The first one to go negative is losing in the polls, so Leslie is the first to admit it.

Primary voters know she has a history of going negative on Warner.

Maybe Denneny should check out her thinly veiled comments of him as a war profiteer.

Good for Connolly on calling Byrne out on the swiftboating of democrats.

And good for the Post reporter in catching Byrne in a bald face lie.

There is more to this story, both Byrne and Connolly have the audacity to run on their less than stellar records. Fairfax County is in a budget crisis- and Connolly thinks he deserves a promotion? Last time I checked on Leslie, she was mulling a primary run against Jim Moran (2003)

In any event- neither Leslie of Connolly have taken any substantive positions on anything- Their websites are blank pages! Good work on this, but the 4th estate needs to step it up on this race!

Byrne has no record of accomplishments in this millenium, but she sure has a record of swiftboating democrats.

Last time I checked, Connolly has balanced several budgets while feeding a massive education system and taking the hit/responsibility for the taxes, created affordable housing, created a new storm water initiative for the environment, created the cool counties program with the Sierra club, fought for non-discrimination, courageously stood up against the illegal alien racist demogogory, maintained the county AAA bond rating, headed up the best managed county in the nation with the lowest crime rate.

Records? Surely you jest if you base it on websites and not the facts. You may not want to acknowlege the accomplishments or agree with them, but Connolly has a record of getting things done.

"Connolly has a record of getting things done."

Sure. He's done plenty for business developers, SAIC and his own career.

FairfaxMom,

Do you read before you write & speak, or just deny & lie like Leslie Byrne?

Connolly has balanced several budgets while feeding a massive education system and taking the hit/responsibility for the taxes, created affordable housing, created a new storm water initiative for the environment, created the cool counties program with the Sierra club, fought for non-discrimination, courageously stood up against the illegal alien racist demogogory, maintained the county AAA bond rating, headed up the best managed county in the nation with the lowest crime rate.

The pro-Connolly (or should we say anti-Byrne?) posts so far in this thread seem cut & pasted from Connolly campaign material. They also seem to be cheap and low name-calling directed at Leslie Byrne. I know only a little about Doug Denneny so far, and nothing about Lori Alexander yet. In the past, I have voted for Connolly and have voted and worked a little for Byrne. From what I have learned so far, Doug Denneny is much more the kind of candidate I have hoped we would have and I will very enthusiastically vote for him in the primary. Mostly because of his health care and war positions; I'm less enthused about simply throwing more money at No. Va. traffic problems. It probably requires some additional money, but the emphasis needs to be on smarter planning and more honest and careful execution. Merely throwing money at it ends up just increasing the already-rich pork barrel feeding our construction moguls and consultants, as well as the developers. This promotes more development, which creates more traffic. Problem gets worse not better and it amounts to corporate welfare for a select few.

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