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Juli Briskman's fabulous revenge run, and the people getting elected to get even
Local • Perspective
Juli Briskman’s fabulous revenge run, and the people getting elected to get even
By Petula Dvorak
Columnist
November 7, 2019 at 2:44 p.m. EST
The revenge run is everything in politics right now. And it’s pretty sweet.
It’s an election campaign sparked by an incident, an outrage, a final straw.
It’s a candidate who hasn’t spent years dreaming of an election night speech, who wasn’t a student council rep, who wasn’t voted Most Likely to Become President, who didn’t spend decades grooming for this moment.
It’s Juli Briskman, this week’s queen of the revenge run. She’s the Northern Virginia cyclist I hunted down two years ago based on a photo of her backside and a dinner party rumor that she’d lost her job after flipping off President Trump’s motorcade.
In the aftermath, Briskman decided to run for Loudoun County supervisor, winning the election Tuesday night.
{snip}
Briskman has always been active in her community, but it was the middle-finger incident that pushed her to do it from a position of power. She didn’t run for the county Board of Supervisors to take down a presidency, she told me, she did it to have a say.
Well .?.?.
The truth is, her territory includes the very golf course owned by Trump, where he had just played a round on the day her gesture was seen around the world. She doesn’t see a way that she’s going to mess with the place. It’s not up for zoning anytime soon.
“It is ironic, isn’t it?” she said. “Ironic how it turned out.”
The optics of this one are sweet.
Twitter: @petulad
Petula is a columnist for The Post's local team who writes about homeless shelters, gun control, high heels, high school choirs, the politics of parenting, jails, abortion clinics, mayors, modern families, strip clubs and gas prices, among other things. Before coming to The Post, she covered social issues, crime and courts. Follow https://twitter.com/petulad
Juli Briskman’s fabulous revenge run, and the people getting elected to get even
By Petula Dvorak
Columnist
November 7, 2019 at 2:44 p.m. EST
The revenge run is everything in politics right now. And it’s pretty sweet.
It’s an election campaign sparked by an incident, an outrage, a final straw.
It’s a candidate who hasn’t spent years dreaming of an election night speech, who wasn’t a student council rep, who wasn’t voted Most Likely to Become President, who didn’t spend decades grooming for this moment.
It’s Juli Briskman, this week’s queen of the revenge run. She’s the Northern Virginia cyclist I hunted down two years ago based on a photo of her backside and a dinner party rumor that she’d lost her job after flipping off President Trump’s motorcade.
In the aftermath, Briskman decided to run for Loudoun County supervisor, winning the election Tuesday night.
{snip}
Briskman has always been active in her community, but it was the middle-finger incident that pushed her to do it from a position of power. She didn’t run for the county Board of Supervisors to take down a presidency, she told me, she did it to have a say.
Well .?.?.
The truth is, her territory includes the very golf course owned by Trump, where he had just played a round on the day her gesture was seen around the world. She doesn’t see a way that she’s going to mess with the place. It’s not up for zoning anytime soon.
“It is ironic, isn’t it?” she said. “Ironic how it turned out.”
The optics of this one are sweet.
Twitter: @petulad
Petula is a columnist for The Post's local team who writes about homeless shelters, gun control, high heels, high school choirs, the politics of parenting, jails, abortion clinics, mayors, modern families, strip clubs and gas prices, among other things. Before coming to The Post, she covered social issues, crime and courts. Follow https://twitter.com/petulad
