If you live anywhere near the 33rd Virginia State Senate district, please lend a hand to candidate Mark Herring and vote for him on Tuesday, January 31st. Mark Herring (former Leesburg supervisor) is running against Mick Staton (Loudon County Board of Supervisors). Mick Staton has been refusing to debate Mark Herring in anything approaching an open forum run by unbiased debate hosts.
The 33rd district is most of Leesburg, all of Eastern Loudon, and part of Fairfax (between US 50 and VA267, and West of Reston Pkwy/West Ox Rd). The polls are open January 31st, from 6am to 7pm. The State Board of Elections has the locations of the polling places for each voter online (should also be on your voter card).
The Republican primary was a replay of last years Republican primary for the 67th district (South Riding) where a whack-o wing-nut managed to beat incumbent Delegate Gary Reese (who was a fine moderate Republican) for the Republican nomination by getting out the new-conservatives. Lucky for everyone in Virginia that by the general election the voters of the 67th figured out how extremist the Republican nominee was and they voted for a very conservative Democrat instead. Heck, why didn’t the Republicans ask former Delegate Gary Reese to run for State Senate? He already has great name recognition.
The sad truth is that virtually no one shows up for the primaries of either party, so one wing-nut neo-con church’s attendees can decisively swing a primary election. Can’t we revoke tax-free status for any church that dabbles in civic government affairs?
Sources for those interested in the election:
2nd debate cancelled
Help out Mark Herring
Find out if you are in the 33rd
State Board of Elections Map of the 33rd (requires Java/Script enabled, grrr)
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