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.
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(Score: 2) by beckett on Tuesday January 16 2018, @05:43AM (2 children)
Do you have access to her voting history as a senator from the future?
If this is what really matters, then i'd advise giving her an opportunity to write policy before passing any kind of judgement.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 16 2018, @07:51PM (1 child)
We have access to clips from her television show from the past. Bill Moyers selected a few about Iraq for Buying the War: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MlDwzb0tp8 [youtube.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 16 2018, @08:02PM
Wikipedia has an article about her series of shows on Iraq: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oprah%27s_Anti-war_series [wikipedia.org]