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Lesbian Democrat Running For Congress Faces Multiple Allegations Of Unwanted Sexual Advances


Democrats claim to be the party of gender equality, so perhaps it makes sense that days after Eric Swalwell resigned from Congress amid multiple sexual misconduct claims, a woman campaigning for Congress began facing similar allegations.

Salt Lake City Councilwoman Eva Lopez Chavez is running to represent Utah in the House of Representatives, but her campaign hit a rough patch this week when a quartet of women accused her of making unwanted sexual advances.

The Daily Caller had this report:

“If a man had done that to me, would there be a question if it was assault or not?” Democratic Salt Lake City Councilwoman Victoria Petro said to the Tribune. Petro said that López Chávez, an out lesbian who describes herself as a “queer Latina,” pushed her against a wall during a September 2022 party and told her, “The only reason I still fuck men is because a woman hasn’t shown me what I really want.”

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Democratic Utah state Sen. Jen Plumb said she initially dismissed a November 2022 incident when López Chávez pushed her against a wall and asked if she was “sure” she wasn’t attracted to women.

“I’ve got to do some work on why I saw it that way, but I would not be comfortable with someone doing that to my daughter, to my mom, my best friends and I’m not comfortable with it being brushed away anymore,” Plumb told the Tribune, saying that López Chávez definitely made “a sexual advance.”

Democratic Utah state Rep. Hoang Nguyen, who also runs a medical cannabis company and works in a investment group, recounted a 2022 incident in which she and López Chávez were departing from a campaign event for Plumb. López Chávez asked Nguyen for a ride to her car before asking Nguyen to pull over, the state lawmaker told the Tribune.

News of the serious allegations quickly began to spread via social media:

Here’s her full response:

TheBlaze provided additional details:

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“She is prepared to address them in any forum. She stands ready to submit to a polygraph test regarding these various allegations if requested,” reads a statement from her attorney, Greg Skordas, to the Salt Lake Tribune.

Three of the accusers said they told others about the interactions at the time, and the Salt Lake Tribune said they confirmed the claims. All the alleged interactions occurred before Chavez was elected to the city council.

The accusers said they went public now partly because Chavez was running for office in the U.S. Congress and had castigated another politician over crude jokes he previously made about sexual battery and domestic violence.

“Our communities deserve leaders who take these issues seriously — not just in rhetoric but in conduct,” Chavez said in a statement about Democrat state Sen. Nate Blouin. “We cannot excuse behavior — past or present — that trivializes or undermines the seriousness of sexual violence, assault, and harassment.”

Here’s an interview with one of Chavez’s accusers:

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