There is, remarkably, a 28-year-old woman who is running for Congress from Virginia named Krystal Ball (JESUS CHRIST, BAD PARENTS). As we have, apparently, noted in the past, this woman is quite attractive, in terms of fornication. But we wrote that before photos showed up on the Internet of her fellating a Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer dildo on her then-husband’s face at a Christmas party. Will Krystal Ball be the first dildo-fellating member of Congress? No, certainly not! Probably every current member of Congress has done this. But it’s still fun to see, right? Especially when there are quite a few of these photos? 
 
 Krystal Ball has responded by saying it’s really sexist to post these photos. Because it’s not sexist to post male members of Congress fellating dildos? We don’t understand. Let us enjoy these photos of you, lady. And if anyone has photos of any candidates for Congress, male or female, sucking on dildos, please send them along. 
 
 If anything, that last one is sexist. Men are not animals you can simply exploit for your enjoyment at holiday parties, Ball. Or maybe they are, if you want them to be. [TBD/Gawker/BVBL] ||||| Danica Roem, right, who is running for house of delegates against GOP incumbent Robert Marshall, campaigns as voters take to the ballot boxes at Gainesville Middle School on Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2017, in... (Associated Press) 
 
 Danica Roem, right, who is running for house of delegates against GOP incumbent Robert Marshall, campaigns as voters take to the ballot boxes at Gainesville Middle School on Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2017, in Gainesville, Va. If Roem wins, she would be the first transgender legislator elected in the USA. (Jahi... (Associated Press) 
 
 RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A transgender woman unseated one of Virginia's longest serving and most socially conservative lawmakers Tuesday and is set to make history as the first openly transgender person elected and seated in a state legislature. 
 
 Democrat Danica Roem, an experienced newspaper reporter, beat Republican Del. Bob Marshall in Tuesday's election. The race was one of the year's most high profile, drawing national and international attention and big money to the northern Virginia House of Delegates district outside the nation's capital. 
 
 "Tonight voters chose a smart, solutions-oriented trans leader over a divisive anti-LGBTQ demagogue - sending a powerful message to anti-trans legislators all across the nation," Aisha C. Moodie-Mills, president & CEO of Victory Fund, said in a statement. 
 
 Roem will be the first transgender member of the House of Delegates and will become the first out transgender person to win and serve in a state legislature, according to the Victory Fund. 
 
 Roem openly discussed her gender identity during her campaign, but it was far from her focus. Instead, she focused on jobs, schools and, with particular fervor, northern Virginia's traffic congestion. 
 
 She also argued that Marshall, who has served in the House since 1992, has spent too much time on social policy. 
 
 A lightning rod for controversy, Marshall often drew the ire of even his own party. 
 
 Earlier this year, Marshall sponsored a measure that would have restricted the bathrooms transgender people can use. He is also the author of a now-void constitutional amendment that defined marriage as between one man and one woman, and sponsored a bill banning gay people from openly serving in the Virginia National Guard. 
 
 On the campaign trail, Marshall and other Republicans repeatedly misidentified Roem's gender. 
 
 In a statement posted on his Facebook page, Marshall said: "For 26 years I've been proud to fight for you, and fight for our future. Though we all wish tonight would have turned out differently, I am deeply grateful for your support and effort over the years." 
 
 Roem, who started pursuing therapy to begin her gender transition when she was 28, said in an interview earlier this year with AP that politics should be inclusive of all. 
 
 "No matter what you look like, where you come from, how you worship or who you love, if you have good public policy ideas, if you're qualified for office, you have every right to bring your ideas to the table," she said in an interview with The Associated Press earlier this year. 
 
 Roem also said she learned to listen to different perspectives and digest complicated policy as a reporter for the Gainesville Times and Prince William Times, skills she would bring to bear as a delegate. In her spare time, she sings in a metal band. ||||| Update: 911 caller said Oregon state Rep. Janelle Bynum was at homes for 'no apparent reason' 
 
 A black Oregon state representative says one of her constituents called police on her Tuesday while she was canvassing alone in a neighborhood she represents. 
 
 Rep. Janelle Bynum, a Democrat who is running for a second term this fall in the state House of Representatives, said she was knocking on doors and talking to residents for two hours along Southeast 125th Avenue in Clackamas. She was taking notes on her cellphone from the conversation she'd had with someone at the second to last of about 30 homes on her list around 5:10 p.m. when a Clackamas County deputy pulled up to her. 
 
 She looked over at the deputy in his patrol car and thought, "I don't believe this." He asked if she was selling something. She introduced herself as a state legislator and said that she was out canvassing and that she guessed someone called him. 
 
 The deputy said someone called and reported Bynum appearing to spend a long time at houses in the area and appearing to be casing the neighborhood while on her phone. 
 
 Bynum, 43, said taking notes on her cellphone is something she often does while canvassing neighborhoods to recall conversations she has. She said she only had campaign fliers, her cellphone and a pen on her. 
 
 She estimates knocking on more than 70,000 doors over her years campaigning and said Tuesday was the first time someone reported her to police. 
 
 "It was just bizarre," Bynum told The Oregonian/OregonLive. "It boils down to people not knowing their neighbors and people having a sense of fear in their neighborhoods, which is kind of my job to help eradicate. But at the end of the day, it's important for people to feel like they can talk to each other to help minimize misunderstandings." 
 
 Bynum represents House District 51, which includes east Portland, Gresham, Boring, North Clackamas, Damascus and Happy Valley, where she lives. She won election to the House in November 2016. 
 
 The Clackamas County Sheriff's Office did not immediately response to a message for comment on the incident. 
 
 This comes amid a series of recent racial-profiling cases that have caused public outrage, including someone in Ohio calling the police on a 12-year-old boy mowing a lawn, a California woman calling police to report black people barbecuing, and a San Francisco woman threatening to call police on a black girl selling water. 
 
 Bynum said the deputy told her another woman made the 911 call, but she didn't know the caller's race. She asked to meet the woman in person, but the deputy said she wasn't home. Bynum said she didn't know which house the woman called from. 
 
 She said she asked the deputy to call the woman so she could speak to her, and he got the woman on the phone. 
 
 The woman was apologetic and said she called 911 for the safety of her neighborhood, Bynum said. The woman wouldn't confirm where she lived. 
 
 The deputy who responded, who Bynum only knew by his last name, Campbell, was courteous and professional, she said. He later agreed to take a selfie with her. 
 
 She recalled telling him that, "when people do things like this, it can be dangerous for people like me." He said he hoped he didn't make her feel that way. She said he didn't. 
 
 Bynum said she understood the woman's concerns but felt the woman could have tried talking to her first or contacting a neighbor to speak to her rather than calling the cops. The deputy could have responded to a more urgent call instead, she said. 
 
 "We all know that we're not in a society that is perfect, and we have wounds that still need to heal, but at the end of the day, I want to know my kids can walk down the street without fear," she said. 
 
 Bynum said she hopes to meet the woman who called 911 in person one day. She's going to keep campaigning and may plan to return to the neighborhood, she said. 
 
 "I hope everyone gets a good look at my face, because I'm coming to your door," she said. 
 
 -- Everton Bailey Jr. 
 
 ebailey@oregonian.com 
 
 503-221-8343; @EvertonBailey
– Sometimes your Newser Virginia bureau feels like it should really be the Alternative Reality bureau (see here and here and here), but even we can't make up this story: A 28-year-old Democrat named Krystal Ball—who is running for a seat in Virginia's 1st District—was somehow blindsided by the online release of party pics of her fellating a reindeer dildo her then-husband was wearing on his nose. Best part? She's not so much embarrassed as pissed, blaming her opponent for the leak, which she calls "sexist." "I have a message for any young woman who is thinking about running for office and has ever attended a costume party ... or done anything stupid on camera," Ball tells the Richmond Times-Dispatch. "Run for office. Fight for this country. Don't let this sort of tactic deter you." The blog that dug up the images is currently down; for the photos and Wonkette's chortling, click here. Ball talked to Salon about the pics; click here for that.