Yesterday was the LCRC Convention and all the predictions of death, destruction, pestilence, famine, and so on did not come to pass. There was 60% turnout, which is better than expected, and the place was packed! It went pretty smoothly, except it was pretty long. Next time I will bring a pillow, but otherwise excellent job by those who put it together.

Though the convention seemed even longer for my Leesburg District. We were supposed to go next to last in the voting, and then as we filed onto line, it was announced that Sugarland Run was going to go before us due to technical reasons with the machines.

Frustrating to say the least, but sure shows which Republicans were the most committed. And that’s the great thing about these conventions. We are able to make sure that Republicans choose the Republican nominees, and we see who are the most hardcore. As district chair, I know who I can call to help out in November.

A couple observations - Gary Clemens gave an amazing and evergetic speech. Hard to believe it came from someone running to be a bureaucrat! Jack Ryan had a great line in his speech to illustrate how accessible he would be - he announced his cell phone number! I should have called it. For a couple speeches, I was disappointed that some of the candidates were booed when they were called to the stage. Not classy. Booing a remark is one thing, but booing the person is not good. Finally, my man Jim Clem (Leesburg District Supervisor) addressed the crowd wearing a short sleeve shirt with a design that looked like something you wear on a cruise in the Caribbean, compared to the other candidates decked out in suits. In his short speech he had the funny line that he was the only one who had the sense to dress for the weather.

Anyway, congratulations to everyone that won. There may have been a race or two I wouldn’t have minded seeing go differently, but we had great candidates for most of the races. So for the ones I had hoped for one candidate to win, at least the other guy won.

In conclusion, I’m looking forward to November. Rah rah rah. Goooo Republicans!

Jim

Caught the GOP debate on politico.com tonight. Not going to go into the candidates here, but something I saw that relates to Loudoun politics.

I think the politico.com submitted questions are a great example of why a convention is the right choice for the Loudoun GOP. Admittedly I have no proof, but still it was blatantly obvious to me that a number of those questions were written by liberals/Democrats for the candidates… “What’s one thing you hate about America?” “What’s the difference between a Sunni and a Shiite?” Or the question to Giuliani about his regrets and blacks in NYC.

This is the kind of nonsense you get from libs trying to interfere with the GOP’s debate, and it’s no different than having a nomination process that is open to Democrats.

Jim

So is this where we go to write articles about our local lawmakers with lots of innuendos of wrongdoing without any actual evidence?