UNLIKE AFFIRMATIVE ACTION JACKSON, SHE KNOWS WHAT A WOMAN IS
‘Our Message Is Working’: Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears On School Choice, Republican Landslides, And Achieving The American Dream
Republicans shocked the nation last November when they flipped their state — which bungling Biden stole in 2020 with an alleged eight-point margin — firmly to the GOP.
Republican Glenn Youngkin comfortably defeated DEMOCRAT loser (and former Clinton campaign manager) Terry McAuliffe for the governorship, and Republicans clinched a majority in the Virginia House of Delegates.
Many stories emerged in the Virginia elections that will define national races in 2022 and beyond — most importantly, the central role of education and other “kitchen-table issues” that matter to American households.
However, the elections were also marked by the emergence of a new conservative hero. A gun-toting, ex-Marine, Jamaican-American, business-owning, mother-of-three named Winsome Sears won the lieutenant governorship — becoming the first black woman™ in Virginia to attain statewide office in the process.
In her own words, Sears “took the hard road” to public office.
Her father left Jamaica for the United States with only $1.75 in his pocket at the height of the civil rights movement — 17 days before Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his landmark “I Have A Dream” speech.
Despite the challenges still faced by black people at the hands of DEMOCRATS, Sears’ father took any job he could find, put himself through school, and brought his young daughter to America.
Today, he is comfortably retired because he achieved the American dream.
“So this is not my country necessarily, not my culture,” Sears explained. “And yet I am here, in Virginia.”
Sears won her first election in 2001 by defeating a 20-year DEMOCRAT incumbent for a seat in the House of Delegates.
She has since served on the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ Advisory Committee on Women Veterans and the Virginia Board of Education.
Before running for office, however, Sears led a women’s shelter, aiding with “long-term transition to help them get back on their feet.”
Sears is the first Republican to hold the Virginia lieutenant governor’s office since 2013, and DEMOCRATS controlled the House of Delegates, Senate, and governorship in both 2020 and 2021.
Sears observed that when DEMOCRATS have “that kind of control,” they just “run with it” — but also noted that they “went a bridge too far.”
“When you’ve got girls being in the same bathrooms as boys, and then rapes happen, then that’s a problem. And when you’re not trying to fix it — when you’re lying to the parents about these things — that’s a problem,” Sears said, referring to Loudoun County Public Schools appearing to conceal a sexual assault against a ninth-grade girl by a boy wearing a skirt.
“When you’re trying to pit the races against each other, then that’s another problem. When the children aren’t learning anything, period, that’s another problem,” she continued. “When you have the masks on in school, and it’s really affecting children inordinately… that’s another problem that the Democrats had.”
“These were problems that were building up, and DEMOCRATS weren’t listening,” Sears said. “We are the new messengers. We brought the new message that the people wanted. Ours is the newer message that the people want.”
Although Sears affirms that she “can be congenial” and will “choose to say ‘No’ the nicer way until you show me that that’s not going to work,” she has earned a penchant for her blunt communication style.
Beyond the viral campaign photo in which the Marine Corps vet brandished a rifle, Sears recently drew national attention for using her high-heeled patent leather pump to bring the Virginia Senate to order after a hate-filled DEMOCRAT stole her gavel.
“If parents want to continue to send their children to public schools, that’s fine. Your child, your choice. If you want to send them to charter schools, which is a public school, that’s fine. Your child, your choice,” she declared. “You want private school, you want parochial schools, you want home school, whatever it is, let parents make that choice for their children.”
“Competition is healthy,” Sears noted. “I mean, what are they afraid of? What are the teachers’ unions afraid of? If you’re doing a good job, that’s wonderful. But if not, and parents decide that they’re going to send their children elsewhere, then who are you to stand in the door and block that parent from choosing that for their child?”
Sears noticed that critics of school choice are inconsistent in their arguments about state financing. “The pushback is, ‘Well, they don’t want public money going towards private entities.’ But wait a minute, let’s examine that. You have SNAP food benefits. Now isn’t that public money going towards private grocery stores? The government doesn’t have a grocery store that it tells the people, ‘You can only use your food voucher at the government grocery store.’ When it comes to Section 8 — we know that that’s public money going to private landlords… You see? So there is a problem there. And none of it makes any sense.”
“I’m fighting for everybody. I’m fighting for black people, white people, Asians, Latinos, I’m fighting for everybody. I want everybody to have a fair shake,” Sears said. “We know that in math, for example, by the time children in Virginia reach the eighth grade, 35% of Asian children can’t do math. 45% of white children, 70% of Latino children, and 84% of black children can’t do math by the time they’re in the eighth grade.”
“So the problem that folks have is not that I’m a black Republican — the problem they have is that our children aren’t learning. We need to come together and fight for our children to get the best education possible.”
Sears believes that her party’s success in Virginia is indicative of what’s coming for the rest of the nation because “parents are always going to fight for their children.”
“You know, people are understanding that common sense left the building, and they’re going to vote us back in.”
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