Bridie Chase

Bridie Chase is a recurring antagonist in the Free Spirits series. An heiress who uses her wealth to influence public policy through her Chase Action Fund, she finances efforts to implement the "Swedish Model" of criminalizing the clients of sex workers in various cities, in an effort to "end demand" and bring about the abolition of prostitution. In Laurie's Liberation, Chief Graham mentions that Chase sent two women to offer a "grant" if he changed his policies to match hers; instead, he had them arrested for attempted bribery, and released them only after Chase promised not to interfere again with his reforms in Stallbrook. Chase plays an even larger role in Adara's Apostasy, bankrolling the research of Adara Khan in hopes that it will lead to the shutdown of the policies and practices instituted by Graham, calling on the local chapter of the Student Coalition Against Trafficking to organize a protest march along Creston Street, and offering financial support to conservative candidates in the hopes of changing the composition of the Stallbrook City Council to one more sympathetic to her views. In Elsa's Revelations, she is a significant background character, funding the war chest of right-wing municipal candidates; when it is uncovered that Burton Trumbull used some of the funds she advanced him to hire a woman to slander Graham, she tries to do damage control, which only brings the Action Fund to a point of crisis.
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