The oldest woman ever elected to Congress thinks age is entirely irrelevant
Congresswoman Donna Shalala defies many of the generalizations made about the freshman women of the 116th Congress.
I spoke to Shalala about what it was like to run for Congress in her late 70s, and how she decided to launch a new career at an age when most people start to wind theirs down. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.Donna Shalala It had been a Republican district for 30 years. It’s a centrist district. In my opinion, you couldn’t win with just Democratic votes, because it’s about a third Democratic, a third Republican and a third independent. You had to have broader appeal.: Pretty much everybody was to the left of me in terms of their politics. I had to run somewhere down the center-left, hold the Democratic votes but add Republicans and independents.
You can’t win in the country like that. Most of us are centrists ... And what we are is pragmatic. We want to get stuff done.
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