Who is Jackie Rosen ?

[OnDoutside]

Sorry if this has already been posted, but I came across a fantastic profile of Jackie Rosen, and her journey

Jacky Rosen: From politically invisible to the center of a critical Senate race

By

Megan Messerly

It was a hot August day but cool inside the small apartment where Jacky Rosen stood hands clasped with Dick Olson, an elderly bespectacled man in a white “Hooked on Fishing!” T-shirt and black suspenders. She had come to deliver lunch — chicken, green beans, mashed potatoes and gravy with a side of mandarin oranges — through Meals on Wheels, placing the packaged food on a dinner tray below a television that was silently airing Fox News.

“My name is Jacky Rosen, and I’m a congresswoman right here in Boulder City,” she tells Olson, grasping his hands in hers. All politicians shake hands. Rosen doesn’t let go, often holding hands with whomever she’s talking for the entire conversation.

“You are? I’ll – be – damned,” he says, spacing out the last three words as the wonderment of having a congresswoman, albeit one who’s slightly overdressed for meal delivery, standing in his living room hits him. She’s donning a navy dress suit, heels and pearls, her short brown hair curling every which way.

Olson’s wife, who has Alzheimer’s and is on home hospice, is barely visible through the bedroom door at the end of the hall. He tells Rosen that their anniversary is in three weeks, Sept. 6. They’ve been married 60 years.

“Sixty years? That’s amazing!” she exclaims.

“We smooch all the time,” he adds, cheekily.

“I’m going to pray for her,” Rosen offers, squeezing his hands tighter.

A few deliveries later, Rosen is walking back to the car, frustrated and somewhat fervent. Rosen’s parents received Meals on Wheels in the final years of their lives. They’re both buried in the Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Boulder City. Talking about them, she gets choked up: “Who are we if we don’t take care of our children and our elderly? I don’t know why we’re even fighting about this issue. It’s really emotional, because you know the person that they were. It’s really tough.”

See more here

https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/jacky-rosen-from-politically-invisible-to-the-center-of-a-critical-senate-race

[Cha]

1. Thanks for this, OnDoutside..

I know nothing about her except she beat trump toady in Blue Wave Nevada!.. bookmarking to read later.

[OnDoutside]

3. No problem, Cha. She's a computer programmer like myself, so I doubly like her !

[DemocratSinceBirth]

4. "She's not Wackie Jackie. She's Regular Rosen and that should be enough."

-Jon Ralston

[oasis]

2. I'm liking her more and more.

[roamer65]

5. I'm from MI and I liked her a lot from an interview I saw.

So I sent her a check.

Congrats on having 2 Dem senators, NV!

[comradebillyboy]

6. Jacky Rosen is a winner!