Bringing government to heel! Virginia’s Republican Lt. Gov Winsome Sears uses her patent leather STILETTO to bring state Senate to order after prankster stole gavel
- Virginia’s new Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears used her patent leather high heel to bring the state Senate to order Monday
- A prankster stole her gavel and hid it
- ‘One shoe can change your life. Just ask Cinderella,’ Sears said as she banged the black heel on the podium
- Washington Post reporter Laura Vozzella tweeted a close-up photo of the shoe in question, with Sears responding, ‘Resourcefulness- never underestimate it!’
Virginia‘s new Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears used her patent leather high heel to bring the state Senate to order Monday, after a prankster stole her gavel and hid it.
‘One shoe can change your life. Just ask Cinderella,’ Sears said as she banged the black heel on the podium.
Washington Post reporter Laura Vozzella tweeted a close-up photo of the shoe in question, with Sears responding, ‘Resourcefulness- never underestimate it!’
Virginia’s new Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears used her patent leather high heel to bring the state Senate to order Monday, after a prankster stole her gavel and hid it
‘One shoe can change your life. Just ask Cinderella,’ Sears said as she banged the black heel on the podium
Sears was sworn-in in January as lieutenant governor and made history as the first black woman to hold statewide office in Virginia, the commonwealth that once held the capital of the Confederacy.
Sears is Jamaican-born and ran on being pro-Second Amendment and against so-called ‘critical race theory.’
She’s a Marine Corps veteran and a former director of a homeless shelter.
She and the new GOP governor of Virginia, Glenn Youngkin, were able to take advantage of the political trends in November’s off-year election.
Before Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe won his race in 2013, Virginia had gone 36 years electing a governor who was in the opposing party of the occupant in the White House.
McAuliffe, the 2021 Democratic gubernatorial nominee, hoped to break that trend again, but lost to Youngkin and Sears by 2 points.
In Virginia, governors are barred from running for re-election after one term, but can run again afterward, like McAuliffe did.
He was trying to keep the governor’s mansion blue after the scandal-ridden term of Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam.
Sears, like Vice President Kamala Harris, presides over the state Senate and, also like Harris, can cast a tie-breaking vote.
The Virginia state Senate consists of 40 members and Democrats hold a slim majority of 21 to 19.
Last week, Sears cast her first tie-breaking vote, on a bill that would allow a criminal defendant to appeal a judge’s sentencing.
Sears voted no on the matter.