I respect the hell out of Cam Ward, even if I don’t agree with his politics.
State Sen. Cam Ward, a top Republican in Alabama, declined Wednesday to run for the newly open 6th District, saying he will run for re-election in the state legislature instead.
“God has given me a short window of time to spend with a little girl who means more to me than anything in this world,” Ward said in a statement to Al.com, referring to his autistic daughter. “The fact is she has made tremendous progress, but it has taken both of us, my wife Julie and me, being there every day for her and running for Congress at this time would essentially make me a part-time father and I just can’t do that.”
Hopefully his difficult family experience teaches him the importance of proper funding and support for all struggling families.
And to the rest of the self-serving ultra-right wingnuts, a (and because it is Thursday music) little more volume than the SSA crowd might muster, I’m hoping there is a smidgeon of heart you haven’t killed off yet, that might be moved. I know a quixotic plea.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drCKvCL93hw
45K deaths annually because we don’t have universal single payer healthCARE in the US.
http://my.firedoglake.com/spocko/2013/10/08/what-is-the-current-death-toll-from-the-gop-government-shutdown/