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In 2003, Connolly first won the Chairmanship and was the first winner to get less than 100,000 votes. Tom Davis in winning in 1991 got more than that and there were 200,000 fewer voters in the county then. In 2007, Connolly got 113,000 votes in Fairfax County. In 2005, Leslie Byrne got over 159,000 votes in the same county. Gerry says he won most of the precincts in the 11th district in 2007 but Leslie got more votes in every one of those precincts in 2005. In fact, Gerry was not the top Democratic vote getter in 2007 in any precinct in the 11th district. The best he could do was being second in two precincts. In his home district of Providence the best he could do was 5th in a precinct and in his own home precinct of Mantua he was 6th. To be fair, in some races other candidates were unopposed, but Connolly still couldn't hold the base Democratic vote. Leslie Byrne was only able to finish first in 2 precincts but she was 2nd in 28. While Gerry trailed the only comparative candidates - the Delegates - by over 12,000 votes in Fairfax, Leslie led them by over 20,000 votes.

Leslie Byrne is one of the very best.