Tulsi Gabbard
Tulsi Gabbard is the U.S. Representative for Hawaii’s 2nd congressional district. Elected in 2012, she is the first Hindu member of Congress. She is also the first Samoan-American voting member ofCongress. She served in a field medical unit of the Hawaii Army National Guard in Iraq from 2004 to 2005.
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Tulsi Gabbard is the U.S. Representative for Hawaii’s 2nd congressional district. Elected in 2012, she is the first Hindu member of Congress. She is also the first Samoan-American voting member ofCongress. She served in a field medical unit of the Hawaii Army National Guard in Iraq from 2004 to 2005. She was a vice chair of the Democratic National Committee from 2013 to 2016, when she resigned to endorse Senator Bernie Sanders for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination. Until 2004, she voted and lobbied against same-sex marriage in Hawaii. She publicly apologized for that position in 2012. In 2020, she was the first female combat veteran to run for president. She dropped out of the 2020 presidential race on March 19, 2020, having already withdrawn from her U. S. House re-election race during her presidential campaign. Her decision to meet Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and her skeptical approach to two claims that he had used chemical weapons were controversial. Her first name comes from the Sanskrit word for holy basil, a plant sacred in Hinduism. Her siblings also have Hindu Sanskrit-origin names. Her husband and ex-husband have also been members of the Science of Identity Foundation. She has said Butler’s work still guides her. She opposes military interventionism, although she has called herself a \”hawk\” on terrorism. She supports a Medicare for All health care plan she calls \”Single Payer Plus,\” and strengthening Roe v. Wade by codifying it into federal law. Her position has evolved on the issue and she now believes that abortion should be \”safe, legal and rare\”, although it is not a choice she would personally make.
In 2002, while working as a self-employed martial arts instructor, Gabbards was the youngest legislator ever elected to represent the 42nd House district of Hawaii House of Representatives. In April 2003, while serving as an educator for the Hawaii State Legislature, she also worked for the Healthy Hawaii Coalition. In March 2007, she graduated from the Accelerated Specialties School at the Alabama Military Academy. In July 2004 she was commissioned as a lieutenant and assigned to the 29th Infantry Brigade Combat Team at the Logistical Support Area, Logistic Support Area. She also served as a platoon leader in Kuwait from 2008 to 2009 as an Army Military Police platoon leader. Before her deployment to Iraq, she chose not to campaign for reelection and not to chose to serve in Iraq in 2004, also also worked as an Educator for the Hawaii State Legislature. Her father was born in American Samoa, and lived in Hawaii and Florida as a child; he is of Samoan and European ancestry. In 1983, when her family moved to Hawaii, where her family had lived in the late 1970s. She was the fourth of five children born to Carol Gabard and her husband, Mike GabbARD. In 1998, she began working for an anti-gay political action committee her father founded, to pass an amendment giving the Hawaii state legislature the power to reserve marriage to opposite-sex couples. She spoke on the organization’s behalf in 2004.
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