Posted on 09/20/2014 6:20:43 AM PDT by Perdogg
Well, you wont be shocked, probably. And I am sorry for that. It would be nice if there was still some innocence left in the world.
But lets not get maudlin. Background: Barbara Comstock, Republican candidate for VA-10, is of the (accurate) opinion that her opponent John Foust is a male chauvinist pig:
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
.@politico If @barbaracomstock were a man, she'd be down 20 pts w women. Her record & policies are horrible for women. But voters assume...— VA 10th Democrats (@VA10thDemocrats) September 19, 2014
ping
"This girl lost her top at the beach - YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT SHE DID NEXT!"
Thankfully, this seat is a win for us!
Comstock is a GOPe candidate who does not talk about issues like immigration. She is well-organized and well-funded. It remains to be seen if her vanilla strategy will win her the election. This is NoVA where Reps are becoming scarcer and scarcer. The Dems control everything. Foust has been a member of Fairfax County Board of Surpervisor for Dranesville, which includes a large part of the 10th District, since 2007.
The Dems have targeted this seat, now held by Frank Wolf, the last GOP Congressman standing in NoVA.
Republicans are normally the majority when the population density is below 1,000 people per square mile. Big gov lovers take control above that. Housing builders can turn any Republican area Democrat simply by building like this:
In 1990, 15% of the population of Fairfax County was foreign-born. Today, it is 30%. Couple that with the expansion of the federal government and the Beltway bandits it attracts, you have the formula for Dem domination. VA will soon be a solid blue state. North Carolina is not far behind.
Fairfax County is starting to crack down on multiple families living in one housing unit. The upper middle class residents are concerned about the congestion, crime, and the quality of the schools.
Tough call because it’s the upper middle class there who desire the services of minimum wage workers, but there’s absolutely no affordable housing in Fairfax County for low wage earners.
I have owned a house in Fairfax County since 1979. Real estate values have soared but so have the taxes. And the tax revenues are actually declining.
I thought this article was interesting.
The taxpaying residents of Fairfax County are probably not going to be very excited about the prospect of a bunch of studio apartments going up.
Single family housing in FC is ridiculously high (I have relatives who bought in 2012) and one of the reasons why is because the schools, for the most part, are exemplary. If the trend as you describe it continues, I imagine there will be quite an outcry. But it is far from reaching the tipping point, it seems.
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