Former delegate Joe Morrissey has a solid lead over his rivals for Mayor of Richmond. A new poll released from the Wason Center for Public Policy at Christopher Newport University shows Morrissey leading with 28% of the vote. Â His closest competitor has only 16%.
Joe Morrissey went to jail in 2015 for having sex with his office receptionist, Myrna Pride (aka Myrna Warren), when she was under the age.  More details on that story and Morrissey’s rather salacious plea agreement is here.  While serving his time in jail Morrissey was released from jail during the day to attend to his duties as a delegate in the General Assembly. Â
After Morrissey was released from jail he went on to have two babies with Pride before their wedding in June. Photos of the wedding here.
Poll results for Mayor of Richmond:
Joe Morrissey 28 percent
Jack Berry 16 percent
Michelle Mosby 10 percent
Jon Baliles 9 percent
Levar Stoney 7 percent
Bruce Tyler 4 percent
Lawrence Williams less than 1 percent
Bobby Junes less then 1 percent
Someone else less than 1 percent
Undecided 18 percent
Don’t know 6 percent
Joe Morrissey has both the highest favorable ratings among Richmond voters and the lowest.
More on the details on the poll here.Â
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[…] his colorful past, Morrissey is in the lead for Mayor, an office once held by Democrat Vice Presidential candidate Senator Tim […]
The strong mayor form of government in the City of Richmond is an epic fail by just about any measure. If “Fighting Joe” is elected then he will be the third unqualified occupant of that office. There is hope though – since he’s very well known, he may have already peaked. If he can’t win five the districts outright there will be a runoff and Jack Berry has a real shot to be the next mayor. And thank God for that as he is truly qualified for the position.
Hillary and Trump qualified? What does qualified have to do with it? It’s who you know.
Gee. Those look like the polls from the Republican presidential primary about this time last year; only less candidates. Yes, our nation is losing its way.
And right when I thought the country was waking up. VA definitely is lagging.
This is the south dahlin’, we love to lag, and lollygag.
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However embarrassing it would be to see our Commonwealths’ capitol city
of Richmond play host to this jackass as it’s mayor, it does prove a
point: Democrats would vote for a bag filled with dung, so long as it
had a “D” scribbled on it somewhere.
Like Republicans don’t do the same for their own?
We tend not to nominate trash like Morrissey.
It’s sure gets harder to sleep as we get older.
I’ve never had that problem. Slept 10 hours last night and I hate to admit it, but it’s been that way most of my life and still is. I can get by on less, but prefer not to. Sorry you’re having a problem with sleep.
Trump?
How about “tending” to nominate someone who can beat a candidate that you refer to as “trash”? Wouldn’t that be a start?
The bag of dung would need to have good name recognition, but the point is correct.
I want this to happen