Eighteen months ago Gilda Reed started her journey to lend voice to the unheard, to represent the people of Louisiana's 1st congressional district. Fifteen months after Hurricane Katrina stormed through her district, fifteen months after the man-made damage of the Army Corps left the greater New Orleans area in shambles, fifteen months after we witnessed our citizens abandoned on rooftops, Gilda took a quantum leap forward and entered the political fray.
Gilda had a most fulfilling life as mother of seven, grandmother of soon-to-be fourteen, teacher of thousands at the University of New Orleans, friend to many, until her world was shattered by prior decades of sheer political negligence, until her world was ravaged by the decision to protect her family, her neighbors, her district as if they were cattle.
Now, the Special Election is but 2 days away.
Let us be the gentle wind at her back!
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