Midge Potts
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Midgelle Regina Potts, known as Midge Potts, is a transgender peace activist{{cite news
| title = Midge Potts seeks change
| url = http://www.columbiatribune.com/2006/Apr/20060416News018.asp
| work = Columbia Daily Tribune
| date = April 16, 2006
| accessdate = 2007-04-11
|archiveurl = https://archive.today/20061025225224/http://columbiatribune.com/2006/Apr/20060416News018.asp |archivedate = 2006-10-25}} and Navy veteran who ran as a Progressive Party (Green Party) candidate in the 2010 Missouri Senate election.
Biography
Potts was born in on January 10, 1969, in Gainesville, Missouri.
Potts served aboard the destroyer tender {{USS|Yosemite|AD-19}} off the coast of Kuwait during the Gulf War. It was there that Potts was exposed to evaporated mercury in an engine room aboard the ship, and was offered an honorable discharge after failing to get treatment. She now lives off of Social Security disability benefits.{{cite news|first=David |last=Alexander |title=Transgender Navy vet protests war in Congress |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-usa-pink/transgender-navy-vet-protests-war-in-congress-idUSEIC55561920070405 |publisher=Reuters |date=April 7, 2007 |accessdate=2007-04-11 }}
After her discharge Potts reportedly married and had a child, before divorcing in 2003. After the divorce, Potts began living as a woman full-time, and while she began her transition by taking supplements to alter her body's hormones to be more female, she underwent conventional hormone therapy.{{Cite news |url=http://www.missourileadership.com/story/2006/4/17/62425/2902 |title=Blunt's Bane: Transgender candidate answers call |first=Marcus |last=Kabel |periodical=Missouri Leadership |date=April 16, 2006 |accessdate=2007-11-20 }}
She unsuccessfully ran in Missouri's primary for the 7th District Congressional seat{{Cite web |url=http://www.sos.mo.gov/enrweb/allresults.asp?eid=173 |title=Official Election Returns: State of Missouri Primary Election, Tuesday, August 08, 2006 | publisher=Missouri Secretary of State |date=August 23, 2006 |accessdate= October 20, 2010 }} as a Republican in 2006 against incumbent Republican Congressman Roy Blunt. Potts received 4294 votes which equated to 7.2 percent of the vote in the Republican primary in the southwest Missouri district.
Potts announced on June 27, 2009, that she would run for the seat being vacated by retiring senator Kit Bond in 2010.{{cite web|url=http://www.gp.org/candidates/display-pr.php?ID=3 |title=Midge Potts Announces She Will Run For Missouri's US Senate Seat |date=2009-06-27 |publisher=Green Party |accessdate=27 November 2009 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091008201656/http://www.gp.org/candidates/display-pr.php?ID=3 |archivedate=8 October 2009 }} Potts had no recordable votes in that election.{{Cite web| title=All Results - Official Election Returns - State of Missouri General Election | url=http://s1.sos.mo.gov/CMSImages/ElectionResultsStatistics/AllRacesGeneralNovember2010.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150726055253/http://s1.sos.mo.gov:80/CMSImages/ElectionResultsStatistics/AllRacesGeneralNovember2010.pdf | archive-date=2015-07-26}} On March 23, 2015, Potts announced on Facebook possibly seeking another attempt at the Senate seat by stating "Last week, I made an announcement on several Green Party Fb pages stating that I have firmly decided to NOT SEEK THE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION in 2016, and instead will most likely run for US Senator against Republican {{sic|incum|bant|expected=incumbent}}, Roy Blunt, in my home state of Missouri."{{cite web | url-access=limited |archive-url = https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/facebook/379792585435251/798958026852036 |archive-date = 2022-04-30| url = https://www.facebook.com/MidgePottsForPresident2016/posts/798958026852036 |title = Midge Potts for Vice-President with #2020hindsight on Facebook |website=Facebook}}{{cbignore}}{{User-generated source|certain=yes|date=March 2022}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.midgepotts.com/ Midge Potts for US Senate Campaign Website]
- [http://www.midgepotts.com Potts' website to promote her lectures]
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