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This is Cara Nicole Trujillo. For the past few years, she’s been active on the Arizona cosplay scene. Now, she’s also active on the political one.
Phoenix New Times report that Trujillo is officially running for the Arizona Legislature as a Green Party candidate, appearing on this November’s ballot. On her official site, Trujillo mentions that she personally collected all the necessary signatures to get her name in the upcoming election cycle.
[via 183degree]
“I am serious about this,” Trujillo told the New Times. “I felt it was a good time to run. I’m glad people are deciding they want to get more involved, and I want to give people the opportunity to choose something more outside the red-and-blue party system.”
Her day job is running an indie comic-book publishing house with her husband, but she says she’s been increasingly active in local politics. Trujillo, who was previously married, told the New Times how she’s been lobbying to change laws so that divorced parents can get equal time with their children. She describes herself as willing to work with both Republicans and Democrats and “very pro-limited government.”
[via Facebook]
She’s already campaigned at the Phoenix Comicon, but is aware that her opponents might try to turn cosplay into a political attack. “This is my job,” she says. “People will try to use it against me. If I dress up in a suit, people would say I’m a fraud.”
[via Facebook]
Continuing, she told the New Times that if she won, she’d wear appropriate clothing while legislating in the Capitol.
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On her official Facebook page, she writes, “I will be on the same ballot as the next president of the United States. That isn’t a lot of time and if I am going to show everyone that I am a serious candidate I will need as much support as I can get.”
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14 responses to “A Cosplayer Is Running For Political Office”
If you’re going to show everyone that you’re a serious candidate, you need a seriously good policy platform.
Ohhhh, US candidacy, she’ll be alright then.
Ooooh burn……and extremely accurate sadly.
Our glorious leaders seem hell bent on going down the same road as the USA as well.
Yeah, I did ponder whether we’re any better now. The answer would be: barely.
Well, she sure has a couple things going for her!
She also has nice boobs.
She needs as much support as she can get
For the people, by the people.
I’m going to admit. I’m more than slightly disappointed that I clicked on this article and it wasn’t Barnaby Joyce.
Well he has been Cosplaying as a politician for the last decade.
As has Bob Katter
Did we really need a whole bunch of pictures of her in cosplay breaking up the entire article? At least put them after the article instead of after each sentence…
But it breaks away from the context of person with hobby/employment seeks political office. Because some one has a hobby that could still be defined as offbeat we need to ignore all their political aspirations and policies and bring up the other instead.
Vote for in heart beat
Got my vote! … no … wait… Gosford… damn! 🙁