Special Election 2009: Results (Final)

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

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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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Stay tuned for important updates as they occur (most recent at the top).

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.

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Quotes

I have often spoken to you about good and evil. This has made some uncomfortable. But good and evil are present in this world, and between the two there can be no compromise.

George W. Bush

The middle of the road is where the white line is—and that’s the worst place to drive.

Robert Frost

Freedom engenders private animosities, but despotism gives birth to general indifference.

Alexis de Tocqueville

The great enemy of any attempt to change men’s habits is inertia. Civilization is limited by inertia.

Edward Bernays

One of the grand fallacies of our time is that something beneficial should be subsidized.

Thomas Sowell

Law is order, and good law is good order.

Aristotle

In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.

Freeman Dyson

But above all, my brethren, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or with any other oath, but let your yes be yes and your no be no. . . .

James the Just

God never tires of forgiving us; we are the ones who tire of seeking his mercy.

Francis (Pope)

Believers can have a lot to do with the rise of atheism. If we are careless about our instruction in the faith, or present its teaching falsely, or fail in our religious, moral, or social life, we often conceal and distort the faith. . . .

Charles Pope

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves. . . .

Aristotle

Behind many contemporary affirmations of the freedom of love is a false rationalization, for although love involves freedom, not all freedom involves love.

Fulton Sheen

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Benjamin Franklin

Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men, without a consequent loss of liberty?

Patrick Henry

Nearly all that a boy reads [in the papers] in his teens will be known before he is twenty to have been false in emphasis and interpretation, if not in fact as well. . . .

C.S. Lewis

Hating life, despising life—even for the genuine pain that life inflicts—merely serves to make life itself worse, unbearably worse.

Jordan Peterson

The inclination to aggression is an original, self-subsisting instinctual disposition in man, and . . . it constitutes the greatest impediment to civilization.

Sigmund Freud

Do not take life too seriously, you will never get out of it alive.

Elbert Hubbard

Self-fertilization is a risky strategy, which is why sex is so popular among large and complex organisms.

Randall Munroe

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