Special Election 2009: Results (Final)

Posted February 3, 2009, 7:00 p.m.
Updated May 6, 2024, 7:35 p.m.

Ballot Races

Fairfax Board (Chairman)
Sharon Bulova (D):	49.98%
Carey Campbell (IG):	0.41%
Christopher DeCarlo (I):	0.75%
Pat Herrity (R):	48.82%
Other:	0.04%

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Off on a Tangent can project that Supervisor Sharon Bulova (D-Braddock) has narrowly won election as the Chairman of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors. This concludes our live coverage of the 2/3/2009 special election.

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.

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It makes little sense to condemn Christianity for its adherents’ and leaders’ hypocrisy; our faith is possibly the only one in the world that openly admits it is full of imperfect, sinful hypocrites.

Scott Bradford

When ignorance destroys culture, monsters will emerge.

Jordan Peterson

Can a man do without ideas of his own about good and evil, and merely derive them from the printed instructions and verbal orders of his superiors?

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Dwell on the past and you’ll lose an eye. Forget the past and you’ll lose both eyes.

Unknown

Once you’ve dissected a joke, you’re about where you are when you’ve dissected a frog. It’s dead.

Isaac Asimov

For thou didst form my inward parts, thou didst knit me together in my mother’s womb.

Holy Bible

Among us there is no place for the lukewarm. Humble yourself, and Christ will kindle in you again the fire of love.

Josemaría Escrivá

All men are by nature born equally free and independent.

George Mason

Everything human must have in it both joy and sorrow; the only matter of interest is the manner in which the two things are balanced or divided.

G. K. Chesterton

Faith and reason are indeed interdependent. One of the great secrets of the universe is that reason leans on faith every bit as much as faith leans on reason.

Scott Hahn

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it’s longer than any hour. That’s relativity.

Albert Einstein

Risks are not eliminated by imposing them on the taxpayer instead of on the capitalist.

Milton Friedman

For the spiritual power of a sacrament is like light in this way: . . . if it passes through the impure it is not defiled.

Augustine of Hippo

The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.

George Washington

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Albert Einstein

Our inner consciences scream with neuroses and psychoses, too, when we do not freely tend to the supreme goal for which we are made, namely, the life and truth and love that are God.

Fulton Sheen

The establishment of a Constitution, in time of profound peace, by the voluntary consent of a whole people, is a PRODIGY, to the completion of which I look forward with trembling anxiety.

Alexander Hamilton

The purpose of the First Amendment’s religion clause was not to protect the state (or the people) from religion, but to protect religion from the state. . . .

Scott Bradford

Science adapts its theory to reality, whereas ideology adapts reality to theory.

Mattias Desmet

Servitude cannot be complete if the press is free: the press is the chiefest democratic instrument of freedom.

Alexis de Tocqueville

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