WASHINGTON, DC - When Darcy Burner and Chellie Pingree, candidates for U.S. Congress in Washington State and Maine, respectively, presented a plan for Iraq last week they were not in Bellevue or Portland. They were in a conference room at the Omni Shoreham Hotel, in the Woodley Park neighborhood of Washington, DC, where the heavily progressive Take Back America conference was taking place. read more »
Democrat Darcy Burner, who is challenging Republican Congressman Dave Reichert for his District 8 seat, is set to unveil a plan outlining how Congress should deal with Iraq, campaign spokesman Sandeep Kaushik says.
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- Eric Oleson, an administrator at South Puget Sound Community College, explaining his internal struggle on voting for or against U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill) as the next president.