June 8 primary round up
Jun 9th, 2010 by David Anderson
The results are in. In addition to the earlier posts with Lincoln, Whitman, Halley, Fiorina and Angle, Nevada will have a new Governor as Republicans cleaned house. Virginia Tea Party movement did not follow the trend of upsets. Republicans keep a seat in a special election in Georgia. The NRCC is energized. A pretty good summary and analysis is actually here in the Huffington Post. I will highlight Virginia because it is in our region and up to 3% of our readers come from there. NJ has its own post.
VIRGINIA GOP Congressional Primary Results:
State Sen. Robert Hurt took almost half the votes to win the primary in Virginia’s 5th District. The lone GOP House member to face opposition, Rep. Rob Wittman, easily brushed aside a challenge from the right in Catherine Crabill. In the 11th District, Keith Fimian won the GOP primary to reprise his unsuccessful 2008 race against freshman Democratic Rep. Gerry Connolly. Virginia Beach businessman Scott Rigell, a close ally of Gov. Bob McDonnell, won the Republican U.S. House primary in Virginia’s 2nd District to challenge Democratic Rep. Glenn Nye this fall. And in the 8th District, Patrick Murray won a tight race over Matthew Berry in a battle between two Republican newcomers. Murray faces 10-term Democratic Rep. Jim Moran in the heavily Democratic Washington, D.C., suburbs of Arlington and Alexandria. (AP)
I used to lock horns with Moran when we were members of the Del-Ray (an Alexandria neighborhood) Citizens Assn. He became mayor, and started Alexandria on the road to prohibitively high property taxes, which drove many retirees on a fixed income (such as my next door neighbor) out of town.
While I have no direct evidence, so cannot personally speak to the issue, people in Alexandria have, for years, described Moran as an inveterate wife-beater and philanderer. It is known that he threatened an elderly congressman on the Hill; he likes to promote himself as a ‘former boxer,’ but I never saw anything to indicate that he could fight his way out of a wet paper bag.
In ultra-liberal Arlington and liberal Alexandria, Moran, even in this anti-incumbent environment, should hold on.
I might add that I really enjoyed seeing Ed Schultz, at the Halter headquarters in Little Rock, after Lincoln was declared the winner.
Earlier in the day, on his show, with polls showing an inevitable Halter victory, Schultz was giddy, talking about the power of ‘progressives’ and big-unions. Ooops- then the actual vote came in, and lo’ and behold, the ‘progressivdes’ got stunned. When Schultz came on-the-air at 11:00, he looked rather lost- no, stunned.
Thanks for killing the left, BO.