Nevada GOP Picks First Trans Republican Candidate in U.S. History

[All Along The Watchtower]

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http://www.edgeboston.com/news/politics/News/160695/nevada_gop_picks_first_trans_republican_candidate_in_us_history

[CatoMinor]

teabagging fascists.

[free my dawg]

We already had a transgender state legislator for about three weeks (I think) before she stepped down.

[SUSAN CRUSHBONE]

great news!

[Kevinstat]

I remember reading on one edition of the Almanac of American Politics that the Republican nominee against Bernie Sanders for the U.S. House (Vermont At-Large) in 1998 or 2000, thereabouts, Karen Kewin (sp?), was "a woman who used to be a man."

[Joe Republic]

AD-30 eh?  Good luck there.  Sprinkle (which is an amazing last name, btw) won it 58-43 in 2012.

[Kushahontas]

Trans* Republican woman....how self-loathing do you have to be??

[SamInTheSouth]

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http://www.edgeboston.com/news/politics/News/160695/nevada_gop_picks_first_trans_republican_candidate_in_us_history

Nope, not the first.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Althea_Garrison

[Badger]

AD-30 eh?  Good luck there.  Sprinkle (which is an amazing last name, btw) won it 58-43 in 2012.

What's the area like, Joe? Considering her background and that she apparently ran before as a Democrat, is Scott moderate enough to have greater appeal than whoever was Sprinkle's 2012 opponent? Add likely lower Dem turnout in an off-year election and Sandoval maybe having coattails from a likely enormous win, could Scott maybe make this a race?

[eric82oslo]

Why did she change party lines? :/
Good thing she's endorsed by Brian Sandoval though.

First she transitioned from male to female, then she transitioned from Democrat to Republican. What a flipflopper lol.

[Joe Republic]

AD-30 eh?  Good luck there.  Sprinkle (which is an amazing last name, btw) won it 58-43 in 2012.

What's the area like, Joe? Considering her background and that she apparently ran before as a Democrat, is Scott moderate enough to have greater appeal than whoever was Sprinkle's 2012 opponent? Add likely lower Dem turnout in an off-year election and Sandoval maybe having coattails from a likely enormous win, could Scott maybe make this a race?

I could tell you about each AD in Clark county inside out, as well as most of the candidates running in them.  But unfortunately I know little to nothing about Reno - I've still never even been there - and alas I'd never heard of Scott before this thread. 

[Brittain33]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Althea_Garrison

Althea Garrison is a fascinating case, not only for the circumstances in which she was elected, but also because she has never publicly described herself as transgender or acknowledged it, even though there is a court record of her name change in the 1970s and she is perceived as transgender by her appearance.

[Mister Mets]

I heard about this race a while back. A difference here is that the candidate's background was better known than Althea Garrison's. Any surprised voters can't claim to be deceived. Scott won a competitive primary, and has been active in various LGBT groups.

But it is incorrect for the article to state that she would be the first transgender state legislator.

It'll be an interesting election. The Democrat won with 57 percent in 2012, so it's potentially competitive.

[ilikeverin]

Trans* Republican woman....how self-loathing do you have to be??

Not very.  She seems ambivalent, at best, about the Republican Party: http://www.scottfornevada.com/?page_id=538
And she's very open about her trans status: http://www.scottfornevada.com/?page_id=773

[Badger]

So then she'd be the first OPENLY transgender person elected to a state legislature?

[free my dawg]

So then she'd be the first OPENLY transgender person elected to a state legislature?

The first to serve, but not the first to be elected. NH elected a trans woman in 2012, but she couldn't serve because she was ineligible by law. She had committed a felony and was released on good behavior in 2009 for 10 years, but the AG ruled that "final discharge" meant that she was still under the court's control.