Local Press Places Precedence on Late Entry Independent Candidate, Even Above Arlington Dems Endorsed Candidate

At least at the Leadership Institute, where candidate wannabes become acquainted with the 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing, it is well-known that the law of primacy dictates the power of first in mind, so that everyone remembers the name of the first person to discover America, to cross the Atlantic in an airplane, to be in the first manned spaceflight and to be the first to land on the moon, but. . . And "[w]ith the filing deadline set for today at 7 p.m., it appears it likely will be a three-person field for the lone School Board seat on the Nov. 4 ballot", according to the local press. And, despite midnight hour entry, "Independent James 'Vell' Rives IV" took the poll position in the press account, subordinated in primacy to "Democratic endorsee Monique “Moe” Bryant", for having "qualified for the ballot access, county election officials tell ARLnow, joining Major Webb in the race to succeed Mary Kadera."