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Giffords at a one-year anniversary vigil remembering the victims of Jan. 8.
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Giffords at a one-year anniversary vigil remembering the victims of Jan. 8.
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3 comments on this story
Jesse Kelly, after losing to Gabby in the 2010 election, rather than stay in Arizona and try to make a difference, in a huff moved to Texas. He only returned once Gabby stepped down. If you really want to see what kind of “person” Jesse Kelly is all you have to do is to look at this taken directly from his website several days AFTER Gabby was shot at the Safeway http://j.mp/A5to9a
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Jesse Kelly really was the best candidate for the ‘10 elections, and if the CD8 electorate were made up of voters who actually paid attention to how Gabby voted Kelly would have won in a landslide.
Unless something very crazy happens between now and the special election, I’ll be voting for Kelly…in part on the concept of karmic realignment.
Martha McSally is not a “defense wonk,” she’s an American Hero! The first female fighter pilot to fly in combat, she stood up to military brass and refused to accept orders that degraded women in Saudi Arabia (refusing to wear the Islamic abaya). I think Gabby would like her too. As a proud Republican who voted for the once-moderate, conservative Democrat Giffords, McSally has garnered my support and my vote.