She started off reminiscing on the radio this morning about finally obeying "a little voice" that told her to run for mayor of Charlotte twenty years ago. The night she won she lay in bed staring at the ceiling thinking, "but I don't know how to be mayor!" She talked about loving public service but hating campaigning, and about spending weekends at home in North Carolina instead of D.C.
Then she got real serious and told why she doesn't ride in taxis in Washington -- she's convinced militant Islamics have infiltrated America, and one could be driving her cab. She told a story of a high-ranking friend who rode in a cab driven by a Muslim driver and there was a militant magazine on the front seat with her friend's picture on the cover and a target drawn over his face. I asked her if friends and family and fellow lawmakers thought she was crazy -- she said, no, they think radical jihadists are in America, too, but it's something that's not politically correct to talk about right now.
Sue thinks Americans are tired of thinking about terrorism and are afraid of seeming intolerant.
That book she suggested is HERE. Her official congressional website is HERE.
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