is headed the way of San Francisco. Every day I wish we still had Sharon Bulova running Fairfax, she was amazing and led the county through some difficult times. Jeff McKay is worthless and that's why his unknown primary opponent received over 40% of the vote.
Why else has Fairfax County lost population in recent years? Get out while you can.
Loudoun is not swinging back to the GOP, thank God.
I mean, we chased the traitor Dave LaRock out to Clarke County, and he lost the Republican nomination yesterday.
Loudoun is proudly blue now.
Eastern Loudoun is moderately blue. Western Loudoun is still MAGA land.
Anonymous
06/21/2023 16:55
Subject: Congratulations for destroying NoVA!
Anonymous wrote:I agree with you. This is not the moderate left-leaning I moved to in 2009. I do think Loudoun has the potential to swing back to the GOP but most of Fairfax is headed the way of San Francisco. Every day I wish we still had Sharon Bulova running Fairfax, she was amazing and led the county through some difficult times. Jeff McKay is worthless and that's why his unknown primary opponent received over 40% of the vote.
Why else has Fairfax County lost population in recent years? Get out while you can.
Loudoun is not swinging back to the GOP, thank God.
I mean, we chased the traitor Dave LaRock out to Clarke County, and he lost the Republican nomination yesterday.
Loudoun is proudly blue now.
Anonymous
06/21/2023 16:54
Subject: Congratulations for destroying NoVA!
Anonymous wrote:I cannot believe that you all voted against Chap Petersen and George Barker. I mean seriously? People in SD-36 voted for useless SB member Stella Pekarsky and took out normal dem Barker. Barker didn't even do anything that the left would define as "conservative" yet he wasn't woke and annoying so he got the boot.
I do understand that Chap Petersen did things that many on the left deem "conservative" but in all reality Chap was a standard liberal who was essential in building up the Democratic party in Fairfax back in the early 2000's. I think the fact that he gave credibility to Republican viewpoints on Covid restrictions/masks in schools drove the local Dem apparatus absolutely insane and they were going to stop at nothing to defeat him. He literally had a "F" rating from the NRA and was backed by Clean Virginia but apparently him thinking that 5 year olds shouldn't be forced to mask all day in 2022 was a bridge to far.
Steve Descano won simply because of braindead white liberals who read Blue Virginia and convinced themselves that Nuttall was some sort of MAGA Republican. The Asian areas in western Fairfax rejected Descano while the white liberal areas voted for him.
NoVA used to have some amazing Democrats representing the area. They supported gay rights, the environment, and strong schools. They kept crime low and were not partisan hacks who spend all day on social media fear-mongering and yelling.
The reason many people moved to this area was due to the good governance and stable environment. The rise in crime and decline of the public school is sad to see yet it seems like a majority of NoVA voters support it for whatever delusional reason.
I miss the NoVA Dems of 2015 and the sane leadership they had. The Republicans can be nutjobs at times who I wholeheartedly tend to disagree with on certain issues. I voted for all the local Dems in 2019 and didn't think twice about it. I wrongly assumed they would govern like their predecessors.
I feel politically homeless on the local level right now and I am concerned about the direction Fairfax is headed in. Long gone are the days where good governance and moderate politicians ran things up here.
Maybe I am wrong about all of this, I don't know. How does everyone else feel?
Didn't read this long rant but I think the lawyer for advanced towing lost.
Anonymous
06/21/2023 16:53
Subject: Congratulations for destroying NoVA!
Someone’s on tilt.
Anonymous
06/21/2023 16:52
Subject: Congratulations for destroying NoVA!
Anonymous wrote:Loudoun is the place to go at this point. At the very least Republicans usually receive 40% of the vote or more and they have multiple Republican school board members/supervisors.
The Sheriff is also a hardline conservative who makes county liberals angry, I love it.
I'm not opposed to Democrats, it's just that they have basically purged the moderates out of the party.
+1. Dems in eastern loudoun are quite reasonable and never get more then a lean margin, and western loudoun is ruby red. like 70%+ in some areas. Something for everyone.
Anonymous
06/21/2023 16:50
Subject: Re:Congratulations for destroying NoVA!
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Thankfully data center pleaser Prince William board chair lost her primary to a land conserver. Looks like we will be keeping prince william rural after all.
Why do you all hate Data Centers? we have them all over Ashburn and I like them!
Because the chairwoman wanted them built in the rural crescent area of PWC. Loudoun politicians, both dems and reps have a unified goal of keeping western loudoun rural, which means they entirely oppose data centers in western loudoun. Dems in PWC don’t seem to get the point.
Anonymous
06/21/2023 16:41
Subject: Congratulations for destroying NoVA!
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Chap Petterson lost because people low voter turn out.
He lost because more voters voted for the other candidate.
I wish he would ask for a recount- and see if he could run as WRITE IN-
and redistricting killed him. Who came up with the new district? 5 incumbent lost because of redistricting.
1. Chap! lost by 4%. Usually there are only recounts when an election is within 1% percent.
2. He already lost one election, why lose another?
3. Ask George Barker about the redistricting.