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Mary MacElveen
 Mary
MacElveen (maiden name Sammon) was born on July 28, 1958 ... a
birthday she shares with Venezuela's President Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias
(although Mary is four years younger)!
Mary was born into a politically active family with two
brothers and two sisters ... her father once ran for a trustee seat on a
Democratic ticket, but lost. Mary's entire family (with the exception of her
other brother) became Republican out of loyalty to her older brother who was
an up and coming leader within the GOP. In her early life, she worked on
many political campaigns for the Republican Party and even kissed President
Nixon when she was twelve.
During the nineties Mary was not as involved in
politics, she married in 1988 and started a family, now with two teenage
children. In 1998, Mary switched to the Democratic Party out of anger because of
the Clinton impeachment hearings ... she felt that the GOP was wreck less and
were derailing the people's business. She became active within local politics
during the Al Gore campaign and, at that point, began writing her feelings on
various political lists and became a committee member of her local Democratic
organization.
Since then, Mary has worked on many Democratic
campaigns. Coming from a retail background ... she had worked at stores such as
Lord and Taylor and JC Penney ... the way she campaigned for various candidates
was to sell them to the voter and this is why she believes she writes many of
her comparative editorials.
"As a writer, you have to sell an idea so to speak where
you compare issues and people. As my writing progressed, I realized that, as a
journalist, that I have to be objective ... so, I cannot always write the party
line. While that may anger some of my fellow Democrats, it is my objective to
write for the people even if a Democratic official is not working in their best
interest."
"I never finished college and do not hold any degree. At
times, I believe that life itself is where we educate ourselves. Back in May
2005, a friend turned me onto Venezuela's reformist President Hugo Rafael Chavez
Frias and I began my hunt for any information concerning him ... and that is how
I became a writer for
VHeadline.com..."
Mary MacElveen
mary@vheadline.com
http://www.vheadline.com/MacElveen
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