Getting some other firsts:
-Minneapolis elected the first trans woman of color to a city council seat.
All in VA: (from a tweet)
-First out-lesbian delegate in the state
-First Asian American woman delegate in the state
-First two Latina delegates in the state
-First Democratic Socialist candidate in the state
Diversity is good. Diversity is the future. I can’t wait to have a government one day that actually looks like America.
Forgot to mention our other perennial candidate - Mike the Mover. That is his legal name. 
Oops. He changed it again - now he is Uncle Mover.
@romanigypsyeyes, the PA gov race is next year. I hadn’t heard a thing about it either so did some looking. Mostly judicial races and mayoral races in PA this year.
If they’d run in Seattle, they might have won this year.
@emilybee ah ok that makes way more sense. I must’ve misheard. I was confused as to why I wasn’t seeing anything about it on NYT.
Romani, Danica Roem won her legislative district over a 25-year delegate considered the most socially conservative lawmaker in VA. She is the first openly transgender person to be a state legislator in the US.
I saw that. He’s the one who authored the freaking bathroom bill.
Anyone from VA know what the heck happened in that district to go from him to her?
@BunsenBurner, did I just hear that the WA state Senate seat has been called for the D?
Several of my friends have been involved in supporting candidates this fall, whether via at-home fundraisers, door-to-door canvassing, or on advisory committees developing legislation and ballot initiatives. I am incredibly proud of their activism and determination to talk to people face-to-face and to discuss their differences. Whatever one’s political leanings, this is what America is about.
They shot it over the line with a rocket. It won by, like, 20 points. Four times the legislature voted to expand, and four times LePage vetoed it. This time, LePage can’t veto it.
Dawn Adams in district 68?
Seems like the bigger story in the news is Danica Roem’s win in district 13.
http://www.richmond.com/news/local/city-of-richmond/virginia-house-candidates-make-history-transgender-woman-two-latinas-out/article_785d2926-7e3e-59a0-a9b3-d24ab65f4b80.html
Whatever it was, turnout was much higher in 2017 than 2015.
2015: Marshall(R) 7147, Shaw(D) 5592, write-in 12
2017: Roem(D) 11885, Marshall(R) 9980, write-in 88
(House of Delegates district 13)
http://results.elections.virginia.gov/vaelections/2015%20November%20General/Site/GeneralAssembly.html
http://results.elections.virginia.gov/vaelections/2017%20November%20General/Site/GeneralAssembly.html
@ucbalumnus you mean like I said in post #24?
Roem stuck mainly to the issues in her district, particularly road congestion (which is a biggie in Northern VA). She got a lot of donations early in the campaign, which helped get her name out and gave people time to get to know her. Her campaign hit 75,000 doors in a district with 52,000 registered voters. Good social media presence. Marshall started misgendering her and throwing other mud as the campaign drew towards its close.
Basically, she ran a solid, grass-roots campaign discussing what issues concern people at a local level. I wish her the best.
@emilybee - yes, for one year.
Looks like the mayor in my hometown (not far from @romanigypsyeyes, I think) was knocked off. The incumbent had been hostile to a non-discrimination ordinance that the city council had narrowly voted into law recently. Incumbent said he’d never been aware of any discrimination in that city. Well, I know different – heard it from my family regularly, and know it is a pretty racist place from growing up there. I guess the voters knew something different as well, and dumped him for a candidate who had helped push the ordinance through. I’m thrilled, wasn’t sure at all that it would happen.
@romanigypsyeyes I don’t live in VA but from what I read he ran a negative campaign, he repeatedly misgendered her and he refused to debate her.
@BunsenBurner, was it a special election? Good win nevertheless!
The guy in VA who lost to the transgender candidate was the author of the VA version of NC bathroom bill. You know what they say about karma.
@emilybee he did much more that write the bathroom bill, Karma or poetic justice.
Yes, a special election for the position that was left open when Andy Hill died (of lung cancer, apparently). The two candidates did not thrill us, and the race was ooouugggly, but we will take that win - better than the alternative. 