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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.

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But if you warn the wicked to turn from his way, and he does not turn from his way; he shall die in his iniquity, but you will have saved your life.

Holy Bible

Civilization is an enormous improvement on the lack thereof.

P.J. O’Rourke

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world’s believing him.

Thomas Jefferson

Men and women . . . are quite unequal, and it is only because they are unequal that they complement one another. Each has a superiority of function.

Fulton Sheen

Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives.

John Adams

Every prophet who teaches the truth, but does not do what he teaches, is a false prophet.

Catholic Church

A statesman is a politician who’s been dead for ten or fifteen years.

Harry S. Truman

Different kinds of economies are essentially different ways of making decisions about the allocation of scarce resources—and those decisions have repercussions on the life of the whole society.

Thomas Sowell

Hardly any amount of oppression from above takes the heart out of a boy like oppression from his fellows.

C.S. Lewis

What’s in a name? That which we call a rose; by any other name would smell as sweet.

William Shakespeare

I have no knowledge of myself as I am, but merely as I appear to myself.

Immanuel Kant

Falsehood can hold out against much in this world, but not against art.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

John Maynard Keynes

There is a kind of selective memory that afflicts men when they view the past. They see the good and overlook the evil.

Isaac Asimov

Liberty therefore can only subsist, where the powers of government are properly divided, and where the different jurisdictions are inviolably kept distinct and separate.

Anonymous

I am unacquainted with [the Creator’s] designs, but I shall not cease to believe in them because I cannot fathom them, and I had rather mistrust my own capacity than his justice.

Alexis de Tocqueville

[The First Amendment] requires the state to be a neutral in its relations with groups of religious believers and nonbelievers; it does not require the state to be their adversary.

Hugo Black

Government is necessary to preserve our freedom, it is an instrument through which we can exercise our freedom; yet by concentrating power in political hands, it is also a threat to freedom.

Milton Friedman

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.

Adlai Stevenson II

It’s easier to donate a few thousands to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement.

Ayn Rand

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