Former Giffords aide clinches re-election to her seat
Rep. Ron Barber, D-Ariz. - the onetime aide to former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords who was shot alongside her in an assassination attempt nearly two years ago - was re-elected today after his Republican challenger conceded a race that for 10 days had been too close to call, azcentral.com reports.
Barber had won Giffords' seat for the remainder of her term in a special election over the summer. Though still undergoing intensive therapy, Giffords devoted time to campaigning for Barber's re-election bid, which was challenged by former Air Force combat pilot Martha McSally.
Analysis out Friday by the Arizona Republic deeming the remaining uncounted ballots short of what McSally would need to surpass Barber's edge clinched the race for Barber. The result tips Arizona's delegation in favor of Democrats, for just the second time in 45 years.
"I'm really proud and honored that I've been given another opportunity to serve," Barber told the Associated Press on Saturday. "I never expected to be in Congress. When I won the special election I was thrilled about that and now I have two years to get some work done, and I really understand what the issues are nationally and locally and I'm going to be working hard on those."
Barber was shot in the leg and cheek in January 2011 when Jared Lee Loughner opened fire outside a Tucson Safeway, where Giffords was holding a "Congress On Your Corner" event. The rampage left six dead and 11 wounded. Giffords, who was shot through the head, survived but was critically injured. She resigned from her congressional seat earlier this year to focus on her recovery.
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What ignorace. Both Senator Clinton and Senator Biden voted for both wars.
Do you have any idea how many babies are aborted in the USA in a year? Nothing short of genocide.
In more than 14 metropolitan areas, abortions outnumber live births. More than 30 million abortions have occurred since 1973. Each year 1.2 million babies die by abortion.
You want to talk about the party of death?
The death of the most innocent among us?
How many arrest were there in the Tea Party in the last 3 years?
How many arrest were there in the Occupy Wall Street movement in the last year?
The violance and hate is in the Occupy movement, not the Tea Party.
Your ignornace is epic.
Destroying clumps of cells is not genocide. And the Tea Party is a political party, I would hope they have no arrests, that would be pretty sad. Occupy Wall Street was a protest movement, so of course people are going to get arrested from time to time. The Tea Party was nothing more than a mob response to a black man becoming president (remember the gun-toting Tea Partiers outside Obama town hall meetings?) The Occupy movement was to stick up for the poor and middle class being overrun by an uncontrolled Wall Street. Figures you would side agaisnt the poor and middle class.
The bottom line is, the GOP is the party of war. Some Dems voting with them, based on falsified intel, does not change that. Even now, the GOP is plotting how to get us to attack Iran. And when it comes to guns and "shoot first and ask questions later", that's a GOP trait all the way.
They dont hear the message from the voters do they?
And the same will be true in Texas.