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Lt. Gov.-elect Sears

Lt. Gov.-elect Sears

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‘I’m tired of fighting people who look like me’

Lt. Gov.-elect Winsome Sears rails against criticism she said is leveled against her by the Black community

Just days before Winsome Sears’ historic swearing in Saturday, Jan. 15, as Virginia’s first female lieutenant governor and the first African-American woman elected to statewide office in the Commonwealth, she sounds more like a woman under siege than someone poised to enter the history books.