Anna Mayo tells her story of a brutal rape and KBR’s denial

November 9, 2010 by Debbie · Comment
Filed under: Amazing Women, Crimes Against Women, Goverment & Politics 

Christine Dobbyn – HOUSTON (KTRK) — A Houston woman is telling her story of survival for the first time on camera. She is a former KBR contractor who began working in Iraq in November of 2008.

Anna Mayo says what happened to her one morning in her sleeping quarters changed her life forever. While we don’t normally identify rape victims, the young woman says she wants her story heard.

In the fall of 2008, Anna Mayo left Austin to work as a KBR contractor in Iraq. Within a month, she was promoted to an operations specialist with project management.

“I loved it,” Mayo said. “I moved up really fast; I got a lot of responsibility.”

And then Mayo was moved to the night shift, so that meant sleeping during the day.

“I had a sign on my room that said daysleeper, please come back after 14:00,” she said.

On a November morning in 2009, there was a knock on her sleeping container door. She opened it to find a man she says was not an American.

“He told me that he needed to come in and check something in my bathroom,” Mayo said. Read more

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Patty Murray and Dino Rossi are neck and neck! (update Murray wins!)

November 3, 2010 by Debbie · Comment
Filed under: Goverment & Politics 
LIVE RESULTS: Last Updated at 11:16 am

Washington

Poll Closes: 11:00 pm ET
= Projected Winners   * = Incumbent
State Election Results

Senate

MURRAY*
3746 of 6000 Precincts Reporting


County ResultsExit Poll


50% 50%

ROSSI
Party Candidate V% Votes
D Patty Murray* 50% 722,396
R Dino Rossi 50% 708,391

House 1 County Results | 406 of 695 Precincts Reporting
Party Candidate V% Votes
D Jay Inslee* 56% 84,243
R James Watkins 44% 66,804

House 2 County Results | 451 of 709 Precincts Reporting
Party Candidate V% Votes
R John Koster 50% 87,687
D Rick Larsen* 50% 86,258

House 3 County Results | 543 of 707 Precincts Reporting
Party Candidate V% Votes
R Jaime Herrera 53% 108,847
D Denny Heck 47% 96,828

House 4 County Results | 336 of 569 Precincts Reporting
Party Candidate V% Votes
R Doc Hastings* 68% 98,533
D Jay Clough 32% 45,721

House 5 County Results | 318 of 661 Precincts Reporting
Party Candidate V% Votes
R Cathy McMorris Rodgers* 65% 88,161
D Daryl Romeyn 35% 48,506

House 6 County Results | 454 of 632 Precincts Reporting
Party Candidate V% Votes
D Norm Dicks* 57% 96,890
R Doug Cloud 43% 72,728

House 7 County Results | 343 of 697 Precincts Reporting
Party Candidate V% Votes
D Jim McDermott* 81% 104,451
ND Bob Jeffers-Schroder 19% 24,591

House 8 County Results | 460 of 743 Precincts Reporting
Party Candidate V% Votes
R Dave Reichert* 55% 91,797
D Suzan Delbene 45% 76,319

House 9 County Results | 391 of 586 Precincts Reporting
Party Candidate V% Votes
D Adam Smith* 53% 74,266
R Dick Muri 47% 64,756

Check up to the minute results and other states HERE.

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Get out and VOTE!! November 2, 2010

November 1, 2010 by Debbie · Comment
Filed under: Goverment & Politics 

If you are in a “mail in ballot” only state, you have time to get those ballots dropped off. If you are in a state that requires you to physically go in an vote start making those arrangements if you haven’t already.

Don’t think for one minute that your vote doesn’t matter…it does.

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