November 13th, 2008
House of Delegates: Miles Grant?
Looks like we’ve got an intra-neighborhood race going on for the House of Delegates 47th district seat. The challenger – Miles Grant – is facing a pretty steep climb, though. Just about everyone who’s ever voted in Arlington over the past 20 years knows the incumbent – Al Eisenberg. They also likely have a generally positive – thought not particularly strong – view of Eisenberg. Combine that with no recent Eisenberg missteps or positions out of sync with Arlington, and I think Grant will find himself with a lot of work ahead of him.
Suggestion for the Grant campaign and its supporters: setting the tone like this is generally not how you want to do it.
Also: Miles Grant’s environmentally focused blog, TheGreenMiles.net.
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January 22nd, 2009 at 4:47 pm