Kim Pope Adams Out-raises Taylor, @CollectivePAC Backs Idris O'Connor, Clint Jenkins/Lucas Event, Doug Wilder
➡️ Election Day is 105 days away. Early voting in Virginia starts September 22.
➡️ HD82 - ADAMS OUT-RAISES INCUMBENT KIM TAYLOR. “Kimberly Pope Adams, Democratic nominee for House of Delegates District 82, raised $70,304 in the final 21 days of June, out-raising her opponent, Del. Kim Taylor, for the current reporting period and bringing her total Q2 fundraising to $120,693. In a display of grassroots support, Pope Adams garnered a substantial 422 small-dollar donors in the last three weeks of the Q2 reporting period, as indicated in the latest report,” announced a release from Pope’s campaign after the latest reporting period last week.
➡️ O’CONNOR BACKED BY COLLECTIVE PAC for Prince William County Board of Supervisors. Idris O'Connor, the Democratic Nominee for Coles District Supervisor in Prince William County. The campaign was endorsed by a national political organization, The Collective PAC.
“We are thrilled to endorse Idris’s campaign to represent the Coles District in Prince William County. He is a unifying leader in Prince William with a strong commitment to ensuring that everyone has a chance to live in a safe, healthy, and thriving community in Prince William County,” said Kevin Olasanoye, National Political & Organizing Director for the Collective PAC said in a statement. Collective PAC focuses on under-representation in the Black community in elected seats of power throughout our nation.
➡️ UPCOMING CLINT JENKINS EVENT WITH SENATOR L. LOUISE LUCAS, KAINE. Delegate Clint Jenkins (D) is running for State Senate in SD17 against Republican Emily Brewer. On Monday, July 31, State Senator L. Louise Lucas and Sen. Kaine will headline a meet and greet in Suffolk with Del. Jenkins.
➡️ GOVERNOR WILDER. Norfolk State University students listen to former Virginia Gov. L. Douglas Wilder at the Virginia Office of Attorney General Internship program in Richmond today. The program runs from July 24-July 28.
➡️ BEN CRUMP ON MALCOLM X. Attorney Ben Crump, who has been in Virginia a lot lately handling the alleged wrongful death of Irvo Otieno, and co-counsel Ray Hamlin will hold a press conference tomorrow in New York to discuss what they describe as “bombshell developments” in the alleged assassination conspiracy of Malcolm X. Crump says in a statement that “a key witness who is speaking out for the first time and has objective evidence to corroborate the information he will share.”
“The connection between his death and federal and New York government agencies, including the NYPD, FBI, and CIA has long been contested. The governmental agencies had factual and exculpatory evidence that they fraudulently concealed from the family of Malcolm X and the men wrongly convicted of crimes surrounding the assassination of Malcolm X,” the release reads.
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