Kerry campaign courts military-family voters

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By Warren Cornwall
Seattle Times staff reporter


JOHN LOK / THE SEATTLE TIMES
Lietta Ruger, center, talks with state Rep. Sandra Romero of Olympia, far right, as Ruger's husband, Arthur, looks on during a gathering in Kent yesterday with several Military Moms with a Mission members, who were campaigning for Democrat John Kerry.

Lietta Ruger, mother-in-law and aunt to soldiers sent to Iraq, has spent months speaking out against the war.

Last night was the first time she publicly spoke out for Sen. John Kerry's presidential campaign.

Ruger and her husband drove from southwestern Washington yesterday to meet in a Kent living room with several women touring the country for the Democrat's campaign in a bid to show that military families are unhappy with President Bush's handling of the war.

"I think the only opportunity this country has is for a change in commander-in-chief," Ruger said to the roughly dozen people who gathered over coffee and chocolate-chip cookies.

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