Rolling poll results

Flawed indeed. Digital divide at work here. You might want to stick with polls on who will win this years Tony Award; or where to get the best brunch. Those would prove more in line with your demographic. Overall, though, this proves bad news for Mr. West. If he is only getting 45% of the internet savvy vote, he is in trouble. Mr. Malone, however, has to feel pretty good about his numbers; if he gets similar proportions of undecided, his is sitting on almost 83% of the I.S.V. Will that be enough to topple the Rev? Without a poll that represents the digitally dormant, not sure. But with turnout sure to be high in SoLet (uhh, south of the lettered streets for the uninitiated) due to the US Senate race, it might be enough.

How many people voted?

John M. My point exactly, Mr. Malone needs all the ISV he can get.

Let’s give ALL the facts here, 8:37 Anon.

Hasn’t Reverend McQuinn been in office for years, first on the School Board then on Council? How does that make her any different from Malone since they both started in the same office and have both been running for office for years?

And, I have a feeling you very well know that McQuinn also ran against Lee Young. And, what’s more, SO WHAT? He was a crook and I wish either McQuinn or Malone had beaten the guy.

And, sure Wilder might support Malone but King Henry Marsh controls McQuinn. That’s why she opposed the Mayor at large referendum in 2003. At least Malone supported giving the people, not the Council, the right to directly elect their own Mayor.

Wake up, indeed!

So, let’s say we wake up. Now what? It’s probably too late to get another candidate elected this year. But do we try to do a write-in campaign quick? Do we start recruiting candidates for 2008 and helping them prepare for that?

“Protest is good. Alternatives are better.” – Jim Wallis

Reggie Malone has nothing to offer anyone. I have lived in Church Hill for decades… through Roy West, Lee Young, and Delores McQuinn. Trust me. Delores has done more for the neighborhood WITHOUT playing any race card than has ever happened in the past. Reggie is the ultimate sponger. Has he ever held a job?

How about a South of Venable succession. While this is far fetched (an dI am just kidding) as more people move downtown, there would seem to be a need to create an area of common social and economic interest: this could include parts of Church Hill, the Shockhoes, the CBD, and Jackson Ward. The economic health of Richmond depends on linking the common political interests of these downtown adjacent areas. If not as a council district, then at least as a more informal alliance of central city communities. We could call it the Urban Village alliance. These interests run east/west, not north/ south. As these are also the areas of historic interest, perhaps ACORN might be a broker to this effort.

Here’s Reggie Malones website for anyone interested

http://www.malone2006.com/headlines.htm

I wasn’t going for humor. It’s a commentary on the long-lingering culture of “race-pimps” in Richmond City politics who keep getting elected over and over, despite their repeated failures to affect any positive change for some of their constituency while overtly ignoring the rest of it. To loosely paraphrase Paul Goldman, there’s not a black way to fix a pothole.

Not that Malone is better; he’s just a vote for change. It’s best not to set up McQuinn with another 2 years of incumbency before we change to four year council terms in 2008. Perhaps in the meantime, a candidate with vision of inclusion and community will emerge to move Richmond forward.

To Anon: Have I missed something here. I too have lived in Church Hill for about 20 years and I don’t see where Ms McQuinn has done much of anything for this community accept to support projects that take peoples homes by eminent domain under the disguise of building another large grocery and selling the land they took from the poor elderly to developers. There is no money for this development at the City. She spends our tax dollars unwisely (reference to the monies City Council was given to spend in their districts). She takes alot of credit for things she was not repsonsible for implementing.