Impressive Victory for Staton

Via Commonwealth Conservative and Leesburg Today it looks like Mick Staton handily won the primary yesterday.

Staton paced the halls of the Loudoun County School Administration building during the 30-minute vote count this evening, only to find out at about 8:45 p.m. that he garnered 1,539 votes. Second place went to Randy Minchew, who received 837 votes. Lynn Chapman had345 votes and Scott Smith had 34 votes.

Staton was endorsed by VCAP and VCDL. I was happy to see Minchew giving his support to Staton after he learned of his defeat.

Upon hearing he lost, Minchew, a local land use attorney and chairman of the Loudoun County Republican Committee, shook Staton’s hand and told him he had hissupport.

“Now let’s beat Mark Herring,” he told Staton.

The race between Staton and Herring should be an interesting one. A victory by Staton will hopefully quiet down some of the moderate Republicans who claim a conservative cannot win.

f mcdonald said...

Mr. Minchew handled the loss like a gentleman and I wish him the best.

Thank you for reporting this.

7:16 PM

nickfinity said...

I wish all politicians would act with the class shown by Mr. Minchew. It's kind of refreshing after all the bitterness from last year.

10:26 PM

f mcdonald said...

The guy definitely has class.

This race should be interesting. I think Mick Station can pull it off especially since Herring is "new" to the district.

But I am notoriously bad at making predictions. I thought Bob Dole would crush Bill Clinton.

11:00 PM