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Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, as Reed College student leader in 2012, secured funds for Fetish Ball and Renn Fayre events
nypost.com reported on the congresswoman's student senate role at Reed College. She graduated in 2012 after chairing the finance committee and approving several events. She later won Washington's 3rd Congressional District seat in 2022.
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Nypost.com reported that Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, while serving as a student senator and finance committee chair at Reed College in 2012, secured $4,000 for a Fetish Ball that featured a DJ and a dark room. The same student senate allocated funds for the annual Renn Fayre festival, which included a nude jog by students identifying as Picts.
The senate also offered an LSD giveaway at the student union and promoted Nitrogen Day, during which students inhaled nitrous oxide on the quad. Gluesenkamp Perez graduated from Reed College in 2012. Former roommates later described her living arrangements after a breakup, including time in a crawl space above a garage where she offered four feet of rotten avocados as rent payment and never paid rent, according to statements on the COEXIST, Inc.
Podcast. Investigative journalist Dan Boguslaw stated on The Insurgents podcast that Gluesenkamp Perez sold extremely low-quality weed out of a van and moved large quantities of low-quality cannabis by loitering around Reed’s campus after graduation.
Gluesenkamp Perez later served on the Washington Democrats Executive Committee and helped pass a platform that included decriminalizing drugs and sex work.
She voted for a Department of Homeland Security funding package that included $10 billion for ICE. In 2022 she defeated Republican Joe Kent to win Washington’s 3rd Congressional District.
