LGW statements on election night poll results

REDMOND – Following the poll results dropping in Washington State regarding the three initiatives on Washingtonians’ ballots, Let’s Go Washington founder, Brian Heywood, issued the following statement on I-638.

“This is a victory for girls like Frances, Ahnaleigh, Sadie, Bayley, Charlie, Sierra, and countless others who have been told time and again by the majority party that their voices and opportunities don’t matter. The opposition was working overtime to tell these girls that their experiences were made up and didn’t matter. Tonight, those girls see that well over a million Washingtonians stand with them and care that their sports are safe and fair. Voters have your backs. Five years from now, I hope girl athletes don’t know this fight took place, because that will mean that boys know their place is not in girls’ sports.

We saw the ugliest side of the opposition during this campaign: grown adults bullying young girls, spreading lies about the initiative, physically and verbally attacking people who disagreed with them. Tonight is a testament that that evil will not win in our state.

To every female athlete who wondered whether her voice mattered: tonight, Washington heard you.”