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(NH-Sen) Granny D story in LA Times

by runchadrun

Tue Oct 05, 2004 at 08:39:02 AM PDT

The Los Angeles Times ran a story this morning about Granny D's NH Senate Race.

Story at http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-granny5oct05,1,1135146.story
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Some excerpts below the fold.

Hours before the filing cutoff, someone mentioned Haddock. So, Sullivan had lunch with Haddock, who was home after running a 10-month voter registration project aimed at low-income women. She urged her to file candidacy papers.

"We had one option, and that was to throw the long ball -- the Hail Mary pass," Sullivan said. She denied that Haddock was being offered up as a political sacrifice. "It is never a [waste] when someone steps forward and talks about issues that are important," Sullivan said. "That's the whole point of living in a democracy."[...]

Out on the trail, Doris Haddock delivers this message: Nearly all evils born in Washington -- lopsided tax policies, economic disparity, an ineffective healthcare system, even the war in Iraq -- are caused by "career politicians who are funded by the special interests that they are supposed to be regulating."[...]

But Haddock countered, "Do you think I can't do better than a Senate that has a deficit of $245 billion? A Senate that approved a needless war? There is no one in the Senate who is free to say what they think. But I say what I think."

Now go give Granny D some turkee at http://www.grannyd.com/contribute.php

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  •  aoeu (none / 0)

    She also promises to be a one termer right?

    turtles consider
    every single vote deeply
    yet always vote dem

    by TealVeal on Tue Oct 05, 2004 at 08:41:06 AM PDT

  •  If you get a chance (none / 1)

    to hear her speak do so.  She is wonderful.  My husband & I saw her last week at a house party in Laconia.  She was brilliant! Her message was so clear and on target I felt like crying. I heard her again Sunday night while waiting for the Kerry plane to fly into Portsmouth.  What amazed me was how few of the people standing in line around me even knew who she was.

    an Edwards democrat all the way to my obituary

    by SMucci on Tue Oct 05, 2004 at 08:49:33 AM PDT

  •  Any recent polling? (none / 0)

    If Kerry carries NH that has to help her, but only if the race is close.

    -Fred

    Democrats *do* have a plan for Social Security - it's called Social Security. -- Ed Schultz

    by FredFred on Tue Oct 05, 2004 at 09:35:26 AM PDT

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