But I do think journalists and professional political organizers, which DC is rife with, think Eleanor Holmes Norton and other DC politicians a popular, when in fact if you ask voters on the street, like the ones I meet petitioning and hanging up street signs, do not know who she is or that DC even has a Congressional Delegate. She just benefits from the fact that most DC voters vote a straight line Democratic ticket, given their restricted choices – meaning many of them are simply voting against the GOP but not for any of the variously indicted, under investigation, senile, and/or impotent members of DC’s political class. I am not sure she would survive an actual primary challenge.

My apologies Mr. Chibbaro.

Let me update you a tad and give you a correction.

I am not running so much simply to get the Libertarians permanent ballot status. I am running so they can register as Libertarians instead of as “other” – so they will be enfranchised. I am running so they can run for office without having to spend thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours in 100 degree heat collecting 5,000 or 10,000 signatures every time they want to put someone on the ballot — and this only after they and every other independent in the country is forced by the IRS to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to fund the Democratic and Republican conventions and campaigns (something I suspect even most Democrats and Republicans do not want to pay for).

Additionally you say Eleanor is popular. Oh no no no! She is popular with politicians and journalists. Real people who sign petitions on the street don’t know who she is, even when they are registered voters. If the Libertarians achieve ballot status, I may next run against her in a Democratic primary, and if successful, run on both party lines if available.

These candidates are running in the At-Large Council race against Orange, Brown, and Grosso; not the Special Election for Chairman against Mendelson and Gurley.