The agenda for the November 24th City Council meeting (PDF) includes both 133 West Jackson Street (again) and 2 ordinances on the North Jackson Ward Redevelopment Program…

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Chris Dovi takes a look at Kim Gray’s victory in the 2nd District school board election last week and, with Gray winning all 10 district precincts, calls it “one of the most stunning upsets of the local election”:

“I think if you look at it,” [Goldman] says, “Braxton didn’t run and [Dawson] didn’t win and Pantele is out on City Council and Mayor Wilder realized he didn’t have a chance to win.” He postulates that voters were fed up with politics as usual: “Voters got it. We wanted change.”

Rumor and the RTD have 7th District Council Representative Delores McQuinn, Tyrone Nelson, and Antoine Green as possible candidates for Mayor-elect Jones’ seat in the House of Delegates:

The Rev. Tyrone Nelson, pastor of Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church, is also considering a bid, as is Antione M. Green, president of the Richmond Crusade for Voters, who worked this past General Assembly session as legislative aide to Del. Joseph D. Morrissey, D-Henrico. He also serves as treasurer of the Metro Richmond Area Young Democrats.

The city website has a map of all of the voter precincts and a breakdown of the recent vote by precinct. Interesting numbers if you’re into that kind of thing… For instance: by a ratio of 196 to 1, Precinct 212 in Gilpin went the most overwhelming across the whole city for for Barack Obama.

Charles Samuels is the new 2nd District Council Representative, winning 45% of the vote in a 3-way race. Kim Gray is the new school board rep, with a decisive margin over Lisa Dawson. Pantele is out.

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Style Weekly stopped by Carver Elementary this morning to see how things were going:

Only about a thousand voters were registered in that precinct before this election cycle began. Now 3,500 people are. The crowd outside the building at 6 a.m. had somewhat dwindled to fill only about half the school’s auditorium by 12:15. [...] As of 12:15, more than 700 people had voted in the precinct.

Today is the day! Find out where to vote! Get local results later on at the city Registrar’s Office, the State Board of Elections here and here, or watch the Virginia election results roll in below:

Charles Samuels, candidate for the 2nd District City Council seat, announced today his campaign’s plans for a victory celebration. Supporters and members of the media are encouraged to join Samuels at the Robin Inn at 2601 Park Avenue in the Fan after the polls close tomorrow at 7PM.

In what must be a response to Mark Warner’s endorsement of Kim Gray in her bid for the 2nd District school board seat, the incumbent Lisa Dawson has announced her endorsement by First Lady Anne Holton and Mark Emblidge, Chair of the State Board of Education.

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Style Weekly has the word that Second District school board candidate Kim Gray has received the endorsement of former Governor and Senate candidate Mark Warner in her bid to unseat School Board Vice Chairwoman Lisa Dawson.

This seems like an interesting time to revisit the Virginia Public Access Project, a non-profit group the makes it easy to access the public records of who has donated how much to a candidate for office.

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Immensely popular numbers-crunching and politics site FiveThirtyEight made a stop in Richmond, VA and interviewed both recent Miss Virginia Kristi Lauren Glakas and Governor Tim Kaine. They also popped into the Obama headquarters in Carver and got a few photos of the hustle and bustle.

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