[Reading-hall-of-fame] Gabi

[Ken Goodman]

Her opponent had a fund raiser in which people shot aat an image of her 
in the past election.
Ken


On 1/9/2011 11:30 AM, Jay Samuels wrote:
> Ken, I agree what happened was disgusting. Jay Blanchard, from ASU served
> with Gifford while he was a state official.  Makes one wonder. What was
> accomplished?  If Gifford lives, she will not be the same wonderful vibrant
> woman she was before this atrocity. Jay samuels
>
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> Ken Goodman
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> Subject: [Reading-hall-of-fame] Gabi
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> Gabu Giffords is our  congress woman. We knew her well enough to strike
> up a conversation with her on a plane recently. She was on her way home
> from Washington, She's been here at the village several times. One of
> her aides was in our whole language block several years ago. She was
> elected for the first time to replace a gay republican  jim Kolbe who
> refused to support her right wing opponent because he had run a gay
> bashing campaign against him in the previous election. This third time
> she was targeted which meant that the Republicans ran a tea party
> opponent who waged an ugly mean disgusting campaign against her. and
> spent millions of unaccounted for dollars
>
> It's not fair to lable her a "blue dog democrat" because she voted right
> on most things. I'd like to think the old folks carried the election for
> her because it was the early voters who finally produced the vote for
> her this time. If they did it was because of the disgust they felt at
> the campaign. Her campaign was mostly actual films of her opponents far
> out promises. We wish her full recovery.  And likewise for Arizona.
> Ken Goodman
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