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Longtime Dem Donor Doles Out Money To Black GOP Nominee After Racist Attack [Virginia]
Daily Caller ^ | August 29, 2025 | Adam Pack

Posted on 08/31/2025 5:04:54 AM PDT by T Ruth

A longtime Democratic donor publicly displayed his support for Republican Virginia gubernatorial nominee Winsome Earle-Sears’ campaign following a racist attack on the black GOP candidate during a protest outside a school board meeting on Aug. 21.

Robert Johnson, co-founder of Black Entertainment Television (BET) and chairman of asset manager RLJ Companies, contributed $500,000 to Earle-Sears’ campaign, Politico’s Playbook reported on Friday. Johnson, one of the United States’ first black billionaires, said he decided to donate to Earle-Sears’ campaign to stand with the lieutenant governor against a racist attack on her campaign. (RELATED: ‘Tolerant Left’: Black GOP Nominee Blasts White Liberal’s Racist Protest Sign)

Earle-Sears would become the first black female governor in the country if she defeats former Virginia Rep. Abigail Spanberger, the Democratic nominee, in November.

“Madam Lt. Governor. I was so appalled by that racist diatribe displayed by a useful idiot at a recent press event that I chose to show all the voters of Virginia how Black Brothers stand up to defend and support their Black Sisters when confronted with unadulterated racism,” Johnson wrote to Earle-Sears in a statement provided by the GOP nominee’s campaign. “I have always been a good investor and that’s why I’m investing in you.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: sears
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1 posted on 08/31/2025 5:04:54 AM PDT by T Ruth
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To: T Ruth

She’s never-Trump GOP trash but if I lived in Virginia she’d have my vote.


2 posted on 08/31/2025 5:10:04 AM PDT by McCarthysGhost
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To: T Ruth

In America, all politics is racial.


3 posted on 08/31/2025 5:11:19 AM PDT by ComputerGuy
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To: ComputerGuy

Pretty similar to what I was thinking.


4 posted on 08/31/2025 5:12:14 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: T Ruth

The donor is a black separatist (ok by me) who apparently votes/donates based on race instead of values.


5 posted on 08/31/2025 5:13:21 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism. )
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To: T Ruth

A rather large contribution from a BET owner will be a huge crack in the leftist dam.


6 posted on 08/31/2025 5:13:52 AM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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To: ComputerGuy

Go Winsome! She’s holding Spanberger’s feet to the fire, especially on several 80% - 20% woke issues.


7 posted on 08/31/2025 5:19:02 AM PDT by Don@VB (THE NEW GREEN DEAL IS JUST THE OLD RED DEAL)
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To: ComputerGuy
To some it may never completely disappear. I for one will not fault black folks for supporting one another. If they have to wait around for a different pigmented person to save them, may as well be back in chains. Imnsho.

I will also be supporting the Jamaican born immigrant. She has a winning message right there if she could nationalize her contest and shove it right down the illegal supporting lefts' throat.

8 posted on 08/31/2025 5:25:32 AM PDT by Kudsman (Hey,, Democrat, leave them kids alone!)
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To: ComputerGuy

Unfortunately.


9 posted on 08/31/2025 5:30:21 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: quantim

Hopefully big enough to burst it open.


10 posted on 08/31/2025 5:31:00 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Kudsman

I watched Bridgerton. It was so refreshing to see blacks and whites interacting totally ignoring their skin color.


11 posted on 08/31/2025 5:36:56 AM PDT by yldstrk
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To: quantim

I remember the good old days, when there was at least the appearance of donation limits. “contributed $500,000 to Earle-Sears’ campaign”


12 posted on 08/31/2025 5:43:04 AM PDT by armourenthusiast (I loved everything Trump until Epstein coverup)
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To: yldstrk

Brigerton was is progressive racism on display


13 posted on 08/31/2025 5:44:55 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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To: T Ruth
"I chose to show all the voters of Virginia how Black Brothers stand up to defend and support their Black Sisters.

What else would you expect from someone who created black TV channels..

14 posted on 08/31/2025 5:54:18 AM PDT by unread (Next time the devil reminds you of your past, remind HIM of his future...)
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To: unread

“Black” is an American corruptive tragedy that must be eliminated from the lexicon.


15 posted on 08/31/2025 5:58:28 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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To: bert

As long as the Congressional Black Caucus, BET, and Miss Black America exist, racism will continue to exist. Ask yourself if there can be a Congressional White Caucus, WET, and Miss White America and you’ll find the answer.


16 posted on 08/31/2025 6:22:37 AM PDT by sgt_lau (Reject islam. They really do want to kill you.)
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To: ComputerGuy

Very distinct showing back in the mid 1800 hundreds.


17 posted on 08/31/2025 6:28:53 AM PDT by deport
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“Madam Lt. Governor. I was so appalled by that racist diatribe displayed by a useful idiot at a recent press event that I chose to show all the voters of Virginia how Black Brothers stand up to defend and support their Black Sisters when confronted with unadulterated racism,” Johnson wrote to Earle-Sears in a statement provided by the GOP nominee’s campaign. “I have always been a good investor and that’s why I’m investing in you.

This endorsement could be the winning difference, especially in northern VA and in the bigger cities where BET has the biggest audiences.

As a person that never watches BET, you can not, in the words of the elder bush, "misunderestiminate" the power that BET has with blacks.

I have always liked Sears, and while she is not 110% MAGA, compared to that ex-spy, ex-congresscritter slut, she is a gem.

The polls {which I never believe}, seem to be fairly close and good pub from a respected guy like Johnson will help.

18 posted on 08/31/2025 6:46:58 AM PDT by USS Alaska (NUKE THE MOOSELIMB TERRORIST SAVAGES)
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To: Kudsman

I do judge people on their votes for this kind of thing when someone like Condoleeza Rice asserts she is a conservative, yet votes for someone like Barack Obama.

She is either stupid, racist, or is no conservative.

She never came across as stupid to me.

She could be racist for all I know. I don’t know what is in her heart.

But she showed she is no conservative.


19 posted on 08/31/2025 6:50:08 AM PDT by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est.)
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To: McCarthysGhost

Huh?

I thought she was a Trumper.


20 posted on 08/31/2025 6:52:09 AM PDT by nikos1121
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