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Arlington GOP Still Searching for Local Candidates Who Reflect Their Values, While Pesky Independent, Guns Ablazing Pushes Forward, Against School Board

[Washington’s Headquarters, FOB Morristown, March 13, 2025] Any station? Any station? Do you read? Over.

Live from the world’s newest banana republic. . .

Political analysts know that in the off-year elections, Republicans in Virginia may not be able to win in communities like progressive, enlightened and highly educated and affluent Arlington, but as the crown jewel in the kingmaker congressional district that, like in the last presidential election, has delivered the winning margin in statewide contests, is a place where Republicans have to perform well. And, to the literal degree that all politics is local, they face an uphill battle now that one unabashedly conservative candidate for school board had already broken records in January, qualifying for the November ballot for school board, at least splitting their potential piece of the pie, in a high-value target location. And while Matthew Colt Hurtt and his Hurtt Locker continue to try to catch a wave on targets of opportunity, like a recent sex offender scandal, embroiling the local prosecutor who Major Mike Webb has a defendant in court, preparing to mount an additional legal action, brought in mandamus to compel Parisa Dehghani-Tafti to fulfill her statutory duties and obligations, the Arlington GOP is hoping maybe someone might come out tonight to the school board meeting, where the budget battles are beginning.

“Well, Howard, as I have said in the past, the operative term here is a political science concept scholars describe as salience. How do you feel, why do men rebel, and what gets people to vote with their feet. That leave the plantation thing. And, especially after canvassing door-to-door, under blizzard conditions, not quite the fair weather warriors we find amongst our purported veterans, I can say, from a boots-on-ground/eyes-on-the-objective perspective, most of our most educated voters fail to see a connection to the now increasing water and sewage fees, meal taxes and property taxes, over half of which is used to pay for public school employee salaries. Some 76.6% of the school board budget $845.4 million is covered by county revenues, with an additional 15.1% from the state, while 83% of the school board budget covers operating costs, in a public school board district, the 13th largest in the Commonwealth, unparalleled in per-pupil expenditures by any other public school division in the entire state, as well as exceeding the per pupil expenditure of any suburban public school district in the Greater National Capital Region, to include posh climes like McLean and Bethesda. Some 43% in the Class of 2022 had failed to get accepted to 91% selective VCU, while I could fill a classroom with my classmates from an inner city who got accepted to Harvard. What up with that, Dogs?” remarked Webb.

Webb, a top 15% graduate from a Jesuit high school says he could count on just one hand the number of times he had even visited his high school library in four years, where an elderly woman largely sat alone for the school day, and a few hours after school. At a college preparatory high school, you should be able to negotiate your way to high school, as Webb says he had arrived for his first day of orientation in a hurricane. In contrast, today 90% of students from 13 of 21 counties in New Jersey arrive for homeroom and 99% graduate to four-year colleges. In Arlington, where only one-third even take the SAT, it is a local news story, like today, when a few students are awarded a scholarship; however at Saint Peter’s Prep in Jersey City, Webb’s alma mater, that is the status quo for 89% of graduates, a model rejected by the overwhelming majority of Arlington voters, including the Arlington GOP, with whom Webb has enjoyed a combative relationship for almost a decade. Clearly, his values are not theirs.

Your elected representative is called your elected representative for a reason; and Martin Luther King and Jesus never got elected.

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