There’s little doubt congressional candidate Alejandra Campoverdi is a Democrat…
Campoverdi is running for California’s 34th district to succeed Rep. Xavier Becerra and while she sees nothing sexist about posing for a men’s magazine while wearing sexy lingerie, it is sexist if you draw attention to the photos.
She also condemns men for casting “leering glances” her way.
Nowthat LAT Pub Beutner got bounced,who gets custody of his personally-hired Dep.Managing EditorAlejandra Campoverdi? pic.twitter.com/stKBRYA356
— Hollywood Highlands (@Hollywooddems) September 12, 2015
In an essay published by Cosmopolitan magazine, Campoverdi goes on the offensive, pushing back against any attention to the 2004 photos by claiming there’s a “double standard” in politics.
“Sexism and misogyny are nothing new in politics,” the candidate wrote. “Female political staffers and politicians have been facing off-color comments and leering glances and have been excluded from ‘at capacity’ meetings for decades.”
This, by @ACampoverdi, is an important first-hand look at sexist double standards in politics: https://t.co/JWcrxOex0p
— Lauren Duca (@laurenduca) March 17, 2017
The former Maxim model worked as an unpaid intern on then Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign and secured a White House gig after he was elected president.
FRAILTY THY NAME IS WOMAN — Alejandra Campoverdi, a strong, talented, young woman who's pushing adversity aside. https://t.co/PSjYbyk4hO pic.twitter.com/ptq9eqOjmZ
— World News Focus (@WorldNewsFocus) March 8, 2017
Campoverdi, a Mexican-American who graduated from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government with a master’s degree in public policy, said that’s when she became a real victim of misogyny.
“One week into the job, photos from an old shoot for Maxim surfaced and spread like an arsonist’s fire,” she explained. “Right behind the photos followed the hotter, more humiliating blaze of unveiled snark that pointedly implied that I didn’t deserve what I’d accomplished and had been overambitious for even trying in the first place.”
And when a newspaper inquired about the sexy photos recently, Campoverdi said, “enough already.”
“Now, eight years later, as I run for Congress, I understand a lot more about the systemic sexism in politics than the young woman who beat herself up and took all the shaming so personally,” she wrote.
“Yet when I recently found myself forced to answer questions about Maxim by a reputable newspaper in my official announcement for Congress, I knew I had to speak out about this double standard.”
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The longest-tenured writer at BizPac Review, Tom grew up in Maryland before moving to Central Florida as a young teen. It is in the Sunshine State that he honed both his passion for politics and his writing skills.
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