Who is Gabrielle Giffords, which has now been shot down in Arizona? For the Democrats it was considered a great political talent, ready for high office - even though they represented other postal ions than their party colleagues. No, it is not a member, they abnickt everything. And none that it can be established so easily.Gabrielle Giffords, which has now been shot down in Arizona, represented always different positions than the majority of Democrats, even on fundamental issues. Thus, the 40-year-old vehemently defended the right to bear firearms - and also has their own. It takes strict border controls on the border with Mexico right - but criticized the new, extremely harsh immigration laws in Arizona.
And it should belong to the group Democratic member who refused the former Parliament Speaker Nancy Pelosi for election to the minority leader of the voice. On the other hand, it supported most of the initiatives of Barack Obama, agreed for the controversial health reform. Obama called her a "girlfriend" when he was now after the shooting in front of the microphones and cameras in the White House.
She was warm and their colleagues and the voters back home in their districts alike. Giffords is a Democratic young-Star, while sitting in Congress since 2007, but has already earned a reputation as a political talent. Some of the Democrats see it as a youngster and as a candidate for high office in their home state.
The Web site Real Clear Politics "was one of them after the elections in 2010 the ten most important emerging" Power Players "in Congress - especially as an influence on immigration policy. Just had Giffords, who is married to astronaut Mark Kelly, began her third term as Member of the U.S.
House of Representatives, where she represents the south of the State of Arizona, in the past week, she was admitted. It is one of the few MEPs who defended in the last congressional elections, its mandate, although they competed in a change of voter constituency. Knapp sat down by Giffords against her conservative challenger.
Giffords had some enemies. In the election campaign had the previous Republican candidate for the office of Vice President, Sarah Palin, published a map on Facebook, could be seen on the cross-hair symbols: each cross stood for a democratic deputies, who fought for his re-election. Giffords was one of them.
And after the vote on health reform, there was an attack on its office in Tucson, where a window was smashed. Familiar Gifford reported that there had been threats against them. The political climate in Arizona was particularly before the congressional elections in early November heated extreme - and Giffords said again and again particularly controversial topics: immigration, health care reform, stem cell research.
That Members will be threatened, common in the United States. You get more threatening letters, emails and phone calls. According to authorities, the majority of these incidents are investigated, some leading to accusations. In March last year, was arrested a man who had threatened one of the most important Republican in the House, Eric Cantor of Virginia.
In April, the police locked up a man from San Francisco, who had bombarded the top Democrat Nancy Pelosi with threatening phone calls. Whether it is the shooting in Arizona is a political assassination, but so far is unclear.
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