… how Sarah Palin can juggle a career and a child with Down syndrome:

Ask Rosario Marin.

Marin was treasurer of the United States from 2001 to 2003, and now serves as secretary of California’s State and Consumer Services Agency. A Republican, Marin got her start in politics by working in disability advocacy. Her son Eric is a young adult with Down syndrome.

From Time magazine’s Realclearpolitics blog, coverage of a press conference called by top Republican women to defend Palin’s ability to lead. Among those featured were Marin, former Massachusetts governor Jane Swift, senior McCain aide Carly Fiorina, Rep. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, and Renee Amore, deputy chairman of the Pennsylvania Republican Party.

Palin critics have questioned whether it’s wise for the Alaskan governor to seek the vice presidency while she has a baby with Down Syndrome. A charge to which Marin said: “No one has asked Barack Obama [this question] when he has two children at home.”

“I am outraged; I am insulted; I am offended,” said Marin.

Here’s a link to Marin’s page at the state of California’s website, and at the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

(Time photo. Marin in foreground; behind, l-r, Amore, Swift and Fiorina.)

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