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The Democratic candidate for Congressional District 8 strolled across a parking lot to repair a damaged campaign sign. It was a routine she\u2019d followed all summer. This time, she only made it a few yards.\u00a0\nAn attacker smashed her over the head. She blacked out. She woke up to find a strange man on top of her.\u00a0\nGreene-Placentia struggled to open her eyes. She felt a sharp pain below her waist. The attacker was pulling his penis out of her.\u00a0\nShe heard him mumble something like, \u201c-ic bitch, not a very good fuck,\u201d which her mind filled in as \u201cDemocratic bitch,\u201d she recalled. She wasn\u2019t sure that was exactly what he said.\u00a0\n\n\nSign up for our free weekly newsletter for a recap on politics, dining, culture, music and more\n\n\n\nEditor's Picks\n\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTeenager encounters terror at Tempe frat party\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHamadeh goes to bat for infamous accused rapists Andrew and Tristan Tate\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRuben Gallego yanks Graham Platner endorsement over rape claim\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n\nOne leg was out of her jean capris. She wore brand-new tennis shoes and a campaign T-shirt. Another man came over. Greene-Placentia felt his weight nudging her left leg further apart. She began swinging her foot at him. \u201cNot even worth it,\u201d she heard the man say as he moved away. He wore black boots and had small feet, she recalled.\u00a0\nThe two men left Greene-Placentia face down in the parking lot. The hatch of her silver Jeep Grand Cherokee was still open. The car was still running. She heard music.\u00a0\nShe doesn\u2019t remember pulling up her pants or picking herself off the asphalt parking lot. She doesn\u2019t remember closing her Jeep\u2019s hatch and putting her foot on the gas. She doesn\u2019t remember pulling her car into the driveway and collapsing into her bed.\u00a0\n\u201cIt\u2019s just these little tiny flashes of things that I do remember,\u201d Greene-Placentia said in an interview with Phoenix New Times. \u201cAs much as I don\u2019t want to remember, I\u2019ve tried very, very hard to remember more stuff. But that\u2019s where I\u2019m at.\u201d\n\nGreene-Placentia is a longtime long-haul trucker who moved to the district with her husband in 2017. She\u2019s challenging MAGA Republican Rep. Abe Hamadeh for his congressional seat. The ultra-red district covers a large swath of the northwest Valley, including north Glendale, Peoria, Surprise, Sun City, and up into Anthem.\u00a0\nShe\u2019s gone out dozens of times in the middle of the night to repair campaign signs throughout the campaign. Sometimes her husband, Alex Placentia, joins her; other times, a campaign volunteer tags along. It\u2019s been a successful way for Greene-Placentia\u2019s campaign to put up signs while avoiding the heat and traffic.\u00a0\nShe doesn\u2019t do it anymore.\u00a0\nShe believes she could have suffered a concussion during the altercation, which would have been her third one, although she didn\u2019t seek medical attention. \u201cI just wanted to forget it,\u201d she said. Her body was covered with bruises from the assault, including dime-sized ones from fingers and more on the back of her arms and above her butt.\n\nShe initially didn\u2019t want to report what happened either. She was \u201cembarrassed\u201d and just wanted to \u201cforget it happened,\u201d she said. But on the campaign trail, Greene-Placentia is constantly speaking about fighting for Arizonans, \u201cand I didn\u2019t feel like I could keep saying that if I weren\u2019t also fighting for women that are victims of sexual assault,\u201d she said.\u00a0\nShe told her campaign staff what happened that Sunday and her husband the next day. She reported the assault to the Maricopa County Sheriff\u2019s Office two weeks later. She told deputies that the sexual assault occurred near 99th Avenue and Bell Road in Sun City, according to the police report.\nBernadette Greene-Placentia, Democratic candidate for Congressional District 8. \nCraig Beckman\n\n\u201cIt was a really huge area. Based on the fact that I wasn\u2019t gone long, we figured it was somewhere in Sun City, or maybe Surprise,\u201d she said. \u201cI have over 250 signs up, and at some point, all 250 have needed repairs or something. On any given night, there could be 30 or 40 stops where we either put up a sign or fixed a sign.\u201d\u00a0\n\nNew Times spoke with six of Greene-Placentia\u2019s family, friends, campaign staff, and even her landlord, whom she was with in the days following the assault.\n\u2018Something\u2019s not right\u2019\nThe Democratic congressional candidate essentially went \u201cmissing in action\u201d for two days following the assault, according to her campaign manager, Isaiah Lopez, and her husband, Alex Placentia.\u00a0\n\u201cI did talk to her a couple of times,\u201d Placentia told New Times. \u201cI distinctly remember I said to her, \u2018Something\u2019s not right. You\u2019re being weird or something.\u2019\u201d\u00a0\n\nShe was staying at her in-district Sun City apartment, while her husband called her several times from their home in Surprise. After redistricting in 2023, their home in Surprise was moved 1.6 miles outside of CD-8, but Greene-Placentia still wanted to live and vote in the district.\u00a0\nWhen Placentia called, she was in the bath multiple times and was \u201cbeing nauseous on the phone,\u201d he said. According to the police report, Greene-Placentia vaginally bled for three days after the assault.\u00a0\nIt was \u201codd\u201d for Placentia to go two days without seeing his wife. He admitted his feelings were hurt and wondered if she was hiding something from him, he recalled.\u00a0\nGreene-Placentia\u2019s landlord, Annarose Lily, was the only person who saw her during her two-day blackout. One or two days after the assault, Lily tried to check on her outside the apartment as \u201cshe looked like she was gonna fall over,\u201d but Greene-Placentia brushed it off, Lily said. She didn\u2019t tell Lily the full story until a few days later.\u00a0\n\nOn Sunday morning, a campaign volunteer picked Greene-Placentia up and drove her to a canvass launch in Chandler. She had a terrible headache. Craig Beckman, her director of communications, and Lopez could tell something was \u201cabnormal.\u201d Lopez hadn\u2019t heard from her since Thursday night.\u00a0\n\u201cWe knew something was up,\u201d he said, noting it was odd as \u201csometimes I think I talk to her in my sleep, with how much we talk.\u201d\nHer campaign team pulled her aside. Beckman and Greene-Placentia sat in the front seat of her Grand Cherokee, while Lopez stood outside the car door, attempting to run the event at the same time. She was \u201cvisibly upset\u201d and told Beckman that she\u2019d been raped by two men while fixing signs, but didn\u2019t have a clear memory, Beckman said. Greene-Placentia told Lopez moments later.\u00a0\n\u201cI just tried to console her in any way I could,\u201d Beckman said. \u201cI spent quite a lot of time explaining to her that this isn\u2019t her fault. Just because she put herself in a vulnerable position doesn\u2019t give a man an excuse to physically or sexually assault her.\u201d\u00a0\n\nBeckman and Lopez sent Greene-Placentia home to rest and recuperate. The next day, she told Placentia what happened from her Sun City apartment. \u201cI honestly didn\u2019t know what to do,\u201d Placentia said of his reaction when he heard the news. \u201cBeing a husband, I wanted to beat the hell out of somebody.\u201d\u00a0\nThat same day, Greene-Placentia reached out to Greg Freeman, a friend whom she\u2019d met working in politics and the secretary of the state Democratic Party. They spoke over the phone for nearly 45 minutes. She was \u201cobviously very unsettled\u201d and felt \u201cincredible amounts of discomfort and shame,\u201d Freeman told New Times. \u201cShe\u2019s sworn me to secrecy. I kept her confidence, and it was really, really hard. It was probably one of the worst days of the year.\u201d\nShe also shared what happened to her with state Rep. Stephanie Simacek, another local political friend, over coffee in early September.\u00a0\n\u201cI thought I was gonna throw up. I felt sick to my stomach, and it was extremely disturbing,\u201d Simacek said. \u201cIt was a big wake-up call for me. I think oftentimes, as candidates and electeds, we think that it\u2019s not going to happen to us.\u201d\u00a0\n\nCrying times, angry times\nIn the days and weeks following the assault, Greene-Placentia described herself as a \u201cvery angry person,\u201d and her husband said she went through \u201ccrying times and angry times.\u201d\nShe told her husband and campaign manager, \u201cI want a fucking rematch. I want to call them out. I want to like go on TV and say \u2018Let\u2019s go again and don\u2019t come at me from behind,\u2019\u201d she recalled. Her campaign even had a staff meeting at a gun range because she wanted to shoot something.\u00a0\n\u201cI know that sounds crazy,\u201d Greene-Placentia told New Times. \u201cBut I was just mad.\u201d\u00a0\nDespite initial hesitation and fear over re-victimization, Greene-Placentia reported the assault over the phone to the Maricopa County Sheriff\u2019s Office more than two weeks after the rape. The next day, two sergeants came to Greene-Placentia\u2019s Sun City apartment to speak with her. Dave Moyer, a MCSO spokesperson, declined to comment on the status of the investigation, since it\u2019s ongoing.\n\u201cI need to let women know that it\u2019s okay to talk about it,\u201d Greene-Placentia said. \u201cWe\u2019re asking people to stand up and donate or volunteer. 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