Darcy Burner, WA-08 Democratic challenger is currently in the top ten on our Netroots challengers list over at Act Blue, and I wanted to write a little about her and hopefully help her effort to raise $75,000 by the end of this month.
I know there has been some controversy over at MyDD in regards to her first television ad, which was produced by Steve McMahon, and was viewed as light on Iraq. But I am just going to make this a simple introduction of Darcy Burner, for those who are not familiar with her.
Darcy is the daughter of an Air force veteran and a public school teacher, and because of her fathers involvement with the Air force she grew up in military towns and attended public schools in Alaska, Montana, and Nebraska. Darcy attended Harvard on a National Merit Scholarship in which she majored in computer science and economics. She put herself through school by working for high-tech firms in the Boston area.
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