Connolly Sweeps Illegal Immigration Out of the Picture
Fairfax County Board of Supervisors Chairman Gerald E. Connolly (D) swept all nine magisterial districts in his thumping of Republican Gary H. Baise on Tuesday. He carried Sully and Springfield -- which he lost to Mychele B. Brickner (R) in 2003 -- by comfortable margins.
A closer look at the returns confirms that Connolly was successful in neutralizing illegal immigration as an issue. Connolly opposed get tough measures touted by other candidates such as withholding services and involving local police in immigration enforcement. Yet he won Herndon, the region's longtime immigration battleground, with nearly 57 percent of the vote, better than his showing in 2003.
The numbers also suggest that Connolly's push for creation of the "Enhanced Code Enforcement Strike Team" to crack down on illegal boarding houses also paid political dividends. In Lee District, he handily won precincts that generated the most complaints about residential overcrowding -- including Crestwood, which he narrowly lost to Brickner in 2003.
By Steve Fehr |
November 8, 2007; 4:06 PM ET
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Posted by: How curious | November 8, 2007 4:46 PM
Um, nope. Didn't Pat Herrity (R) win Springfield by about fourteen points? Didn't he campaign in part on the illegal alien issue?
It only takes a moment to check your "facts".
Posted by: Greg L | November 8, 2007 8:51 PM
Uh, Greg...read before you type. The blog doesn't say anything about the Herrity race. It was talking about Connolly's performance in those districts, not the candidate for district supervisor.
Posted by: Fact Checker | November 8, 2007 9:30 PM
Fairfax can have all of the illegals which will be flooding to Fairfax very soon. Congratulations Fairfax! You get what you ask for.
Posted by: jeff | November 9, 2007 10:52 AM
What kind of homosapiens has our negligent government allowed to enter as CRIMINALS onto our USA soil THEN rewarding them with CITIZENSHIP as if we are just pawns with the responsibility to provide the same ILLEGALS via AMNESTY services so they can continue to AID and ABET for purposes of SEDITION?
CIVIL WAR has been declared upon the generations of law abiding CITIZEN--TAXPAYERS whom are being drive to bankruptcy as 4 percent of the worlds overpopulatiion while our US TROOPS--our sons and daughters, fathers and mothers, grandfathers and grandmothers have been and are right now being systematically sacrificed as each generation on foreign soil for OPEN BORDERS TREASON as WORLD COLONIAS USA! STOPUSAGiveaway@hotmail.com
Our heritage fought at the ALAMO and we are ready because the ALAMO is at everyone's doorstep NOW!
Do Unto Others..One Nation Under GOD
Posted by: Anonymous | November 9, 2007 12:47 PM
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Did Baise run a campaign against illegal immigration? I never received any literature from the Republicans about it.
My theory is that Tom Davis worked behind scenes to ensure Baise did little to stir up Connolly at his wife's expense.