On Sunday, Major Tammy Duckworth will be
announcing her intent to run for Congress.
Lifted directly from the NY Times article:
During 13 months of rehabilitation at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, Maj. L. Tammy Duckworth says, she did a lot of reading about American schoolchildren "losing our competitive advantage" with China. Encountering questions about her top-of-the-line prostheses while walking around a shopping mall, she says, made her ponder inequities in America's health care system.
And there was plenty of time to critique the Bush administration's prosecution of the war in Iraq, where she lost both legs and partial use of her right arm when a rocket-propelled grenade hit the Black Hawk helicopter she was flying over the Tigris River.
So Ms. Duckworth, who was discharged from Walter Reed on Wednesday and from active duty the day before, decided to run for Congress, joining a growing group of a dozen Iraq veterans running next year - most, like her, as Democrats.
Go ahead, Chickenhawks. I defy you to Swiftboat this woman.
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Not necessarily. There is already a strong Democrat running in that district, and her name is Christine CEGELIS. Duckworth does not have a grassroots organization, and many important Democratic Party officials feels she is a puppet for the DCCC and the DLC. Notice Duckworth repeats DLC talking points, which is probably a result of Rahm Emanuel's training. I do not know if you know this, but Duckworth's campaign was entirely orchestrated by Rahm Emanuel. Duckworth has no connection to the voters in my district whatsoever, which will create big problems for her after the holiday season. Although Duckworth is someone to watch, she is not the winning candidate. The DCCC should have invested their funds in Cegelis's winning campaign.
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