college. now i don t remember exactly what i was doing at 14, but i will tell you, i was not starting my own business. and ever since, terry has brought the same grit and determination to everything he s done. from public service to business to being a husband, to being a father of five amazing children. so the guy knows how to work hard. and he s persuasive. and terry knows what it means to lead. a lot of times you see candidates say one thing to one group of people and then they act a little bit different with another group of people. they don t seem sincere. they don t want you to know what they re really all about. but with terry, you don t have to wonder what he s going to be like as governor. you ve seen him. he walks the walk. doesn t just talk the talk. as your governor, terry kept virginia on the right track after the great recession. he helped create 200,000 jobs. drove unemployment down in every city and county in virginia. not just in the sections of northern virg
now, i don t remember exactly what i was doing at 14, but i will tell you, i was not starting my own business. and ever since, terry has brought the same grit and determination to everything he s done, from public service to business to being a husband to being a father of five amazing children, so the guy knows how to work hard. and he s persuasive. and terry knows what it means to lead. a lot of times you see candidates say one thing to one group of people, and then they act a little bit different with another group of people. they don t seem sincere. they don t want you to know what they re really all about. but with terry, you don t have to wonder what he s going to be like as governor, because you ve seen it. he walked the walk. didn t just talk the talk. as your governor, terry kept virginia on the right track after the great recession. he helped create 200,000 jobs, drove unemployment down in every city and county in virginia. not just in the sections of northern virgi
For new jobs. where we follow the science when it comes to the pandemic. where we work together and listen to each other and we move this country forward. that s what terry s running on. that s why he wants to be your governor. that s why you ve got to get out there and vote. to make virginia a magnet for good jobs. to make sure our kids can go to school safely. terry talked about it. he s got a plan to boost the minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2024. help give young people like the ones in this audience the education they deserve. make healthcare more affordable for everybody. we ve got half a million virginians getting help on the affordable care act. we could be doing more and terry s going to do it. talking about protecting a woman s right to make her own decisions. to keep guns out of the hands
And terry talked about wanting to work in a bipartisan way with reasonable republicans. you don t have to he s not just saying that for the campaign. he did it when he was governor. he s walked the walk. and by the way, terry s not alone. all across the country, democrats are working to make sure that the wealthiest americans and largest corporations pay their fair share in taxes so we can do things like make child care more affordable. so we can make real progress in the fight against climate change. all across the country, democrats are trying to make it easier to vote. not make it harder to vote. and push back on republicans who are trying to systematically prevent ordinary citizens from making their voices heard. just this past week, some of you
Teaching jobs at risk right here in virginia, and now he s telling you he s very concerned about our kids and our streets. he told some voters in private that he can t talk about a woman s right to choose while he s running, but he said that if he wins, shh, he ll restrict the right across virginia. so, i don t boo. so, how could he claim to be the candidate for women? i don t either. as far as i can tell, the big message of terry s opponent is that he s a regular guy because he wears fleece and he s accusing schools of brainwashing our kids. he s also said he wanted to audit the voting machines used in the last presidential election again. really?