MSM fixates on Nancy Guthrie kidnapping while completely ignoring sleazy Democratic scandal in Tucson
By Rachel Alexander
web posted February 23, 2026
While everyone across the country is heavily focused on the abduction of Nancy Guthrie in Tucson, there has been a strange media blackout on another scandal there. Investigative conservative journalist Niko Roswell has extensively covered the story of Arizona Senate candidate, K-12-related administrator and alleged sex worker Rocque Perez, who made raunchy sexual posts online that minors could view and issued death threats to Republicans. With the exception of a handful of other conservative journalists, no one has touched the story.
Both AZ Free News and conservative journalist Megan Barth with the California Globe covered the story. Roswell screenshotted Perez's posts on X, OnlyFans and other platforms before Perez deleted them. Eddie Barrón, who is now the Communication & Content lead for Tucson's Vice Mayor Lane Santa Cruz in Ward One and serves on the Board of the Sunnyside Unified School District Foundation, left a sexual message after one of Perez's posts when Barrón was 16.
Perez invited users on X to view his sexual acts at OnlyFans, and frequently referred to "boys" in his posts. One of his posts about sex said, "Applications open for boys that'll do this for me while I'm working." Another post displayed a photo of a drug used in homosexual acts, with the caption "trying to summon the twink." Twink refers to a young male homosexual. Perez apparently had no concern that despite working for K-12, his sexual posts could be seen by minors.
Perez threatened Ivanka Trump in 2020. In response to one of her posts, he said, "someone throw this b**** off the capitol building roof please." He called for President Donald Trump to die several times, including responding to Trump, "honestly i would take one for the team and knock him out if i could."
He asked for violence against conservative media personality Kaitlin Bennett. "[H]ow has she not gotten beat yet? like... hath no one the bravery to literally hurt her cause... ??" He called for several prominent Republicans, including former Arizona Republican Party Chair Kelli Ward, to die from COVID-19. "[A] lot of old white people in one place, it'd be a shame if [COVID] got em," he posted on X.
In 2020, in response to a woman who complained that living in a conservative household was "hell," Perez responded, "so kill them, do your duty baby girl."
Another screenshot of a post allegedly made by Perez in 2020 said "this vapid white girl is defending trump response to covid in my zoom public relations class, do i end her or do i end her."
In 2021, Perez allegedly posted on X about then-Arizona Republican Governor Doug Ducey, "just saw doug ducey, do I square up or do I square up." The phrase "square up" means to prepare to fight someone physically.
There is no evidence that Perez was ever investigated or disciplined for any of these threats.
When Perez was a student at the University of Arizona, where he served as student body senator, the university posted on X about a flyer he put up around campus. "One of our own UA students, Rocque Perez, is partnering with Inside Higher Ed to share his experience as a learner during the pandemic," the account @uarizonahsi said. The flyers appeared to be offering poor individuals to come to a Tucson residence for free food, listing an address with a map, which said "Trump 2020" at the bottom. However, there was a line in the middle of them, which was circled in bright red, which said, "No dogs. No Mexicans. No blacks."
The X account @slim_tuc said he went to the residence and the owners told him they had nothing to do with the flyer. "@UArizonaPres one of your students posted this paper putting the lives of the people that live at the home in danger," the account said. "I went to the home and spoke to the owners. They had nothing to do with it. Student Rocque Perez put these around.."
Perez is closely tied to Tucson Democratic leadership. Perez served as the executive director of the Metropolitan Education Commission (MEC), Rep. Adelita Grijalva's (D-AZ-07) K-12 education foundation that her father, the late Rep. Raúl Grijalva, founded in Tucson. MEC advises and makes recommendations on K-12 education for all of Pima County. Perez was then promoted to president and CEO. Adelita is currently on the board. Perez was also appointed to the Tucson City Council for a while.
It is not clear whether Perez still serves on MEC. His campaign website states, "He temporarily left the Metro Education Commission but continued to lead its work as its Chair." Barth noted that MEC was curiously renamed to the Southern Arizona Education Council after the scandal broke. Perez is still listed as its commission coordinator on the website.
Perez posts photos online with Adelita and other Democrats who run the city. His website contains a radical agenda that includes fewer restrictions on abortion (Arizona already has California-style abortion until birth laws) and says he will "defend LGBTQ+ and transgender Arizonans, oppose fear-based policies that target immigrants and mixed-status families."
Why does this monster get a free pass? If a Republican had made just one of his threats against a Democrat, law enforcement would be at their door immediately. And the Democrats have newly started to pretend to dislike pedophiles, due to their false hope that Trump will show up guilty in the Jeffrey Epstein files. So why the silence? Are they so desperate for candidates that they will protect him?
State Rep. Nick Kupper expressed his outrage on X. "It seems to me that AZ Senate candidate Rocque Perez is letting his freak flag fly way too high," he said. "This type of degeneracy has no place in the legislature & absolutely no place near children. @Rep_Grijalva & @GovernorHobbs you need to do something about your boy."
Democrats are foolish to rally around this trainwreck. No way even blue Tucson votes for someone this offensive who works with K-12. 
Rachel Alexander and her brother Andrew are co-Editors of Intellectual Conservative. She has been published in the American Spectator, Townhall.com, Fox News, NewsMax, Accuracy in Media, The Americano, ParcBench, Enter Stage Right and other publications.
