Delegate 1-C: Fast fact time

Ahh! It's been too long!

I'm sure you're all dying to know who is running for the other local district (1-C) for state delegate. I'm here to help.

FYI there are 5 days til election day. Holy constituent that's soon.

I-Cers, you're in the bloody color. Lucky you.

First, let's look at the district lines. 1-C covers the rest of Allegany County and reaches over into Washington County. So if you're Cumberland, chances are you vote for one of these two. So pay attention.

In this corner, weighing in at 190 pounds, (okay fine, I don't know how much he weighs) we have Nicholas Scarpelli (D)!

He looks so House of Cards here.
Posh.

If that name sounds familiar, don't feel cray because you've probably heard it before.

Nick Scarpelli owns the Scarpelli Funeral Home; one is located in Cumberland and the other is between Cresaptown and Bel Air. I think it's great that he's running. I heard he's the life of the party. Just kidding. But really, if he's elected, I bet he'll kill it. Okay I'll stop.

Back to the serious stuff.

Here's Nick with part of the fam.
His son isn't pictured here but I didn't
want to be that big of a creeper.

This is Scarpelli's first run for state delegate.

According to his website, Scarpelli has is a fourth-generation Cumberland local. He graduated from Bishop Walsh High School and then went on to James Madison University. He received his Mortuary Science Degree from Catonsville Community College and his MBA from Frostburg State.

Scarpelli has one adult daughter and a son in high school with his wife, Tama. Tama is a fifth generation Cumberland native.

I bet he's dying to bring Allegany County back to life.

Okay now I'm really finished.

NEXT

If you're doing the math in your head from my last delegate post and you've figured out that 7 children are unaccounted for, you're not wrong, my friend.

SEE!
 I had to count three
times to verify child count.
Presh. 

Except I lied the last time. I miscounted babies (and young adults). He actually has eight children. SORRY. My bad.

Michael McKay is the republican candidate for district 1-C and he's not alone in his campaign. Like really, really, not even close to being alone.

McKay has more to his name than those whom have sprung from his loins. (Can men spring children from loins? I'll Google that later.) Mike McKay is currently an incumbent Allegany County Commissioner but he made the decision to vacate his position to go for delegate.

According to McKay's Facebook, (which is actually titled the McKay-Family Michael Facebook account, which is so cute I can't even handle it) he is an owner and operator at Allegany Management Services. Basically, he owns a few dry-cleaners throughout Cumberland. (Side-Note: I got two dresses dry-cleaned

there once and the girl was super nice but my dress was like, a size smaller when I got it home. I don't exactly know if that's possible for them to catalyze the shrinking process but I swear it happened. I'll save that rant for my review on Angie's List.)

As I've mentioned too many times already, McKay has eight children, the oldest is in college and the youngest is around 1 year old. His wife, Kim, is super nice. His oldest daughter was in my Sunday School class when we were kids and she's super nice too.

As per his education level, I don't really know. According to the Allegany County Government website, McKay studied business administration at UMD College Park but it isn't clear if he graduated. His Facebook says that he went to Rockville High. (Out-of-towner. Nice.) I don't think it really matters if ever graduated since he seems to have proven that he can indeed run a business without the piece of $20,000 paper but what do I know?

So there's that!

Let me know what you'd like to see now that you know everyone running for local office!

Do you know where you are supposed to vote? If not, comment below! I'll post a guide to voting!

Happy voting, ya'll!


BONUS ROUND:

I found this incredible gem on McKay's Facebook and I CANNOT pass up a winning selfie.
Just shows his commitment to trying to see things from a bipartisan perspective. (Get it? Because he's a Republican and their symbol is the elephant and the picture is a donkey and Democrats use the donkey? Do you get it? DO YOU?)

Point for you, McKay

#Overtheshouldersmolder

But Scarpelli is not to be outdone. Here's a glamour shot of Scarps. Is Scarps a thing? Can we make that a thing?