According to the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics, 34 people voted for a write-in candidate in ANC 6B08 yesterday. That might mean 34 people voted for Arthur Delaney, the pro-single-beers candidate.

Unfortunately for single beers, over 800 people voted for four-term incumbent Neil Glick. He sent an email bragging about it to his family and friends with a little note to Arthur Delaney at the bottom.
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Truly a man of the people:

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*(The pencils say “Artie D.”)

Update from Ward 6: Don’t miss this hard-hitting tell-all, in which Arthur Delaney (a.k.a. Sir Pants-a-lot) holds forth on his incredible dark horse campaign, the resonance of his message, his umbrella woes, and the perils of picking Glick.

Don’t be fooled by the blazer, folks. Arthur Delaney may look like your typical District politico, but he drinks his beers one at a time. Just like the rest of us.

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In which Arthur Delaney vehemently refuses to term it a “scandal.”

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City Desk just called Arthur Delaney to check in on his historic campaign for an ANC post in Cap. Hill. He is standing outside his precinct at Payne Elementary. It is 5:35 p.m.

Delaney has big news. His mom has joined his campaign!

“My mom is here campaigning with me,” Delaney says. “She voted for me over in a different SMD (Single Member District).”

And Delaney’s opponent? He’s nowhere in sight.

“I’m not sure where he is,” Delaney says.

I ask if he thinks his opponent is runnin’ scared. This is Delaney’s response: “He damn well should be. He’s in deep shit.”

We will be posting updates on Delaney’s ANC race throughout the night. Stay tuned.

*photo by Darrow Montgomery

According to Ward 6 exit poll surveyor Arthur Delaney, Ward 6 ANC candidate Arthur Delaney is garnering early afternoon momentum in the race.

“At least a dozen people said they voted for me,” Delaney GChatted, “[and] not a single person said they wouldn’t vote for me.”

Is Delaney headed for a blowout? Contacted seconds later, also by chat, the candidate said that much of his support is probably due to the single-beer plank of his political platform.

“Sometimes you just want ONE!” Delaney said. “The slogan resonates with everybody.”

Delaney says he plans to spend the afternoon addressing voters’ hunger and desire for change. “I’m home for a snack and to put on my jeans, which are finally dry.”

Photograph by Darrow Montgomery

Delaney Projections Done Right:

I thought of all my friends from one end of the country to the other and how they were really all in the same vast backyard doing something so frantic and rushing about.

—Jack Kerouac, On the Road

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ANC Candidate Arthur Delaney calls in. It’s 1:38 p.m.

“I decided I had to wear my other pants,” Delaney says. “The spin cycle is broken.” It appears running for a post on the ANC is harder than one would expect.

I scream at him to get to his precinct at Payne Elementary and start campaigning.

“I’ll be over there in a minute,” Delaney says. “I have to sharpen these pencils.”

City Desk has obtained a copy of the new campaign flier being distributed by Delaney For ANC in Ward 6. Campaign staffer Arthur Delaney (who is also the candidate (who is also a contributor to City Paper (who asked Delaney to run for ANC))) says he expects the flier to have a “devastating impact[!!!1]” on the race. Our dynamic electoral polling regression model agrees, showing Delaney winning over 75% of the races we simulated.

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Yesterday afternoon, CP contributor Arthur Delaney launched his write-in campaign for his local ANC post. He announced his historic candidacy on this blog.

At 11 a.m., City Desk checked in with Delaney’s campaign. We reached the young man at his apartment/campaign headquarters.

Delaney tell us that he went by his precinct at Payne Elementary this morning to “just scope it out” before going to the gym (just like Obama does most mornings).

But Delaney’s campaign hit a snag. He says he is currently washing his pants.

“My washing machine is about to explode,” Delaney says. “It’s just old and the spin cycle kind of gets jammed. You have to reach in there by hand. I have to turn the spin cycle around by hand. It gets stuck and it makes this burning smell.”

Delaney admits to another crucial problem. He has not made his campaign fliers. “I have to go to Kinko’s to get them printed,” Delaney says. He adds that he will be at his precinct in a “couple hours.”

“This is a last minute campaign,” Delaney explains. “Carol Schwartz, who is waging a write-in campaign, got started at the last minute. According to polls, she’s doing well also. Now she has somebody at Payne. I’m going to stand with that guy. For everyone that says they’re going to vote for me, I’ll give them a pencil with my name on it.”

You have pencils? “Yeah, I’ve had them for a long time. I never knew what to do with them but now I know.”

Delaney is optimistic: “I have received several pledges of support on the Hill East listserv.”

City Desk questioned the fact that he isn’t at his precinct. That maybe it would have been a better idea to wash his pants the day before the election. “I know my opponent is not there either,” Delaney argues. “He’s not going to be there until 5:30.”

Washington City Paper is breaking all sorts of longstanding traditions to endorse Arthur Delaney for Advisory Neighborhood Commission seat 6B08.

City Paper has never endorsed candidates as an institution, typically leaving that job to crack political reporter Loose Lips. And Loose Lips has never endorsed candidates in advisory neighborhood commission races, considering those pissant offices well below his pay grade.

But just as the Chicago Tribune threw away decades of pro-Republican tradition to endorse Barack Obama this year, City Paper is forced to reexamine its course by the prospect of having a community advocate as talented, as focused, as driven as Arthur Delaney serve the residents of east Capitol Hill. Not endorsing Mr. Delaney would be an unforgivable error of historic proportions.

Mr. Delaney’s singular focus on single-beer sales reflects a preternatural political talent, one that can bring the people of 6B08 together under one principal: Can’t we all just have a beer?

Don’t get us wrong: Mr. Delaney isn’t just a one-beer man. He’s been seen enjoying multiple beers from time to time, on the concrete pad in front of his apartment, as well as at local watering holes such as Tune Inn, Trusty’s, Tune Inn, Capitol Lounge, and Tune Inn.

But Mr. Delaney is a singles man at heart. Like all the residents of 6B08, he is a hard worker—we at Washington City Paper can absolutely testify to his devotion as a freelance journalist (to wit, his willingness to pursue this assignment)—and he deserves to buy a single beer for his refreshment after a long day’s toil, as do we all.

So we must join Mr. Delaney in his cri de coeur: Sometimes, you just want one!

—The Editors

This afternoon Southeast Capitol Hill resident Arthur Delaney kicked off his write-in campaign for a spot on the local advisory neighborhood commission. Delaney, who is me, is campaigning entirely on a pro-single-beers platform for 6B08.

Lately, the local political establishment is united in its insistence that corner stores not sell single cans or bottles of beer and malt liquor. Delaney has two simple questions:

1. What is a person supposed to do if he or she wants a beer but can’t afford a six pack?
2. What if a person just wants one beer?

The answer to these questions is that a person who has ever been or ever will be in either situation must vote for Arthur Delaney in 6B08 tomorrow. Arthur Delaney has the necessary maverick qualities to begin to reverse the nannyish tide that will outlaw single sales in early 2009.

After the jump, more details, plus Arthur Delaney’s first campaign video.

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