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Fuckin’ Record Reviews donates to EMILY’S LIST, PART 2.
Dems need 5 seats to take back the Senate and return to the goal of advancing a progressive agenda. Now’s the time to get involved.
PART 1: Catherine Cortez Musto, Tammy Duckworth, Kamala Harris
FRR sees some future presidential candidates in the list of 2016 U.S. Senate candidates below:
MAGGIIE HASSAN (D - NEW HAMPSHIRE): “From her time in the New Hampshire state legislature to her years serving as the state’s governor, Maggie has shown she knows what to do to get things done — and she’s done it with pragmatism and compassion. Because of [her son] Ben’s [cerebral palsy] diagnosis, issues like equal pay, access to public education, and access to affordable insurance are deeply personal for her. Maggie is pro-choice and strongly supports the right of women to make their own reproductive health care decisions. As governor, she worked to expand access to Medicaid coverage for some of New Hampshire’s most vulnerable citizens and, under her watch, New Hampshire was named one of the best states in the country for child well-being. When she is elected, Maggie will bring her New Hampshire values with her to the U.S. Senate, believing that ‘the equal devotion to individual freedom and community [that] we share in New Hampshire is what makes America unique in the world’.” (EMILY’S LIST)
The following pic is a 10/12/16 snapshot from FiveThirtyEight. Hassan could use some campaign support now to put her over Kelly Ayotte.
PATTY JUDGE (D - IOWA): “Patty began her career as a registered nurse before becoming a partner with her husband John, a Vietnam veteran, in their farming operation. After her third child was born, Patty set out on a new career path as a farm manager and a rural appraiser. As she purchased and built her real estate business in the early 1980s, Patty became aware of the looming farm crisis. She got involved in a project to mediate between struggling farmers and their creditors, helping hundreds of farm families keep their land when possible and helping them get the resources they needed to start over when it wasn’t. An unwavering advocate for Iowa’s rural families, Patty was elected to the Iowa Senate in 1992 and reelected in 1996. Before Patty won, “a woman was never elected from that part of the state,” she has said. “But I never thought I was going to lose.” When she took office, the few women in the Iowa legislature “were looked on with skeptical eyes about our abilities,” Patty recalls, but she didn’t let that stop her from fighting to give Iowa women and families a fair shot. In 1998, she became the first woman elected Iowa Secretary of Agriculture and was reelected in 2002. Under Patty’s leadership, renewable energy became an integral part of Iowa’s economy and Hawkeye State agricultural products reached new markets around the world. In 2006, Patty was elected Iowa’s lieutenant governor and assumed the role of Homeland Security Advisor. She was instrumental in coordinating critical response operations during the devastating floods of 2008, and she served as the executive director of “Rebuild Iowa…” (EMILY’S LIST)
http://pattyjudgeforiowa.com
ANN KIRKPATRICK (D - ARIZONA): “…In 2008, Ann took her fight to Washington, when she was elected to represent Arizona’s First District in the U.S. House of Representatives. In Congress, Ann has been a consistent champion for the issues that matter most to families. She’s put practicality over politics, voting for a bipartisan budget agreement in 2013 to break the gridlock in Congress and even cosponsoring legislation with a conservative Republican who once ran against her to bring more jobs to Arizona. Through it all, Ann has never stopped living her Arizona values of hard work and resilience, working across the aisle to find commonsense solutions and get the job done…In Congress, Ann defended the right of Arizona women to make their own reproductive health care decisions, cosponsored the Paycheck Fairness Act, voted to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act, and stood up to Republicans seeking to defund Planned Parenthood. She has been a strong advocate for families in her district, fighting for a cost-of-living adjustment to help get seniors through the recession and introducing bipartisan legislation to clear the backlog at the Department of Veterans Affairs. In her first term in Congress, more of Ann’s bills and amendments were passed than almost any other freshman representative’s.” (EMILY’S LIST)
http://www.kirkpatrickforsenate.com/
