Anonymous wrote:Please volunteer with JV's campaign! He needs people to door knock, host coffees in their homes, volunteer to hand out stickers at the Arl Co fair, etc. There are lots of ways to get involved! If Matt replaces John on the CB, schools will be totally screwed. Matt is a Katie wanna-be, but not as smart.

Katie wants Don Beyer's seat. She knows she just has to wait it out in the County Board for another 8-10 years and Beyer will retire. He is already almost 70. Katie doesn't give a crap about APS because that doesn't translate into a national message. But she can run on daycare, AH, and economic development when she campaigns for Congress. She picks her issues with the longer term in mind. Hope someone runs against her next year, because unless you want her representing you in DC in a few years, we need someone to stop her political career now.

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Anonymous wrote:I still don't understand why millenial Marylander Cristol is on the board.

Because she's the ideal daughter/granddaughter material for liberal grannies for whom schools are dead last priority?

She makes me sick and I am a millennial who doesn’t even have kids yet.

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Anonymous wrote:I still don't understand why millenial Marylander Cristol is on the board.

Because she's the ideal daughter/granddaughter material for liberal grannies for whom schools are dead last priority?

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Anonymous wrote:The only think that makes me worry about this race is the Kaine-Stewart race above it, that it'll get a whole bunch of people who don't normally vote out to oppose Stewart, and they'll blindly vote (D) down the ballot.

Or maybe they will consciously try to send a message to the Va GOP that this will hurt at every level.

Anonymous wrote:Dem here voting for V. It would take some pretty specific statements from any other challenger to change that, as in "Shift scheduling? Over my dead body!"

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Anonymous wrote:^^^ I think party line voting should be a big concern. I had just moved here in 2014 but it seems to me that many votes were driven by one major issue, the streetcar. This time around, I'm not sure what the big issue would be (schools, I guess? but many county residents don't seem to care about them), plus there is the anti-Trump, "blue wave" type of messaging that will encourage many to turn out just to vote Dem.

The Aquatic Center. It's a little different from the street car in that they just broke ground on the project so there's no going back now, but Vihstadt was the lone "no" vote on that project (and was "no" until the bitter end). de Ferranti can side-step it by pointing out that the project is already underway, but this election could be made about Vihstadt being the only one trying to put a check on an unpopular project and how replacing his with another Dem would open the floodgates to wasteful spending.

You know, I had that thought and was just trying to look back to the streetcar stuff to see how far along that was. In other words, whether the "we can't stiff our contractors or they'll never bid us again" argument was made and rejected then, or whether it was not to that point yet. As a new resident, it was all a bit of a haze to me then.

Anonymous wrote:The only think that makes me worry about this race is the Kaine-Stewart race above it, that it'll get a whole bunch of people who don't normally vote out to oppose Stewart, and they'll blindly vote (D) down the ballot.

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Anonymous wrote:^^^ I think party line voting should be a big concern. I had just moved here in 2014 but it seems to me that many votes were driven by one major issue, the streetcar. This time around, I'm not sure what the big issue would be (schools, I guess? but many county residents don't seem to care about them), plus there is the anti-Trump, "blue wave" type of messaging that will encourage many to turn out just to vote Dem.

The Aquatic Center. It's a little different from the street car in that they just broke ground on the project so there's no going back now, but Vihstadt was the lone "no" vote on that project (and was "no" until the bitter end). de Ferranti can side-step it by pointing out that the project is already underway, but this election could be made about Vihstadt being the only one trying to put a check on an unpopular project and how replacing his with another Dem would open the floodgates to wasteful spending.

Anonymous wrote:^^^ I think party line voting should be a big concern. I had just moved here in 2014 but it seems to me that many votes were driven by one major issue, the streetcar. This time around, I'm not sure what the big issue would be (schools, I guess? but many county residents don't seem to care about them), plus there is the anti-Trump, "blue wave" type of messaging that will encourage many to turn out just to vote Dem.