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"Send a warrior to Congress." "Does this look like a Rino?" In the battleground of American political power, candidates for office tend to use every weapon at their disposal to be heard above the din. Now, a U.S. Marine who helped lead the initial charge into Iraq to oust Saddam Hussein is taking that approach literally by brandishing his M-16 assault rifle in some eye-catching campaign fundraising ads. "I'm taking full credit for that," says 28-year old Jesse Kelly of Tucson, Ariz., a Republican seeking to boot Democrat Gabrielle Giffords from the U.S. House of Representatives. "If you're not going...

SIERRA VISTA — Festering anger over the national health care debate has some local protesters seeking the ouster of Democratic U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Experts say the effort is symbolic, though. Protesters have given Giffords an ultimatum to host a town hall meeting on health care reform or else resign. If she fails to meet their demands, the protesters want her forced out of office. On Aug. 8, nearly 150 people gathered for a protest outside her Sierra Vista office. Many signed what was labeled as a recall petition, although there was no statement on the petition why such an...

Gabrielle Giffords (D)- AZ was scheduled to hold an event at the American Legion Post #66 in Green Valley/Sahuarita, Arizona. She canceled, so Jesse Kelly held a town hall in her place.

SIERRA VISTA — Democratic U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords faces an ultimatum from some local constituents when it comes to national health care. The terms given to the Arizona 8th Congressional District U.S. representative: • Hold a Sierra Vista town hall meeting on health care. • If she does not, then she is asked to resign her seat. • If she doesn’t resign, then those who are upset with her will look for ways to recall her from office. That was the prominent view Saturday when more than 150 people gathered outside her local office, which was closed due to the...

Here are some pictures from the rally at Gabriel Giffords' office in Tucson, AZ. Overview of the turnout FReepers Mountain Woman and Borax Queen My favorite. Tthese guys were really creative What else can you add to this? For all of the patriots that showed up and sweated today here's one for you And for all of you that showed us the "bird". Here's one for you

Marine Corps veteran Jesse Kelly will seek the Republican nomination in Arizona's 8th Congressioal District to run against Democrat incumbent Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. .............

U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords says she's just as excited and nervous as family members of other astronauts. Never mind that she's making a little history as the wife of 6 months to Mark Kelly, commander of space shuttle Discovery. The shuttle is supposed to launch this afternoon. Giffords wanted to make it clear she wasn't there as a member of Congress. She was there as the anxious wife. The Arizona politician says she couldn't be prouder of her husband. She had no connection to NASA before meeting Kelly. But she is a member of the House Science and Technology Committee,...

Democrat Gabrielle Giffords is running for Congress against Randy Graf in Arizona, and I called her office a few times trying to find out exactly which of the various immigration plans she supports or where her support differs from those plans. All I managed to get out of one of her staff members is that she supports the Kennedy-McCain plan, which includes a "guest" worker plan. [1] However, that plan did not pass. I asked about the plan that did pass the Senate, the "Hagel-Martinez compromise", which also contains a "guest" worker plan similar to that from Kennedy-McCain. [2] I...