ENDORSED
BY GIFFORDS
Born and raised in the Mon Valley, State Representative Summer Lee is an organizer and attorney who has dedicated her life to ending America’s epidemic of gun violence. In 2017, she jumpstarted her political career by spearheading a successful write-in campaign that transformed her local school board following repeated incidents of violence against local students by police and school administrators. In 2018, she continued to push for change in her community by taking on a 20-year incumbent and winning a seat in the state legislature with over two-thirds of the vote, becoming the first Black woman from Western Pennsylvania ever to do so.
Throughout her time in office, Representative Lee has been a voice for working families and a champion for gun safety legislation in Harrisburg. She supports implementing a ban on assault weapons, expanding background checks to all gun sales, ending protections for corporate gun manufacturers, and passing bold legislation to stop the mass shootings that have become all too common in schools, churches, stores, and cities across America. Representative Lee has also led the conversation in Pennsylvania around community violence—emphasizing that in communities like hers, widespread violence happens in the streets every day and has been ignored for too long. As a legislator, she has fought for needed investments in schools, after-school programs, and wrap-around services so that people have a choice in shaping their own future.
If elected to Congress this fall, Representative Lee will make history once again as the first Black woman to ever represent Pennsylvania in Washington DC. She knows that we have so much more to do to protect our children and families and is ready to do the hard work of legislating to create a better future for our communities. With our gun safety majority on the line this November, we need to elect gun safety champions like Summer Lee, who will always find the courage to act on this life or death issue.
Throughout her time in office, Representative Lee has been a voice for working families and a champion for gun safety legislation in Harrisburg. She supports implementing a ban on assault weapons, expanding background checks to all gun sales, ending protections for corporate gun manufacturers, and passing bold legislation to stop the mass shootings that have become all too common in schools, churches, stores, and cities across America. Representative Lee has also led the conversation in Pennsylvania around community violence—emphasizing that in communities like hers, widespread violence happens in the streets every day and has been ignored for too long. As a legislator, she has fought for needed investments in schools, after-school programs, and wrap-around services so that people have a choice in shaping their own future.
If elected to Congress this fall, Representative Lee will make history once again as the first Black woman to ever represent Pennsylvania in Washington DC. She knows that we have so much more to do to protect our children and families and is ready to do the hard work of legislating to create a better future for our communities. With our gun safety majority on the line this November, we need to elect gun safety champions like Summer Lee, who will always find the courage to act on this life or death issue.
We are proud to endorse Summer Lee for the US House of Representatives.