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Chelsea Manning Seeks U.S. Senate Seat for Maryland

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

takyon writes:

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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• Re:Mixed feelings (Score: 1) by Sulla on Monday January 15 2018, @07:11AM

  by Sulla (5173) on Monday January 15 2018, @07:11AM (#622484) Journal

  I personally find the problem not "picking up parlipro" but rather "willing to follow parlipro" . This is a condemnation of most politicians and not this person in particular.

  State jobs have an additional difficulty of not paying a high enough wage to make it worth doing unless you really care or are corrupt. Once I am debt free and have a good savings I will try my hand at local, but it is tough I imagine to be honest.

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  Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam

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