{"id":2278,"date":"2017-01-29T17:38:07","date_gmt":"2017-01-29T22:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1gf.f8a.myftpupload.com\/?p=2278"},"modified":"2017-02-03T16:12:48","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T21:12:48","slug":"2017-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/?p=2278","title":{"rendered":"Our 2017 Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div id=\"attachment_2283\" style=\"width: 461px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/vote-badge_23-2147501145.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2283\" class=\" wp-image-2283\" src=\"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/vote-badge_23-2147501145-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"451\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/vote-badge_23-2147501145-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/vote-badge_23-2147501145.jpg 626w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 451px) 100vw, 451px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2283\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freepik.com\/free-photos-vectors\/badge\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Image designed by Freepik<\/em><\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In November 2017, Virginians will elect a Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, and all 100 members of the Virginia House of Delegates.\u00a0 Two of those 100 House of Delegate districts include the Cities of Manassas (HD-50) or Manassas Park (HD-13).\u00a0 In addition, the Cities of Manassas and Manassas Park will each elect a Treasurer and a Commissioner of the Revenue, local officers whose election is specified in the Virginia Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>Before we get to the General Election, we will be nominating our candidates.\u00a0 The statewide offices are up for a Primary on June 13th.\u00a0 Our local and House of Delegates candidates will also likely be nominated in that primary, unless fewer than two qualified candidates properly file for election by the filing deadline.\u00a0 We will announce those nominating contests as soon as the information is available.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The City of Manassas will also have a special election in November for a school board seat now filled by an interim appointee.\u00a0 School board elections are nonpartisan in Virginia; political parties may endorse, but not nominate, school board candidates.<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>2017 Democratic Candidates:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Governor<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ralphnortham.com\/\" data-form-type=\"\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.ralphnortham.com\/\"><strong>Ralph Northam <\/strong><\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomforvirginia.com\/\"><strong>Tom Perriello <\/strong><\/a>are running for the nomination in the June 13th Democratic Primary.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lieutenant Governor:<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/fairfaxforlg.com\/\" data-form-type=\"\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/fairfaxforlg.com\/\"><strong>Justin Fairfax,<\/strong><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.generossi.com\/\" data-form-type=\"\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.generossi.com\/\"><strong>Gene Rossi,<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanplattforva.com\/\"><strong>Susan Platt<\/strong><\/a> are currently running for the Democratic nomination.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Attorney General:<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onecommonwealthva.com\/\" data-form-type=\"\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.onecommonwealthva.com\/\"><strong>Mark Herring<\/strong><\/a> is running for re-election.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Member, House of Delegates, House District 50:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/leecarterva\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Lee Carter<\/strong>.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Member, House of Delegates, House District 13:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kahlonVA\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Mansimran Kahlon<\/strong><\/a>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JansenforDelegate\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Jansen<\/a>,\u00a0<\/strong>and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/danicafordelegate\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Danica Roem<\/strong><\/a> are competing for the Democratic nomination.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Manassas City Treasurer:<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pat4treasurer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Patricia Richie-Folks<\/strong><\/a> is running for re-election.<\/p>\n<p>Interested in running for office?\u00a0 We recommend that you study the Democratic Party of Virginia\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/vademocrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/DPVA-Party-Plan-Dec-5.pdf\" target=\"\"><strong>Party Plan<\/strong><\/a> to learn about nominations, the <a href=\"http:\/\/law.lis.virginia.gov\/vacode\/title24.2\/chapter5\/\"><strong>Code of Virginia<\/strong><\/a> section pertaining to candidates, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elections.virginia.gov\/candidatepac-info\/becoming-a-candidate\/index.html\"><strong>State Board of Elections<\/strong><\/a> page about becoming a candidate.<\/p>\n<p>We will update this page when we have more information about nominating our candidates.\u00a0 Feel free to contact us at <a href=\"mailto:mmpcdc@gmail.com\">mmpcdc@gmail.com<\/a> or 571-358-9893 if you have any questions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; In November 2017, Virginians will elect a Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, and all 100 members of the Virginia House of Delegates.\u00a0 Two of those 100 House of Delegate districts include the Cities of Manassas (HD-50) or Manassas Park (HD-13).\u00a0 In addition, the Cities of Manassas and Manassas Park will each elect a Treasurer and a Commissioner of the Revenue, local officers whose election is specified in the Virginia&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[142,106,78,55,70,125],"tags":[143,105,80,57,102,71,124],"class_list":["post-2278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-campaign-activities","category-lee-carter","category-manassas","category-manassas-park","category-nominations","category-virginia-general-assembly","tag-elections","tag-lee-carter","tag-manassas","tag-manassas-park","tag-manassas-treasurer","tag-nominations","tag-virginia-general-assembly"],"a3_pvc":{"activated":false,"total_views":0,"today_views":0},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2278"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2409,"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278\/revisions\/2409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}