Exploding out of the throaty jowls of local politics, Tuesday’s general election pronounced the Democratic donkey victorious with 20 seats filled over the
Republican’s 19. Within an unassuming Marriot hotel, the Republican “victory party” spoke in funeral voices as results came in, showing that the Democratic Party pulled the majority of the votes. Republican candidate Gerarda Culipher lost to bow-tie sporting Chap Petersen as they vied for the 34th District Senate seat.
“In Northern Virginia, our state legislative race should look and feel like a town council,” Culipher said. “It behaves like local politics, but spends like [Congress].”
Republican’s 19. Within an unassuming Marriot hotel, the Republican “victory party” spoke in funeral voices as results came in, showing that the Democratic Party pulled the majority of the votes. Republican candidate Gerarda Culipher lost to bow-tie sporting Chap Petersen as they vied for the 34th District Senate seat.
“In Northern Virginia, our state legislative race should look and feel like a town council,” Culipher said. “It behaves like local politics, but spends like [Congress].”
On the campaign trail, Culipher employed the grassroots technology of hand-written note cards to try and sway voters, as opposed to the array of signs found in median crack and cranny.
“Hand-delivered notes are a lost art,” said Culipher. “They get around the impersonal nature of propaganda.”
Many of the candidates from this election attempted to be more personalized, and much like Culipher, were triumphed by that of the voters’ choice, Petersen.
After all of the election processes are finalized and the propaganda is removed, there are no deterrents from legislative action, thus enabling the Democrats to thrive another year.
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