[blindlaw] Fwd: [nfb-talk] Maryland Governor chooses a blind running mate

[David Andrews]

>
>Md. governor chooses blind running mate
>6/29/2006, 12:12 p.m. CT
>The Associated Press
>(AP) - ANNAPOLIS, Md. - Gov. Robert Ehrlich announced Thursday that Kristen 
>Cox,
>the state disabilities secretary, will be his new lieutenant governor 
>running mate.
>Cox said she agreed to join the ticket in part because the governor has 
>stepped up
>for people with disabilities who, she said, "tend to be marginalized, 
>overlooked,
>diminished."
>Cox praised Gov. Ehrlich for making Maryland the first state in the nation 
>to have
>a cabinet-level Department of Disabilities. The state's department was 
>created under
>Ehrlich in 2004.
>Before she joined the Ehrlich administration, she worked for the U.S. 
>Department
>of Education and the National Federation of the Blind. She is legally blind.
>She will replace Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele on the ticket; Steele is 
>running
>for the U.S. Senate.