| Tom Coburn,
a representative from Oklahoma, will finish his third and last term in
Congress this fall. A medical doctor by profession and one of the few
politicians who has set term-limits on him-self and stuck by them, Coburn
is a firm believer that Congress should be made up of average citizens,
not career politicians. With the upcoming election in November, Coburn has
some advice for those who will make their way to the polls this year.
"I抳e really thought a lot about how you pick who you抮e voting for. I think you pick someone on the basis of why they抮e running., not why they say they抮e running, but why they抮e really running," says Coburn. He says that a candidate should be selected based on a display of sacrifice, courage and a concern for the future. "If you see that in a candidate, you can pretty well know that they抮e running for the right reasons." |
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