Debbie Dingell will run for husband's seat
February 25, 2014, 02:37 pm
By Cameron Joseph
Democratic power player Debbie Dingell will run for her
husband's congressional seat and announce her campaign on Friday, a source
close to the Dingells tells The Hill.
"She is going to announce her
candidacy on Friday. The announcement will be made in the district and we'll
let people know the time and place in a day or two," the source said.
Dingell's husband, Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.), announced he
will retire on Monday, ending the longest tenure of any lawmaker in
congressional history. The Hill reported Monday afternoon that his wife was
likely to run for his seat.
A Democratic National Committee
member, chairwoman of the Wayne State University Board of Governors and former
head of the General Motors Foundation, she has been active in Democratic
politics both in Michigan and Washington, D.C.,
for decades.
Dingell has close ties to
Democrats both in the district and the Beltway, as well as with the unions that
still hold strong sway in the state's Democratic primaries. She is also almost
three decades younger than her 87-year-old husband and is known as a tireless
campaigner.
She will be the heavy favorite for
her husband's seat. Democratic and union power brokers were already coming up
to Dingell after her husband's retirement announcement on Monday to tell her
they'd back her if she runs, according to sources at the event.
If Dingell wins, she'd keep the
district the family has held in some form since 1933. Her husband became the
longest serving member in congressional history last year, hitting the 58-year
mark in 2013. His father, former Rep. John Dingell Sr. (D-Mich.), held the same
seat for more than two decades before that. His son succeeded him after the
elder Dingell's death in 1955.
The Washington Post first reported
that Dingell would definitely run for Congress.
John Dingell
John D.
Dingell is a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, an
honorary co-chair for the Third
Way, and married to Deborah I. Dingell.
Note: NY Times: Obama to
Propose Shrinking Military to 'Pre-World War II Level' (Past Research for the Third Way)
Monday, February 24, 2014
William M.
Daley is a trustee at the Third
Way, a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, and was the chief of staff for the Barack Obama administration.
Commercial Club of Chicago,
Members Directory A-Z (Past Research)
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Cyrus F.
Freidheim Jr. is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution
(think tank), and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think
tank).
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Jessica Tuchman Mathews was an honorary
trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), is the president of
the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), a director
at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), married to Charles G. Boyd, and a 2008 Bilderberg
conference participant (think tank).
Ed Griffin’s interview with
Norman Dodd in 1982
(The investigation into the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace uncovered the plans for population
control by involving the United
States in war)
Charles
G. Boyd is married to Jessica
Tuchman Mathews, and a director at the Public
Governance Institute.
Deborah I. Dingell
is a director at the Public Governance
Institute, and married to John D.
Dingell.
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