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Michael Franken on dailykos.com
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/20/1938913/-I-m-an-admiral-running-for-Senate-What-do-Ellen-Julia-Louis-Dreyfus-Al-Gore-and-I-have-in-common?utm_campaign=recentI'm an admiral running for Senate. What do Ellen, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Al Gore and I have in common?
What do Ellen, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Al Gore and I have in common? We’re all in the Earth Day edition of PEOPLE magazine.
As Democrats, we all understand the necessity of saving the planet. But some politicians don’t have results in mind — for them, slogans suffice. Not me. In 37 years in the Navy, including jobs in legislative affairs and policy planning, I learned how to accomplish my priorities in Washington — from getting African women access to technical education to starting the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency that identifies and retrieves the remains of veterans of foreign wars.
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