DUmmies start digging for dirt on Ryan's wife

[thundley4]

Janna Ryan

Janna Ryan, thrust onto the national stage this weekend when her congressman husband Paul Ryan was named the Republican vice presidential nominee, strikes an appealing image as a stay-at-home mom raising three young children in Wisconsin.

But the 43-year-old has been a Washington operative herself, hailing from a well-connected family and forging an early professional career as a congressional aide and healthcare lobbyist.

Friends describe her as being able to navigate between different worlds -- from small-town Oklahoma and Wellesley College, a private women's college outside Boston that she attended, to complex policy debates in Washington.

"She is very comfortable in and around politics. She grew up in a political family, and it comes very naturally to her," said Leslie Belcher, a Washington lobbyist who worked on Capitol Hill with Ryan and was later one of Ryan's bridesmaids.

During her first public test, Ryan appeared at ease on Saturday as Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney introduced her husband at a tightly orchestrated event in Norfolk, Virginia, with the retired battleship USS Wisconsin as the backdrop. She beamed alongside Mitt Romney's wife, Ann Romney, both polished with blonde hair.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021120156

MADem (76,208 posts)
1. She comes from Blue Dog roots...

Her family has strong Democratic connections, and largely identify with the Blue Dog Coalition, a group of Democratic lawmakers known for being fiscally conservative.

Her uncle, David Boren, served as a Democratic governor of Oklahoma and later as senator from the state. Boren's son, Dan Boren, is a member of House of Representatives and as a Blue Dog Democrat, has often voted with Republicans.

After college she worked as a legislative aide to former Oklahoma congressman Bill Brewster, who was a co-founder of the Blue Dog Coalition.

While in that job she worked on transportation and healthcare issues and attended George Washington Law School at night, earning her degree in 1998.


http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/08/12/usa-campaign-romney-janna-idINL2E8JC3QH20120812

Maybe she has a relative or two with a good story to tell...

How low will they go?

[franksolich]

You clipped the top off the original topic, sir; for those who are curious, this was posted by DainBramaged, the stupid brain-damaged primitive.

The brain-damaged primitive's got a lot of Hate built up inside his chunky body.

One of these days, because of the pressure, his head's going to explode, spraying bone fragments, blood, cellular matter, and other gore inside his apartment in that red neighborhood in New Jersey.

No loss to humanity.

[I_B_Perky]

Oh it is already starting on Ryan and Romney. Our local NY Times parrot, the Charleston Gazette, ran a full page story from the AP this morning, called Fact Checking Romney and Ryan, that basically called Ryan and Romney liars. Funny thing though... I never see any fact checking on obozo though. The AP fact checking is a joke. Oh every now and again they may take obozo to task, but they spin it out to be not as bad.

This is from CBS news and it is very similar to what they ran in the local fish wrap.

Lets fact check one side only!!!

[thundley4]

You clipped the top off the original topic, sir; for those who are curious, this was posted by DainBramaged, the stupid brain-damaged primitive.

The brain-damaged primitive's got a lot of Hate built up inside his chunky body.

One of these days, because of the pressure, his head's going to explode, spraying bone fragments, blood, cellular matter, and other gore inside his apartment in that red neighborhood in New Jersey.

No loss to humanity.

Purely unintentional, not giving dain his due.