Herndon election results

Herndon isn’t in Loudoun County but it’s the nearest Fairfax city to eastern Loudoun so what goes on there is of interest to those of us here. In their last election, Herndon citizens tossed out nearly every incumbent and elected a slate of candidates who pledged to do something about the rampant illegal “immigrant” problem that city had developed. Prime on the list of motivators was the publicly-funded day-laborer center which the previous mayor and town council thought would be better run if they didn’t ask questions about the residency status of those people making use of the center. Herndon’s citizens didn’t like that at all and elected people who said they’d do something about that.

Do something, they did. The center closed completely and Herndon became one of the first towns in America to sign onto the ICE 287(g) program. The effects were nearly immediate and the benefits are being felt today. That’s a story for another post. The issue before the voters today was whether to re-elect the team who had performed this task or to turn it over to people who wouldn’t.

According to the State Board of Elections web site, Herndon has re-elected Mayor Steve DeBenedittis by a margin of 52.43%. (The other candidates were J. Harlon Reece [37.53%] and Jasbinder Singh [9.98%].) The voting for the council members came out like this (in descending order by vote total):

Connie Haines Hutchinson	1,468	11.78%
William B. “Bill” Tirrell	1,374	11.02%
David A. “Dave” Kirby	1,279	10.26%
Charlie D. Waddell	1,265	10.15%
Richard F. Downer	1,245	9.99%
Dennis D. Husch	1,237	9.92%
Arthur S. Nachman	1,227	9.84%
Sheila A. Olem	1,177	9.44%
Penny S. Halpern	1,083	8.69%
James A. Vickery	1,063	8.53%
Write In	42	0.33%

The top 6 vote getters are elected to the council. While I don’t know all of the incumbents, I do know that Hutchinson, Tirrell, Kirby, Wadell, and Husch were among them and they’re all back in. Looks good on ya, Herndon!