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Date: October 12, 2006
Press Release: Candidate Support
The Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 111 set criteria to endorse candidates vying for positions in Wicomico County Government. During this process, the criteria was not met. However, the information that was received from members of the lodge during this process produced the following results. The lodge felt that this information was important to give to the voters of Wicomico County . While this is not a formal endorsement for any of the candidates, the results below show by percentage, the support for each candidate.
County Executive
Richard Pollitt 45%
Ronald Alessi 32%
Charles Jannace 23%
County Council District 1-Unopposed
Sheree Sample-Hughes 100%
County Council at Large
Melvin Caldwell 41%
John Cannon 41%
William McCain 13%
Brenda Hughey-Jones 5%
County Council District 2-Unopposed
Stevie Prettyman 100%
Clerk of Court
Mark Bowen 57%
James Gillespie 43%
County Council District 3
Gail Bartkovich 88%
Michael Pretl 12%
Sheriff
Mike Lewis 95%
Kirk Daugherty 5%
County Council District 4
Bryan Brushmiller 79%
David MacLeod 21%
County Council District 5
Joe Holloway 70%
Ed Werkheiser 30%
Release By: Mark Wagner, FOP #111 President410-543-1185
Looks like Jannace is spliting the republican vote and pollitt is gonna walk in to office. Unless something changes.
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ReplyDeleteTimes are about to change, as are result numbers.
6000 indy votes are important, but you guys need to appeal to female moderates to get anywhere. Hard core conservatives had their time and while some are still out there makin waves, no one believe in them as much as they used to.
ReplyDeleteGet out there and love the middle. Pound on the issues of education and health care. Those should be the sharpest weapons on your platform, not growth.
Joe,
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure % work well here. Do you know the head count?
# Democrats, # Republicans and # independents. Be interesting to see what % of the Republican vote he needs to actually swing if we were to assume he'll get the majority of the independent vote. Did this poll only account for Dems and Reps as many do? It may be even closer than these EARLY results are indicating.
SSR- polls are only an indicator and whole they give you direction for the feeling of an voting block, they are not etched in stonee by any stretch. MOE would be somewhere around 5% . Skip party affiliation, concentrate on the middle. Moderates win elections. Ask Bill Clinton.
ReplyDeleteIf you lock up 50% of the moderate vote, D,R,I and add that to the 23% Jannace has that would be around 50 to 55% of the population that votes in wicomico. That would be a landslide.
For sake of answering the question by srr, as of August 31 (latest figures available) in Wicomico County there were 22,929 Democrats, 18,602 Republicans, 6,874 independents, and 740 minor party or "other" voters.
ReplyDeleteMy goal in four years is to flip the first two numbers around to 22,929 Republicans and 18,602 Democrats. And I welcome those that vote for CJ to work their way downticket voting GOP as well since they'll work best with the ideas CJ has admirably presented (he makes my work on monoblogue easier.)
Well, CJ IS a registered Republican...he's just not the one who went through the primary process. But if you have read through pretty much the entirety of JFA? you'd see that his views are reasonably in line with those of the rank-and-file in the Republican Party. In Wicomico County they are pretty conservative as are many Democrats (this I've inferred from the fact that no Democrat governor or Presidential candidate has carried the county since 1986.)
ReplyDeleteI think nosweat made a point I agree with wholeheartedly...many of the votes that CJ will receive will come out of the Pollitt column while a good number would've skipped the race entirely.
We have an opportunity to put together a good County Council and elect a young Sheriff and Clerk of the Court to bring new blood to the county government.
It's interesting to note that where there's a significant age difference between candidates, in most cases in Wicomico County it's the younger Republican vs. the older Democrat - the only exception I can think of in the county is the 38A race between Page Elmore and Patrick Armstrong.
yeah and there is why I will not support CJ by doing any stumpin for him. I am a hard core liberal democrat and vow only to focus my spare time and energy to the deomcrats cause. I may not be to happy with local dems, but I still support them. Sometime they get a good tounge lashin from me. But sorry, all you get from me are worthless comments and dissenting criticism.
ReplyDeleteWelcome to America HW.
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