Sara Gelser Blouin
American politician
Sara Gelser Blouin (born December 20, 1973) is an American politician from Oregon. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
Since 2015, she has been a member of the Oregon State Senate from District 8. From 2005 to 2015, she served in the Oregon House of Representatives for District 16, representing Corvallis and Philomath. Prior to her service in the Legislature, Gelser Blouin served on the Corvallis School Board and worked for the Oregon Department of Human Services. In 2010, she was nominated by President Barack Obama to serve on the National Council on Disability and was confirmed to the position by the US Senate. In 2011, she was named a German Marshall Memorial Fellow. In November 2014, she was elected to the Senate, taking office in January 2015. In 2018, she was selected as one of the "Silence Breakers", who were picked as Time Person of the Year, after Gelser Blouin indicated that fellow Senator Jeff Kruse had inappropriately touched her. Senator Ginny Burdick supported her allegations, calling Kruse's behavior a "chronic problem", recalling an incident where she had to tell Kruse to get his hands off of Gelser and another incident where Kruse had inappropriately touched a female staffer on the Senate floor.
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