[SaveFerris]

Matt04 and I used to joke about that

[MinuteGal]

Before she was a senator, Tammy Duckworth took the congressional seat of the late, great Rep. Henry Hyde. He was my friend and mentor when I successfully ran for public office in the district next to his.

This district was in a solid conservative Republican county in the western suburbs of Chicago. Her win was an upset.

Duckworth was elected on her record as a Purple Heart veteran who lost two legs in Iraq when the helicopter she was in was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade.

As a female, a double amputee, an Asian-American and a decorated veteran, many in the Demoncrat party are pushing her for veep because they view her as politically "safe" and a sympathy-vote getter.

And Biden can safely say he picked a "woman of color" as number two on the ticket.

Leni

[Salamander]

One of my long running jokes with Shibumi [RIP] but we weren’t really kidding.