‘Tan Mom’ is running for SENATE: Patricia Krentcil files paperwork to fight pale incumbent Rick Scott – 11 years after being arrested for taking her five-year-old to tanning salon

‘Tan Mom’ Patricia Krentcil (pictured) has revealed she is running for Senate – 11 years after being arrested for taking her five-year-old daughter to a tanning salon. Krentcil is preparing to go head-to-head with incumbent Republican Senator Rick Scott after filing paperwork earlier this week to run as a Republican. In a statement to Fox News Digital, Krentcil said: ‘The thing with my campaign is that you know everything about me from the start. There’s no skeletons or hidden secrets or shocking dirt to be revealed. What you see is what you get because my life has been documented. I think more media personalities should get involved in politics for this reason.’

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She is telling potential supporters that she will advocate for a pro-LGBTQ+ agenda once in office. Following her arrest for child endangerment, Krentcil sought help for a tanning addiction on a reality tv show called ‘Tan to 10.’ Her past hardships, she says, are informing her campaign. ‘I’ve walked through the fire to get to where I am at, which is a strong, independent woman who wants positive change in this country and world,’ she told Fox.

‘Am I the most well spoken, brilliant politician that ever lived? No. But I am a mom of five, with two kids in high school currently, boots on the ground in Florida, dealing with medical issues. I get it. I get what these people are going through. And it’s not good. We need to change it,’ she added. Krentcil specifically identified some of the social and cultural issues that have been brought front and center in the world of Florida politics of late, and argued they are not the issues struggling Americans are actually worried about. ‘Banning Shakespeare, teaching slavery was beneficial? This is the priority when thousands of people can’t pay their home insurance premiums or medical bills!?’ she said.

Krentcil, who is a single mother of five, was charged with child endangerment in 2012 after she allegedly exposed her five-year-old daughter to artificial UV rays at a New Jersey tanning salon. The child was allegedly left with burns on her legs. Krentcil pleaded not guilty, and the next year a grand jury decided not to indict her. She was subsequently banned from several NJ tanning salons. She eventually moved to Florida.

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