A Washington state Democrat who just won her House primary slammed her truck into a parked car, admitted to drinking wine, refused sobriety tests so she could "go home first," then sobbed and prayed in the back of a patrol car — and ordinary Americans are supposed to trust people like this to write the laws they enforce on you.
Krista Perez, 40, finished first in the August 4 primary for the 29th Legislative District and is set to face incumbent Rep. Melanie Morgan in November. One week after that primary victory, Tacoma police say her 2019 Chevrolet Silverado struck a parked car just after midnight on August 11, setting off a chain-reaction wreck that damaged five vehicles. Court papers say her truck was nearly on top of another car and the driver's airbag had deployed. No injuries were reported.
Body-camera footage obtained by The Jason Rantz Show on Seattle Red shows the would-be lawmaker telling an officer she was not in an accident. "Did you get into an accident here?" the officer asked. "I did not," Perez replied. When pressed on what happened, she said: "I don't know. I've never been in an accident before."
She admitted she'd been drinking. "I just had some wine while I was there," Perez said. "I had a glass of wine, one glass of wine." Asked how big the glass was, she deflected: "I think you might need to contact the business." Asked to rate her sobriety from zero to ten, with zero being completely sober, she first said she wanted to go home. Pressed again, she rated herself a four.
The officer offered standardized field sobriety tests and stated more than once that they were voluntary. Perez declined. "Not right now. I'd like to go home first," she said, repeatedly claiming she was "confused." The officer told her she was not going home first and that the choice was yes or no, right then. She asked if she was allowed to decline. He confirmed the tests were voluntary. She confirmed she was declining. She was placed under arrest for DUI.
Prosecutors charged Perez with DUI and a refusal enhancement connected to the collision.
Police cited a strong odor of alcohol, mood swings, slurred speech, red eyes, and an unsteady gait. Once in the patrol car, the footage shows a minutes-long breakdown. Perez sobbed and prayed in Spanish and English: "Dios, ayúdame por favor. Ayúdame por favor." Then: "Help me, God. Help me. Help me. Holy Spirit, help me, God."
The New York Post and Baltimore News both covered the charges and the footage straightforwardly. The Gateway Pundit framed the story around Perez's progressive credentials and her challenge from the left against Morgan — context that matters when a candidate running to reshape your laws can't comply with the most basic ones.
Here's the stake: every two-bit politician who lectures working Americans about compliance, responsibility, and the rule of law expects a different standard when the lights are flashing in their rearview. Perez refused the tests that any ordinary citizen would be pressured to take, then begged to go home as though the law is a negotiation. Prosecutors added a refusal enhancement — but the court of public opinion is where two-tiered justice actually gets adjudicated. Voters in the 29th District will decide in November whether the person writing their laws should first be capable of following them.
