Washington, DC will be a slightly less wondrous vision next January. Oh, the Capitol and the White House will still grace Pennsylvania Avenue; the Washington Monument will continue to look as if it is piercing the heavens; the Vietnam Memorial will still bring many of us of a certain generation to tears with its wall of names. But Mary Bono Mack will be gone.
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Mary Bono is likely the loveliest woman to ever be elected to the House of Representatives. She was married to Sonny Bono; when he died in a skiing accident in 1998, she was elected in a special election to replace him. Her district steadily became more Democratic, and last week, she lost her bid for re-election.
This year, Bono Mack decided to help her husband Connie Mack win a Florida Senate seat in his race against incumbent Democrat Bill Nelson. It turned out to be a quixotic quest. In the meantime, the challenger for her own California House seat made a point of campaigning against her because she was spending all of her time in Florida. So she gave up her Congressional seat for love.
Do not give up hope, fellow C-SPAN devotees. There is a rumor that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in 2014 may be challenged by Ashley Judd. Talk about the tortoise and the babe.
November 12th, 2012 at 7:29 am
Wow! Talk about timing! TBS just ran the “Married With Children” episode featuring Ashley Judd.
November 12th, 2012 at 7:37 am
wow, how could you possibly know this? I thought that TBS just airs an empty signal until baseball season.
November 12th, 2012 at 8:14 am
I know this because I was awaken this morning around 4am with a nasty pain spasm, as I usually am. So I made myself a cup of hot cocoa and enjoyed a home-rolled ciggy while watching some TV. I usually scan through the channel menu to see what is on and sure enough, I saw that TBS was running that episode as part of their normal MWC package each morn.