Senator Emmett Hanger is facing the most difficult primary challenge of his nearly 40-year long career.
But his campaign isn’t counting on conservative voters to get him re-elected in the overwhelmingly Republican district he represents.
Instead, Hanger’s campaign has been amping-up operations to turn out Democrats to help him hold onto his seat in the June 11th primary against Republican challenger Tina Frietas.
Challenged From the Right, Hanger Appeals to Democrats to Help Win his GOP Primary
In just under two weeks, Democrats could ultimately decide the outcome of one of the most hotly contested Republican primaries in Virginia.
Longtime incumbent Senator Emmett Hanger (R-24), is being primaried by challenger Tina Freitas.
Freitas, wife of Culpeper Delegate Nick Freitas, has run a campaign centered around Hanger’s vote for Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion in Virginia, as well as his history of voting for tax increases, opposing school choice legislation, and opposing strong 2nd Amendment legislation like Constitutional Carry.
Hanger has also recently come under fire by conservative activists for his vote with the Democrats to pass the “Equal Rights Amendment”, which opponents fear could enshrine taxpayer funding for abortion into the United States Constitution if ratified.
More recently, Hanger drew the wrath of conservatives across his district when he voted to oppose the Hyde Amendment in the 2018 budget, which would have blocked taxpayer funding for the abortion industry.
Hanger’s vote to send taxpayer funding for abortion centers led to him being censured by three of the Republican committees in his district: Culpeper, Madison, and Greene county.
After four years of “repeatedly” voting with Democrats on key issues in the words of the Culpeper County Republican Committee, Hanger is now facing one of the largest conservative revolts in the history of Virginia politics.
And Tina Freitas’ campaign has spent months reminding Republican primary voters about Hanger’s record on each of these issues, which Freitas cites as her core reasons for running against Hanger in the June 11th primary.
But Hanger’s campaign isn’t focused on winning over Republican voters in his overwhelmingly Republican district.
He’s apparently relying on Democrats to bail him out of such a hotly contested race.
With Republicans turning on Hanger after years of watching him vote with Democrats on taxes, the 2nd amendment, abortion, and Obamacare, Hanger’s campaign is now trying an unusual tactic for a Republican seeking the Republican nomination in an overwhelmingly conservative district.
Hanger’s campaign is betting on Democrats coming out to vote in the Republican primary for him.
And Democrats are more than willing to oblige.
Democrats Organize to Knock Doors for Sen. Hanger
New Virginia Press has obtained multiple examples of Hanger’s campaign courting Democratic voters, and Democrats encouraging one another to vote for him in the Republican Primary.
“We really owe a debt to Senator Emmett Hanger. He got Medicaid Expansion passed. I am very grateful to him for that. We need more legislators like Emmett Hanger,” wrote one Democrat on a Facebook post discussing the upcoming 24th Senate District primary.
“What can we do to help him? I fear that Republicans will be turned off by a ‘bunch of Democrats’ canvassing for him,” writes another Democrat.
“If we don’t say anything nobody will know we are Dems. Let’s call his campaign and ask if they would like our help.”
Screenshots of the conversation were obtained by New Virginia Press, and the names of the Democrats were withheld to protect their privacy.
One of the Democrats in the conversation served as a founding member of “Indivisible NOVA West”, a far-left group dedicated to electing socialists to public office.
Their profile picturesfeature former Democratic President Barack Obama, as well as the logo of the socialist advocacy group “Justice Democrats”, which was credited with helping to elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Congress in 2018.
It’s unclear whether the Hanger campaign has accepted their help, but a recent analysis of the 24th District showed that nearly 2,000 Democrats showed up to vote for Hanger in the 2015 Republican Primary, the last time Hanger faced his conservative constituency for re-election.
These Democrats accounted for over 25% of the Republican primary vote in the City of Staunton alone.
Those Democrats played a critical role in helping to secure Hanger’s re-nomination, a fact which the Culpeper County Democratic committee openly admitted.
“In the 24th State Senate Race, Republican, Emmett Hanger is running unopposed because Democrats came out in the Republican primary to make sure he won the nomination. He votes 90% of the time as a Democrat would in that seat,” the Culpeper County Democratic Committee wrote on their Facebook page after Hanger won his previous primary challenge in 2015.
Since then, Hanger has given Democrats even more reasons to support him by voting with their party’s priorities. In the past four years, Hanger has:
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- Joined with Democrats to twice kill School Choice legislation.
- Voted with the Democrats to place then-Governor Terry McAuliffe’s personal pick on the Virginia Supreme Court
- Voted twice to defeat Constitutional Carry.
- Push through Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion in 2018.
- Cast the deciding vote to defeat a budget amendment blocking taxpayer funding of the abortion industry in 2018.
Hanger has also served as the deciding vote to defeat the Hyde Amendment which conservative activists argue would have prevented the transfer of millions of taxpayer dollars to the abortion lobby, including Planned Parenthood.
And he voted with the Democrats’ attempt to pass the Equal Rights Amendment, which conservative critics have challenged would help codify taxpayer funding of abortion into the US Constitution.
Hanger has not been shy about recruiting Democratic support in his re-election bid. In a mail piece obtained by New Virginia Press, Hanger is seen openly courting Democrats to vote for him in the Republican Primary.
“Without Senator Hanger, 400,000 Virginians could lose their healthcare,” warns the mail piece, referring to Senator Hanger’s vote to expand Obamacare in Virginia last year, a move which was championed by Democrats and opposed by nearly all of Senator Hanger’s Republican colleagues.
More telling, the mailer explicitly mentions that Democrats are eligible to vote in the Republican Primary.
“All registered voters can vote in the Republican Primary!” the mailer declares, explaining the process it would take for a Democrat to cast a ballot for Hanger to be the Republican nominee.
The mail piece itself highlights Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion as a key reason for re-electing Hanger to office, despite the massive conservative opposition to the move which helped to prompt Tina Freitas’ primary challenge to Hanger in the first place.
This isn’t the first time that Hanger has courted Democratic support, or that Democrats have openly cheered on Senator Hanger.
Labor Unions, Planned Parenthood, Virginia Democrats Praise Hanger
In Richmond, Hanger is routinely supported by Democrats for his votes to defeat legislation to expand gun rights, restrict taxpayer funding of abortions, raise taxes, and expand Obamacare.
After passing Obamacare Expansion in 2018, the Democrat-friendly Government workers union SEIU praised Hanger.
“Thank you @Emmett_Hanger for your courage and your dedication to fighting alongside working people for #MedicaidExpansion!” tweeted SEIU Virginia shortly after Obamacare Expansion passed with Hanger’s support.
When Hanger was the decisive vote to defeat a budget amendment that would have blocked taxpayer funding for abortions, Democratic activists covering the events at the Virginia capital tweeted Hanger’s opposition to the measure.
Hanger was ultimately the only Republican to vote against the amendment, ensuring its defeat and enabling abortion providers to collect taxpayer dollars from Obamacare Expansion.
Hanger’s vote for Obamacare Expansion was also praised by multiple Democrats, both state legislators and Congressional candidates.
Shortly before the 2018 midterm elections, Democratic Congressional Candidate Jennifer Lewis attacked Republican Ben Cline for his opposition to Obamacare, using Emmett Hanger’s vote for Obamacare Expansion as justification to do so.
Cline went on to win the election and now represents much of the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia’s 6th Congressional District.
Wexton went on to be elected to Congress later that year and now serves in Virginia’s 10th Congressional District, centered in Northern Virginia.
After Hanger successfully voted with the Democrats to pass Obamacare Expansion, Democratic Senate Minority leader Dick Saslaw praised Hanger in a public press conference.
He celebrating Hanger’s budget vote and his role in pushing through Obamacare Expansion, saying, “I can’t say enough good things about Emmett Hanger…we ought to never forget that.”
Saslaw and Norment went on to shake hands at the bill signing, where now disgraced Democratic Governor Ralph Northam signed Obamacare Expansion into law.
Hanger himself ended up embracing Governor Northam at the event, and celebrated with Democratic Lt. Governor Justin Fairfax.
Should Hanger prevail in the June 11th Primary, all signs point to the fact that Democratic support could be critical in deciding the outcome.
Tina Freitas has been attacking Hanger for recruiting the opposing party to support him in his bid for the GOP nod. The election will be held on Tuesday, June 11th and will reveal whose tactics will win out.
Why doesn’t he just run as an independent?
Hanger’s as big of a P.O.S. as our two US senators, Kaine and Warner.
EVERY Republican needs to turn out for the primary and make sure that Tina Freitas wins the nomination, and the election in November.
HANGER MUST GO!!!
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I want to pass along some very important news that everyone needs to hear!
In December of 2017, Donald Trump made history by recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Why is this big news? Because by this the Jewish people of Israel are now able to press forward in bringing about the Third Temple prophesied in the Bible.
Jewish Rabbis have publicly announced that their Messiah will be revealed in the coming years who will be a leader and spiritual guide to all nations, gathering all religions under the worship of one God.
Biblical prophecy tells us that this Jewish Messiah who will take the stage will be the antichrist “who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God” (2 Thessalonians 2:4). For a time he will bring about a false peace, but “Therefore when you see the ‘abomination of desolation,’ spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (Matthew 24:15)…then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be” (Matthew 24:21).
More importantly, the power that runs the world wants to put a RFID microchip in our body making us total slaves to them. This chip matches perfectly with the Mark of the Beast in the Bible, more specifically in Revelation 13:16-18:
“He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666.”
Referring to the last days, this could only be speaking of a cashless society, which we have yet to see, but are heading towards. Otherwise, we could still buy or sell without the mark amongst others if physical money was still currency. This Mark couldn’t be spiritual because the word references two different physical locations. If it was spiritual it would just say in the forehead. RFID microchip implant technology will be the future of a one world cashless society containing digital currency. It will be implanted in the right-hand or the forehead, and we cannot buy or sell without it. Revelation 13:11-18 tells us that a false prophet will arise on the world scene doing miracles before men, deceiving them to receive this Mark. Do not be deceived! We must grow strong in Jesus. AT ALL COSTS, DO NOT TAKE IT!
“Then a third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, “If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives his mark on his forehead or on his hand, he himself shall also drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out full strength into the cup of His indignation. He shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb. And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever; and they have no rest day or night, who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name” (Revelation 14:9-11).
People have been saying the end is coming for many years, but we needed two key things. One, the Third Temple, and two, the technology for a cashless society to fulfill the prophecy of the Mark of the Beast.
Visit http://WWW.BIBLEFREEDOM.COM to see proof for these things and why the Bible truly is the word of God!
If you haven’t already, it is time to seek God with all your heart. Jesus loves you more than you could imagine. He wants to have a relationship with you and redeem you from your sins. Turn to Him and repent while there is still hope! This is forever…God bless!
“EITHER HUMAN INTELLIGENCE ULTIMATELY OWES ITS ORIGIN TO MINDLESS MATTER OR THERE IS A CREATOR…” – JOHN LENNOX
We all know God exists. Why? Because without Him, we couldn’t prove anything at all. Do we live our lives as if we cannot know anything? No. So why is God necessary? In order to know anything for certain, you would have to know everything, or have revelation from somebody who does. Who is capable of knowing everything? God. So to know anything, you would have to be God, or know God.
A worldview without God cannot account for the uniformity and intelligibility of nature. And why is it that we can even reason that God is the best explanation for this if there is no God? We are given reason to know or reject God, but never to know that He does not exist.
It has been calculated by Roger Penrose that the odds of the initial conditions for the big bang to produce the universe that we see to be a number so big, that we could put a zero on every particle in the universe, and even that would not be enough to use every zero. What are the odds that God created the universe? Odds are no such thing. Who of you would gamble your life on one coin flip?
Is there evidence that the Bible is the truth? Yes. Did you know that the creation accounts listed in the book of Genesis are not only all correct, but are also in the correct chronological order? That the Bible doesn’t say the Earth was formed in six 24-hour days but rather six long but finite periods of time? That the Bible makes 10 times more creation claims than all major “holy” books combined with no contradictions, while these other books have errors in them? The Bible stood alone by concurring with the big bang saying, “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth” (Genesis 1:1); and says our universe is expanding, thousands of years before scientists discovered these things. Watch a potential life-changing video on the front page of http://WWW.BIBLEFREEDOM.COM with Astronomer(PhD) Hugh Ross explaining all these facts based on published scientific data. He has authored many books, backed even by atheist scientists.
Jesus fulfilled more than 300 Messianic prophecies concerning His birth place, details of His life, His mission, His nature, His death, and His resurrection. He came to pay a debt that we could not, to be our legal justifier to reconcile us back to a Holy God; only if we are willing to receive Him: “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 6:23).
God so loved the world that He gave us His only begotten son, so that whoever believes in Him, through faith, shall not perish, but have everlasting life. Jesus says if we wish to enter into life to keep the commands! The two greatest commands are to love God with all your heart, soul, strength, and mind; and your neighbor as yourself. All the law hang on these commands. We must be born of and lead by the Holy Spirit, to be called children of God, to inherit the kingdom. If we are willing to humble ourselves in prayer to Jesus, to confess and forsake our sins, He is willing to give the Holy Spirit to those who keep asking of Him; giving us a new heart, leading us into all truth!
Jesus came to free us from the bondage of sin. The everlasting fire was prepared for the devil and his angels due to disobedience to God’s law. If we do the same, what makes us any different than the devil? Jesus says unless we repent, we shall perish. We must walk in the Spirit, producing fruits of love and forgiveness, so we may not fulfill the lusts of the flesh being hatred, fornication, drunkenness and the like. Whoever practices such things will not inherit the kingdom (Galatians 5:16-26). If we sin, we may come before Jesus to ask for forgiveness (1 John 2:1-2). Evil thoughts are not sins, but rather temptations. It is not until these thoughts conceive and give birth by our hearts desire that they become sin (James 1:12-15). When we sin, we become in the likeness of the devil’s image, for he who sins is of the devil (1 John 3:8); but if we obey Jesus, in the image of God. For without holiness, we shall not see the Lord (Hebrews 12:14).
The oldest religion in the world is holiness (James 1:27). What religion did Adam and Eve follow before the fall? Jesus, Who became the last Adam, what religion does He follow? Is He not holy? He never told us to follow any religion or denomination but to deny ourselves, take up our cross daily, and follow Him (Luke 9:23). There are many false doctrines being taught leading people astray. This is why we need the Holy Spirit for discernment. Unlike religion, holiness cannot be created. It is given to us from above by the baptism of the Spirit. Jesus is more than a religion; He is about having a personal relationship with the Father. Start by reading the Gospel of Matthew, to hear the words of God, to know His character and commandments. Follow and obey Jesus, for He is the way, the truth, and the life!
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