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Chelsea Manning Files to Run for U.S. Senate in Maryland (washingtonpost.com)
An anonymous reader quotes the Washington Post:
Chelsea E. Manning, the transgender former Army private who was convicted of passing sensitive government documents to WikiLeaks, is seeking to run for the U.S. Senate in Maryland, according to federal election filings. Manning would be challenging Democrat Benjamin L. Cardin, who is in his second term in the Senate and is up for reelection in November. Cardin is Maryland's senior senator and is considered an overwhelming favorite to win a third term... However, a candidate with national name recognition, such as Manning, who comes in from the outside could tap a network of donors interested in elevating a progressive agenda...
Evan Greer, campaign director of the nonprofit organization Fight for the Future and a close supporter of Manning's while she was imprisoned, said the news is exciting. "Chelsea Manning has fought for freedom and sacrificed for it in ways that few others have," Greer wrote in an email. "The world is a better place with her as a free woman, and this latest news makes it clear she is only beginning to make her mark on it."
Evan Greer, campaign director of the nonprofit organization Fight for the Future and a close supporter of Manning's while she was imprisoned, said the news is exciting. "Chelsea Manning has fought for freedom and sacrificed for it in ways that few others have," Greer wrote in an email. "The world is a better place with her as a free woman, and this latest news makes it clear she is only beginning to make her mark on it."
If this catches at all... expect to be told if you don't support Manning you're transphobic. Which, I'd bet, would actually represent a significant impediment to voter support, but would only be one of dozens of reasons to vote for someone else, and most of those other reasons would actually be politically relevant.
Manning is a really good choice if you want more reactionary Trump-style politicians in office.
Yes, of course... Either they aren't criminals, or they are smart.
Why do you want the dumb ones?
I think it's worse than that. Manning did what he did purely out of spite. He had no fucking idea the contents of what he was leaking, he just wanted to leak it, even if it meant putting people's lives at risk, simply because he hated being in the Army. He had no political goal other than that, just pure spite. He has an established history of not giving a shit about anybody but himself.
http://huwieler.net/2017/01/18...
It's a total travesty that the media has any sympathy for him at all.
Fuck Manning! This shit bag dumped intelligence hap hazard very likely causing possible deaths to assets. He/She didn't give a shit about others and it's actions show that. Perhaps that means that he/she would make a very good GOP candidate after all. If on the other hand this was to be Snowden running I could get behind that. He has shown that his efforts were in the best interest of the American people time and again, unlike Manning, FUCK MANNING!