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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 15 2018, @06:23AM (1 child)
So I would support her but I don't think this is about commitment, she is not like snowden, her and Winning did what they did on impulse, which I respect but I don't believe they have any commitment to freedom, I suspect(perhaps unjustly I don't know) AW or Stockholm syndrome
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday January 15 2018, @06:57AM
In that case, let's just look at her platform, whatever it turns out to be. I assume that it would at least be anti-surveillance. Whereas Democrats and Republicans alike tend to support pro-surveillance bills or "less bad" pro-surveillance bills.
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