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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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If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man.

C. S. Lewis

Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.

Samuel Johnson

The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government. But the Constitution which at any time exists, till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all.

George Washington

Anyone who still needs to think about techniques on the battlefield will die.

Mattias Desmet

Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.

Michael Crichton

You ask me for a method of obtaining perfection. I know of love and love only! Our hearts are made for this alone.

Thérèse of Lisieux

Let no evil talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for edifying, as fits the occasion, that it may impart grace to those who hear.

Paul the Apostle

A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry.

Bernard Shaw

The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government . . . [and] shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections . . . [with] universal and equal suffrage . . . by secret vote. . . .

Universal Dec. of Human Rights

Let us not forget that unity is a symptom of life; disunion is decay, a sure sign of being a corpse.

Josemaría Escrivá

We are neither entitled to be unselfish at someone else’s expense nor is there any merit in being unselfish if we have no choice.

Friedrich Hayek

Cursed are all who hate you; blessed for ever will be all who love you.

Holy Bible

If you are curious, you will find the puzzles around you. If you are determined, you will solve them.

Ernő Rubik

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Martin Rees

Failing to look under the bed when you strongly suspect a monster is lurking there is not an advisable strategy.

Jordan Peterson

The hunger strike is a purely moral weapon. It presupposes that the jailer has not entirely lost his conscience. Or that the jailer is afraid of public opinion.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.

Thomas Sowell

An authentic faith—which is never comfortable or completely personal—always involves a deep desire to change the world, to transmit values, to leave this earth somehow better than we found it.

Francis (Pope)

I prefer a Church which is bruised, hurting, and dirty because it has been out on the streets, rather than a Church which is unhealthy from being confined and from clinging to its own security.

Francis (Pope)

In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life, to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.

René Descartes

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