: About Me

Rachael worked as a veterinary technician for 15 years, managed Rep. Dennis Kucinich's 2008 Presidential campaign for Minnesota, and currently works in an inner city hospital and attends the University of MN getting her Masters in Nursing degree. She has frequently written for local women's magazines, political papers, animal rights quarterlies and blogs.

My passion is ...

helping people and animals.

I know too much about ...

progressive politics because of my family history.

My parents always told me ...

to be a free spirit.

My childhood ambition ...

was to be a veterinarian or nurse.

My favorite memory ...

all of my pets.

Why I write ...

Writing makes me feel passionate about the subject.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

I am reading "Food, Inc."

My first job ...

veterinary nurse.

My inspiration ...

Rep. Dennis Kucinich

Politics, News & Issues > US Leaders Political promise: New faces emerging for 2012 Presidential election

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Hardly a newcomer to the democratic political scene, Dennis J. Kucinich was the youngest mayor of a major city, Cleveland, Ohio, at thirty one years old. Kucinich was born to lead the United states through our current economic situation, he knows it by personal experience. He grew up in Cleveland as the youngest of seven children and by the time Dennis was 17 years old, the family had lived in 21 different places, including the family car. His parents even had to drop he and a few siblings off at an orphanage for a bit over a year because they simply couldn't afford them. Dennis Kucinich k...

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