BIG WINS FOR INSIDE THE BELTWAY CANDIDATES

Libby Garvey of Fairlington looks headed to a big win in the caucus to replace Barbara Favola on the Arlington County Board, while Newt Gingrich of McLean is surging to win the South Carolina primary for the GOP. 

Results as they come in...

ARLINGTON UPDATE
Libby Garvey, 1915 votes, 44.4%
Melissa Bondi 966 votes, 22.4%
Terron Sims 922 votes, 21.4%
Kim Klingler 333 votes, 7.7%
Peter Fallon 178 votes, 4.1%

Comments

[TGEoA]

Good

[Spock]

awww shit, I forgot to vote :-/

[Spock]

But, I like Libby, so that'd cool!

[RichmondDem]

Newt. Gingrich.

LOL

[Joecosystem]

I'm disappointed that we won't get any more hilarious Kim Klingler ads.

[just the facts]

Hey knock it off about Kim. She ran, voters made their call. We need more female candidates for office,NOT less!

[TGEoA]

So 60% female isn't enough?

[just the facts]

What I've had enough of is Sexist badgering of female candidates....

[Clarification]

Aren't ALL of the candidates who run for Arlington County office by definition inside-the-beltway candidates?

[Not Frank O'Leary]

I can live with Libby. But what I care about is this: The politics of personal destruction failed. Frank O'Leary's candidate came in third.

[just the facts]

Agreed with Not Frank O'Leary.... Glad the politics of personal destruction failed. And actually, Melissa Bondi still defeated O'Leary's candidate....

[TGEoA]

Sims almost edged Bondi with a much smaller war chest. Not too bad. He's not going anywhere and will try again. Hopefully he will primary Zimmie.

[Spock]

Kim being a moron and a bad candidate has nothing to do with her being female, it as to do with her being a moron and a bad candidate.

[Harry]

Good thing this wasn't a mandate on the politics of pet projects and Chris Zimmerman... oh wait. Maybe it was.

[Arturo]

TGEoA said "Hopefully he will primary Zimmie."

Only if Sims wants to be punished by the Democratic establishment for the rest of his political life. Ask Christian Dorsey...

[Not Frank O'Leary]

Too late, Arturo, Sims is done. If he wants to be an elected official so bad (remember his quixotic school board run a few years ago?) he better move to another county. His team went negative and failed. If you are gonna go
negative in Arlington you better win. Ask Jaime about that.

[just the facts]

TGEoA -- enjoying your career as a political hatchet person? You are quite talented at bashing people without discussing the substantive merits of the candidates you support.

[charlie]

Seems like the only people who are negative are ones bashing O'Leary -- who wasn't in the race.

Voting at the W-L High School was ironic. That place is a palace. And for what is a mediocre school system. Well, that is what happens when all smart kids go to TJ.

I've love to say this was an anti-Zimmie vote, but in reality Bondi was just a very weak candidate.

[Not Frank O'Leary]

O'Leary put himself in the race as Sims's hatchet man. Given his position and history is perfectly appropriate to comment on his ethics or lack thereof.

[West End Observer]

In multi-candidate intra-party nominating contests, isn't it often the case that the candidate who "goes strongly negative" against one of the other candidates ends up destroying the target, but also him/herself at the same time?

[Harry]

Charlie, Arlington public school's are consistently ranked as one of the best school systems in the country. As for that place being a palace, the school board worked overtime to save money on that project, ending up with over $29 million in savings over what the county board had appropriated.

[Change]

Lol… 29 million under what they “appropriated” equals a great “savings”…
Exactly the kind of thinking people are tired of…. Typical liberal-think…

My wife just came home from shopping, told me she spent 500 dollars but it was less than the 1000 dollars she wanted to spend…. She saved me 500… and I “owe” her that next shopping spree… lmao….

Only in liberal America…