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Tara Durant | |
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Member of the Virginia Senate from the 27th district | |
Assumed office January 10, 2024 | |
Preceded by | Constituency established |
Member of the VirginiaHouseofDelegates from the 28th district | |
In office January 12,2022 –January 10,2024 | |
Preceded by | Joshua Cole |
Succeeded by | Joshua Cole (Redistricting) |
Personal details | |
Born | Des Moines,Iowa,U.S. | October 26,1972
Political party | Republican |
Children | 3 |
Education | Coe College (BA) |
Tara Anne Durant (born October 26,1972) [1] is an American politician who is a member of the Virginia Senate from the 27th district. Elected in November 2021,she assumed office on January 12,2022. She is a Republican.
Durant was born in Des Moines,Iowa in 1972. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in communications and political science from Coe College and attended the University of Baltimore School of Law. [2]
Outside of politics,Durant has worked as an educator in Iowa and Virginia. She was a teacher at the Holy Cross Academy in Stafford County from 2017 to 2021 and works as a librarian at the school. [3] She was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates in November 2021,defeating incumbent Democrat Joshua G. Cole. [4] She assumed office on January 12,2022. [5]
Durant prompted her entry into politics by claiming she and her daughter were attacked by an "angry mob" [6] of Black Lives Matter protesters. [7] [8] However,Durant's narrative has proved inconsistent. Police records [9] describe the protest as peaceful,with an aggressive car pointing in the direction of protesters at the same location as Durant's. Additionally,Durant's 911 call [10] indicates she threatened to hit protesters with her car as well as a person on her car's hood was a 13-year-old,unrelated to the protest. Durant's attempt to press charges against two teenagers,one of which that was not at the protest,for car assault failed,raising questions about the accuracy of her narrative. [11] Durant and her staff have ignored calls to respond to these inconsistencies and allegations.
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