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Winsome Earle-Sears: “We could have had 800 jobs up here in Northern Virginia, but…”

Featuring: Winsome Earle-Sears, Republican | Lieutenant Governor of Virginia

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One-on-one with Virginia's Republican Governor Candidate Winsome Earle-Sears

Published | Video Starts at 07:09

And we have even added a layer of child care to bring even people back to work who had left the job market. Furthermore, we are bringing in new businesses. We've just announced Afton scientific, for example, 200 new jobs. We could have had 800 jobs up here in Northern Virginia, but we couldn't get the Board of Supervisors of Fairfax county to agree with it. So we want people to go to work and we've created an environment for them to take jobs. But anything you would cut specifically, I'm. Responsible for the state level. (07:09–07:19)

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Asserts that 800 jobs were lost in Northern Virginia due to the Board of Supervisors of Fairfax County's disagreement.

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