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    VIRGINIA STATE LEGISLATOR DANICA ROEM’S ROAD MAP FOR PROTECTING LGBTQ KIDS

    Apr 29, 2022 4 minutes
    BY MADELEINE CARLISLE/MANASSAS, VA.

    SETTLING DOWN WITH A CHAI LATTE IN A coffee shop in Manassas, Va., Danica Roem acknowledges that some of the rumors about her are true. She did once do a keg stand on camera while people yelled, “Suck it!” But she insists that she never threw that keg out the window, as an old Facebook post alleged.

    The post in question was dug up by Roem’s opposition research on herself during her 2017 run for the house of delegates to represent Virginia’s 13th district—a blend of exurbs and historic battlefields roughly an hour south of Washington, D.C.—where she ultimately defeated the incumbent Republican to become the first openly to reclaim the power of moments other politicians might hope to keep buried, detailing stories her opponents have tried to use against her.

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