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Sometimes being a blogger with info can cause such shpilkas in my gunectigazoidt. I wished Josh good luck a couple of days ago when I first heard.
Now you can read it for yourself. Judge it for yourself. Check out all those PD blog comments for yourself.
Then write what you think.
Update: More on Josh’s decision here in the Chagrin Herald Sun. I would expect the Cleveland Jewish News to be out with something even more extensive tomorrow. Specifically of note, that wasn’t mentioned in the PD’s report:
Mandel, 29, said today (July 19) that he is no longer on active duty but “there is a need for intelligence specialists over in Iraq and that’s what I did when I served before. “
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Mandel was a newly elected Lyndhurst City Councilman when his Marine Reserve unit was activated in 2004. He attended his first city council meeting that January, then shipped out.
City council left his seat unfilled, corresponding with Mandel via e-mail during the nine months he was in Iraq.
He returned in October 2004 [after serving for nine months].
By Jill Miller Zimon at 7:49 pm July 19th, 2007 in Politics
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Wonder how his constituents feel? Personally, if he was my rep, I’d prefer that he, you know, represent me and my district.
I applaud his decision to return to active duty [it is, after all, courageous and selfless], but the fact is, he needs to pick a career. Either he’s a pol or a Marine; either is fine, but he shouldn’t volunteer to be both at the same time.