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Michelle Obama’s former policy director enters race for Maryland governor
Washington Post ^ | 8/9/2017 | Ovetta Wiggina and Josh Hicks

Posted on 08/11/2017 10:54:36 AM PDT by simpson96

Krishanti Vignarajah, a onetime policy director for former first lady Michelle Obama, announced Wednesday that she plans to enter the race for Maryland governor, becoming the first woman to join the crowded field for the 2018 Democratic nomination.

Vignarajah plans an official campaign announcement next month.

“I am running for governor because I am worried my daughter will not have the same opportunities my parents gave me when they brought our family here when I was a baby girl,” she said in a statement. “I hope Marylanders will agree the best man for the job is a woman.”

Vignarajah, 37, of Gaithersburg, will compete against Prince George’s County Executive Rushern L. Baker III, former NAACP president Ben Jealous, state Sen. Richard S. Madaleno Jr. (D-Montgomery), technology entrepreneur Alec Ross and lawyer James L. Shea.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: demprimary; md2018; vignarajah
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1 posted on 08/11/2017 10:54:36 AM PDT by simpson96
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2 posted on 08/11/2017 10:55:16 AM PDT by simpson96
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Another sexist pig in an ultra-leftist state, YAWN.


3 posted on 08/11/2017 10:57:10 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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I am running for governor because I am worried my daughter will not have the same opportunities my parents gave me when they brought our family here when I was a baby girl,” she said in a statement. “I hope Marylanders will agree the best man for the job is a woman.”

So that's it, huh? She's going to have to do better than that. At least she can't run for president somewhere down the road. I guess.

4 posted on 08/11/2017 10:59:56 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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Muslim?


5 posted on 08/11/2017 11:00:55 AM PDT by Angels27
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I always laugh when I hear or read the name “Ben Jealous”. That pretty sums up what motivates him, that he’s been jealous of whites and there’s really no reason.


6 posted on 08/11/2017 11:01:18 AM PDT by Crucial
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If Obama, Cruz and Rubio can, anyone can.


7 posted on 08/11/2017 11:01:25 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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That’s what I was thinking.


8 posted on 08/11/2017 11:02:07 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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She is completely qualified for ANY democrat job.
Considering, of course, their laughable standards (or lack thereof).
She does indeed fit Maryland well.
She has a plethora of incompetent mates to choose from in Baltimore.


9 posted on 08/11/2017 11:06:10 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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Funny, I paused at the name of the writer of the article. Huh?


10 posted on 08/11/2017 11:15:10 AM PDT by The Westerner (Protect the most vulnerable: get the government out of medicine and education!)
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The portrait of Washington is throwing-up in his mouth.


11 posted on 08/11/2017 11:38:43 AM PDT by pabianice (LINE)
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If you are going to live in America can you at least get a normal American name that people can pronounce?

Too many foreigners come here and don’t become American.


12 posted on 08/11/2017 11:40:47 AM PDT by MAGA2017
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I believe democracy. This indicates what Maryland has turned to. What kind of people live there


13 posted on 08/11/2017 11:57:38 AM PDT by Lee25
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Quite the polyglot they had stirred up in the Obama White Hut...


14 posted on 08/11/2017 12:02:29 PM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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Why in the world did Michelle have a “policy director”? Who elected her to anything?


15 posted on 08/11/2017 12:05:50 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (I was not elected to continue a failed system. I was elected to change it. --Donald J. Trump)
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That sasquatch is dangerously close to that woman.


16 posted on 08/11/2017 12:34:18 PM PDT by TheConservativeParty
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No sh&t. That was my first thought too.


17 posted on 08/11/2017 12:43:47 PM PDT by nobamanomore
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I don’t think she is qualified. Something about living/voting in Maryland for the five years before you run for governor. She voted in D.C.


18 posted on 08/11/2017 12:58:54 PM PDT by Abby4116
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Ovetta Wiggina???


19 posted on 08/11/2017 3:30:17 PM PDT by Crucial
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Why the hell did Moochie need a policy director? How much did this cost the taxpayers?


20 posted on 08/11/2017 3:42:36 PM PDT by freedom1st
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