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Friday, May 25, 2018

Our new ad was just released! CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE JENNIFER WEXTON.

Have you seen our brand new ad yet? It's running online and we hope to get it running on TVs across the district soon.

In the ad, Jennifer clearly lays out her progressive priorities and what she’s done as a state senator to accomplish them. That’s the kind of get-things-done approach we need more of in Congress.
Change starts right here in Virginia’s 10th district. Let’s elect someone who will get results for us.

Thursday, May 24, 2018

The death penalty for those who seek and provide abortions?! EMILY's LIST.



 
Republicans in state legislatures across the country are doing everything they can to restrict reproductive freedom.

IOWA
Passed the country's most restrictive abortion ban, banning the procedure before most women know they're pregnant

NORTH CAROLINA
Passed a bill to give fake women's health clinics nearly $2 million of taxpayer money

OHIO
Introduced an abortion ban with no exceptions that could punish those who seek and provide abortion with the death penalty
That's why we've endorsed pro-choice Democratic women for each of these state legislatures:

IOWA
Mary Stewart (SD-41)
Janice Weiner (SD-37)
Molly Donahue (HD-68)
Lori Egan (HD-56)
Ann Fields (HD-28)
Lindsay James (HD-99)
NORTH CAROLINA
Jen Mangrum (SD-30)
Natasha Marcus (SD-41)
Helen Probst Mills (SD-25)
​​Cynthia Ball (HD-49)
Sydney Batch (HD-37)
Christy Clark (HD-98)
Ashton Clemmons (HD-57)
Leslie Cohen (HD-20)
Rhonda Cole Schandevel (HD-118)
Allison Dahle (HD-11)
Jean Farmer Butterfield (HD-24)
Rachel Hunt (HD-103)
Terri LeGrand (HD-74)
Lisa Mathis (HD-51)
Erica McAdoo (HD-63)
Marcia Morgan (HD-19)
Martha Shafer (HD-62)
Aimy Steele (HD-82)
Julie Von Haefen (HD-36)

OHIO
Nickie Antonio (SD-23)
Teresa Fedor (SD-11)
Lauren Friedman (SD-29)
Louise Valentine (SD-19)
Sandra Williams (SD-21)
Erica Crawley (HD-26)
Rachel Crooks (HD-88)
Christine Fisher (HD-27)
Paula Hicks-Hudson (HD-44)
Jessica Miranda (HD-28)
Lisa Sobecki (HD-45)
Lorraine Wilburn (HD-48)

VA to Senators: "Do your job!" Jennifer Boysko, Run Everywhere.

David,
When the Senate reconvenes on May 29, it will mark seven weeks since the Special Session of the General Assembly was called for the sole purpose of completing a two-year state budget.
SEVEN WEEKS!

It took the House of Delegates just SIX DAYS to pass a bipartisan budget that expands Medicaid and still creates enough savings to give teachers a raise.

Frustration with Republican obstructionism has reached a boiling point. In a rare outburst from the Senate gallery during recent dithering, one observer shouted, “People are dying!”
Added another, “Do your job!”

None of which moved Senate Finance Committee co-chair “Thirsty Tommy” Norment (who infamously sent his members home for a sarsaparilla break two weeks ago).
Although he recently admitted that, “there is a probability [Medicaid expansion] will pass,” Norment and his old boy network are putting off a vote as long as possible.


Thanks,
Jennifer Boysko
Finance Chair, Virginia Democratic House Caucus
Chair of Run Everywhere

A New Generation of Leaders. CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE KEN HARBAUGH.

David,

In the days after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, I led a Combat Reconnaissance Aircrew in an intelligence collection mission against North Korea.  Before takeoff, I briefed my crew.
“Keep your guard up,” I said.  “We are facing an enemy that is still at war with the United States.  They may think America is vulnerable right now, but that is why we are here.  Treat every decision like your life depends on it.”
Today, America finds itself playing a game of nuclear brinksmanship with that same rogue regime.
Yet Congress today has fewer military veterans than at any time in the last 50 years.  As military experience among lawmakers has declined, Congress’s abdication of responsibility has accelerated.  Time and again, on matters of war and peace, the legislative branch has ceded authority to the executive.  
Now, more than ever, we need decision-makers in Washington who understand the nature of those threats.  We need lawmakers who grasp the cost of going to war. And we need leaders with the moral authority to speak on these issues, leaders who have themselves been on the front lines of these challenges.
It's time for a new generation of leaders in Washington.  I would be honored to have your support to stand among them.
In service,
Ken