July 24, 2011 10:48 AM
Loudoun Republican convention yesterday
We went to the Republican Convention yesterday to help select our candidate for chairman of the Board of Supervisors. It was quite an experience and I recommend it for anyone to see how the process works - which is not always how you want it to work :)Actually, the way the vote went down - the popular vote going for our guy and the weighted vote going for the career politician who's been running the show/switching parties in Loudoun for too long - only confirmed why I want to turn my attention to more positive things for a while. The political world can get along without my help for a while.
Still, the morning was fun - great to see so many people we knew.
The best part of the day was taking pictures of our #7, #8 and #9 - Sophia, Jonny and Maddy, who graciously went with us and did their part too.
They earned their burritos at Moe's!
Comments
That is such a great photo! It reminded me of what we say in Japan when a man is walking or standing between two women - "ryo-te ni hana," or, "a flower in each hand." :o)
Posted by: Sue | July 25, 2011 1:02 AM
Despite our voting differences, it is important for everybody to do their part and I commend you for teaching your kids that.
But I do have to fix one mistake you made in your blog post above. The popular vote was actually won by Scott York by roughly 50+ people. It was close, but Scott York did win it.
But Stockman had a good turnout, fought a tough fight, and made a very graceful exit. Hopefully he will find other ways he can stay involved and help Loudoun County.
Posted by: liz | July 25, 2011 10:25 AM
I just wanted to fix an error in my comment. It was actually roughly 30+ popular votes, not 50, that Scott won by. Not sure where the 50 came from.
Posted by: liz | July 25, 2011 11:39 AM
Mrs. Curtis and Liz, the results by district of the raw vote have been posted at the blog Virginia Virtucon:
As follows:
Raw vote totals for Chairman:
District Stockman York
Blue Ridge 84 84
Broad Run 36 37
Ashburn 48 66
Algonkian 49 44
Leesburg 71 49
Catoctin 136 114
Dulles 12 31
Sterling 30 71
Raw Totals 466 496
Weighted totals 1733.71 1980.40
Raw vote totals for Sheriff:
District Chapman Speakman
Blue Ridge 105 63
Broad Run 56 17
Ashburn 74 41
Algonkian 53 40
Leesburg 87 33
Catoctin 155 93
Dulles 37 6
Sterling 83 17
Raw vote totals 650 310
Weighted totals 2567.21 1143.48
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The Republican Call for Convention lists the number of delegate votes assigned to each district (based on 1 delegate vote per 25 Republican votes cast in the most recent presidential and gubernatorial elections):
http://www.loudoungop.com/lcrc_docs/2011LCRCCallpubws.pdf
The number of participants attending by district that day determined the individual weight of each delegate's vote from among those assigned to the district in the call.
Per the call, Dulles had 416 district votes (cast by 43 people).
Broad Run had 405 (cast by 74 people)
Algonkian had 506 (cast by 97 people)
Sterling had 332 (cast by 100 people)
Ashburn had 514 (cast by 111 people)
Leesburg had 436 (cast by 125 people)
Blue Ridge had 547 (cast by 166 people)
and Catoctin had 570 (cast by 245 people).
Hope this helps!
Posted by: Barbara Munsey | July 25, 2011 12:51 PM
