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Tanuki

(14,914 posts)
Fri Mar 1, 2013, 09:36 PM Mar 2013

Ashley Judd's speech today in D.C.

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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/03/01/ashley-judd-kentucky-senate/1958015/

.....""Thank you all for being here. I appreciate your interest in public health," Judd said to reporters and camera crews as she swept up the stairs of a ballroom at George Washington University after speaking to faculty and students at the School of Public Health and Health Services.

But Judd apparently was busy earlier in the day: She met with the current and former chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, according to Politico, quoting an unnamed source. The current DSCC chairman is Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., and the former head is Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash.

During her remarks at an event called "Progress and Perspectives: Women's Reproductive Health — A Conversation with Ashley Judd," she stuck to lengthy discussions about the public health challenges of the Third World and about violence against women."....(more @ link)
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Ashley Judd's speech today in D.C. (Original Post) Tanuki Mar 2013 OP
Kind of a funny thing can happen if one is just scanning the article not reading it all... Tx4obama Mar 2013 #1
Bad writer. Bad, bad writer. Stinky The Clown Mar 2013 #3
Now, THAT would give new meaning to Tanuki Mar 2013 #5
Any mention any where about her EC Mar 2013 #2
Canceled. SwankyXomb Mar 2013 #4

Tx4obama

(36,974 posts)
1. Kind of a funny thing can happen if one is just scanning the article not reading it all...
Fri Mar 1, 2013, 09:49 PM
Mar 2013

In the excerpt below, reading the third sentence right after the second sentence is a bit funny


-snip-
Judd for the last couple of months has been considering a challenge next year to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., who is seeking a sixth term.

Judd has told potential supporters that she will make a decision on running sometime before the Kentucky Derby on May 4.

Some Kentucky Democrats and Republicans believe she intends to enter the race.

Traveling to the nation's capital with her mother, singer Naomi Judd, Ashley Judd gave no hints of her intentions.
-snip-



No Ashley is NOT going to enter the Kentucky Derby - but wouldn't it be grand if she were to give the scoop of her intentions to a reporter at the derby


EC

(12,287 posts)
2. Any mention any where about her
Fri Mar 1, 2013, 10:50 PM
Mar 2013

TV series coming back? Was it called "Missing" or something like that?

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