Hagan to run
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
By Chris Fitzsimon
Submitted by Michelle_Valenzuela on October 30, 2007 - 11:11am.
Tags: Elizabeth Dole | Grier Martin | Jim Neal | John Ross Hendrix | Kay Hagan | Mike Easley | Roy Cooper | Senate ‘08 | Under the Dome
State Sen. Kay Hagan of Greensboro announced today that she will seek the Democratic nomination to challenge Republican Sen. Elizabeth Dole next year.
Hagan, a 54-year-old attorney, said she would bring a fresh voice and a new accountability to Washington, Rob Christensen reports. She said she would be a voice against continuing the war in Iraq.
"We need accountability to end the war in Iraq, so we can reinvest those resources here at home," Hagan said in a video announcement on her Web site. "How can Washingtion reject health care for 123,000 children while continuing to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on this mismanged war?"
Hagan had earlier this month announced she would not run for the U.S. Senate. But Democratic leaders in Raleigh and Washington had urged her to reconsider. (more…)
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