Jasmine Beach-Ferrara
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Some people will say a gay woman who’s a Christian minister just can’t get elected in the South.
Those are the very first words spoken by Democrat Jasmine Beach-Ferrara in a launch video for her 2022 congressional campaign. Although she’s already proved the skeptics wrong – Beach-Ferrara is currently serving her second term as a Buncombe County Commissioner – she's looking to do it again in North Carolina’s 11th Congressional District.
“I’m running because Western North Carolina families deserve better than they’re getting from Madison Cawthorn. My faith teaches me that leadership starts with empathy, compassion and listening and then getting to work to help people. That’s the kind of leadership I want to offer instead of the division and mean-spiritedness we’re getting now,” Beach-Ferrara said in a press release. “This is going to be a campaign built on bringing people together, finding common ground, organizing everywhere and talking about the issues that actually matter to people’s lives.”