Eat fresh, vote local: Pick your own pols in 2009
Those who just turn out for the presidential elections every four years are sort of like the church goers who only show up at Christmas and Easter.
It's easy to get election fatigue in Virginia, which has some kind of voting action every year. Barely a year after the massive 2008 presidential election, it's time to vote again for local and state representation. And this is that one that gives you a say about who represents you on City Council, on the Albemarle Board of Supervisors, and in the General Assembly.
The governor's race between the area's own State Senator Creigh Deeds and former attorney general Bob McDonnell is being closely watched on the national level as a possible harbinger of mid-term elections to come.
And the local elections are a harbinger of what this area will look like in the years to come.
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