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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: stockman_scott who wrote (51353)	2/28/2009 8:28:36 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Respond to of 149317

She is a good choice. WaPo reported this additional piece of news about her which I thought is very interesting and would explain her popularity in a Red State. ========================================= ....excerpt Sebelius, the 60-year-old daughter of a former Ohio governor, served as state Insurance Commissioner before winning the 2002 governor's race. She is halfway through a second term. Though she lacks Washington experience, Sebelius is a veteran politician who learned the craft from her father, John J. Gilligan, and later her father-in-law, a Kansas Republican who spent six years in Congress. A graduate of Trinity College in Washington, Sebelius served eight years in the state legislature and at one time worked as a lobbyist for the Kansas Trial Lawyers Association. She is known for reaching across the aisle in her Republican-dominated state, and in her first gubernatorial bid, she chose a former Republican businessman as her running mate. Raised Roman Catholic in Ohio, Sebelius has endured fierce and often personal criticism from anti-abortion activists largely because she vetoed a bill that would have required doctors who perform late-term abortions to report a reason for the procedure. The archbishop of Kansas City asked Sebelius to stop taking the sacrament of Communion after the veto. washingtonpost.com