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Why is it that the Republican candidates all seem to have “crazy loon” as their middle names?  I’m a Republican who is disappointed in the quality of candidates across the board throughout this country.  I’d like just one Republican to come forward who doesn’t worship the tea party and who actually has some sensible ideas about where to take this country.  From where I sit, I’m not seeing anyone who has an IQ higher than a brick.

Dick Black is a recipient of the Purple Heart. He took enemy fire in Vietnam and saved the life of one of his men. He was wounded and almost killed.

As a Virginia legislator, he created the Route 28 Freeway legislative package which raised the amount of funds that Loudoun could receive for transportation improvements, then secured funds for Rt 28 improvements including numerous flyovers.

The far left often tries to misrepresent his character and accomplishments.

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Nice.  Get all that road spam out off the streets.  If you want it on your private property, fine.  Keep it off the public’s property.

I can hardly wait to start going out and pulling up Dick Black’s illegal road spam/ campaign signs. I need wooden stakes for next years garden projects.

Black served in Vietnam but he is no great war hero, and he had little to do with transportation improvements.  More exaggerations from the idiots who worship Dick Black.

Black is a great war hero. He’s conservative and a very competent legislator, piecing together several initiatives during his tenure in Virginia’s House of Delegates to increase transportation funding. Loudoun, and Prince William, will be well-served.

Yeah, I hear Dicky B likes coming on top…Sorry left the word out in the sentence.

UHG, not Dick Black again. A republican in ashburn that won’t vote for that old fart. We need young blood with new ideas, not these old corrupt men with no clues/ideas. Looks like the republicans are out of touch with young couples in ashburn/loudoun county.

“and our basic liberties, like carrying guns in public places like churches, parks, and schools will be safe.” 

Well thank the lord for that. It’s been years since I’ve felt safe unarmed in a church, park or school.

Fortunately, we have GREAT candidates in Dave Butler, Mike Kondratick and Shawn Mitchell. They are all more than worthy of our support.

Whew! Dick Black came out on top. I was on the edge of my seat since I never unloaded my stock shares in that plastic fetus company. Cha-ching!

So when Dick Black loses, how long do you think it will take for his house in Red Cedar to go on the market and him to end this sham that he actually lives there?

How does Minchew plan to profit from his position in a way that makes his $80k personal loan worth it?  What is “Alexandria Three Associates” and “Richmond Two Associates”, two of his larger donors?

Maybe the LTM should start looking into Minchew’s donors.

There appears to be little doubt that come November, the election wins will go to Randy Minchew and Dick Black for Loudoun County, in particular.  Then, we will finally see the kind of common-sense laws that will outlaw all abortions, and allow us Second Amendment folks the right to carry our firearms everywhere in this great Commonwealth.

Look out if any moderates show up in November, they won’t be voting for people like Black and Minchew.  Way too polarizing to earn any support outside of the religious lunatic sect of the GOP.  Even this primary showed that they may very well not even carry the full support of Republicans.

OMG, Enough of the Colonels, I had forgotten about Steve Snow.  Every time I write a tax check I think of the way Dick Black cost me money with his series of publicity stunts against our library system.  I used to curse Steve Snow every morning as I sat in the Route 50 traffic jam…can’t believe I blotted those times out of my memory.  Thanks for reminding me.

Haven’t you all got the Black Fan Club instructions?  We’re all supposed to refer to him as “Colonel Black”, as if what he did 40 years ago has any bearing on his fitness to serve in the Virginia Senate.  The two biggest jerks to ever come out of Loudoun politics were Army Colonels, Steve Snow and Dick Black.  PLEASE, no more army officers who want to order the rest of us around.

What false statements?  Everything Minchew said was true.

Minchew displayed himself as the kind of guy I have no use for. As a person who is considered a republican, I was insulted by his low use of false statements in order to attack a fellow republican. Minchew lost the majority, and will lose my support because off his lack of fairness and truth.

It really is a shame that America doesn’t have more areas that have embraced pro-democracy reforms like “instant runoff voting”.  It is clear from these results that most voters did not want Black or Minchew, but get “punished” for voting for who they wanted. 

With IRV, you could get to rank your picks.  So if I had Black dead last on my list, I would vote for Fitzsimmons #1 and Stirrup #2.  When Fitzsimmons came in third, he would “lose” and they would have a “instant runoff” between Stirrup and Black and recount the votes without Fitzsimmons on the ballot.  My vote would then go to Stirrup, and Stirrup would probably win.

Unfortunately IRV also encourages the legitimacy of third-party candidates, so the establishment rarely is willing to consider implementing reforms like this.  Some places do have it though.

Really all the candidates stunk.  I saw Cara Townsend outside of my polling place and noticed she got out of a car with Maryland plates.  I considered it was a rental for a moment, but then saw a parking pass on the rear view.  Interesting.  I was disgusted with Minchew and his harassment and shady donor list, and Whitbeck was incompetent as an HOA president, why would I vote for him now? 

My vote for Senate was just against Dick Black.  I have no use for religious extremists.  Why we can’t just have a solid fiscal conservative in the Goldwater mold is beyond me.  No one was particularly great there either.  They are all just carbon copies of each other, with the exception of Black who is out in left (or I guess right) field by himself, babbling on about fringe issues.

I have to add Ken Reid to the list of bad guys - Randy Minchew and Dick Black.  As you may know, Ken Reid endorsed Randy Minchew, and supports him totally.  And I do not believe that Ken Reid was ‘unaware’ of Randy Minchew’s extreme far right agenda.  And when one endorses and supports someone, I think it is appropriate to conclude that Ken Reid also wants to ban all abortions, wants guns in our schools, and other public places, and in generally, is a far right wacko.

“Turnout remained low, possibly because of the earthquake that shook Virginia at 1:51 p.m. on the afternoon of the primary.”
So THAT’s why turnout was abysmal!

Gosh I hope women turn out to defeat these nut jobs. It’s our right to choose. It’s the law.

All it takes is one more vote than your opponent, and you win.  Randy Minchew and Dick Black will make a great team for Loudoun County.  They truely believe in the same things, and each will give great aid and support to the other in Richmond.  The rights of all unborn will be protected, and our basic liberties, like carrying guns in public places like churches, parks, and schools will be safe.  And as Randy Minchew has said, we can not return to what Old Virginia really stood for.

Look at the results…Dick “Landslide” Black won by 113 votes (just over 1% of all votes cast).  Better than 60% of Republican primary voters couldn’t bring themselves to pull the Black lever.  Minchew? Not much better, 56% of GOP primary voters went with someone other than Minchew.  I don’t think either of these extremists will grab a significant share of Democratic or Independent voters, so the key to burying both is turnout.

Democrats have one solution to every problem, and that is to raise taxes.  If Shawn Mitchell gets elected, the Senate leadership will put him in a corner and tell him what to do or else!  He can talk all he wants about the bumper sticker of education, jobs and transportation, but he will fall in line when he gets to Richmond and in no way will be an independent voice.  Dick Black, while crazy indeed, will at least vote the right way on taxes and spending.  For me, he is the lesser of two evils.

Minchew would say anything to get elected.  Whatever he ran on for the primary will definitely not be what he runs on for the election in November.  I’m a long time Republican, but I will probably vote democrat for this election because Minchew is in the pocket of the big developers and they get their way all too often at the expense of the taxpayers and residents.

People need to move beyond lamenting the extreme stances of these Republican nominees and start learning about—and supporting—their Democratic opponents. If you don’t want Dick Black representing you, support Shawn Mitchell.

You missed the point.  We now have a great team, in Dick Black and Randy Minchew.  Both ran on the exact same issues, and both are willing to go all the way to banning all abortions.

No matter how far right Randy Minchew ran to won the primary he will never be as crazed as Dick Black.  Loudoun is going back to The Stone Age if Black wins in November.

The biggest surprise here, was how far right Randy Minchew ran.  His late mailer with fetus pictures and demands to ban all abortions probably tipped it in his favor.  What one asks, is in going so far to the right, can he ever get back to a middle ground.  The more interesting question is, does he want to get to a middle ground.  That mailer was a real eye-opener for some who did not know just how radical Randy Minchew really is.  Being what may be the first post means it will soon be forgotten.  But for Randy Minchew, his positions will not be.