A new message from your friends at People For the American Way.
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PFAW Member,
ANOTHER one of PFAW's progressive champions in next week's Virginia
elections has just come under racist attack in a disgusting mailer sent by
the Republican Party of Virginia.
Delegate Kelly Fowler -- who PFAW helped elect in 2017, is endorsed once
again this year by PFAW's Next Up Victory Fund, and is easily one of the
MOST targeted/vulnerable Democrats of the election in her very closely
split district -- just became the subject of a race-baiting smear aimed at
whipping up unfounded fear of immigrants and Latinos and tying Fowler to
violent gang members because of her own Latinx heritage.
PFAW's Right Wing Watch has already reported on the attack -- which
features an image that has become a favorite of Republicans in their
anti-immigrant ads of gang members who are supposed to represent
immigrants but who are really prisoners in El Salvador -- and now we're
also coming to you for help.
Please take a moment to read the powerful message Kelly sent to her
supporters (below) and then consider [ [link removed] ]splitting a donation on ActBlue
between Kelly's campaign and PFAW to help her fight back against this
racist smear and help PFAW protect Kelly's seat and flip Virginia's state
legislature from red to blue with progressive victories across the state!
---[Begin Forwarded Message from Del. Kelly Fowler:]---
Dear Supporter,
My 7-year old daughter, Sophie, brought in the mail. She asked me, "Why
were you in this picture with those scary men?" I had to explain to her
why my opponent, Shannon Kane, put me in this racist mailer.
[ [link removed] ]Racist attack against Kelly Fowler
[ [link removed] ]Racist attack against Kelly Fowler
It's heart-breaking to have to explain to my kids why Shannon is attacking
our heritage and is trying to scare people of our Latinx community.
Our campaign has prioritized running a clean campaign with ads that stick
to talking about the issues and the record. It's appalling to see my
opponent send out a mailer to thousands of community members that
aligns me with dangerous gang members just because I am Latinx. Can you
help us fight back against this racist ad?
Character counts in politics, and Kane's blatant dog-whistle is dangerous.
Our community deserves better.
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We couldn't agree with Kelly more.
[ [link removed] ]Will you chip in $6 or anything you can right now to help Kelly and
PFAW fend off racist right-wing attacks against Kelly and our other
progressive candidates and turn Virginia blue?
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Thank you for everything you do!
-- PFAW’s Elections Team
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