Author: Winsome for Governor

LYNCHBURG, Va. (WSET) — While we are just a year away from the 2025 Virginia Governor’s Race, one political expert said we could see two women seeking the spot in the Commonwealth.

According to political expert and University of Lynchburg professor Dr. David Richards, the race for Virginia’s next governor could be between Lt. Governor Winsome Sears (S) and Virginia Democrat Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger.

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By Julia Johnson
March 31, 2022
The Washington Examiner

Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears slammed President Joe Biden’s attempts to blame energy prices on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Thursday, saying “the American people aren’t stupid” and aren’t falling for it.

“They know that prices were rising from the day that he started,” Sears told the Washington Examiner after speaking at an event at American University in Washington, D.C., hosted by the AU College Republicans and the AU Network of Enlightened Women.

“We were a net exporter of energy before he came into office, and he changed all that. So this is pretty much squarely on his shoulders and the shoulders of Democrats.”

Of the president’s response to rampant inflation, Sears told the Washington Examiner, “We ought to continue to drill,” adding that “he should open the Keystone Pipeline.”

The lieutenant governor praised the president for news that he is releasing one-third of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve but said, “We should’ve replenished it when President Trump wanted to do so.”

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Winsome Sears becomes Virginia’s lt. governor

By Erin Miller
January 14, 2022
WTKR

Virginia’s first Black female lieutenant governor was sworn in Saturday afternoon. Winsome Sears took office after a nearly 20-year absence from politics.

While the achievement is history-making, Sears said she is more focused on getting to work than receiving praise.

In a one-on-one interview with News 3 reporter Erin Miller, she said, “the voters have spoken, what, two months ago? and here it is – we are finally going to get into office.”

So, how did she get to this point? Sears was born in Kingston, Jamaica, after immigrating to the United States as a child. Sears served in the Marine Corps before starting her own plumbing and electric business.

She also served one-term as a Delegate out of Norfolk, but chose not to run for reelection.

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The incoming lieutenant governor of Virginia was an unlikely candidate: a deeply conservative Black woman, and an immigrant, who supports Donald Trump.

By Campbell Robertson
Dec. 27, 2021

RICHMOND, Va. — On a December afternoon, Winsome Sears, Virginia’s lieutenant governor-elect, stood at the podium in the State Senate chamber where she will soon preside. It was empty but for a few clerks and staffers who were walking her through a practice session, making pretend motions and points of order. Ms. Sears followed along as the clerks explained arcane Senate protocols, though she occasionally raised matters that weren’t in the script.

“What if they’re making a ruckus?” Ms. Sears asked her tutors.

Then, a clerk said, pointing to the giant wooden gavel at Ms. Sears’s right hand, you bang that. Ms. Sears smiled.

That she was standing here at all was an improbability built upon unlikelihoods. Her campaign was a long shot, late in starting, skimpily funded and repeatedly overhauled. The political trajectory that preceded it was hardly more auspicious: She appeared on the scene 20 years ago, winning a legislative seat in an upset, but after one term and a quixotic bid for Congress, disappeared from electoral politics. She briefly surfaced in 2018, announcing a write-in protest against Virginia’s Republican nominee for U.S. Senate, but this earned her little beyond a few curious mentions in the press.

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