Tammy Duckworth, who earned the Purple Heart for her service in Iraq, may be moving up with President-elect Barack Obama.
Duckworth, now the Illinois Veterans Affairs director, has been mentioned as a possible replacement for Obama in the U.S. Senate or as Veterans Affairs secretary in an Obama administration.
She accompanied Obama yesterday as the Illinois senator marked Veterans Day by placing a wreath at the bronze soldiers memorial between the Field Museum and Soldier Field in Chicago.
Duckworth, then a pilot with the Illinois Army National Guard, lost both her legs in Iraq in 2004 when her Black Hawk helicopter was struck by a rocket-propelled grenade.
She has said she would be interested in either the Senate seat or a post in Obama’s administration.
Read on from Army Times.
And:
Obama will resign Senate seat Sunday — President-elect Barack Obama said today he will step down from his Senate seat effective this Sunday. — The decision adds to the pressure on Gov. Rod Blagojevich, a fellow Democrat, who under state law has the sole responsibility for naming a successor to Obama …
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I hope she gets the appointment I gave to her campaign when she ran for office. She is the right person for the job.
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