More Casualties, More Problems
August 16, 2007
Deborah Pryce, the “highest-ranking woman in the Congress” prior to Madame Speaker Pelosi, announced her intent to spend more time with her daughter/family. And not have to run for public office in 2008 (she barely won in 2006, by a margin of 1600 votes out of 200,000 cast).
For someone who was the 4th-highest member of the GOP House leadership, it is another blemish to accompany former Speaker Hastert’s decision to bid adieu.
Why the Youth Vote Matters
August 2, 2007
or why we — those of us up to 29 — mattered in the 2006 mid-term elections is decipherable from this pretty image from the MFA folks:
