RI: Sheldon Whitehouse, Jeanne Shaheen
Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic Candidate for U.S. Senate
Jeanne Shaheen, Former Governor of New Hampshire
Director, Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government
Institute of Politics
Music by Rickie Lee Jones, Jonathan Coulton and Béla Fleck and the Flecktones.
Sheldon Whitehouse
Candidate for U.S. Senate
Website
In 1994, President Bill Clinton appointed Sheldon Whitehouse to serve as United States Attorney for Rhode Island. In 1998, Whitehouse was elected as Rhode Island’s Attorney General and later ran for the Democratic nomination for governor in 2002. Although Whitehouse didn’t make it out of that primary, he did raise his statewide profile which helped him win the Democratic Senate primary in 2006. In doing so, Whitehouse has earned the right to take on Republican Senator Lincoln Chaffee.
In addition to his work in public service, Sheldon Whitehouse founded the Quality Institute, an organization dedicated to improving the quality of health care in Rhode Island.
Jeanne Shaheen
Former Governor of New Hampshire
Director, Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government
Institute of Politics
Website
Jeanne Shaheen was elected as the first female Governor of New Hampshire in 1996 and was re-elected in 1998 and 2000, becoming only the fourth governor in New Hampshire history elected to three consecutive terms.
Shaheen is a political powerhouse in New Hampshire. Her endorsement and political instincts helped Vice President Al Gore and Senator John Kerry pull out stunning victories in New Hampshire’s first in the nation primary during the 2000 and 2004 cycles.
Jeanne Shaheen has served as a Senior Fellow at both the Institute of Politics at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and the College of Citizenship and Public Service at Tufts University. She now serves as Director of Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government’s Institute of Politics.
MUSIC:
Rickie Lee Jones with Tom Maxwell and Ken Mosher
“Have You Had Enough?”
A song for change from Blue America.
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