The Stafford County Virginia Democratic Committees hereby announces that it will hold an assembled caucus beginning at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, January 9, 2010 in the Board of Supervisors Chambers of the Stafford County Government Center, 1300 Courthouse Road in Stafford, Virginia. The purpose of this caucus is to elect members to the Stafford County Virginia Democratic Committee.

Any person wishing to seek election as a member of the committee must file a Declaration of Candidacy Form, by mail, with the Stafford County Virginia Democratic Committee, 43 Town & Country Drive, Suite 119-129, Fredericksburg, VA 22405 no later than 5:00 p.m., Wednesday Friday, January 6 8, 2010. A voluntary administrative fee of $25.00 (which may be waived) will be charged at the time of filing for those wishing to be elected members of the committee.

There is no charge for those wishing to attend and vote at the caucus.

Doors to the caucus will open at 9:30 a.m. for check-in. Any person attending the caucus, before participating in that caucus, shall sign a standardized Caucus Participation Form stating that he or she is a Democrat, does not intend to support any candidate who is opposed to a Democratic nominee in the ensuing general election, believes in the principles of the Democratic Party, and is a registered voter in such precinct or county or city. Caucus Participation Forms must be filled out at the caucus prior to participating in the caucus. At 10:00 a.m., the doors to the caucus will be closed and no person may complete a form and participate in the caucus after that time with the exception of those persons in line at 10:00 a.m.

For further information, please contact the Stafford County Virginia Democratic Committee at 540-907-4856 or This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it . A meeting to elect officers will be held following the conclusion of the assembled caucus, at the same location.

Authorized and paid for by the Stafford County Virginia Democratic Committee

In less than a week, the culmination of everyone's hard work will bear fruit as we continue moving Virginia and Stafford forward by electing Sen. R. Creigh Deeds our next Governor, Jody Wagner our next Lt. Governor, Steve Shannon our next Attorney General, Doug Filler our next Falmouth Supervisor and Laura Sellers our next Garrisonville Supervisor.

Please join us for an Election Night Watch Party on Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at Foster's Grille in Stafford!

Where:

Foster's Grille,
27 South Gateway Drive, Suite 125
Fredericksburg, Virginia 22406 (Near the Target and PetSmart on Route 17)

When:

Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 7:00 pm

Please RSVP here; however, it is not required.

Foster's Grill has two LCD screens and an excellent sound system to watch and hear the results as they are announced, not to mention that their food is great!

Help us get our message out by volunteering some of your time between now and Election Day by canvassing, phonebanking or working the polls on Election Day. Please sign-up here to volunteer!

As President Obama said at yesterday's rally, "If you are willing to make your voice heard in this last week, if you're willing to knock on some doors in this last week and go and talk to your friends and your neighbors and your relatives...then I promise you this...we are going to continue the outstanding legacy in this great commonwealth, and you're going to be looking at the next governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia -- Creigh Deeds."

Sign up to join the SDC at a canvass, phone bank or to volunteer on Election Day!

Shannon for A.G.
Shannon for attorney general

IT'S A SIGN that Ole Virginny-- its good and its bad--is just a fading memory that two fellows whose ethnicities suggest a contest for, oh, mayor of Philly are instead running for state attorney general. Irish Catholic Steve Shannon is challenging Italian Catholic Ken Cuccinelli in this former WASP hive, where not so long ago Methodists were thought exotic.

Both Mr. Cuccinelli, a GOP state senator, and Mr. Shannon, a Democratic delegate, hail from Fairfax County, a cosmopolitan welter of human types and new ways that is becoming the paradigm for the state at large. But one seems more on top of the challenges of modernity in its Virginia incarnation.

For most of his career, Mr. Shannon, 38, has protected children from the despicable criminals who exploit the blind spots of a mobile, techno-chaotic society. Just after finishing U.Va. Law School, Mr. Shannon and his wife brought the then-new idea of the anti-kidnapping Amber Alert to the Washington metro area and arduously sold it to skeptical authorities. As a Fairfax prosecutor, Mr. Shannon zeroed in on child molesters. Today--yes, we mean right now--he can tell you exactly how many computerized kiddie-porn transactions took place in Virginia yesterday. (Smile, pervie, you're on Candid Keystroke.) He can speak knowledgeably about gang violence, cropping up even in Virginia's boonies, and his prosecutorial and legislative record glitters with efforts to shield consumers from fraud.

Mr. Cuccinelli, while not without virtues--he has worked for government transparency, post-Kelo property rights, and other checks on state overreach--is subject to disconcerting enthusiasms. His bill to push Congress to deny citizenship to the kids of illegal immigrants is the sort of idea that jollies only the least tolerant Virginians, and another failed measure, making criminals of journalists who knocked on the doors of mourners, is further evidence of Mr. Cuccinelli's vulnerability to ad hominem temptations.

Mr. Shannon, in short, strikes us as more temperate and more adaptable to the realities of social change. We endorse him for attorney general.