Biggest Losers: Easy one. Mike Turner, the Loudoun County
Democratic Committee and Loudoun Democrats. They saw their nefarious plan to
redistrict Loudoun
County blow up in their
faces like a high school science experiment. Oh, there is no joy in Loudon Progress-ville
today, that’s for sure.
Biggest Winner: Hard
to say. My nominees are MC Dean for
getting its full slate elected and Mark Sell for succeeding despite the
Obamazombie email. Congratulations,
Mark. Yes, I called for your resignation
over that (and I still think you should have), but it looks like the LCRC has
really come through.
BOS Races: Simply
put, it was an amazing clean sweep of the board of supervisors and over some
strong Democratic incumbents.
The single biggest thrill was seeing Andrea McGimsey tossed
out. Ding, dong the witch is dead! Shawn Williams deserves a sincere
congratulation for winning a majority in the three-way race where many thought
he would come in last. Some have voiced
concerns about his experience, but, as long as he follows my lead, he will be
fine.
Ken Reid stumped the TC panel and pulled off a close one
against Kelly Burk. Congratulations to
him, but I shudder to think of how the BOS meetings will run with him and Delgaudio
on the dais. My advice to Scott York: get
a big gavel and learn how to throw it like Davy Crockett threw a hatchet.
Geary Higgins wins decisively despite continuing missteps by
his volunteers. No doubt, the win was
due to the Catoctin District chair’s hard work.
Eugene Delgaudio wins again as expected. The great thing about this race is I got his
impersonator to do my 6 year old’s birthday party.
Matt Letourneau, as predicted, easily dispatched Larry
Roeder. I hope Larry saved one of his
spirit pots for his political career.
As great as this victory is, the wholly Republican BOS must
not let this go to their head. As Loudoun
Insider wrote earlier, the Ghost of the BOS 2003-2007 looms largely. Virtually any misstep or overreaching likely
will trigger a strong Democratic backlash in 2014. Please remember that, BOS. These quadrennial pendulum swings are just
too much to handle.
School Board. Hatrick
should just pack his bags now. Debbie
Rose knocking off incumbent Chairman John Stevens is the begging of the end for
him.
House of Delegates. Congratulations
to Randy Minchew who rolled over Dave Butler as expected. He’s someone of whom we can be particularly
proud representing Loudoun in Richmond.
David Ramadan’s story is a little different. Despite all the money he spent, he still lost
Loudoun County.
Despite the looming recount of the razor slim 50 vote margin he holds because
of the Prince William precincts, he and
the RPV are sending out emails claiming victory (and Ramadan’s email does not
thank or even reference his opponent, I might add). He’ll probably win in the end, but to claim victory
before the recount is finished and not even thank his opponent is yet another
sad example of his poor campaign skills. Any decent Republican would have cruised to
victory in this district or at had the courtesy to thank his opponent.
Sheriff. What can you
say about Mike Chapman other than, “Wow!”
Gathering a whopping 54% of the vote in a three-way race against the bad
and the ugly (more appropriately, the disreputable and the deranged) truly is thrilling. The race also revealed some meaningful
polling data about the Loudoun electorate.
Money can buy exactly 5,006 votes – that’s the number of uninformed
morons who voted for Ron Speakman. By
the way, Ron, I hear Penn
State has an opening for
an assistant coach. Give them a call.
One final thought.
All this makes on wonder what this means Obama in 2012. Each election since he became president has
seen Democrats soundly thumped. Considering we’re in a swing state and a swing
county, I see these results as prologue to an epic landslide next year.
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