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General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: flowers on February 04, 2014, 04:27:35 pm
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http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/02/04/It-s-Official-Sandra-Fluke-Files-for-Congress
Sandra Fluke has made it official: she has filed to run for the congressional seat being vacated by Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) after 40 years.
The birth control advocate who shook up the 2012 presidential campaign does not live in the 33rd district, but is eligible to run for the seat. She will be facing off against local Democratic stalwart Wendy Greuel, who narrowly missed winning the Los Angeles mayor's race last year, among others.
According to Aaron Blake of the Washington Post, Fluke has not yet filed papers with the Federal Election Commission or made a public announcement, but has filed with the state Democratic Party to seek its endorsement for the seat. Fluke told local public radio station KPCC last week that she had been "strongly considering" a run, and received immediate support from long-time supporter and Democrat adviser Hilary Rosen.
Fluke stirred controversy by fighting to force Georgetown Law School to offer free contraception as part of its insurance coverage for students and faculty, despite the
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That woman would destroy a small town if elected to the local council. She's a blipping idiot, who needs to stay in her parents' basement.
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They'll elect her for one reason, to poke Rush in the eye.
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I can see her rallies now. She runs on to the stage, greeted by cheers and screams. A thousand inflated condoms descend on her as she strides to the podium. She bends, picks up a T shirt gun and starts firing shirts into the audience. Wrapped incide each shirt is a month's supply of birth control tablets.
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local democrat party machines have a very well-developed pecking order and rules of seniority; she might get support from the state party, but she's going to have the devil's own time dealing with the local machine.
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she cannot afford birth control, but has money to run for office :thud:
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she cannot afford birth control, but has money to run for office :thud:
She gets both from the same source: other peoples' money. You don't think she's actually going to put more than a token amount of her own money into this race.