A woman who accused President Donald Trump of kissing her without consent in 2005 is running for a seat in the Ohio state legislature because she feels her story has been ignored.
Rachel Crooks claimed in October 2016 that Trump kissed her on the lips near an elevator bank at Trump Tower in 2005. Now, she’s running for office in an effort to be a voice for the voiceless. “I think my voice should have been heard then, and I’ll still fight for it to be heard now,” she told Cosmopolitan magazine. “Americans are really upset with politics as usual, and I want to be a voice for them.”
Crooks added that she doesn’t want her status as a Trump accuser to be the driving force behind her campaign. “I think there will be a lot of people who see value in [my campaign]. But I hope more so because I’m a viable candidate rather than a participant in the #MeToo movement,” she said.
Rachel Crooks, who accused President Donald Trump of kissing her without her consent, is now running for a seat in the Ohio state legislature. https://t.co/M10dYyQxUU pic.twitter.com/usTZnZwOX9
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Crooks currently serves as the director of international student recruitment at Heidelberg University, a private liberal arts school in Tiffin, Ohio. She’s running for Ohio’s House District 88, represented by Republican State Rep. Bill Reineke. Apparently, fellow members of Crooks’s “liberal resistance group,” Seneca County Rising, encouraged her to run for office.
“I think like a lot of women, because we’ve been historically underrepresented in politics, I didn’t necessarily see myself in this role,” she told Cosmo. “But multiple people encouraged and said, ‘I think you would be great.’ Once you hear it a few times, you start to believe it a little bit, and fully consider it. Once I sat down and mulled it over, I felt like it really was a duty that I had, that I should take on this responsibility firsthand and try to make a difference for other people.”
Crooks is part of a reported “record number of women” running for office in an effort to fight the GOP. But if they run on a platform of disparaging men and preaching equality while actually demanding superiority, they’re not going to be very successful at the polls.
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