HE WILL EVEN CHEAT ON A COIN FLIP

Amazing story coming out of the 11th CD.

Ballot-Order in a primary is determined by who files first.  To keep people from filing years in advance, a certain date in March is set up as the first day people can file, starting at noon.

This year both Gerry Connolly and Leslie Byrne being veteran campaigners were waiting to file at noon.

In the case of a tie, a coin flip determines ballot order.  John Jennison represented Gerry- Larry Byrne represented Leslie and  George Burke flipped a coin.  John called heads- and it was tails- putting Leslie on the ballot first.  When John told Gerry at an event, sources tell me Gerry snapped at him for calling the wrong side of the coin- typical Gerry, he probably expected them to flip a two-headed nickel.

Anyway, when the form was sent to the State Board of Elections with ballot order- George showed them as a tie- so Gerry would get a new coin flip done by the SBE.  Sure enough, odds prevailed and Gerry won this time. Burke then played dumb and claimed he had filed the form wrong- knowing it was not amendable and that the SBE coin flip would have to stand.

So now Gerry is first on the ballot in the primary.  But when you see your ballot, just remember that he is so pathetic he had to cheat to get there.

(GC Sucks, Part 46)

Comments

[Sad]

This is getting sad, even as a Byrne supporter, Ben this is enough. Time to get your head out of gutter and focus on real issues! Gerry sucks we get it, but seriously this blog is becoming an iconic joke. In years Tribbett will be associated with trash much like Rush is today, only with out the soap box for which to stand.

Time to move on, more pressing issues like VA transportation debacle, the continued Democratic Primary, the Warner for Senate campaign, Deeds V. Moron, etc.

[Not Larry Sabato]

"Deeds V. Moron"

Yes, I see you are really interested in getting politics out of the gutter.

[notsophialoren]

And would should not impeach George Burke-WHY?

Yeah, I heard he played dumb instead of taking responsibility. Some Gerry-lovers are having a good laugh about it.

THERE ARE 240 DAYS LEFT IN 2008. GEORGE BURKE HAS 240 DAYS LEFT AS CHAIR OF THE 11th CD.

Ben, time to start a countdown?

[Not Larry Sabato]

Actually- he serves until convention time in 2009- so more like a year. :-(

[Alice]

"sources tell me Gerry snapped at him"

does your source have a name?

[Snark]

Ben and Joey flip coins to see who does "heads" and who does "tails."

[woman of choice]

Gerry snapped at someone and you need a source? Spend 10 minutes with the guy--you'll believe it.

[Sam]

Having spent 10 minutes with him on multiple occasions, I'll second woman of choice's comment...

[Bryan J. Scrafford]

Who got to call the coin the second go around? I think Leslie should have been able to decide who was able to call it since the mistake (whether intentional or not) had the potential to harm her campaign, but Gerry had nothing to lose by it.

[Not Larry Sabato]

The State Board called it- they didn't notify the candidates it was happening because George never told them the coin flip already happened.

Something tells me if Gerry had won the flip, that George would have gotten that message across.

[Rowhey]

Can we stop with the Connolly posts already...or at least come up with some new topics. This is boring.

[phaedrusmack]

No do not stop these posts. These posts are too funny. I do not live in Fairfax anymore and do receive great joy in seeing this guy ridiculed.

I would not like to see this fellow in Congress. So anything that shows that he is as stupid as he looks is great.

Keep it up Ben!!!

[Not an Anonymous Conservative Concern Troll]

Hey Ben, you never answered before:

Will you support the Congressional Democratic nominee no matter what? You're don't hate Gerry so much that you will shill for the Republican, right?

[Sad]

I actually meant Moran V. Deeds that was a typo.

[J. Sarge]

"Sure enough, odds prevailed and Gerry won this time."

Ben, the odds of either winning was 50-50. Coin flips are independent. I thought a gamblin' man like yourself would have known that . . . .

[Sam]

J. Sarge -

Depends which odds you're referring to. If you're referring to the odds of the second flip itself, then yes it's 50-50. But, if you're referring to the odds of the whole scenario, the odds are 25-50-25 (25% Leslie or Gerry win both, 50% of a split decision), so when you look at two coin flips as an event, the most likely outcome is a different winner for each flip.

Math is fun. :-)

This one's got to make it to the Sweet Sixteen.