Post by Logan on Mar 28, 2017 4:35:20 GMT -6
Democrats have tapped a Iraq veteran with a long career in the Marines to challenge freshman Republican Rep. Jack Bergman – also a retired Marine officer – for his seat representing northern Michigan in 2018.
Retired Marine Lt. Col. Matthew W. Morgan, a Democrat, said Wednesday he filed the paperwork to run against Bergman. It will be his first bid for public office, inspired in part by the growing number of Iraq veterans in Congress.
Bergman defeated Democrat Lon Johnson last fall to succeed Rep. Dan Benishek of Crystal Falls, who retired. Bergman, 70, is a retired Marine lieutenant general, who worked as a commercial airline pilot for Northwest Airlines for many years while serving in the Reserves.
Morgan, 45, an Iraq veteran, retired from the Marine Corps in 2013 after 24 years, starting as an infantry officer but spending his last four years in the service as the director of public affairs for the U.S. Marine Corps Forces Command out of Norfolk, Virginia.
Read more: www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2017/03/22/iraq-veteran-plans-challenge-freshman-rep-bergman/99514132/
Retired Marine Lt. Col. Matthew W. Morgan, a Democrat, said Wednesday he filed the paperwork to run against Bergman. It will be his first bid for public office, inspired in part by the growing number of Iraq veterans in Congress.
Bergman defeated Democrat Lon Johnson last fall to succeed Rep. Dan Benishek of Crystal Falls, who retired. Bergman, 70, is a retired Marine lieutenant general, who worked as a commercial airline pilot for Northwest Airlines for many years while serving in the Reserves.
Morgan, 45, an Iraq veteran, retired from the Marine Corps in 2013 after 24 years, starting as an infantry officer but spending his last four years in the service as the director of public affairs for the U.S. Marine Corps Forces Command out of Norfolk, Virginia.
Read more: www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2017/03/22/iraq-veteran-plans-challenge-freshman-rep-bergman/99514132/