Candidate eager to disprove doubters
February 22nd, 2008From the [New Orleans] Times Picayune:
Gilda Reed, Democratic candidate for Louisiana’s open 1st Congressional district seat, defies conventional wisdom. She is a survivor of childhood polio, and adopted a son with cerebral palsy after being told by doctors that he would “probably be a vegetable.” Her son is now a college graduate.
“Polio has taught me that you have to fight for what you have,” said Reed, who wears leg braces and gets around with help from a walker. “The word ‘can’t’ is a four-letter word at my house. I don’t want to hear it.”


