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Donna Edwards - The Newest Member of the CBC

Started by baratunde aka jack turner · 11 months ago

From The Baltimore Sun.com:

Donna Edwards to fill 4th District seat

Democrat is state’s first black woman to be elected to Congress

By Brent Jones Sun reporter

10:50 PM EDT, June 17, 2008

Donna Edwards became the state’s first black woman to be elected to Congress after easily defeating Republican ... Continue reading »

3 comments

  • The Christian Progressive Libe

    1 year ago

    She is CBC Monitor's "Test Case".


    As in she used the information on Wynn's voting record to beat him.



    It is nice to have the efforts of the CBC Monitor verified. We know Ms. Edwards won't be the last progressive to challenge a sitting CBC member - her victory should encourage Kevin Powell and others like him that unseating a sitting, useless CBC member can be done.
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  • N. Mahana

    1 year ago

    Congrats to Ms. Edwards!!!
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  • heartsandflowers

    1 year ago

    Yeah for this Edwards! I happily gave money to her campaign before I'd heard of the CBC Monitor. I hate the way that weasel Al Wynn got away with changing the goal posts but onwards and upwards.
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