Workin' it for the working folks - do the infrastructure boogie!
Posted on 09/06/2011 10:53:39 AM PDT by markomalley
Wisconsin Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D) has made it official — she’s running for the Senate seat being vacated by retiring Sen. Herb Kohl (D) next year.
If she wins, Baldwin will make history as the the first openly gay member of the Senate. But how much will her sexuality factor into the race (if at all)?
Baldwin was first elected to represent Wisconsin’s 2nd district in 1998, becoming the first female House member from the Badger State. She was also the first openly gay person to be elected to Congress as a non-incumbent.
Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) was the first congressman to voluntarily come out as gay — he did so in 1987, during his fourth term, in the Boston Globe. There are currently four gay members of Congress, all in the House.
“When I first ran for Congress in 1998, people counted me out,” she says in her Senate announcement video released this morning “But we worked hard, campaigned across south-central Wisconsin, and we won.”
In that announcement — via video and an e-mail to supporters — Baldwin made no mention of being gay. And, when asked about the impact on her campaign during a conference call with reporters, Baldwin said: “From day one, I have always been open about my sexual orientation. I think that that integrity is something that is important to voters. But frankly, this campaign isn’t going to be about me.”
Of course, that depends on who ultimately decides to run — and who Republicans decide to nominate.
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I don’t care about if she is gay or not, but Yeah, I think she is the most liberal member of Congress. From her bio, it also appears that she has never had a “real job” in her entire life. She can’t be a friend of the working man if she has never worked a day.
As far as I know, no.
Hey. we have that thing beat here in MD. Exhibit A: Barbara “The Whale” Mikulski.
That headline makes it sound like adding to a Hot-Wheels collection, instead of trying to elect a Senator.
No, deviant...
Tammy Baldwin’s at Madison Pride fest - Wonder Woman! Lol.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7YDaXqyL-Y
Poor Benny Beaver...rolling over in his beaver grave.
Workin' it for the working folks - do the infrastructure boogie!
Willem Dafoe resembles that!
Neumann will destroy her in out-state Wisconsin.
The Republicans party apparatus might not be keen on Neumann but he sells “outsider” well in the northern part of the state and folks outside Milwaukee/Madison preferred him to Scott Walker - Neumann being the preferred conservative.
Obama voters will support her because she’s diverse. My guess is that there will be a whole lot fewer Obama voters in 2012 now that we have seen how that worked. Her odds are not good, since I expect WI to go GOP next year.
Future MSNBC talk show host.
I concur. It’s either Neumann or Fitzy for the R’s. I don’t think she will win.
“She’d make a frieght train take a dirt road”
And to listen to to her talk- My hound starts howling....
Nah, Mick Jagger.
That's a low blow.
We refer to her as “that little Dynamo from Dundalk.”
...no love for Susan Collins on this thread...?
What about Herb Kohl?
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