An Arizona Democratic congressional candidate alleges she was raped by two men in August while repairing a campaign sign in the early morning hours.
Bernadette Greene-Placentia, who is running in Arizonas 8th Congressional District, says the attack occurred on Aug. 14 in Sun City, a suburb of Phoenix, as she worked alone on campaign materials before dawn. According to Just The News, a report filed with the Maricopa County Sheriffs Office and later obtained by local media states that Greene-Placentia told investigators she was knocked unconscious and then sexually assaulted.
The police report notes that Greene-Placentia initially recalled hearing one of the assailants say Democratic b---h before losing most of her memory of what followed. She subsequently told authorities she could not be certain of what she had heard, leaving open questions about whether the attack was politically motivated or a brutal crime of opportunity.
Greene-Placentia, a former long-haul truck driver, did not report the alleged assault until roughly two weeks after the date she says it occurred. She kept the matter private for months, only disclosing it publicly this week in an interview with the Phoenix New Times, which published her account on Wednesday.
Her campaign is widely viewed as a long-shot effort to unseat Republican Rep. Abraham Hamadeh, who secured the seat by 13 percentage points in 2024 and remains a strong favorite in the conservative-leaning district. When it first happened, I didnt want to tell anybody, she said on Wednesday, adding, I dont want my campaign to be about this, and, But women need to know its OK to come forward.
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