ICYMI: REXRODE ON RUTHLESS PODCAST –
SECURE YOUR VOTE VIRGINIA IS HOW WE WIN IN 2023 AND BRING QUALITY CANDIDATES
AND A COMMONSENSE AGENDA TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY




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August 8, 2023




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Spirit of Virginia Chairman David Rexrode joined Josh Holmes and John
Ashbrook, hosts of Ruthless Podcast, to highlight Governor Youngkin’s efforts
to hold the House majority and flip the Senate in Virginia’s General Assembly
elections this November.



Rexrode discussed Youngkin’s early and absentee voting initiative, Secure Your
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candidates running for the General Assembly, the stakes of this election, and
the importance of Governor Youngkin’s focus on putting parents at the head of
the table in their children’s education.



Highlights of Rexrode’s interview are included below.



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WATCH REXRODE DISCUSS SECURE YOUR VOTE VIRGINIA
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REXRODE: The Governor, as your listeners and viewers know, his background is
in basketball. He went to Rice, it’s a big part of his life, and he views this
as a basketball metaphor – for too many years now, our party has basically been
sitting on the bench. Tip-off has happened, our players are sitting on the
bench watching the Democrats run up and down the court making free baskets,
uncontested baskets, and then we roll around with two minutes left, and we’re
down points and get mad that we haven’t been playing the game.



So, we wanted to take a different approach this year. And we decided that we
had to tell voters: you got to get off the bench, you got to get in the game,
you have to participate. There are four ways to do that, we don’t care which
four ways you do, but you got to trust that if you get your vote by mail, it’s
going to count. Through the websitesecureyourvotevirginia.com,
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make sure it’s received, that it’s processed, that it’s counted. We’re
obviously pushing people to early vote because we can’t, as a party, continue
to try to make up for it just on Election Day. We lost too many races last
year, in 2022, because we didn’t have that full operation across the country.
We have to fix that this year.



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WATCH REXRODE DISCUSS QUALITY CANDIDATES
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REXRODE: We got the candidates we needed. As you mentioned, the Governor
weighed in on primaries – we went 10 for 10. Because if we don’t have the right
players on the court, we can’t win.



When we looked at the races this year, I’ll use the Senate as a great example,
we have seven races, and we said: who can win these races? We ended up getting
three women as our nominees, including a teacher and an OBGYN. We recruited an
African American Naval officer to run in Virginia Beach. We have a Hispanic
small business owner in Loudoun County. We recruited two law enforcement
officers, one of whom worked for both Obama and Trump fighting child
prostitution. Those are our nominees because they can win.



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WATCH REXRODE DISCUSS THE STAKES IN THIS ELECTION
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REXRODE: What’s at stake is remarkable. As we highlight what the differences
are, it highlights how important it is that we win. Three things that we’re
talking about that the Democrats stopped the Governor and Republicans in
Richmond from doing: First, they want to pass a bill that, if you’re a drug
dealer and you’re distributing fentanyl, and somebody dies, you should
potentially be charged with murder. Democrats said, “No, we’re going to protect
the drug dealers.”



Second, we said if your minor has access to Tik Tok and some of these other
technologies out there, they shouldn’t be able to capture a minor’s information
and sell it to anybody they want without restrictions. Democrats said, “Nope,
we’re going to stand with Big Tech.”



Third, the most egregious one is when Democrats had complete control, they
decided to tie our environmental policies to what comes out of Sacramento and
San Fransisco. So, they passed a law that we tried to repeal, that says that in
a few years, you can no longer buy a gas-powered car or truck in Virginia – the
only option will be electric vehicles and that Californians get to dictate our
energy policy in Virginia. We tried to repeal it, and the Democrats said,
“Nope, we’re going to let Californians determine our economic interests.”
That’s what’s at stake.



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WATCH REXRODE DISCUSS EMPOWERING PARENTS
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REXRODE: For so long, too many candidates in our party just wouldn’t touch the
education issue. They were afraid of it, and the Governor leaned in and said,
“We can all agree we want higher academic standards for our kids, we all
believe we need the best teachers possible, but there has to be some
accountability; we have to allow parents to be involved.” Terry McAuliffe said
the quiet part out loud, but that’s what they believe.



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So, the Governor said, “We’re going to tackle those issues head-on.” It’s a
way for us to win voters over because it’s the right issue. It’s getting
parents involved in their kids' education – we saw that in Loudoun; it’s the
number two or three issues in all of our targeted districts because parents,
for the first time when they were home, actually got to see what their kids
were learning through Zoom and it wasn’t what they thought their kids were
learning, and so they’ve become much more engaged, which is a good thing.



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