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posted by Fnord666 on Monday January 15 2018, @01:56AM   Printer-friendly
from the representative-of-the-people dept.

Chelsea Manning eyes U.S. Senate seat for Maryland

Chelsea Manning, the transgender U.S. Army soldier who served seven years in military prison for leaking classified data, is seeking the Democratic Party's nomination for the U.S. Senate seat from Maryland, according to Federal election filings seen on Saturday.

[...] Democratic Senator Ben Cardin was elected in 2006 to that seat and is expected to run for re-election this year. He is the senior Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Cardin was easily re-elected in 2012, beating his Republican challenger by 30 points in the heavily-Democratic state.

Previously: Chelsea Manning Released from Prison, Remains on Active Duty Pending Appeal
Harvard Dean Rescinds Chelsea Manning's Visiting Fellow Invitation, Calling It a 'Mistake'


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 15 2018, @11:46AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 15 2018, @11:46AM (#622533)

    He's also a warmonger

    Remind me, what wars has Trump started so far?

    Syria is at the calmest it's been for years, after the proxy war with Russia was stopped.
    North Korea is now talking directly with the South, after years of international antagonism and effective inaction (through successive US presidencies) over the North's nuclear development.

    Trump's a sabre-rattler, for sure, but the only fights he's started have been political.

  • (Score: 2) by Anal Pumpernickel on Tuesday January 16 2018, @01:46AM

    by Anal Pumpernickel (776) on Tuesday January 16 2018, @01:46AM (#622928)

    Remind me, what wars has Trump started so far?

    He's continued the 7+ different interventions from previous presidents. That is bad enough, and there are no excuses. He doesn't need to start any new wars to be a warmonger; continuing previous wars is bad enough.