In yesterday’s 57th District House of Delegates Democratic primary, former mayor David Toscano easily won the nomination with 54% of the vote. The other two candidates, developer Clement “Kim” Tingley and UVa professor Rich Collins, split the remainder, with Collins at 24% and Tingley at 22%. Turnout was, frankly, embarrassing, At 10% turnout , the district fared better than the 4% statewide, but with something closer to 25% forecast, it was a disappointment to see just 4,152 people take part in the process. Toscano will face Republican Tom McCrystal in the general election in November. Bob Gibson has the story in today’s Progress, and the State Board of Elections has the numbers.
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There’s lots going on politically.
On Monday night, Republicans selected Gary Grant over Rodney Thomas as their candidate for the Rio District seat on the Board of Supervisors, which is being vacated by outgoing supervisor David Bowerman. They also nominated the unchallenged Christian Schoenwald for the Jack Jouett seat, to run against incumbent Dennis Rooker. Annie Johnson (who must be new — welcome, Annie) had the story in yesterday’s Progress.
At the same event, Tom McCrystal was nominated as the Republican candidate for the 57th District House of Delegates race. McCrystal is promoting himself as a progressive, centrist bipartisan Republican. Rick Sincere has more on his site.
Fundraising reports have come in for the 57th District race. As Bob Gibson reports, Rich Collins has raised $17k, Clement “Kim” Tingley $7k, and David Toscano $76k. Tingley has, however, loaned himself $46k to fund his campaign, having received just two donations from within the district, bringing his budget up to $53k.
Finally, there was a lively debate held last night at City Council chambers, pitting Collins, Tingley, and Toscano against each other for an hour and a half — Bob Gibson covered it. They took questions from the audience and from one another. Growth and local control ended up being the major topics of the night. Collins is an opponent of unrestrained growth and a supporter of home rule, while Toscano and Tingley believe in market-dictated growth and Richmond-centered lawmaking. It was on the topic of the Meadowcreek Parkway where the audience had a good laugh: Collins opposes it, and Toscano favors it, but Tingley? “I can’t figure out what I think about it. It is just so complicated.” Collins, in the words of Gibson, “tweaked Tingley at least half a dozen times about his status as a homebuilder and former president of the Richmond and state homebuilders associations,” which was fun to watch.
Disclosure: I volunteer my time for Rich Collins. I ain’t taking any money from his campaign, but I’m totally biased.
According to an e-mail sent out by Charlottesville Republican chair Bob Hodous (and a conversation with the candidate), Tom McCrystal has pre-filed for the Republican nomination for the House of Delegates. As the only guy to do so, that makes him their man. He’s the vice president of Creative Perspectives, a media shop located downtown. McCrystal will be going up against the winner of the Democratic primary, to be held on June 14, which is a three-way race between Rich Collins, Kim Tingley, and David Toscano.
Disclosure: I’ve volunteered my time for Rich Collins and I’ll inevitably volunteer for whomever wins the nomination, but I might also write Tom a little check because then he can’t say that I never did nothin’ for him.
In a press release today, candidate for the Democratic nomination for the 57th District Hosue of Delegates David Toscano accused one of his competitors for the seat, developer Kim Tingley, of push-polling — that is, paying a polling firm to call voters and say bad things about Toscano, under the guise of being a poll. The press release reads:
Last night, many Democrats in the 57th District received telephone calls from a Florida company apparently hired by candidate Kim Tingley to conduct push-polling interviews. The pollsters, who when asked, identified themselves as “working for Tingley,” made numerous and incorrect assertions about the character and record of three-term City Councilor and former Charlottesville Mayor David Toscano. If, in fact, Mr. Tingley is not behind this “guerilla marketing” campaign tactic, we call on him to repudiate this effort being conducted on his behalf. If he is indeed the perpetrator of these negative push-polls, we call on him to cease any further such activity. This tactic is reminiscent of the negative campaign style witnessed in the recent presidential election and is consistent with the type of smear campaigns that distort a candidate’s record under a win-at-all cost mentality. If Mr. Tingley wants to continue to be a progressive player in the Charlottesville area, he will need to realize that here, we try to run clean, issues-oriented campaigns.
Has anybody gotten one of these calls? Is it really a push poll — which would be very unusual and probably a big waste of Tingley’s money — or is it just a regular ol’ poll that asks, reasonably enough, about Toscano? Is Toscano feeling the heat from Tingley? Or is Tingley trying to get his name in the news? Tingley Tingley Tingley?
Disclosure: I’ve been known to volunteer my time for Rich Collins, who is also a candidate in this race. I’ll keep disclosing this ’til I get sick of it. The good news is that he’s a mediator, by career, so maybe he can sit these two guys down and get ’em to work out their differences.
Blogger and C’ville election official Rick Sincere provides the listing of all official candidates for city offices on his blog. The latest additions include, for school board, Colette Blount, Kathleen Galvin and Lynette Meynig and, for the first-ever election for the city’s two Soil and Water Conservation District Director, the addition of Republican John Pfaltz to incumbent Democrats John Conover and Richard Collins. For a while it looked like there may be not be enough candidates for the open school board seats but, as it turns out, there should be some decent competition. The Republicans couldn’t muster a single candidate for the three City Council seats, demonstrating that even they now agree that Rob Schilling’s 2002 election was a fluke.
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