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Cyclist who flipped off Trump motorcade wins local office in Virginia
By Paul LeBlanc, CNN
Updated 11:56 PM ET, Tue November 5, 2019
Washington (CNN)The cyclist who flipped off President Donald Trump's motorcade in 2017, and lost her job because of it, has won her bid for local office in Virginia.
CNN projected that Juli Briskman on Tuesday night won her race to become supervisor for the Algonkian District in Loudoun County, Virginia. The win comes just over two years after a photo of Briskman flipping off the President's motorcade as it made its way back to the White House from Trump's golf course in Sterling, Virginia, went viral in October 2017. Her lawyer said she was forced to resign from her job as a marketing executive at Akima LLC over the photo.
Briskman was able to leverage her viral rebuke of Trump into Tuesday's win with a campaign that made the image central to her political message. She announced her campaign on Twitter in September 2018 by sharing a Washington Post article titled "The cyclist who flipped off Trump's motorcade is running for public office." "Today, I am filing my organizational papers in a bid for local office in Loudoun County, Va. Loudoun deserves transparency in government, fully funded schools & smarter solutions to growth," she said. "It's time for a change."
/snip
Speaking to CNN's Jeanne Moos in 2017, Briskman contended she's "really not" the bird-flipping type, but still made her feelings toward Trump clear. "Health care doesn't pass, but you try to dismantle it from the inside," she said. "Five hundred people get shot in Las Vegas; you're doing nothing about it. You know, white supremacists have this big march and hurt a bunch of people down in Charlottesville and you call them good people." "My finger said what I was feeling," Briskman said at the time. "I'm angry and I'm frustrated."
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/05/politics/juli-briskman-trump-motorcade-flipped-off-local-office-win/index.html
By Paul LeBlanc, CNN
Updated 11:56 PM ET, Tue November 5, 2019
Washington (CNN)The cyclist who flipped off President Donald Trump's motorcade in 2017, and lost her job because of it, has won her bid for local office in Virginia.
CNN projected that Juli Briskman on Tuesday night won her race to become supervisor for the Algonkian District in Loudoun County, Virginia. The win comes just over two years after a photo of Briskman flipping off the President's motorcade as it made its way back to the White House from Trump's golf course in Sterling, Virginia, went viral in October 2017. Her lawyer said she was forced to resign from her job as a marketing executive at Akima LLC over the photo.
Briskman was able to leverage her viral rebuke of Trump into Tuesday's win with a campaign that made the image central to her political message. She announced her campaign on Twitter in September 2018 by sharing a Washington Post article titled "The cyclist who flipped off Trump's motorcade is running for public office." "Today, I am filing my organizational papers in a bid for local office in Loudoun County, Va. Loudoun deserves transparency in government, fully funded schools & smarter solutions to growth," she said. "It's time for a change."
/snip
Speaking to CNN's Jeanne Moos in 2017, Briskman contended she's "really not" the bird-flipping type, but still made her feelings toward Trump clear. "Health care doesn't pass, but you try to dismantle it from the inside," she said. "Five hundred people get shot in Las Vegas; you're doing nothing about it. You know, white supremacists have this big march and hurt a bunch of people down in Charlottesville and you call them good people." "My finger said what I was feeling," Briskman said at the time. "I'm angry and I'm frustrated."
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/05/politics/juli-briskman-trump-motorcade-flipped-off-local-office-win/index.html
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"Cyclist who flipped off Trump motorcade wins local office in Virginia" (Original Post)
BumRushDaShow
Nov 2019
OP
"My finger said what I was feeling," Briskman said at the time. "I'm angry and I'm frustrated."
Botany
Nov 2019
#1
I don't know her but I love Her. Who said we're not ready for a Female President? nt
bonniebgood
Nov 2019
#10
Botany
(70,433 posts)1. "My finger said what I was feeling," Briskman said at the time. "I'm angry and I'm frustrated."
Farmer-Rick
(10,134 posts)2. The signs are all in, stick with Traitor Trump and lose your next election.
Trump couldn't step into the state because he was so bad for the RepubliCON party's poll numbers.
Flip off Trump and win your next election.......that is a message from the voters.
Overwhelm the cheat machine.
DinahMoeHum
(21,769 posts)3. Meet Juli Briskman, when she's not riding bicycles. . .
BumRushDaShow
(128,357 posts)5. Thank you for that pic!!!
Cicada
(4,533 posts)4. And Dems took control of board of supervisors
Golf courses often get crazy favorable laws. When I lived in Los Angeles the LA Country Club, with land worth even then 40 years ago maybe a billion dollars, paid property tax of only a few thousand dollars. I think all the land was exempt from property tax. Why? Well Loudon county might reconsider sweetheart laws like that for Trump National. It would be reasonable.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)8. Yes!!!! We also took the whole damned state!!!!
Firestorm49
(4,028 posts)6. I'll drink to that! Here, here.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)7. I voted for Juli! I'm so thrilled and proud she's my County BOS person!
She campaigned very hard - met her a couple of times and I have to say she helped all her fellow dems on the ticket! Good job Juli!
beastie boy
(9,227 posts)9. Amazing what one polite gesture can do to your career!
bonniebgood
(940 posts)10. I don't know her but I love Her. Who said we're not ready for a Female President? nt