Butterfly Center director claims Virginia congressional candidate assaulted her

MISSION, TEXAS -- Marianna Treviño Wright, executive director of the National Butterfly Center and outspoken opponent of the border wall, says she was assaulted last week by a congressional candidate from Virginia.

Treviño Wright claims that Kimberly Lowe, who is seeking the Republican nomination for the 9th Congressional District of Virginia, assaulted her after Lowe and another woman allegedly trespassed on the center’s property Jan. 21.

The pair arrived at the butterfly center seeking to access the banks of the Rio Grande where they hoped to see migrants crossing into the United States, according to a now-deleted video Lowe posted via Facebook Live.

“This area that we’re going to right now we can have river access and actually see people going down rafts, those rafts are provided for by the cartel,” Lowe can be heard saying as the video focuses on a country road.

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