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Cincinnati Women Leaders Applaud Biden-Harris Ticket
Special to The Truth
Last week, Cincinnati area
women leaders praised Joe Biden’s selection of Kamala Harris
as his running mate. During a discussion on the damaging
impact Donald Trump’s bungled response to the COVID-19
pandemic has had on Ohio women and families, State
Representative Brigid Kelly, Hamilton County Commissioner
Denise Driehaus, Hamilton County Commissioner Candidate
Alicia Reece, and Hamilton County Sheriff Candidate
Charmaine McGuffey discussed how Joe Biden’s selection of
Kamala Harris as his running mate would deliver the
leadership Ohio women need in these challenging and
uncertain times, particularly among communities of color.
They also underscored the stark contrast between Trump’s
failed leadership and Vice President Joe Biden’s clear plan
to support Ohio women and families during the pandemic and
beyond.
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State Representative Brigid
Kelly: “When women have more opportunity, it means that we
can build a stronger economy, healthier communities and an
America where we can all succeed. Where we can all not just
get by, but we can all thrive. And that America will be led
by the team of President Joe Biden and as we found out
yesterday, Vice President Kamala Harris. But over the last
four years, and particularly over the last six months, our
country has suffered from a total lack of leadership from
the person who was supposed to be in charge of leading this
nation. Donald Trump has failed our country and he has
failed our community. His failure to lead, especially during
a global pandemic has shown a bright light on inequities
that he has no interest in fixing systems that have been
broken for years, and on a total lack of attention to
keeping all Americans healthy. All of this, of course, has
an outsized impact on women and on communities of color when
our systems, our economy, our health care
system aren't working for
some of us – or are disproportionately impacting some folks
– it means these systems are not working. It doesn't have to
be this way. We can reject Donald Trump and his failed
policies and elect Joe Biden and Kamala Harris this
November.”
Hamilton County Commissioner
Denise Driehaus: “We’re excited [about the selection of
Senator Kamala Harris as Joe Biden’s running mate], it’s
historic, and it is probably one of the most important
decisions that Joe Biden is going to make throughout the
course of this campaign and it speaks volumes as to how he
intentionally knows that we need to have women and women’s
voices represented at the table at the top level of
government as we create policies, because in this time – and
we’re going to talk about some of the challenges that exist,
particularly given some of the mismanagement at the federal
level from the president’s office – but it also provides
opportunity in a time where we dig out from some of the
challenges. So, I think Senator Harris is the exact right
person at the exact right time to help lead this ticket to
victory in November. So, speaks volumes about her and her
qualifications, her capacities, but also speaks volumes
about Joe Biden and how he values the voice of
women.”
Hamilton County Commissioner
Candidate Alicia Reece: “One of the things that I do really
like about Joe Biden and Kamala Harris ticket: They've
already released a Lift Every Voice (https://joebiden.com/blackamerica/)
platform for Black families. We know that the wealth in
Black households was already moving towards zero dollars.
Now, you put a pandemic on top of that. With the failed
leadership of Donald Trump and Mike Pence who really just
don’t seem to understand what it’s really like every day to
get up and try to make the ends meet. One of the things I’ve
heard my whole career: I grew up with a minority-owned,
Black-owned business. And that’s how my parents raised all
three of us and put us through college. And it’s very
difficult when you put everything that you have saved up to
into your business and then all of a sudden, the bottom
falls out already. They don't have access to capital, they
can’t get loans. We see redlining coming back up under this
Administration. Banks not loaning
to Black communities and
communities of color, and that’s why there has to be a
change…We need people who have experience who understand the
sense of urgency, America is in a 9-1-1…We need Joe Biden
and Kamala Harris, who will come in on day one and know what
to do…I’m telling you: People are suffering who have never,
ever had to have asked for help in their life. They said
they’ve never seen it this bad. They need help with helping
them bounce back and our team, led by Joe Biden that Kamala
Harris will help us bounce back. We got to get rid of Donald
Trump and Pence…We’ve got to have some people with
experience, understanding.”
Hamilton County Sheriff
Candidate Charmaine McGuffey: “First of all, it’s a historic
choice and a historic moment in our nation's
history...Kamala Harris represents women of color and all
women who have who are representative of accomplishments and
challenges that women have faced across this country and, in
particular, the lack of a cohesive plan to address COVID in
this country that’s resulted in hundreds of deaths,
particularly the thousands of Americans who are Black,
Hispanic, who have been hardest hit, and particularly the
women. And, it reminds me of a story of a lifelong friend of
mine, Julie, who is also a teacher. She was the sole
caretaker of her father, and…he was diagnosed with COVID,
and days later he died. She, then, was tested and had
contracted COVID-19 and...thankfully, she did survive. But
you know, there were moments where she did not even know if
she was going to be able to attend his funeral, because she
couldn’t get test results back. For a week to decide whether
or
not she could pay respect to
her father, and now she’s being told by President Trump that
she needs to return to the classroom. He’s insisting that
she go back and return to a classroom with the uncertainty
of facing this deadly virus. And so, yet again, here’s a
courageous woman—a courageous woman who is going to place
her life in danger in the service of others. And this just
isn’t her story. It’s the story of thousands of women across
this country thousands and thousands and our current
president has failed to protect them – Black women, white
women, women of color who have been doing the heavy lifting
for decades. Kamala Harris is the right woman…And she is a
courageous woman.”
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Copyright © 2019 by [The Sojourner's Truth]. All rights reserved.
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