From the City… The City of Charlottesville sadly announced today that Mayor Dave Norris has conceded defeat in a challenge with Falls Church, VA to surpass the City in the percentage of registered voters participating in yesterday’s Presidential Election. Mayor Robin Gardner of Falls Church accepted a formal challenge by Charlottesville Mayor Dave Norris to compete for the highest voter turnout earlier last month. In a move to bolster its ranks, Charlottesville began the 2008 Get Out the Vote Drive to promote voter registration, civic engagement, public education, and ease of voting to all City residents. Since 2004 the City has added nearly 9,000 registered voters to the books with more still being added by the Office of the Registrar. Norris picked Falls Church as the best challenge because the city had the largest voter turnout of any city in Virginia with an impressive 81 percent of registered voters casting a ballot. In 2004 the Charlottesville rate was less than the 71 percent statewide average. To raise the stakes, the City of Charlottesville waged a souvenir bust of Thomas Jefferson from Monticello while Falls Church offered a sapling of its 2008 Tree of the Year, the sassafras.
“It is with deep regret that we must accept this defeat,” Mayor Norris said today to a group gathered for a final goodbye to the beloved Jefferson bust, “but we must acknowledge the good work of our friends in Falls Church. I am proud that our numbers are up from previous votes and that the people have spoken in this election, such a great right of our country.”
Although final figures are still being tabulated and likely to improve with provisional balloting and other necessary measures to make City figures final, it appears that in the City of Charlottesville 18,942 of 28,678 total voters participated in this election amounting to 66.05% of registered voters. By contrast, according to the State Board of Elections, 6,750 of 8,445 total voters participated in Falls Church for a 79.92%.
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Well, my work is here done. It’s been fun and Floozy those naked pictures of you were a very nice touch. You are indeed quite limber. See you next year- if you’ve got the stones for it
Manchen… don’t you dare leave us… you are our guest asshole. What would we do without one of those?
why, we’d sit around all day long guzzling cheap wine out of a bag, huffing paint to stay sedated, and wondering why everybody we meet on here ends up hating us.
Is the guest asshole like the guest towels?
Can’t you just use your regular assholes?
Do you have any more pictures of youself in just the boots and chaps?
Guest towels are exactly like guest assholes…..they are purely for display. Regular assholes, just like regular towels are stained and worn around the edges. In a toilet paper emergency would preferentially wipe my ass on a guest towel, before I would use a regular old towel.. purely because of the friction factor…. unless it was one of those really poncy guest towels with fake jewels and tassels and stuff hanging off it. No sir… now that stuff could do your fairy a serious mischief.
Wait… a souvenir bust? So we offered them a retail item of $5 and they offered a TREE! Hah! And a really cool tree that when you rip open the leaves they smell good.
A little more than $5: http://monticellostore.stores.yahoo.net/bust.html
Although, Mayor Dave said it was coming out of his own pocket.
I voted twice.
/In the poll on this page
@7, Well I’ll be. We offered them a pricey piece of history and they offered us a TREE?! Hah! Everyone knows trees don’t last forever.
You guys made a nice run at it. Now we have to figure out what to do with your bust …
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