Thursday, June 15, 2006
Former Red Sox Manager John McNamara's son, Mike, just won a seat on his local North Dakota City Council...campaigning from Falluja, Iraq where he's on duty with the Marines.
Internet campaign from Iraq wins Dakota election
Meanwhile, he answered voters' questions from Falluja by e-mail.
The strategy paid off this week when the Marine reservist won a seat on the Grand Forks City Council. McNamara, 48, beat four other candidates with 49 percent of the vote in the city's second ward, despite serving thousands of miles away.
McNamara said he will take part in council meetings via speakerphone until he returns to North Dakota in about 90 days. He said he could not have won the race without his family, and he would encourage others serving in Iraq to run for office.
"When I grew up, everyone was a veteran and they really, truly understood what service to the nation was," he said by phone from Iraq, where he works in a combat operations center. "The country is straying from that. When you come here and see young men get killed, and the terrible ways they get killed, it consecrates democracy for you."
McNamara, son of former Boston Red Sox manager John McNamara, said he is not affiliated with a political party. He has served a total of 15 months in two tours of duty in Iraq...
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