Senate Democratic women took a stand yesterday on behalf of reproductive rights. In her compelling presentation, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) had a few words for Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) and his comment about Planned Parenthood that he later explained was “not intended to be factual.”
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Saturday, February 12, 2011
Could Gabby Giffords take AZ Senator Jon Kyl’s seat?
According to Politico, Dems are looking to Gabby Giffords as a potential candidate to replace Jon Kyl; now this is true optimism and maybe even faith, and we can only cheer Gabby Giffords and her supporters on.
Politico’s Alexander Burns writes:
The race for Arizona’s open Senate seat has quickly focused in on one question: What will Gabrielle Giffords do?
The Democratic congresswoman, who survived an assassination attempt in Tucson last month, is still undergoing rehabilitation in Houston for a gunshot wound to the head. Physicians have warned that her recovery will proceed at its own pace.
But even though questions about her health remain, Giffords’s astonishingly rapid recovery has left Democrats in Arizona and Washington looking to her as a potential candidate to replace retiring GOP Sen. Jon Kyl.
Giffords was mentioned as one possible contender for the 2012 race during a closed-door meeting of Senate Democrats on Thursday, two sources with knowledge of the meeting said.
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