Loudoun County will have at least 30 races this year. Do NOT expect to get any help from outside your district.
There will be at least 11 races on the ballot in each precinct: School Board; At-Large School Board; Supervisor; Chair of BOS; Delegate; State Senate; Sheriff; Commonwealth’s Attorney; Treasurer; Commissioner of the Revenue; and Soil and Water.
Some districts, therefore, may be dealing with as many as 16 races, depending on how the HOD and Senate redistricting falls out.
The current Dulles District, for example, contains portions of four different current HOD districts: LeMunyon’s (Little River), Marshall’s, Rust’s (Oakgrove), and Greason’s.
Do not look for volunteers or advice from people outside your district boundaries. In fact, unless you are willing to coordinate with other campaigns, don’t expect much help from people who are not actual staff and/or family members within your district either. They will be spread pretty thinly.
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I want to thank LI for pointing out the errors I made in this post and acknowledge that it’s easy to neglect to follow the points I made in the post below.
So here is an object lesson:
1) I always forget how to spell Del. Greason’s name, so I should always check it.
2) The list of offices on the ballot came directly from a comment I made on facebook, where space was an issue. I should have corrected it when I cut and pasted it here.
Moments like this make me glad I’m not a candidate!
Nicely put.
I would say don’t expect help outside your district, but look as much as you want. Whoever runs against Delgaudio is sure to get help. There will always be people that you know or strike a chord with outside your district that you should try to get help from anyway. Just don’t expect it.