Martha McSally Bio, Age, Husband, Sexual Assault, Appointment, Election, Poll, Win and Contacts
Martha Mcsally Biography
Martha McSally (Martha Elizabeth McSally) is an American United States Air Force combat veteran and politician born on March 22, 1966 . Martha, a former U.S. Air Force colonel, is a U.S. Senator-designate for Arizona. The moderate Republican, has served as the U.S. Representative for Arizona’s 2nd congressional district since 2015. Before becoming a retired military officer, she served in the United States Air Force (USAF) from 1988 to 2010 and rose to the rank of colonel. McSally one of the highest-ranking female pilots in the history of the Air Force, was the first American woman to fly in combat following the 1991 lifting of the prohibition on female combat pilots.
Martha McSally Age | How Old Is Martha Mcsally
Born on 22nd March 1966, Martha is 52 years old as of 2018.
Martha McSally Height
She is 1.6 metres tall.
Martha Mcsally Husband | Martha Mcsally Married | Is Martha Mcsally Married
McSally was married to Air Force officer Donald Frederick Henry from 1997 to 1999 when their marriage was annulled.
Martha McSally Appointment to Senate
Governor Doug Ducey on December 18, 2018, appointed Martha McSally to the Senate seat formerly held by John McCain. A special election for the seat is to be held in 2020. The appointment made McSally the second woman to serve as a U.S. Senator from Arizona, and made Arizona one of the few states with two women serving as its senators, the others being California, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, and Washington State. As of 2019, Arizona will be the only state where two female Senators will be of different parties and the second state overall to have this happen
Martha Mcsally Education
She earned an appointment to the United States Air Force Academy, and graduated in 1988. She acquired a master’s degree from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government following graduation from USAFA and then proceeded to pilot training. She finished at he top of her class at the Air War College.
Martha supports local control of education, stating that “education for our kids should not be dictated by Washington bureaucrats but by local experts with parent involvement and rewards for excellence. Hard-earned middle-class-taxpayer money should not go to D.C. to strip funds off the top, then return to the states with conditions, paperwork and mandates resulting in cookie-cutter educational recipes.”
Martha McSally Sexual Assault
During a hearing on Sexual Assault and Misconduct in the Military at the United States Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel, on March 5, 2019, McSally informed her colleagues that she had been raped by a superior officer while serving in the Air Force: “I also am a military sexual assault survivor, but unlike so many brave survivors, I didn’t report being sexually assaulted. Like so many women and men, I didn’t trust the system at the time. I blamed myself. I was ashamed and confused. I thought I was strong but felt powerless. The perpetrators abused their position of power in profound ways. In one case I was preyed upon and raped by a superior officer.” However, she did not name the officer, but said she shares the disgust at the failures of the military system and many commanders to address sexual violence. Her revelation came over a month after fellow Senator Joni Ernst revealed that she was raped while in college.
Col Martha Mcsally
In 1991, McSally earned her USAF pilot’s wings after completing Undergraduate Pilot Training at Williams AFB east of Phoenix, Arizona. After the graduation, she was assigned to Laughlin AFB, Texas, as a First Assignment Instructor Pilot (FAIP) in the T-37 trainer. McSally went on to Lead-in Fighter Training (LIFT) in 1993, when the military’s combat aircraft restriction for female pilots was removed.
She then completed Replacement Training Unit for the A-10 Thunderbolt II at Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona. Later she was assigned to an operational A-10 squadron and deployed to Kuwait in January 1995. McSally flew combat patrols over Iraq in support of Operation Southern Watch, during this deployment,enforcing the no-fly zone over southern Iraq and became “the first female U.S. fighter pilot to fly in combat and the first woman to command a fighter squadron.”
In 1999, she was deployed to Europe in support of Operation Allied Force. McSally was selected as one of seven active duty Air Force officers for the Legislative Fellowship program, during which time she lived in Washington, D.C. as an advisor for Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) on defense and foreign affairs policy.
When she got promoted to Major, she reported to Joint Task Force Southwest Asia (JTF-SWA) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in 2000 for an Operation Southern Watch temporary assignment. After her promotion to Lieutenant Colonel, she took command of the A-10 equipped 354th Fighter Squadron at Davis-Monthan AFB in July 2004. She was later deployed to Afghanistan under Operation Enduring Freedom, dispatching weapons for the first time from her A-10 in combat. McSally and her squadron were in 2005, awarded the David C. Shilling Award, given by the Air Force Association for the best aerospace contribution to national defense.
Congresswoman Martha Mcsally
McSally on February 9, 2012, announced her candidacy for the special election for Arizona’s 8th congressional district vacancy created by the resignation of Gabrielle Giffords. However she was an unsuccessful as she lost to Republican nominee Jesse Kelly. Currently, Congresswoman Martha represents Arizona’s Second Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives, where she serves on the Armed Services and Homeland Security Committees and as the Chairwoman of the Border and Maritime Security Subcommittee.
Martha Mcsally Trump
She distanced herself from the then-candidate Donald Trump during her 2016 congressional campaign, but later she aligned herself with him in her 2018 campaign for the Republican nomination in the U.S. Senate election in Arizona. She did not endorse Trump in the 2016 presidential election and did not take a position on whether she recommended voters in her district to vote for him. She referred Trump’s comments in the Access Hollywood tape as disgusting and unacceptable.
McSally in February 2017, voted against a resolution that would have directed the House to request ten years of Trump’s tax returns, which would then have been reviewed by the House Ways and Means Committee in a closed session.
Martha Mcsally Office
She is the incoming Representative (R-AZ 2nd District) as from 2019.
Martha Mcsally Arizona
Martha, a former U.S. Air Force colonel, is a U.S. Senator-designate for Arizona.
Martha Mcsally Voting Record
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Martha Mcsally Poll
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Did Martha Mcsally Win | Martha Mcsally Election Results | Martha Mcsally Election
In Arizona’s 2018 U.S. Senate election,McSally was the Republican nominee but she narrowly lost to Democratic nominee Kyrsten Sinema. Following the election, U.S. Senator Jon Kyl announced his resignation from the state’s other seat. Doug Ducey the governor then announced his intention to appoint McSally to succeed Kyl.
Martha Mcsally Lesbian | Is Martha Mcsally A Lesbian | Is Martha Mcsally Gay
Martha is not gay. As a matter of fact she strongly advocate against gay rights and marriages.
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Martha McSally Interview
Martha McSally to fill McCain Senate seat after losing race
Source: tucson.com
PHOENIX — A month after Congresswoman Martha McSally lost her bid for the U.S. Senate, Gov. Doug Ducey appointed her to the seat that had been held by John McCain.
At a news conference Tuesday, the governor acknowledged that McSally was defeated by Democrat Kyrsten Sinema in the November election for Arizona’s other U.S. Senate seat, which was open due to Jeff Flake’s retirement.
But Ducey said that did not disqualify McSally, a Tucson Republican who has served two terms in the House of Representatives, from moving to the upper chamber.
“Arizona needs someone who understands the critical issues, who can get to work on Day One, and who embodies a spirit of service, putting the people we represent above all else,” the governor said. By law, Ducey was required to name a Republican like McCain.
The move comes after the long-anticipated decision by Jon Kyl, whom Ducey appointed as at least an interim replacement for McCain after his death in August, to return to the private sector. Kyl made it clear from the beginning he likely would not want to keep the seat until the 2020 election.
It also comes after the Republican governor was openly lobbied by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to name McSally to the seat.
But Ducey insisted the choice was his, and his alone: “I think the fact that I’m standing here and now with Martha McSally at my side, making the appointment to the United States Senate, says everything that needs to be said.”
Both Ducey and McSally were careful to give credit to Sinema, who defeated McSally last month by more than 55,000 votes out of almost 2.4 million votes cast.
Ducey said Sinema will be sworn in first on Jan. 3, giving her not just the title of being the state’s senior senator but also the bragging rights of being Arizona’s first female senator.
That decision was arranged at Ducey’s direction, his office said. McSally will be sworn in later on Jan. 3.
She promised to work closely with Sinema, saying they were able to do that when they were both members of the House.
“We had a very spirited campaign, but it’s over,” McSally said.
“Spirited” may be understating it.
During their sole televised debate, McSally chided Sinema for making comments in a radio broadcast in 2003, during her anti-war days.
Asked if it was OK to fight for the Taliban, Sinema said, “Fine, I don’t care if you want to do that.” McSally said that amounted to Sinema saying “it’s OK to commit treason.”
On Tuesday, McSally brushed aside her comments.
“The election’s over and the people have spoken and I’m honored to have this appointment,” she said. “Now, for all of us, it’s about moving forward.”
McSally did herself no favors earlier this year when taking credit for a new defense spending bill and standing with President Trump when he signed it without either mentioning McCain — no small snub as the legislation was named the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act of 2019.
She sought to make amends by meeting this past week with Cindy McCain. That apparently paid off, with the senator’s widow on Tuesday providing what at best could be described as a lukewarm endorsement of the appointment.
“I respect Doug Ducey’s decision to appoint Rep. McSally to fill the remainder of his term,” she wrote in her twitter feed. “Arizonans will be pulling for her, hoping that she will follow his example of selfless leadership.”
Others in the McCain clan were not as generous.
In a tweet several days ago as Ducey was weighing his options, Ben Domenech, husband of the late senator’s daughter Meghan McCain, said McSally would be an “unwise choice.”
“She’s like an NFL team that plays down to its opponents’ level,” he wrote. “And she’ll be tasked with running for re-election immediately.”
Meghan McCain retweeted her husband’s comments, but has made no statement of her own.
Domenech took another swat at McSally after the announcement Tuesday, questioning in The Federalist — a conservative online magazine that he publishes — whether the newly minted senator can hold on to the seat she was handed.
“The demands of running non-stop are hard enough when you’re talking about a House seat,” he wrote.
“In this case, McSally will have to do something she hasn’t done before — win statewide — in back-to-back election cycles,” Domenech said.
“Whether she holds the seat in 2020 comes down to whether McSally has the capacity and the humility to learn from her mistakes as a campaigner, and chooses a new political team with a proven record of winning in purple states.”
Ducey sidestepped a question about the family opposition.
“I think you all know the regard that I hold Senator John McCain in and his legacy as an Arizona treasure, an American icon and a hero to our country,” the governor said. “I have the same feelings about Cindy and the entire McCain family for that matter.”
Ducey said last week’s meeting between McSally and Cindy McCain enabled them to “clear the air.”
“And now it’s time to get to work,” he said.
One factor that may have affected Ducey’s decision is the fact cited by Domenech: McSally will have to run again in 2020 for the remaining two years on McCain’s original six-year term. And whoever wins that race then has to turn around to campaign for a full six-year term in 2022.
That will require someone with not just campaign experience but the ability to raise money, both of which McSally has proven.
Republican-turned- Democrat Grant Woods, a former state attorney general, has already said he might run in 2020. And U.S. Rep. Ruben Gallego, a Phoenix-area Democrat, also has expressed some interest in the seat.
The governor acknowledged he was giving McSally a Senate seat she could not win on her own in 2018.
But he said McSally still tallied more than a million votes and that the vacancy provides her the opportunity to serve alongside Sinema.
Ducey, in announcing the appointment, made no mention of the 2020 race.
Instead, he cited McSally’s 26 years in the military, her six deployments to the Middle East and Afghanistan and that she was the first woman to fly in combat and to command a fighter squadron in combat.
The governor thanked Kyl, who retired from the Senate at the beginning of 2013 but agreed to serve again last year at least on an interim basis.
Kyl’s appointment was crucial as the Senate was preparing to vote on the Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh. And Kyl, a Washington, D.C. political consultant and lobbyist, was a clear Kavanaugh supporter, having already taken on the role of being the nominee’s “sherpa” during the confirmation process.
Kyl was not at Tuesday’s event — Ducey said he was in Washington to vote on an issue — but did provide a statement of support for McSally.
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