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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe VA woman who was fired for flipping off Trump's motorcade won her election!
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Demovictory9
(32,457 posts)XRubicon
(2,212 posts)Glimmer of Hope
(5,823 posts)Chin music
(23,002 posts)Julian Englis
(2,309 posts)DesertRat
(27,995 posts)Wednesdays
(17,383 posts)Julian Englis
(2,309 posts)It's tRump, it has to be very coarse and his goofs are extraordinarily coarse cuz he's narcissistic, tacky, tiny-handed, traitorous, racist, MF.
Marcuse
(7,488 posts)Dave in VA
(2,037 posts)Someone please tweet this to the orange hemorrhoid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GO TEAM BLUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
Takket
(21,579 posts)i remember her but didn't know she had been fired. good for her!
Karadeniz
(22,540 posts)dhill926
(16,348 posts)tonight. Good for her, good for Virginia, and good for our country.
demmiblue
(36,865 posts)malaise
(269,065 posts)sheshe2
(83,793 posts)Awww. She disrespected the POS. I love this woman.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Thekaspervote
(32,778 posts)Talitha
(6,593 posts)crickets
(25,981 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)KY_EnviroGuy
(14,492 posts)Link: https://www.briskmanforsupervisor.com/
WaPo has an article on it but I can't read due to paywall.
See: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/she-famously-flipped-off-the-president-now-juli-briskman-is-running-for-office/2019/07/18/4b4ff444-a95b-11e9-86dd-d7f0e60391e9_story.html
Wish us luck in KY, gov's race is razor thin..........
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)Go Kentucky!
SleeplessinSoCal
(9,123 posts)It hit me how totally democratic that is. And ought to be the lesson for people who are protesting world wide. Overthrowing governments is treacherous. Knocking on doors and speaking one on one. Just seems healthy and positive.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,492 posts)I called her with congratulations tonight.
Our teachers came out in mass against Bevin.......
Other states should take heed......
SleeplessinSoCal
(9,123 posts)2020 means defending Harley Rouda who ousted Rohrabacher in deep red OC, CA. Door knocking is a must.
SleeplessinSoCal
(9,123 posts)Character witness for Trump?
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)She EARNED this win, and also helped many of her fellow Dems win in my area!
Brava!
SleeplessinSoCal
(9,123 posts)I did a quick search, but can't find it. Wonder if there was White House pressure to fire her....
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)SleeplessinSoCal
(9,123 posts)But the fact that she won makes his tyrannical ways all the more pathetic.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)She wasn't fired for giving Trump the finger but for using the viral picture as a header (for email??) because it included an obscene gesture.
Stinky The Clown
(67,808 posts)Good for her and good for all of us!!!
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)Bernie/Elizabeth or Elizabeth/Bernie 2020!!
Either way, they're stronger together!!
Welcome to the revolution!!!
luvallpeeps
(935 posts)kpete
(71,997 posts)oasis
(49,392 posts)burrowowl
(17,641 posts)StarryNite
(9,447 posts)a kennedy
(29,675 posts)Sogo
(4,986 posts)used that picture in her campaign literature.....
Instantly recognizable and would motivate many to vote for her!
calimary
(81,323 posts)This is a good night! Hope it means more good news a year from now.
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)ffr
(22,671 posts)Lady_Chat
(561 posts)Rhiannon12866
(205,552 posts)Juli Briskman's middle finger launched her political career.
While riding her bike in October 2017, Briskman found herself alongside President Trump's motorcade as it left his golf club in Sterling, Virginia. Briskman raised her hand and flipped the cars off, not knowing that a photographer was behind her, capturing the moment. After the image went viral online, she told her employer, a government contractor, that she was the woman in the photo. Briskman was fired.
Briskman, a Democrat, told The Washington Post that this pushed her into becoming more active in politics, and she volunteered for a congressional candidate and worked at a polling station. She decided earlier this year to run for a seat on the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors, promising to promote more government transparency. The unofficial results of Tuesday's election are in, and Briskman has 52 percent of the vote. She defeated the incumbent, Republican Suzanne Volpe.
"It's feeling fantastic, it's feeling surreal," Briskman told the Post. "The last two years have been quite a ride. Now we're helping to flip Loudoun blue." Her district includes the Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, which she finds amusing. "Isn't that sweet justice?" Briskman said.
Catherine Garcia
https://theweek.com/speedreads/876677/woman-who-famously-flipped-trumps-motorcade-wins-election-virginia
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)betsuni
(25,544 posts)smb
(3,473 posts)One candidate went to a Trump rally. He lost.
One candidate flipped off Trump in public. She won.
Obviously, Trump should quit holding rallies and instead host public venues for other Republicans to stick their middle fingers right in his face for the cameras....