A Republican who filmed herself harassing a trans woman lost her election. By a lot.
By Alex Bollinger · Thursday, June 7, 2018
A Republican candidate for California’s house just lost her primary.
In May, Jazmina Saavedra streamed video of herself harassing a transgender woman in a Denny’s bathroom. For half an hour, Saavedra paced in the restaurant, shouted at the transgender woman through the stall wall, and laughed with a friend about how she carries a stun gun and pepper spray for situations like that.
“So, that guy is violating my right to use the ladies’ room here, and he’s saying he’s a lady! Stupid guy,” Saavedra said in the video, which Facebook removed.
On Tuesday, Saavedra soundly lost the primary election for California’s 44th House District, getting 10% of the vote behind Democrat Nanette Barragan (66%) and Democrat Aja Brown (17%).
California has a “top two” primary system where candidates of all parties run in the same election, and the top two vote-getters face off in the general election. In some districts, this results in general elections with two candidates from the same party.
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