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Congress's First 'Unwed Mother'
ABC ^ | 11/21/08 | Jake Tapper

Posted on 11/21/2008 9:21:16 AM PST by freespirited

Over at National Review's "The Corner," K-Lo calls it a "cultural indicator:" Congresswoman Linda Sanchez, D-Calif., will likely become Congress's first unwed mother, or single mom, if you prefer.

As reported by the Washington Post's Reliable Source, Sanchez -- with help from her "unofficial fiancé" Jim Sullivan -- is "poised to become only the eighth congresswoman in history to have a baby while in office -- and the first to do so while single....The two are 'unofficially engaged,' she says, and looking to buy a house. They will plan a wedding later -- but at her age, she says, planning a baby couldn't wait."

The Los Angeles Times was the first to announce the news to the world. "Twenty years ago, it simply wouldn't have been possible -- pregnant, single and a member of Congress?" wrote Patt Morrison. "Oh, the scandal! But Hester Prynne has morphed into Juno MacGuff, the culture wars have been fought to a truce of exhaustion, and 'unwed mother' has been recast as 'single mom.'"

Says Sanchez: "I'm hopeful there won't be this sort of ugliness about something that for me is really a blessed event."

But Morrison asks, "how might Sanchez's pregnancy play out in her district, which is 61 percent Latino? The national Latina teenage pregnancy rate is twice the country's average. Could a teenager point to her and say, 'If she can do it, why can't I?'

"The differences, Sanchez thinks, are substantial, and that's a big teachable moment. She's not a 'surprised pregnant teenager,' 15 or 16, poor, jobless, a dropout. 'I'm established in my life. I have a career. I'm financially stable. I have a loving, committed partner. This is something that was planned, not something that was accidental.' Sanchez is 39 and divorced, and early this year, her doctor told her that 'if your intention is to become a mother, I wouldn't put it off.' So she and Sullivan didn't. They haven't yet set a wedding date. As he told me, 'We have the rest of our lives to get engaged and married -- we don't have the rest of our lives' for Sanchez to become pregnant."


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 111th; dirtysanchez; hispanics; lindasanchez; unwedmother
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To: Old Grumpy

Mine was an overlay of “OMG” and “AAAAHHHHHHH”.


21 posted on 11/21/2008 9:47:34 AM PST by TheZMan (Troll since 2004, apparently.)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

“That’s not a planet. That’s a Space Station.”


22 posted on 11/21/2008 9:47:38 AM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Old Grumpy

I think that’s her sister. They are both Representatives.


23 posted on 11/21/2008 9:48:26 AM PST by originalbuckeye
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To: Red in Blue PA
Re: The two are ‘unofficially engaged,’

So this means they are dating having sex.

24 posted on 11/21/2008 9:48:30 AM PST by Tax-chick ("I thank Thee, dear Jesus, that Thy will and not mine has been done." ~St. Frances Cabrini)
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To: Red in Blue PA

I will call it “shacking up”.


25 posted on 11/21/2008 9:48:50 AM PST by GOYAKLA (My Tee shirt for 2009-2012:" I voted FRED don't you wish you did")
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To: freespirited

Linda Sanchez, Jim Sullivan

26 posted on 11/21/2008 9:49:30 AM PST by kcvl
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

This is the sister.


27 posted on 11/21/2008 9:49:57 AM PST by edcoil (Looking for a new tagline - do you have one I can use?)
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To: Tax-chick

Or maybe not. After seeing that picture, turkey basters come to mind ...


28 posted on 11/21/2008 9:50:08 AM PST by Tax-chick ("I thank Thee, dear Jesus, that Thy will and not mine has been done." ~St. Frances Cabrini)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

YETI?


29 posted on 11/21/2008 9:50:57 AM PST by GOYAKLA (My Tee shirt for 2009-2012:" I voted FRED don't you wish you did")
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To: Red in Blue PA

It means she can’t close the deal.


30 posted on 11/21/2008 9:54:43 AM PST by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

Didn’t illegal aliens asssit in voting Bob Dornan and that enabled this toad to capture his seat? Have they redrawn her district since then or is she still representing Orange County? Because I can’t figure out how one of the last conservative bastions in California keeps sending her to Congress!


31 posted on 11/21/2008 9:55:31 AM PST by Right Cal Gal (Abraham Lincoln would have let Berkeley leave the Union without a fight)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor
Good God! What a pig. She must thank the Lord everyday for alcohol, because you would have to be near death drunk to hit that.
32 posted on 11/21/2008 9:56:28 AM PST by odin2008 (EVIL TRUMPHS WHEN GOOD MEN DO NOTHING)
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To: Tax-chick

He’s no Jude Law.


33 posted on 11/21/2008 9:56:51 AM PST by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: Old Grumpy
Oops. I was thinking about Loretta Sanchez. Interesting history of those sisters. Loretta WAS Loretta Brixey. She ran against Bob Dornan in the R primary and lost. So she switched sides and used her maiden name and won the seat as Loretta Sanchez. Linda Sanchez ran after Loretta won her seat. The sisters’ brother lost his life recently in a boating accident. He and his girlfriend were on their way to Catalina island in a power boat and were below deck in the cabin. They must have had the boat on autopilot. It was around midnight and the boat slammed into a barge being towed. The towboat was about 1,000 feet ahead of the barge. The towboat operator had no idea the barge had hit the boat. They found the bodies of the Sanchez man and his girlfriend still inside the cabin on the ocean floor. This is a really ‘interesting’ family to say the least. There is no shame in unwed pregnancy in California among those in charge. Read that Democrats in charge.
34 posted on 11/21/2008 9:57:26 AM PST by originalbuckeye
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To: kcvl

Well, she’s not an Unfed Mother, that’s for damn sure.


35 posted on 11/21/2008 9:57:48 AM PST by Lizavetta
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To: freespirited

Single mother?
How about tramp.


36 posted on 11/21/2008 9:58:36 AM PST by BuffaloJack
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

Oh my, from that pic...please tell me it was via artificial insemination. :(


37 posted on 11/21/2008 9:59:11 AM PST by Towed_Jumper (Stephen Hopkins: Founding Father who had Cerebral Palsy.."My hand trembles, my heart does not.")
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To: Right Cal Gal
That was her sister, Lorraine (who is also voted every year, by the Congressional staffers..."Dumbest Congressperson on the Hill").
38 posted on 11/21/2008 10:00:22 AM PST by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: edcoil

http://www.daylife.com/photo/0cujdjp1ikgYK

here’s the link from where I pulled the pic, the caption describes Linda Sanchez, who the original post was about. Her sister is Loretta.


39 posted on 11/21/2008 10:00:52 AM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

Should I say it?? ..... Guilty.


40 posted on 11/21/2008 10:01:00 AM PST by ken in texas (come fold with us - team #36120)
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