Jen Kiggans

Virginia’s 2nd (VA - 02)

Updated: October 4, 2024

Overview

CANDIDATE CPP:
Norfolk: $176

Jen Kiggans went to Washington and left working families behind. Instead of doing what’s in the best interest of Coastal Virginia families, Kiggans is focused on pushing an extreme right-wing agenda in Congress.

Summary

Voters, especially white women who are college-educated, need to see ads on broadcast and cable in the Norfolk media market and on streaming and digital platforms district wide that Jen Kiggans is an extremist who in Washington has voted against the rights and freedoms of Virginia women and servicemembers:

  • Since being in Congress, Kiggans has voted multiple times to restrict abortion access, including voting for a bill that would punish doctors for providing reproductive care, and has called a national abortion ban ‘common sense’. 
  • She celebrated the overturning of Roe v Wade and supports letting politicians ban abortion nationwide, with no exceptions for rape, incest, or the life of the woman– which would overturn current Virginia law that protects abortion access.

Independent voters and white women without a college degree need to see positive ads on streaming and digital platforms district wide that:

  • Missy Cotter Smasal, is a Navy veteran, mother, and former small business owner. After active-duty service as a Surface Warfare Officer who deployed during Operation Enduring Freedom, she ran a local small business, and chose to raise her young children here. She understands that the rising cost of groceries, gas, and everyday expenses is hurting middle-class families. That’s why in Congress, she will hold big corporations accountable for price gouging coastal Virginia families and fight to make everyday life affordable again.

Black voters district wide, especially Black men, need to see ads on streaming and digital platforms, read in the mail, and hear on the radio on the following stations WVKL-FM, WOWI-FM, WVBW-FM, WHBT-FM that Jen Kiggans is a MAGA extremist pushing an extreme right-wing agenda instead of doing what’s right for Virginia families:

  • Kiggans puts corporate profits ahead of people, and votes to make life harder for working families trying to make ends meet. Kiggans has voted against fair wages for workers on public works contracts, voted against sick leave for essential workers, wants to eliminate the Affordable Care Act and strip healthcare from thousands, and voted to cut veterans benefits.
  • Kiggans has put her extreme political views ahead of teaching history accurately to our students. She led an effort to ban educators from teaching accurate history, including potentially about slavery and the civil rights movement. Then she joined with Marjorie Taylor Greene and voted to ban books from classrooms that could include books teaching Black history.

Voters who are registered Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents but less likely to turnout to vote in the below mentioned precincts in Virginia Beach and Suffolk, in addition to all precincts in Franklin City and Northampton, need to hear the following at their doors and in phone calls and read in literature:

  • As a Navy Veteran and leader of a non-profit that honors servicewomen, Missy understands that veterans who served our country with honor deserve the benefits they earned. 
  • She will fight in Congress so veterans can get access to the quality healthcare they earned, including protecting the right for service members to have access to abortion and other reproductive healthcare. She has stood up to Democrats and Republicans when they have tried to cut veterans benefits, and in Congress she will always stand up for veterans.
  • Virginia is the last southern state that doesn’t have an abortion ban in place after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Missy Cotter Smasal will fight MAGA plans to overturn Virginia law and she will protect our freedoms by opposing a national abortion ban. Jen Kiggans has voted multiple times to restrict abortion access, including voting for a bill that would punish doctors for providing reproductive care, and has called a national abortion ban ‘common sense.’ 
  • Growing up in a working class household and running a local small business, Missy understands that the rising cost of groceries, gas, and everyday expenses is hurting middle-class families. That’s why in Congress, she will hold big corporations accountable for price gouging coastal Virginia families and fight to make everyday life affordable again.

Additional Resources

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  • Jen Kiggans should be identified as a MAGA extremist and a teammate to Marjorie Taylor Greene.
  • Black voters should see visuals of Kiggans and Trump next to each other.
  • Voters should hear from Kiggans in her words about how Kiggans and Marjorie Taylor Greene want the same things. 
  • White women with college degrees and voters that live in Virginia Beach need to see more negative communication on Jen Kiggans. 
  • Voters in the following precincts in Virginia Beach should be prioritized to hear messages on their doors and in phone calls –  35, 85, 60, 63, 70, 23, 37, 42, 39, 41, 53, 57, 22, 99, 1, 51, 78, 86, 14, 71, 44, 48, 88, 72, 11, 18, 89, 49, 94, 75, 62, 87, 38 and 54.
  • Voters in the following precincts in Suffolk should be prioritized to hear messages on their doors and in phone calls – precincts 301 White Marsh, 401 Airport, 605 Mack Benn Jr, 104 Bennetts Creek, 602 Olde Towne, 603 Elephants Fork, 202 Chuckatuck, 306 Deerfield, 101 Belleharbour, and 501 Kilbys Mill.

Jen Kiggans Preliminary Research




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