Hey folks!
Wanted to bring your attention to a brilliant candidate running in the 10th Congressional District. Allison Friedman is a lifelong human rights activist and worked at the State Department as a senior official under the Obama administration. She also worked in the national security sector on issues relating to transportation infrastructure and human rights, and co-founded a nonprofit to combat human trafficking. She's really awesome and she's the Democratic Candidate who will bring real change and progress to Virginia, through the empowerment of millenials, women, and our immigrant communities here in Northern Virginia.
Check out her Website Here:
https://alisonforvirginia.com/meet-alison
Allison on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/AlisonforVA/
Allison on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/AlisonforVirginia/
Watch Allison in her Speech:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfaK4g-e2Tw
Sign Up to be a part of Team Allison:
https://alisonforvirginia.com/get-involved
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Article about Allison from Teen Vouge:
“This is a key race. If the Democrats are going to take the House in 2018, this is a must-win for them,” Tom Davis, a former Republican congressman from Virginia who chaired the National Republican Congressional Committee, tells Teen Vogue. After ordering a pressed green juice and settling into the high-top metal chair next to mine, Friedman explained that her desire to stand up to the president — who she calls “the embodiment of abuses of power” — emboldened her to throw her hat in the ring.
She used this wording on purpose. Friedman described working in places like Congo, Thailand, and Brazil as a State Department official in the Obama administration where she focused on combating human trafficking. She says she was fighting abuses of power then. And that’s what she intends to do now.“When I would ask survivors and activists what we could do for them, they would say, ‘Make sure your rights are secure [in the U.S.],’” she said, pausing before continuing with greater urgency. “They said, ‘If America stops protecting its values, there is no backstop for us.’”
This, combined with a letter her daughter wrote to President Trump after the 2016 election, inspired Friedman to run for office. As Friedman describes in an emotional campaign video, Olivia wouldn’t let her mother take a picture of that letter because she was afraid that Trump would see it and “bring his guns” to their house. Friedman recounts in the video, “it made me feel like, if she can write that letter believing it endangers herself, I can do more.”
And while this is her first time running for office (unless you count the one time she ran for fifth-grade class treasurer), Friedman, the daughter of two activists, has advocacy coursing through her veins. She answered phones for Al Gore’s campaign and went on to work as executive director of ASSET, an anti-slavery NGO founded by actress Julia Ormond, before being tapped by the Obama administration.
In seventh grade, she confronted a male science teacher after he made sexist remarks in class. She studied political science at Stanford, and sign language — a skill that she’s lost over time, save the ability to sign choice ’90s boy-band lyrics, she told me, laughing as she gesticulated, “I want it that way.” Friedman wants to empower the next generation. When it comes to that demographic, Friedman believes in incentivizing creativity and opening up opportunities for innovation. On Comstock’s activism regarding sexual harassment, Friedman says, “I’m glad Barbara Comstock has been talking about this issue. But I think her commitment would be more meaningful if she was working as hard to hold the president accountable for his sexual assault.”
Half of the Republican seats that were flipped blue in Virginia’s local House of Delegates elections are located in Virginia’s 10th, Friedman says. They were all won by first-time candidates, most of them women.
So Friedman, who spent upwards of 50 hours knocking on doors for these delegate candidates in her district, like Danica Roem, has reason to feel confident. She has raised over $1 million since announcing her bid in early June 2017, garnering support from celebrities such as Jennifer Garner and Barbra Streisand to surpass her Democratic challengers in fundraising.
“The 10th has become, in the Trump era, a deep blue sea of almost-impossibility." “That’s why you see such a crowded field, because people are realizing, All I have to do is win this primary and I’m going to Congress,” Tribbett says of the Democratic candidates. Republicans I talked to, on the other hand, think it’s more complicated and say that the primary will be messy.
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Hope you can come out to support Allison and help her get elected this summer!!!
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