It should be a rule of photojournalism that having no picture with a story is better than having a bad one. Such is the case with this photograph that I found on the polital site of my congresscritter, Jan Schakowsky, (D-IL). Reuters took the photo, and no one is going to accuse them of "PhotoShopping" it.
It was taken shortly after Barack Obama's presidential announcement in Springfield.
Schakowsky was in the news recently, and fortunately for Jan, it had nothing to do with her organization's failure to unseat longtime Alderman Bernie Stone in Chicago's 50th Ward. It's about horses--a recent hot topic on Marathon Pundit.
Schakowsky is a co-sponsor of a bill that just passed the House that forbids the slaughter of wild horses and burros caught on federal land for human consumption. She's also a co-sponsor of another bill that would ban the practice outright.
Although she'll be quick to blame the Republican majority in the House that ended in January, I can't find any evidence of Schakowksy having a bill enacted into law in which she was the principal sponsor.
This site, GovTrack, says she hasn't cracked the "first one" threshold.
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