Progressives: There Is a Fresh New Face Coming To Congress Soon!

[Virginia Dare]

Meet Donna Edwards, she will bring a little sunshine to your world, I guarantee it! Ms. Edwards is a formerly homeless single mother, we need more of her kind in Washington.



On Campaign Trail, Armed With Self-Assurance
Pr. George's Congressional Candidate Holds Her Own

For one ingredient behind Donna F. Edwards's improbable victory over eight-term U.S. Rep. Albert R. Wynn in February's Democratic primary, look to the football field.

The nonprofit group executive from Prince George's County played the game with the boys when she was a tomboyish youngster. She laughed when asked recently whether she was any good at it, as she prepared to lob a pass during a muggy picnic in Glenarden, where she was campaigning ahead of Tuesday's special election to replace Wynn.

"I'm always good," she said, with only a hint of self-deprecating sarcasm.

It is this gritty competitive spirit that Edwards brought to her dogged campaign against Wynn, a self-confidence that led her as a young lawyer to found a national movement to end domestic violence and as a neighborhood activist to take on one of the region's most prominent developers.

For her supporters, many of whom are wildly optimistic that the 49-year-old represents a new face of progressive politics, her self-assurance is often borne out.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/11/AR2008061103362.html

[lame54]

1. Just don't let her bowl

[undeterred]

2. she will be fantastic!

[underpants]

3. Just WOW

She sounds great. What a lifetime of achievement already.