From DPVA, with early voting starting TOMORROW (Friday):
Ahead of Early Vote Starting Tomorrow, Virginians Know Winsome Earle-Sears Puts Trump and Her Extreme Agenda Before the Commonwealth
VIRGINIA – With early vote beginning tomorrow, Virginians know that Winsome Earle-Sears has an extensive record backing Donald Trump’s job and healthcare cuts and attacking Virginians’ fundamental rights.
“From dismissing Donald Trump’s attacks on Virginians’ jobs and healthcare to her long record of wanting to defund Virginia’s public schools, it’s clear Sears won’t put Virginians first and would only make all of our biggest challenges worse. The Commonwealth deserves a Governor whose number-one priority is Virginia’s working families, and as Virginians start voting on Friday, they know that’s not Sears,” said DPVA Spokesperson Maggie Amjad.
Read more about Sears’ extreme record:
Sears cheered on Trump’s tax bill and dismissed the concerns of Virginians being stripped of their health insurance.
- Sears praised Trump’s tax bill saying it “does so many great things” as it stripped 350,000 Virginians of healthcare and put at least six rural hospitals at risk of closing.
- When asked about the 350,000 Virginians facing healthcare cuts, Sears outright lied saying “there are no Virginians who are going to lose Medicaid coverage in Virginia.”
Sears has dismissed and laughed off attacks on Virginia jobs over and over again.
- In a CNN interview, when asked if she supports Donald Trump’s attacks on Virginia’s jobs, Winsome Earle-Sears refused to answer and dismissed the jobs cuts saying she wants “to talk about real issues” instead.
- Winsome Earle-Sears was caught on tape dismissing and laughing off the attacks on Virginia jobs saying “the media is making it out to be a huge, huge thing… and I don’t understand why.”
- As Trump attacked Virginia’s workforce and economy, Sears said “I’m supporting what the President is doing.”
Sears has a long record of supporting legislation that would cut funding from Virginia’s public schools and has repeatedly tried to defund public education.
Sears has a dangerous record attacking reproductive rights and gay rights:
- In multiple interviews, Sears has made clear her support for restrictions on abortion.
- In a 2022 interview she said, “we need to make our choices before we’re pregnant, not, you know, after, you already made a choice.
- During her campaign for lieutenant governor she called abortion “genocide.”
- Sears supports an extreme six week abortion ban similar to the law that took effect in Texas that bans abortion before most women know they are pregnant.
- Sears vowed to “do everything in [her] power” to end abortion in Virginia.
- Sears’ 2021 lieutenant governor campaign website: “I will do everything in my power to stop this act from taking place in Virginia.”
- Sears attempted to scrub this abortion section from her website around September 2021.
- Sears’ 2021 lieutenant governor campaign website: “I will do everything in my power to stop this act from taking place in Virginia.”
- Sears left a handwritten note on a bill protecting marriage equality that she is “morally opposed” to the legislation, and left a similar note that she is “morally opposed to this bill […]” on the constitutional amendment that would protect reproductive freedom in Virginia, including contraception, abortion, and IVF.
- It’s highly unusual for a Lt. Governor to leave a note while signing a bill.
- In an unearthed candidate survey, Sears pledged to support letting Virginians get fired for being gay and block same-sex couples from adopting children, while also calling homosexuality an “immoral lifestyle choice.”
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