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a kennedy

(29,669 posts)
Tue Mar 6, 2018, 08:57 AM Mar 2018

Donna Shalala is running for US House seat in Florida......

Donna Shalala jumped into the political arena Monday, filing paperwork with the Federal Election Commission to run for the U.S. House seat being vacated by retiring Republican Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen.

Shalala, 77, a Democrat who was secretary of Health and Human Services under President Clinton, also served as the president of the University of Miami and as president of the Clinton Foundation.

She's the second former Clinton official to declare candidacy in recent days. On Monday Mike Espy announced his run for the Senate, to replace retiring Republican Sen. Thad Cochran.

Espy served as a Democrat in the U.S. House representing Mississippi's 2nd District from 1987 to 1993 — the first African-American to hold a Mississippi congressional seat since Reconstruction, then served as secretary of agriculture under Clinton, the first African-American to hold that post.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/03/06/donna-shalala-run-u-s-house-replacing-ros-lehtinen/398113002/

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Donna Shalala is running for US House seat in Florida...... (Original Post) a kennedy Mar 2018 OP
In a little while, murielm99 Mar 2018 #1
Well I for one would love it... LakeArenal Mar 2018 #2
And just to make this all about me... Lefta Dissenter Mar 2018 #3
Nice to know..🙂 LakeArenal Mar 2018 #4

murielm99

(30,742 posts)
1. In a little while,
Tue Mar 6, 2018, 01:46 PM
Mar 2018

someone will declare her too old and too establishment. After all, she worked for Clinton.

LakeArenal

(28,819 posts)
2. Well I for one would love it...
Tue Mar 6, 2018, 05:35 PM
Mar 2018

She kicked as in Wisconsin.. Brought in Barry Alvaraz and put Badger Football on the map...

Lefta Dissenter

(6,622 posts)
3. And just to make this all about me...
Tue Mar 6, 2018, 07:24 PM
Mar 2018

I have a lovely handwritten sympathy note from her from when my mom died in '92.

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