I'm not sure Valentina Gomez, the 24-year-old running for Missouri secretary of state, knows what being secretary of state even entails...?
Each state in the U.S. has a secretary of state whose work is largely administrative—that is, record keeping, registering businesses, and, of course, come election season, administering state elections and overseeing results. It’s hardly glamorous stuff, but it’s important—in 2020, faithful secretaries of state were a key line of defense against former President Trump’s attempts to steal the presidency.
Her website spews a range of anti-LGBTQ and particularly anti-trans nonsense, even referring to health care services available to trans youth as “the transgender industry.
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