Park View, D.C.

Map of ANC 1A showing borders and locations of Single Member Districts (SMDs).

I’m sure most folks aren’t really focused on the November 4th elections — and then if they are, they are probably more aware of the races for Mayor or Council. That said, there are other races that voters should be aware of an which I’ll write more about as we get closer to November.

For now, I wanted to let residents living in the area represented by Advisory Neighborhood Commission 1A know what to expect in the next election.

The deadline for turning in nominating petitions has past, and the period in which to challenge those nominating petitions ended at the close of business yesterday, August 18, 2014. Presuming that all the candidates who turned in their petitions survived the challenge period (and I have no reason to believe anyone didn’t), the people running to represent their Single Member District’s (SMD) this fall will be the following. You can refer to the map above for an idea of where the SMDs are located, and I have listed the incumbents.

For SMD 1A01

• 1A01 Lester Cuffie
• 1A01 Marvin L. Johnson

For SMD 1A02

• 1A02 Josue Salmeron

For SMD 1A03

• No candidates stepped up. But, anyone interested in this seat can still run as a write-in candidate.

For SMD 1A04

• 1A04 Lakew Alemu
• 1A04 Matthew Goldschmidt
• 1A04 Mark Ranneberger

For SMD 1A05

• No candidates stepped up. But, anyone interested in this seat can still run as a write-in candidate.

For SMD 1A06

• 1A06 Patrick W. Flynn (Incumbent) — Facebook page here.

For SMD 1A07

• 1A07 Darwain Frost

For SMD 1A08

• 1A08 Kent Boese (Incumbent) — Campaign Web site here.

For SMD 1A09

• 1A09 Keith Dokho
• 1A09 Bobby Holmes (Incumbent)

For SMD 1A10

• 1A10 Rashida Brown — Campaign Web site here.

For SMD 1A11

• 1A11 Dotti Love Wade (Incumbent)

For SMD 1A12

• 1A12 Colleen Costello
• 1A12 Margaret Hundley

Among the aspects of this election cycle I find interesting are that the 2015-2016 Commission will be composed of 8- 9 new Commissioners which is a high percentage of turn over. I understand the ANC 1B races are similarly situated. I also find it interesting that the Single Member Districts where no one has shown interest so far are west of 14th Street and include the large apartment building over the Metro and DC USA. It is also good to see that several of the races are competitive this year, which should give voters an opportunity to choose from among the candidates.

I’ll post more about these candidates as we get close to November.

This entry was posted on August 19, 2014 at 7:01 am and is filed under Elections, Government. You can subscribe via RSS 2.0 feed to this post's comments.

Tags: Advisory Neighborhood Commissions, ANC1A, elections