The assumption becomes that women who are marginalized want to do sex work and it almost becomes, ‘Well, since that’s what you are doing, we are just going to make it legal so you can do it,’ if we’re going to talk about things like systemic racism, then use this energy to fix the system where sex work does not have to be their only choice.

Cottie Petrie-Norris

Catherine Ann "Cottie" Petrie-Norris (born August 7, 1975) is an American politician who is in the California State Assembly. A Democrat, she represents the 74th Assembly District, which encompasses the coastal Orange County communities of Huntington Beach, Costa Mesa, Newport Beach, Irvine, Laguna Woods, and Laguna Beach. Prior to being elected, she was a small business owner and served on the Housing and Human Services Committee of Laguna Beach.Petrie-Norris was first elected to the State Assembly in November 2018 after defeating the previous incumbent, Republican Matthew Harper. In 2020, Petrie-Norris was reelected to a second term by a very narrow margin over Newport Beach City Councilwoman Diane Dixon.

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