‘A racist as the face of this district?’

Westrongly support Dr. Cameron Webb to represent Virginia’s 5 th Congressional District. He has deep roots in this area and has dedicated his life to service and caring. He is a moderate Democrat who wants to heal. He is an attorney and a physician who is a practicing internist, teacher, and the Director of Health Policy and Equity at UVA’s School of Medicine.

Yet Webb is being attacked in mailings, digital ads, and TV ads promoting racist and other lies along with a barrage of distortions from his far right-wing opponent Bob Good. We have seen these ads and we are disgusted. Good hopes that prejudice and racism will dominate and get him elected. If that happens, we have a racist as the face of this district. As such, he will be useless in our Democratic Congress. Without power or credibility, he can bring nothing back to our district.

Let’s compare our choice.

Webb seeks to extend the Affordable Care Act to assure that the cost of insurance is affordable, and its problems corrected. He will protect coverage for those of us with pre-existing conditions and women’s access to health care. He will ght to preserve our environment. He will make sure that the police are well-funded and that they have the support they need to respond to mental health crises.

Good will do everything he can to destroy our health care coverage for the middle class. He will ght to limit women’s access to reproductive health care. He will ght against marriage equality. He will vote with corporate interests even when they will a ect our clean air and water.

And both candidates will support people’s right to own guns.

Cameron Webb goes high when his opponent goes low. Even in a tough race, he does not sink to the level of his opponent.

Our choice — and hopefully yours — is Dr. Webb for Congress.

EVE BROOKS, BETSY DIETEL, KIT GOLDFARB, DAN LANIGAN, MIKE SANDS