Arlington Democrats acclimated their anniversary Labor Day chili cookoff to assemblage the troops for a two-month advance against Acclamation Day.
"There is not a aperture in the Arlington ticket," said Don Beyer, the Democratic appointee and odds-on admired to accomplish U.S. Rep. Jim Moran (D-8th), at the mild Sept. 1 acquisition at the Lyon Park Community House.
Joining Beyer on the bounded Democratic admission are County Board applicant Alan Howze, School Board candidates Barbara Kanninen and Nancy Van Doren, and Treasurer Carla de la Pava. U.S. Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) is at the top of the Democratic admission in the alone statewide chase on the Nov. 4 ballot.
After months of affair agitation in the aboriginal allotment of 2014, including a County Board special-election accident to absolute John Vihstadt, Democrats may accept their address again. The party's appointee in the 48th House of Delegates commune appropriate election, Richard "Rip" Sullivan Jr., won a absolute achievement on Aug. 19, and the college assembly in the accepted acclamation consistently favors Democrats in Arlington.
"The Democratic admission is united," affair administrator Kip Malinosky said.
Malinosky said his ambition for advancing months was to about-face out 50 percent of Arlington's registered voters.
The anniversary chili cookoff helps accession funds for Democratic beat efforts.
"This is a acute accident for us," said Clerk of the Circuit Court Paul Ferguson, one of three leaders of the Arlington County Democratic Committee's 2014 Joint Campaign. Ferguson accepted the "mammoth effort" of organizers and rank-and-file.
"There is a lot of assignment that goes into this," he said.
A abrupt access of thunderstorms beatific the army sprinting into the Lyon Park Community House, but they bound austere – although the calefaction and clamminess afraid around.