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Related: About this forumDonna Shalala is running for US House seat in Florida......
Donna Shalala jumped into the political arena Monday, filing paperwork with the Federal Election Commission to run for the U.S. House seat being vacated by retiring Republican Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen.
Shalala, 77, a Democrat who was secretary of Health and Human Services under President Clinton, also served as the president of the University of Miami and as president of the Clinton Foundation.
She's the second former Clinton official to declare candidacy in recent days. On Monday Mike Espy announced his run for the Senate, to replace retiring Republican Sen. Thad Cochran.
Espy served as a Democrat in the U.S. House representing Mississippi's 2nd District from 1987 to 1993 the first African-American to hold a Mississippi congressional seat since Reconstruction, then served as secretary of agriculture under Clinton, the first African-American to hold that post.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/03/06/donna-shalala-run-u-s-house-replacing-ros-lehtinen/398113002/
murielm99
(31,324 posts)someone will declare her too old and too establishment. After all, she worked for Clinton.
LakeArenal
(29,648 posts)She kicked as in Wisconsin.. Brought in Barry Alvaraz and put Badger Football on the map...
Lefta Dissenter
(6,652 posts)I have a lovely handwritten sympathy note from her from when my mom died in '92.