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Related: About this forumTwo transgender candidates named 'Misty' win primaries
Politico:Primary voters in Utah and Colorado selected transgender women to run for spots in Congress next fall a first in major-party American political history.
Misty K. Snow will run against tea party favorite Sen. Mike Lee in Utah this November, while Misty Plowright will challenge Rep. Doug Lamborn in Colorado. Both women will face uphill battles this fall: Snow in Republican-heavy Utah and Plowright in Colorados 5th congressional district, the most conservative in the state.
Snow, a 30-year-old grocery store clerk from Salt Lake City, beat her primary opponent by nearly 20 percentage points. She ran to the left of her more moderate opponent Jonathan Swinton, criticizing him for supporting limitations on abortion rights, according to a Salt Lake Tribune report.
Plowright, who is 33 years old and works in IT, was similarly successful in her district, located near Colorado Springs, Colorado. She earned the Democratic nomination there by winning more than 13,000 votes while her opponent earned just over 9,600.
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Two transgender candidates named 'Misty' win primaries (Original Post)
brooklynite
Jun 2016
OP
Speaks highly of the Democrats in those districts, especially considering the convervatism that
Bluenorthwest
Jun 2016
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cosmicone
(11,014 posts)1. Colorado I can understand
but Utah?
Things must be getting more progressive all around.
brooklynite
(94,591 posts)2. Nobody said either would be competitive in the GE.
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)3. True ... n/t
forjusticethunders
(1,151 posts)4. Still major history though.
This would have been utterly unthinkable even *one* year ago. Yeah they'll get beaten badly and I hope the race doesn't get as transphobic as I think it will. But a major advance nonetheless.
Keep in mind there are only 2 trans national legislators *total* in the entire Western World, both of them in very very leftist (by US standards) Latin American governments.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)6. Speaks highly of the Democrats in those districts, especially considering the convervatism that
surrounds them, that's Colorado's most conservative district and Utah is Utah. Good for them.
merrily
(45,251 posts)5. What victories! Heartfelt congratulations to them.