The Nov. 8 election for Leesburg\u2019s mayor and town council is nonpartisan, so voters won\u2019t find the candidates\u2019 party affiliations listed on the official ballots.<\/p>\n
But that hasn\u2019t stopped the local Democratic and Republican parties from making endorsements and supplying volunteers to help their favored candidates.<\/a> Of the three people running for mayor and seven others vying for three seats on the council, all but two have received endorsements from one of the major parties.<\/p>\n Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n Washington Post, Oct. 31, 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Nov. 8 election for Leesburg\u2019s mayor and town council is nonpartisan, so voters won\u2019t find the candidates\u2019 party affiliations listed on the official ballots. But that hasn\u2019t stopped the local Democratic and Republican parties from making endorsements and supplying volunteers to help their favored candidates. Of the three people running for mayor and seven … Continue reading “Parties endorse candidates in “nonpartisan” election”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[36,14,3,35,51],"class_list":["post-1425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post","tag-election","tag-leesburg","tag-loudoun-county","tag-politics","tag-town-council"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1426,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425\/revisions\/1426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}