Wichita Falls trans woman running as conservative Republican for Congress
Two Wichita Falls Republicans have announced their candidacies for Texas’ District 13 seat in the U.S. House, and one of those two is a transgender woman, according to TexomasHomepage.com.
Monique Worthy and Kevin McInturff have both said they will be running to replace Rep. Mac Thornberry, the Republican who has held the seat for 24 years. Thornberry announced in late September he would not be running for re-election in 2020. He was the sixth Republican incumbent to announce they would not be seeking another term in Congress.
Worthy — whose campaign website includes a plea for help in either raising the money to pay the filing fee or to get the 500 signatures necessary to file without paying the fee — told TexomasHomepage.com that her campaign slogan is “Make Congress Great Again,” and that she is the “outspoken, openly conservative candidate the 13th district needs.” She said, “Black people are mostly Christian, and we mostly believe in things that the bible teaches us. We believe in not spending so frivolously. … Most of us don’t believe in abortion. You ask any black person around, they want to keep their babies. It was a mistake, but ‘Hey, we have to live with them.'”
Worthy also said she wants to make sure all immigrants that enter the country do so legally, while adding that she doesn’t agree that immigrants are doing the job U.S. citizens won’t do. “I know plenty of Americans who will get out there and work some construction and stuff like that if you paid them the right dollar,” she said.
Read more: https://dallasvoice.com/wichita-falls-trans-woman-running-as-conservative-republican-for-congress/
Cross-posted to the Texas Group.
Transgender Republican candidate Monique Worthy with Sen. Ted Cruz (via Worthy’s campaign website.)
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