ICYMI: Fraud Marie Gluesenkamp Perez’s Fake Blue-Collar Story
In case you missed it, a new report exposes Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez as a fraud:
“Fraud Marie Gluesenkamp Perez has spent years peddling a fake blue-collar backstory to voters, trying to pass off a Portland hipster. Southwest Washington deserves better than a résumé-padding phony who thinks bamboo boutique work equals real labor.” – NRCC Spokesman Christian Martinez
Read more here or see excerpts below:
‘She’s Definitely Cosplaying as a Poor Person’: Democratic Rep. Gluesenkamp Perez Claims She Worked in an ‘iPhone Case Factory.’ It Was Actually a Hipster Artisanal Workshop.
The Washington Free Beacon
March 10, 2026
Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, a self-styled “working class” Washington Democrat, claims she worked in an “iPhone case factory” in college to pay her tuition after her father cut her off because she wouldn’t go to church. But the shop was actually a boutique artisanal workshop that made wooden, hand-crafted cases, according to her former roommate.
Gluesenkamp Perez has repeatedly said she juggled the “factory” gig alongside her jobs as a nanny and a barista while attending Reed College, an elite and expensive private school in Portland, Ore. But no major phone case manufacturers operated in the area at the time—as is the case today, they are mostly in China.
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“This is part of her lore,” Eger said on his podcast. “She’s definitely cosplaying as a poor person.” A fellow Reed alumnus, Daniel Boguslaw, added, “which never happened at Reed.”
Eger says that the Gluesenkamp Perez of today, who he says is unrecognizable from the woman he knew, “called it an iPhone case factory … They made [the wooden cases] by hand—so not machinery.”
Gluesenkamp Perez did not respond to a request for comment.
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While Gluesenkamp Perez said her father cut off financial support during college after she stopped attending church, she has no student loan debt, according to the financial statements she’s filed as a political candidate, though tuition alone at Reed at the time she attended—not including living expenses—was about $39,000 a year.
Eger says she was not working a legitimate job for most of her time at Reed—and that the jobs she had couldn’t have come close to paying Reed’s giant tuition bills (not to mention living expenses).
Furthermore, her father—apparently moving past his objections to her lack of faith—helped finance Gluesenkamp Perez’s first home just two years after she graduated. And while she has portrayed herself as a hands-on auto shop owner, an archived version of the business’s website described her as working “mostly behind the scenes,” “making spreadsheets and burning the cookies for our holiday gift boxes.”
Gluesenkamp Perez’s father did not respond to a request for comment.
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“If you put all, every single one of the baristas for all four years that I worked at the fucking college coffee shop, you combined all the money they made,” the unnamed roommate said, “it wouldn’t pay for one semester of one person’s college.”
Eger says he’s horrified by Gluesenkamp Perez’s “disgusting” politics. After he gave to her 2022 campaign, “Things started getting a little weird, especially with her initial vote against student debt relief, which is so fucking funny now that you look at the fact that she pretends that she paid her way through college.”