Wisznuitka w Izbie Reprezentantów
: 18 lis 2012, 18:27
Tulsi Gabbard jest pierwszą praktykującą hinduistką w Izbie Reprezentantów Stanów Zjednoczonych. Startowała z ramienia Partii Demokratycznej w stanie Hawaje. W wyborach 6 listopada pokonała republikanina Davida Kawika Crowley stosunkiem 81 % do 19 %. Jako członkini Gwardii Narodowej pełniła służbę w Iraku, w pionie medycznym. Pracowała w Radzie Miasta Honolulu i jest współzałożycielką organizacji pozarządowej Healthy Hawai'i Coalition.
Jak podają środki przekazu, jest uczennicą Sidhaswarupanandy, założyciela Misji Czejtanji.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsi_Gabbard
http://votetulsi.com/
za: ISKCON News
In the US elections on November 6th, former Honolulu City Councilwoman and Democratic State Representative Tulsi Gabbard became the first practicing Hindu to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
Congresswoman Gabbard, 31, won with 168,466 votes to 40,697 (81% vs 19%), a landslide 62-point lead over her Republican opponent Kawika Crowley.
The incoming congresswoman for Hawaii’s 2nd Congressional District is not of Indian extraction. She was born to state senator Mike Gabbard, an American Samoan, and Carol Porter Gabbard, a Caucasian American, in Leloaloa, American Samoa, before moving to Hawaii at the age of 2.
But Congresswoman Gabbard (hereafter referred to as “Tulsi”) has been a practicing Hindu since her teens. Specifically, she is a Vaishnava. According to India Abroad, she is a student of Sidhasvarupananda, who was himself initiated into the Brahma Madhva Gaudiya Sampradaya by ISKCON Founder A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.
Więcej: http://news.iskcon.com/node/4745#ixzz2Cb1cARRl
Jak podają środki przekazu, jest uczennicą Sidhaswarupanandy, założyciela Misji Czejtanji.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsi_Gabbard
http://votetulsi.com/
za: ISKCON News
In the US elections on November 6th, former Honolulu City Councilwoman and Democratic State Representative Tulsi Gabbard became the first practicing Hindu to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
Congresswoman Gabbard, 31, won with 168,466 votes to 40,697 (81% vs 19%), a landslide 62-point lead over her Republican opponent Kawika Crowley.
The incoming congresswoman for Hawaii’s 2nd Congressional District is not of Indian extraction. She was born to state senator Mike Gabbard, an American Samoan, and Carol Porter Gabbard, a Caucasian American, in Leloaloa, American Samoa, before moving to Hawaii at the age of 2.
But Congresswoman Gabbard (hereafter referred to as “Tulsi”) has been a practicing Hindu since her teens. Specifically, she is a Vaishnava. According to India Abroad, she is a student of Sidhasvarupananda, who was himself initiated into the Brahma Madhva Gaudiya Sampradaya by ISKCON Founder A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.
Więcej: http://news.iskcon.com/node/4745#ixzz2Cb1cARRl