Serving the what?
Posted on 05/29/2005 5:17:16 PM PDT by Valin
WASHINGTON - Coleen Rowley is considering a race for Congress in Minnesota's 2nd Congressional District, the former FBI whistle-blower told the Associated Press Monday.
Rowley, 50, would run as a Democrat in the seat currently held by GOP Rep. John Kline. Kline's 2004 opponent, Teresa Daly, said she has not made a decision on whether to run again.
Rowley, who retired from the FBI last year, said she's spoken to people to get their input, both inside and outside of politics, but has been put off by some suggestions that she get a "makeover."
"I've butted heads with a few people -- anyone who tells me I have to spruce up my hair and buy a new wardrobe," Rowley said, declining to identify the source of this unwanted advice. "I haven't worn makeup since I was 21. You have to be authentic and genuine in serving the populace."
Rowley was named one of Time magazine's People of the Year for 2002 after she criticized the agency for ignoring her pleas in the weeks before Sept. 11, 2001, to investigate terrorism suspect Zacarias Moussaoui more aggressively. He was the only person charged in the United States in the attacks.
Rowley said she hopes to make a decision on a congressional race by early next month. In 2003, DFL activists encouraged her to run against Kline, but she declined. One reason was she would have had to quit the FBI a year before she could receive her pension.
Rowley said she would run as an "independent-minded Democrat," focusing on issues such as international security and civil liberties.
"I'm very concerned about the direction we're going in with civil liberties, the secrecy, the use of alerts to manipulate public opinion," Rowley said.
On terrorism, Rowley said, "We've not done anything from the 9/11 Commission on root causes, and we never followed through with infrastructure and economic assistance to Afghanistan."
Larry Jacobs, a political science professor at the University of Minnesota, said that Rowley would have to overcome a GOP-leaning district.
"She's going to have to run as a conservative or moderate Democrat to have a chance," he said.
The Kline campaign said in a statement that it was too early to speculate about the race, and that Kline is focusing on congressional business.
Why doesn't that surprise me?
She's going to try and run on national security issues in the party or Ted Kennedy and Babs Boxer, et al? Give up.
Well of course she will be a Democrat, she is hypocritical---
The blasts people for not following up on leads on Moussaui, but in the next paragraph she says she wants to run because she is worried about people's civil liberties...
She also says she wants to run as an independent-minded democrat, isn't that an oxymoron?
I've butted heads with a few people -- anyone who tells me I have to spruce up my hair and buy a new wardrobe," Rowley said, declining to identify the source of this unwanted advice. "I haven't worn makeup since I was 21.
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A no-makeup feminista. Probably a bra-burner in the 1970's.
Serving the what?
Elaborate please..
LOL! She blasts the FBI for basically not racial profiling and working with kid gloves on Zacarais Misouri, and then finds herself the darling of the left all of sudden for critizing the FBI during Bush's presidency. Looks like she knows how to play the game very well.
Civil liberties???? And she worked for the FBI????
It's easy to claim after the fact that you told everyone.
Where do these judges get the idea that the American public has the right to see what it's military is doing??
I don't think Swing and A Drive is a troll. At least not a classic one. I think he's wrong wrong wrong.
No surprise here. However, I wouldn't vote for a Democrat if they drove through the streets in a blaze-orange Hummer with gun-racks and a Confederate Flag bumper sticker crying out "The terrorists are coming!"
Muleteam1
I asked for you to elaborate, not start an argument.
What the hell issue do you have??
In this one article she complains because no one interfered with Zacharia Moussoui's civil liberties enough to stop he and his cohorts before 9/11...which she went in front of a congressional hearing to say (whistleblower, I do believe)...
But, then she says she will run as a democrat because she worries that people's civil liberties will be lessened..
She can't have it both ways---although, she would make a good female John Kerry, "I was against civil liberties, before I was for them"....
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