A local official in Arizona offered a man a job in exchange for sex — and when he refused, she kidnapped his teen daughter, a lawsuit alleges.
Avondale City Councilwoman Jeanette Garcia was accused of drunkenly propositioning the man and offering him a job at Turning Point USA, where she worked at the time, according to legal papers.
Garcia, 38, allegedly made the indecent proposal at a TPUSA post-election celebration at a restaurant in Phoenix suburb of Goodyear on Nov. 14, 2024, he said in court documents.
The dad, identified in his Maricopa Superior Court papers only as “father John Doe,” “repeatedly rebuffed” the overtures.
Doe was hired by TPUSA to promote the organization’s preferred candidates in state and federal elections, and reported to Garcia, he said in court papers.
“Garcia’s inexplicable and egregious misconduct . . . have caused . . . significant trauma and harm,” the lawsuit stated.
The dad allegedly got fed up with the inebriated Garcia’s increasingly aggressive sexual overtures and left the restaurant after midnight to get away from her, according to court papers.
But when he got home 45 minutes later, his 14-year-old daughter wasn’t there, he claimed.
After searching for the girl at her friend’s house, the panicked dad returned home where he was met by Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office deputies — who told him his child was with Garcia, he said in the litigation. It’s unclear if the dad had called police himself.
The deputies informed the “shocked” father that his daughter was “safe” with the city councilwoman, he claimed. He then made multiple unsuccessful attempts to call his daughter and Garcia in front of the officers.
“He explained to the MCSO Deputies that he had just left a function with Garcia and openly and repeatedly questioned how or why his daughter would be with Garcia,” the dad said in the legal papers.
He was finally able to reach Garcia around 2:20 a.m. — and the woman allegedly confirmed she had the girl, he claimed in the legal filing.
An “extremely intoxicated” Garcia, along with two other adults, allegedly “manipulated” the child into Garcia’s car, according to the lawsuit. Garcia allegedly told the girl she was concerned that her father had been drinking and could become violent, he said in the litigation.
The single dad claimed Garcia took his child without “permission or consent” and that police were “complicit,” according to court papers.
Garcia was not criminally charged.
He wasn’t able to get the girl back until the next day — when the child’s grandmother called Garcia from a number the councilwoman didn’t recognize and arranged to pick her up at a restaurant, according to the court filing.
The incident left the girl “depressed” and “terrified” to leave her room, her dad claimed, adding her grades dropped and she began to skip extracurricular activities.
Garcia is no stranger to controversy.
The Avondale City Council censured Garcia in March after she referred to the actor Tom Hanks as a “pedo” on social media.
“Hey Pedo @tomhanks, not all MAGA hat wearing patriots are white. In fact, most racism comes from the elite democrats, you a-hole,” Garcia posted on X.
The post was in reference to a Saturday Night Live skit in which Hanks played “Doug,” a Trump-supporting white working-class contestant on the fictional show “Black Jeopardy.”
The City Councilwoman later claimed that by “pedo” she was not using the short term for “pedophile,” but instead meant the Spanish word for “fart.”
Neither Garcia nor Turning Point responded to The Post’s requests for comment. The sheriff’s office declined comment.
Garcia denied the allegations in a statement to AzFamily.com.
“I am aware of the outrageous and false accusations being made about me. Let me be very clear: these claims are untrue. I have never kidnapped anyone, never harmed anyone, and never solicited anything inappropriate, ever,” she said.
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