Valerie Plame to run for Congress in New Mexico
By Reid Wilson - 05/09/19 10:22 AM EDT
Former CIA operative Valerie Plame, whose cover was blown by Bush administration officials in a major scandal in the run up to the Iraq War, will run for an open House seat in New Mexico.
Plame filed papers Wednesday to formally open a campaign committee. A Democrat, she will run for the seat held by Rep. Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.), who is running for a Senate seat.
“Over 10 years ago, I chose to make New Mexico my home and it has become my heart,†Plame said in a statement on her new website. “I have lived all over the world and have never felt more connected to a place and its special people than in the Land of Enchantment.â€
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