David: "Tough luck, Shelly. now get to steppin'!"
Posted on 01/04/2018 8:20:00 AM PST by jazusamo
Republican David Yancey will keep his seat in the Virginia House of Delegates after a state official pulled his name out of a bowl Thursday, deciding a contest that ended in a tie in November.
Yancey and Democrat Shelly Simonds each received 11,608 votes in their Newport News-based district. Initial results showed Yancey leading by just ten votes. A recount gave Simonds a one-vote edge. But Republicans challenged a single ballot, resulting in a tie.
Democrats sued to overturn the challenge, but on Wednesday a three-judge panel rejected their complaint. That led to Thursday’s drawing, in Richmond, out of a special bowl crafted by the resident potter at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
Yancey would be the 51st Republican in the 100-member House of Delegates. Before November’s elections, Republicans held 66 seats. But Democrats put up a surprisingly strong showing, netting 15 Republican-held seats — and coming within a single vote of claiming a tie.
Virginia state law allows the loser of the draw to request a second recount. Simonds said Wednesday she would not request a second recount if she lost the drawing. Yancey declined to make the same pledge.
I Hope the Democrats spent lots of money on there rigged recount and lawsuits.
She already lost a lawsuit which lead to this.
David: "Tough luck, Shelly. now get to steppin'!"
Bump!
I would tend to agree with you on that.
Your lotto number is : Yancy....
Granddad said that he’d rather have 500 names out of a phone book than the political class in Washington.
this district was in SE Virginia, not near DC. Urban with lots of military, shipyard, and other gov contractor voters. Usually votes republican.
Effected by surge of democratic voters all across the state and lack of interest in voting from conservatives.
I will be very surprised if there are not more of them on the way.
I think they will be wise not to.
The GOPe in VA pulled a boner when the pushed their RINO poster boy Eddie Amnesty on us. F the VA GOP.
Then they should not put a swamp creature at the top of the ticket as they did this time.
Of course not. I wonder how many fraudulent votes were cast overall in the state.
Corey Stewart couldn’t have won, either. No Republican could’ve won given what’s going on here.
That the last blip on the screen of a terminally ill patient. VA is a deep blue state now and getting bluer.
Oh BS. Corey would have won big time.
“this district was in SE Virginia, not near DC. Urban with lots of military, shipyard, and other gov contractor voters. Usually votes republican.”
Immigration?
If you can outline such a scenario, feel free. Overcoming that Commie RED cancer of NoVA through legit means is like climbing Mount Everest bare-handed. Through fraud, lies and outright $$, they purged almost every remaining NoVA GOP officeholder. I reviewed the Delegate races one by one. The Dems had motivated anti-Trump hate voters, too, and not just in NoVA. Combine that with a demotivated GOP base that Stewart could not have altered, and it was a giant mess.
To wit, we just had a special election here in Middle TN in a heavily GOP district with a strong Conservative nominee to succeed another strong Conservative in the State Senate. The Republican had the money, the name recognition, and resources. The Democrat had nothing (except for the motivated anti-Trump haters), and in a district won by Trump in a landslide, the Dem got within 2 points of winning a seat she should’ve lost by 25%+. In a district where the Republican won 75% of the vote as a State Rep., he won his home county by ONE percent. And there was no fraud and chicanery here. When it’s that bad without fraud, how do you think it’ll be WITH it, and en masse ?
LOL R U Kidding? A MAGA candidate would have motivated the base. Gillespe did the opposite.
Yes, it would’ve motivated some Conservatives, but turned off the squishies. Now, that’s not an argument for nominating Gillespie, I don’t think he was a good candidate, just that there was a unique set of problems that faced ANY Republican running.
A good number of the Willard “Republicans” simply voted Democrat across the board, why those NoVA districts almost fell to the last. These cretins don’t want to MAGA, they want to keep the corrupt status quo, and they were HIGHLY motivated, because they fear Trump is going to cut off their $$ supply working for big gubmint. Suburban districts that voted Republican handily a few cycles ago have now swung 20-30% to the dark side.
Remember, President Trump could not carry VA, how would Stewart have done so, and in such a hostile environment ? NoVA will be an impediment for the foreseeable future to any GOP statewide candidate.
Well, considering over 1 out of every 4 votes originates in Northern Virginia, there is not a lot you can do about it. Then add Tidewater, Richmond and the smaller Roanoke vote and the rural areas don’t have much of a chance to make up the difference.
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