Kathy Hochul - Her Inheritance: An Eagerness to Serve

[Iwillnevergiveup]

The more I read about her, the more I find to like. And I doubt very much her Republican challenger has one scintilla of Kathy's extraordinary background. Congratulations, New York...you elected a super Congresional representative.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/30/nyregion/kathy-hochul-inherited-an-eagerness-to-serve.html

[Iwillnevergiveup]

1. Humble beginnings

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"A few months before Kathy Hochul was born, her family was living in a 31-by-8-foot trailer not far from the hulking Bethlehem Steel plant near Buffalo. When things got a little better, they moved to the second-floor flat of a home in working-class Woodlawn."

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[CBHagman]

2. I hadn't read a biographical sketch yet...

...so thanks for posting that. Very compelling, and it sounds as though she's always been a thoughtful sort of person who truly considers her values in making decisions.

[onehandle]

3. I hope the Hell she can impress her constituents in a short time.

Because she's running for re-election basically starting now.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

4. That's right!

But I think she'll take D.C. by storm and the Rethugs will no doubt want to run with a different candidate. It'll be a helluva scramble for them.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

5. Dang!

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"Ms. Hochul (pronounced HOH-kuhl) has spent nearly her entire life in western New York, a Rust Belt region that is Midwestern in its cultural and political sensibilities. As the oldest girl, she worked from a young age, serving pizza and chicken wings at a restaurant in a blue-collar town just south of Buffalo, often arriving home late in the evening.

“I remember her coming home at 11, 12 or 1,” said Sheila Heinze, one of her sisters. “And she’d get into bed and start studying. We shared a room. Her little light would be on.”

Her parents instilled a sense of civic responsibility in the children, driving them into poor neighborhoods in Buffalo to deliver the food, clothing and furniture that the family had collected. And yet the Courtneys struggled themselves. “We used to shop at the used-clothing store,” Ms. Heinze recalled."

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[Iwillnevergiveup]

6. I'm just thinkin'

an antidote to all the Palin garbage?


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