Sandra Fluke: Activist Made Famous By Rush Limbaugh Slur Lowers Political Ambitions


Sandra Fluke is lowering her political aim.

Just a day after reports said the Democratic activist was planning a run for Congress in California, Fluke announced that she was instead seeking a seat in the State Senate.

“While I strongly considered offering my candidacy for Congress,” Fluke said in a statement, “I feel there is a better way for me to advance the causes that are important to our community.”

Aaron Blake of The Washington Post had reported Monday that Fluke filed papers with California’s Democratic Party to seek nomination in the state’s 33rd Congressional District. The district covers much of the western portion of Los Angeles, including parts of West Hollywood, Beverly Hills, and Santa Monica.

Henry Waxman is the current representative in the district, but announced last week that he would retire after more than 40 years in Congress.

After the report was published, an adviser for Fluke contacted the Washington Post to say that she was simply keeping her options open.

“It is not the same as her announcing her candidacy,” the adviser said of her filing.Sandra Fluke rose to public stature in 2012 when the then-unknown Georgetown law student was invited to testify before Congress regarding birth control coverage in insurance packages. She asserted that birth control could cost a female law student $3,000 over the course of her law school career, leading conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh to accuse Fluke of demanding that she be “paid to have sex.”

“What does that make her?” Limbaugh said. “It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute. She wants to be paid to have sex. She’s having so much sex she can’t afford the contraception. She wants you and me and the taxpayers to pay her to have sex.”

The comments sparked a national boycott against Limbaugh’s show, and by May of last year 48 of the top 50 advertisers on his then-network Cumulus asked that their ads be excluded from his broadcast.

If Sandra Fluke is elected to office, she would be one of 40 state Senators in a state with a reputation for taking on progressive state measures, including same-sex marriage and marijuana.

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