Democratic House candidate says she was raped while repairing campaign signs

A candidate for Congress in Arizona on Wednesday said she was raped in August as she repaired campaign signs.

Bernadette Greene-Placentia, the Democratic candidate for the state’s 8th Congressional District, said she was sexually assaulted around 2 a.m. on a Friday evening that month in a parking lot as she carried out her nighttime routine of repairing campaign signs, something she said she often does to avoid the heat and traffic.