Speaker Wants To "Win Back" Loudoun
House Speaker William J. Howell made it clear yesterday that he is looking to Loudoun County to help Republicans keep control of the House of Delegates in the 2009 elections.
"I know this sounds self-serving, the presidential stuff is important, but next year we've got House of Delegates seats, and there's a couple that are representing Loudoun and parts of Loudoun County that I know we can win back," Howell told a meeting of the Loudoun County Republican Committee.
Howell was no doubt talking about Dels. David Poisson and Chuck Caputo. The two eastern Loudoun Democrats hold seats that had been held previously by Republicans. But despite decisive victories by Democrats around the state, the two only won re-election last year with 53 percent of the vote against their Republican challengers.
Howell told the group that he and House Majority Leader H. Morgan Griffith had been in Loudoun talking to prospective House candidates.
By Sandhya Somashekhar |
April 30, 2008; 10:40 AM ET
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Posted by: Spectator2 | April 30, 2008 3:27 PM
I am sick of the dirty filthy rednecks, this is why I could never bring myself to vote for Hillary. I usually prefer pale sickly necks, but she's got too much of the twang going on. I'm voting Nader.
Posted by: Spectator3 | April 30, 2008 5:23 PM
after the dems raise taxes and raise taxes and raise taxes, electing Republicans will be easy.
Posted by: Dwight | April 30, 2008 5:23 PM
This Howell guy is probably senile. The Republicans have lost so many seats EVEN though they instituted one of the most depraved and undemocratic gerrymandering schemes in 2001. Does he not realize that people are mad that the Republicans in the House of Delegates have basically opposed anything that benefits Northern Virginia?
Posted by: | April 30, 2008 5:46 PM
spectator2 wrote: "Forget it, Howell, Loudoun is no longer redneck Republican country. It's Fairfax Jr."
spectator3 wrote: "I am sick of the dirty filthy rednecks, this is why I could never bring myself to vote for Hillary. I usually prefer pale sickly necks, but she's got too much of the twang going on. I'm voting Nader."
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Wow, one more ill-mannered, unenlightened Yankee coming into my state, hat in hand, reinventing himself, looking for a McMansion and a job, whining about Metro, taxes, traffic and local politics.
BE GONE, Idiot.
Posted by: NativeNorthernVirginian | April 30, 2008 10:14 PM
Republicans status in Northern Virginia will only get worse. That's what happens when you make us sit in traffic for years on end and never build us a single new road.
Posted by: Jeff Fredrick | April 30, 2008 10:48 PM
Yes, Republicans never build roads. The locals want them. The locals cry out: "yes in my backyard" but no one responds.
I threw up a bit when I wrote that.
Posted by: Dave | May 1, 2008 5:40 PM
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Forget it, Howell, Loudoun is no longer redneck Republican country. It's Fairfax Jr.