Things just curiouser and curiouser. Or perhaps there are only 2 degrees of separation between everyone in Virginia.
Although we have over 400 Electoral Judges in Virginia, Brian Schoeneman is clearly the man in the spotlight of the state election results because of his decisions as head of the Fairfax Electoral Board. Brian even made national television, The Rachel Maddow show! How did Brian become one of the three election judges in Fairfax? Because the Governor is a republican, 2 of the 3 judges in Fairfax must also be republican. (Our elections are in big trouble beginning next year.) The first choice of Fairfax republicans was Hans von Spakovsky of the Heritage Foundation, a very highly respected man, but county democrats strenuously objected to him and sent a letter to a panel of judges asking that his appointment to the board not be renewed.
Criticizing von Spakovsky’s work on the panel, county Democratic Party ChairmanCesar del Aguila called him “temperamentally unsuited” to the job. Among the Democrats’ complaints was von Spakovsky’s opposition to distributing multilingual voting materials.
An election watchdog group, Viriginia Voter’s Alliance, objected to this kind of control from the local democratic party. Reagan George is the head of that Alliance.
“The way this has happened, and the complicity of Chief Judge Dennis Smith, should require concerned citizens and legislators to determine if there was collusion between the panel of judges and the Fairfax County Democratic Committee,” George told Watchdog.
Brian Schoeneman was the second choice of the Republican party in Fairfax, appointed to fill Von Spakovsky’s position on the board when the judges’ panel agreed to boot Hans von Spakovsky.
How does this involve John Farrell? Mr. George went on to say:
“Mr. del Aguila and his attorney, John Farrell, must think that adhering to these laws are detrimental to their long-term goals in Fairfax County. One can only wonder what those long-term goals are and how following duly-enacted election laws are perceived as a threat by local Democrats. Hans obviously got in their way.”
This may help explain why Brian Schoeneman wants us to ignore the behavior of John Farrell and ‘move on’. Without the help of John Farrell, Brian may never have been on the Electoral Board of Fairfax County.
Full details of the story here.
Next year one of the two republicans on the Fairfax Electoral board will have to leave the board. I think we all now know that Steve Hunt, a true conservative, will get the boot and Brian Schoeneman will be the lone ‘republican’ on the electoral board. Brian has positioned himself perfectly to get the support of the powerful Fairfax County Democrats. Well played Sir!
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Maybe next year with the new ID law in effect, I hope to have fewer provisional ballots. Va also needs to go back to paper ballots. I am a papar trail person
Gotta love the ad hominen and sexist attacks. Typical democrats. You have no cogent argument and can find no fallacies in my post so you become sexist pigs. Please carry on, please continue to reveal yourselves.
I have never deleted any comment made on this blog.
Trust me – I never wanted nor do I want this job.
Is there a br’er patch somewhere in this tale?
Brian, I get that. My appointment is up soon, and I will be replaced by a Democrat in March (I think?). While I don’t agree with how you guys decided some key things, I definitely respect your service. It’s a lot tougher job than most people realize, and only more so in a jurisdiction as large as Fairfax.
Then why are you there? People have resigned the Presidency so I’m quite sure that you too could resign. No one would want the job, even with all the infamy that you have engendered.
And hand the slot over to the Democrats two years early? Are you insane? It sucks, but I’m not a quitter.
What difference would it make?
A pretty big one. This job is more than election day.
I’ll repost since it got ‘deleted,’ which I am sure was an accident. Jeanine: Besides wondering about your unhealthy obsession with Mr. Schoeneman, I imagine you sitting at home in a mu-mu in your curlers writing non-factual hyperbole. Perhaps if you had been more of a door warrior than a keyboard warrior, Obenshain would have performed better in Loudoun and rendered this matter moot. Just a thought.
I think Ms. Martin has penis envy over Mr. Schoeneman’s patriotic performance.
That would require that spineless squish to have the requisite genitalia. the lack of balls convinces me he doesn’t have the other piece either
Mr. Eisenhower, I got deleted too. Seems Ms. Martin doesn’t take criticism very well.
Correct. Brian will no longer be Secretary but he will remain on the Electoral board as the ‘republican’ representative.
the secretary of the electoral board actually runs things….that position will be filled by the incoming Govenor…so he/she will be a D
no the three person board votes to determine the chairman, vice chairman and secretary. That does not mean the secretary has to be a D
Heather is correct. Each Board votes who will fill what role, not the Governor. The *usual* practice is to make the minority party rep the Chairman, but because Secretary is a much more demanding role, sometimes this custom is set aside if the minority rep is experienced as Secretary or is otherwise acceptable to the two members in the majority. So, we do not know whether Brian will retain that spot or not.