Pro-Illegal Alien Incumbents Swept Out of Office in Bellweather Election in Herndon, Virginia

Fairfax County, Va Board of Elections ^ | Tuesday, May 2, 2006 | Kristinn

[kristinn]

Voters in the town of Herndon, Virginia delivered a stunning rebuke today to elected officials who opened a taxpayer funded day labor center for illegal aliens in the town last year. Incumbent mayor Michael O'Reilly lost to Steven DeBenedittis while five of the six at-large town council seats went to candidates opposing the day labor center.

Town Council winners are Bill Tirrell, incumbent Dennis Husch, Connie Haines-Hutchison, Charlie Waddell and Dave Kirby.

Only one of three incumbents on the council who supported the day labor center won re-election, J. Harlan Reece. The other two who went down in defeat were Carol Bruce and Steven Mitchell. Day labor center supporter Jorge Rochac also lost.

With its proximity to Washington, D.C., Herndon has captured national attention as a focal point of the debate over border security and the millions of illegal aliens lving and working in communities all across the country.

The local election came one day after a nationwide protest and boycott effort in support of legalizing illegal aliens.

Turnout in the election was higher than in past years, at 26%. The margin of defeat for the incumbent mayor was 130 votes out of 2,596 votes cast.

The nearly clean sweep by candidates opposed to coddling illegal aliens with taxpayer funds should serve as a warning to incumbents everywhere.

[Fruitbat]

Good. This needs to work its way up to the Presidency.

Indeed! And hopefully it'll gain enough momentum on the way to give W a good, hard kick in the a$$.

[MHGinTN]

Actually the lesson had better register with the House and Senate or we're all toast to the Ted the swimmer agenda of illegals and felons voting and democrap control of our government ... and this time the bastards will never give up their power to a Newt revolution.

[Connie Cardullo]

Wonderful news! Also, I learned today that my representative is strongly against illegal immigration:

"We are a nation of laws and we cannot reward illegal behavior, he said Monday in a telephone interview. There is a right way and a wrong way to do things and it's that simple."
Democratic U.S. Rep. Mike McIntyre

[Let's Roll]

IMO W will not back down on this issue ... but he at least needs to STFU!

With the WOT, making tax cuts permanent and needing to drill and refine our own energy, there is more than enough for him to be working on.

[11th_VA]

This is better than anyone could have expected !!!

[concentric circles]

On Saturday, the union types hit the street.

"...Miguel Carballo, a union organizer, approached a house on Missouri Avenue when the occupant, a middle-aged woman, pulled up in her car. The former teacher of English as a second language, who declined to give her name, chatted amiably in Spanish with Carballo but made it clear where she stood."

"The ones who are here illegally need to not be welcomed by this town," she said. "Let's help the legal ones get jobs and help the illegal ones find their way back to Mexico..."

[Eastbound]

"The nearly clean sweep by candidates opposed to coddling illegal aliens with taxpayer funds should serve as a warning to incumbents everywhere."

. . . and to anyone else running for public office. If you're pro-illegal, you better flip while the flopping's good.

[mrsmith]

Good news, there's still some spunk in NVa!

I wonder if the WashPost will be able to spare even a paragraph on page 9 in the Metro section to report this.

[kabar]

"We are a nation of laws and we cannot reward illegal behavior, he said Monday in a telephone interview. There is a right way and a wrong way to do things and it's that simple." Democratic U.S. Rep. Mike McIntyre

So how did he vote on the House immigration bill?

[B4Ranch]

SEND THIS PAGE YOUR SENATORS!

[Heartofsong83]

The area is roughly 50-50.

[Ladysmith]

Ping!

[Bahbah]

let the politicians pander to the wrong group and they will lose!

We are not asking to be pandered to. We just want the laws enforced and the country protected.

[B4Ranch]

PING

[nicmarlo]

Voters in the town of Herndon, Virginia delivered a stunning rebuke today to elected officials who opened a taxpayer funded day labor center for illegal aliens in the town last year. Incumbent mayor Michael O'Reilly lost to Steven DeBenedittis while five of the six at-large town council seats went to candidates opposing the day labor center.

BumPing

[B4Ranch]

The House cleaners have arrived!

[HiJinx]

Poll Ping!

Now, this is a poll that I can believe in...a poll taken in the voting booth!

[CharlesWayneCT]

There's 6 people who wish the election wasn't the day after illegal immigrant day.

[misterrob]

People up there are rather fed up with how the day laborers behave themselves. Littering, poor attitude, trash talking, pissing in the street, etc.

Guess even liberals have their limits...

[Reaganwuzthebest]

Voters in the town of Herndon, Virginia delivered a stunning rebuke today to elected officials who opened a taxpayer funded day labor center for illegal aliens in the town last year.

A harbinger of things to come nationwide? Hope so...