Reading below, it may seem like it’s Tinkle-on-Democrats Week here at the GazetteLeader. But we are equal-opportunity critics, and what follows below would be equally applicable to Republicans.
The Fairfax County Democratic Committee over this past weekend announced the candidates it had endorsed for the fall’s Herndon Town Council races.
This is not the first time Fairfax Democrats have enmeshed themselves in town races, in Herndon and elsewhere. Vienna (which has no offices on the ballot this year) also has experienced it. We presume the tiny town of Clifton is too small to be targeted, but one never knows.
And Fairfax Democrats have burrowed even deeper than town races – they have backed candidates for the McLean Community Center Governing Board for goodness sake. Really?
Results of the party’s efforts have been mixed; sometimes its anointed candidates have won, other times lost. But lordy be, it shouldn’t be a vain hope to keep the partisanship out of posts that typically are held by those aiming to do community service rather than ladling a political ideology atop the nuts-and-bolts operations of town governance (or even a community center’s).
