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Iraq Vets for Congress Convene in DC: ‘Fearless, Tested and Ready to Lead’
WATCHUNG, N.J., April 3, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/
-- Tom Roughneen, Republican candidate in the 7th
Congressional District of NJ, along with Congressional
candidates from races throughout the country, will
meet in Washington, DC at the National Press Club
next Monday. On April 7, 2008, from noon to 3:00
p.m., Matt Salisbury, running in Idaho, Duane Sand,
running in North Dakota, and Vincent Micco, running
against Steve Rothman in New Jersey, will be present,
to name only a few of the Veterans that will be
in attendance. The historic National Press Club
is located at 529 14th Street NW, and the phone
number is 202.662.7500.
Congressional candidate Kieran Lalor, running
in New York, an raq War veteran and a former Marine,
has spearheaded this organization and more information
on the various candidates can be found at www.IraqVeteransForCongress.com.
Lalor and Roughneen have met and discussed this
idea with many of the other Congressional candidates
and sensed that America is ready for a different
kind of leader to represent the nations interests.
Kieran Lalor was featured on Fox Television regarding
Iraq Vets for Congress at
Johns Hopkins University SAIS Professor Ruth Wedgwood
will moderate a briefing by the candidates present
that will commence at 1:00 p.m. Professor Wedgwood
is a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations
and is the United States member on the Human Rights
Committee of the United Nations. She formerly
served at the Naval War College and taught at Yale.
According to Roughneen, We have all served in
Iraq and witnessed democracy there in its infancy.
We were a part of that because of a commitment
we made to serve in our nations military and to
be a part of something that was larger than ourselves.
I had the privilege to serve in Kirkuk with the
first Emergency City Council in April 2003 which
we turned into a Provincial Government Council.
They then selected a Provincial Governor. Abdul
Rahman Mustafa still holds that position following
Iraqs elections and I served as his first Chief
of Staff. Afterwards, my Civil Affairs team transferred
to the Sunni Triangle where Shia and Sunni Arabs
sat at the same table of the Yethrib Village Council.
Together we opened the first ever girls secondary
school in that region. Those types of experiences
have forged Iraq Veterans into leaders who are
fearless, tested and ready to lead. We know we
can improve America also.
Roughneen continues to serve in the Army Reserve
after 20 years and has completed three mobilizations
since 9/11. He also served as a prosecutor for
ten years in Essex and Union Counties and was a
founding member of the 501(c)(3), NJ Guard State
Family Readiness Council in 2004, when he returned
from Iraq. It has supplied $500,000 so far to soldiers
and families in need.
SOURCE:
Yahoo News
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