Posted on 07/18/2025 10:02:22 AM PDT by Steven Scharf
ICYMI: Virginia GOP Gubernatorial Candidate Winsome Earle-Sears Campaign Funded By Known Nazi Sympathizer July 10, 2025
In response to reporting detailing Virginia gubernatorial candidate Winsome Earle-Sears’ campaign receiving donations tied to a known Nazi sympathizer, DNC Deputy Communications Director Abhi Rahman released the following statement:
“MAGA extremist Winsome Earle-Sears gladly took the money of a Nazi sympathizer to fund her losing campaign — despite once condemning that very action. The company you keep matters. Working Virginians have a choice this election — a candidate who associates with Nazis or a candidate who will spend every day fighting for working Virginians.”
Heartland Signal: Virginia GOP gubernatorial candidate took money from a Nazi re-enactor from Ohio
By Richard Eberwein
Virginia Lt. Gov. and 2025 gubernatorial candidate Winsome Earle-Sears (R) received campaign donations from a known Nazi sympathizer in Ohio, despite criticizing a fellow politician for doing the same.
According to Virginia Public Access Project, Earle-Sears has received nine $100 monthly payments to her Political Action Committee Winsome PAC from Richard Iott between August 2024 and May 2025.
During his congressional run, The Atlantic revealed that Iott was an active member of the Wiking group, which devoted itself to re-enacting battles conducted by the 5th Panzer Division of the Nazi German army during World War II. According to the Toledo Free Press, Iott participated in several Nazi re-enactments between 2002-08 while donning a Waffen-SS uniform.
Historians told The Atlantic that the Wiking reenactors greatly sanitizes the real Waffen-SS and overlooks the group’s atrocities.
Earle-Sears, who won the Republican primary for Virginia’s 2025 gubernatorial election last month, previously criticized a fellow GOP candidate for taking money from a Nazi sympathizer while she was actively accepting money from Iott. During an appearance on “The John Fredericks Show” in March, Earle-Sears bashed former Republican Senate candidate Corey Stewart for his financial support from Paul Nehlen, a former congressional candidate from Wisconsin with ties to Nazi meme culture online.
“But then he went ahead and bought the list of an avowed Nazi,” Earle-Sears said. “Why would you do that. Why do you want money from him and why do you want money from his folks, his side?”
I get regular updates from the DNC since they think I am someone from another state. This came across the transom in an email so I goggled it to find the article above.
Gubernatorial campaigns receive hundreds of contributions and cannot possible vet the contributors to see if they are good or bad people.
$900 is just a drop in the bucket on her campaign. Not sure how it is done in Virginia, but in Maine candidates cannot coordinate with a separate PAC. Looking up the info, the Winsome PAC is indeed a separate PAC that is connected to the campaign. But they do things differently in Virginia as the Winsome PAC has contributed at lease $900K to the main campaign fund.
https://www.vpap.org/ Shows Earle-Sears has raised 11.6 million, but at least $900K of that appears to be double counted.
Spanberger has raised $27 million. She does not appear to have a separate PAC for her gubernatorial race.
Georgy Schwartz?
All the fired fedzilla agency bunch are forming homogenized hit squads with the media and press. 20,000 bitter beltway ex employees with laptops and an internet connection are very busy on a vengeance campaign.
The Dims are the party that illegally got $40 million to $50 million of funding through Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF). And they have the audacity to point to nine $100 donations to a GOP candidate?
Which is only an issue when the democrats claim it’s a republican.
All the democrats funded by $oro$ are ignored completely, as if it never happened.
How original.
The entire Left and Democrat Party are Communist sympathizers, and are funded almost exclusively by Communist sympathizers (other than our stolen tax dollars).
Tes, you know how those NAZIS like Black folks and Jews.
So if a random person sends a candidate a check, or multiple checks are they supposed to do a deep dive into who the donation came from?
If so, someone should set up a shell organization espousing horrible things and sending equally horrible Dems small donations. Then label them as ideologically aligned.
Fake, but Sears needs to get FAR more aggressive on the issues than she has been. Her ads so far will put you asleep. Being black won’t elect her.
Suffering from Democrat party fatigue?
Its very ironic seeing Dems scream NAZI over everything when they support Hamas, who are LITERAL Nazi’s but that’s different after all Hamas just kills Jews so all good
Ah, yes. Always looking out for their best interests.
Believe me when I say you are 100% correct and they are beyond viscous.
Yep.
So every Civil War re-enactor that wears a Confederate uniform is really a slave owner?
If I were him I would sue. Labeling a reenactor a “Nazi Sympathizer” is defamation
It almost sounds like the GOP power brokers are purposely ignoring Winsome, allowing her campaign energies to dry up and twist on the vine. Just passively running out the clock, instead of giving her professional advice and campaign funding. I guess, in some ways, The Turtle still rules, even as he sits at home, alone in his murky swamp. What a pity.
Yep, she’s a black Nazi, white supremacist sympathizer who probably has ties to the KKK. We got it DNC.
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