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About Darcy Burner

The daughter of an Air force veteran and a public school teacher, Darcy Burner learned early that in America with hard work and commitment – anything was possible.

Darcy grew up in military towns and attended public schools. Like many Americans today, her parents struggled to make ends meet.

She worked hard in school, put herself through college, and went onto a successful career at Microsoft.

A successful businesswoman, community leader and mother, Darcy will fight for our priorities.

She, her husband and their young son live outside Carnation, Washington.

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Darcy’s roots in Washington stretch back to her childhood, when she spent part of every summer in Thurston and Lewis counties visiting her uncles, aunts, cousins, and grandmother. These summers were complemented by school years in military towns in Alaska, Montana, and Nebraska.

Darcy comes from a hard working family. Her dad spent a career in the Air Force and after his retirement worked as a public school teacher. Her oldest brother is a janitor in Olympia. Her other brother serves in the Army’s 101st Airborne and has served one tour of duty in Iraq. Her sister just got her nursing degree. And her youngest brother delivers beer for the Miller Brewing Company.

Darcy worked hard in school, got a National Merit Scholarship and went to Harvard. She majored in computer science and economics. She put herself through school by working for high-tech firms in the Boston area.

Darcy met her husband, Mike Burner, while at college. They wed in 1993.

After Darcy got her degree, she and Mike moved to California to work in the high tech sector. She focused on changing companies’ products and services to better respond to the customers’ real problems.

In the summer of 1998, Mike was offered a job at Microsoft. Darcy and he moved to Washington.

Darcy went to work for Microsoft in 2000 and became the lead manager for an initiative to change the way software was built. It was very successful and enhanced Darcy’s reputation as a successful businesswoman.

Eager to start a family, Darcy became pregnant and took maternity leave from Microsoft. Henry Burner was born in January of 2003.

Darcy has been active in her community and in state politics. She left Microsoft to spend the time necessary to be elected to the United States Congress in the 8th District.

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Darcy will hold the Bush Administration accountable on Iraq

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Darcy will hold the Bush Administration accountable on Iraq

When my brother was sent to Iraq with the 101st Airborne, I shared the pride and fears of many military families. He and I talk regularly about the soldiers’ view of the facts on the ground – and about what Congress could do to make things better.

While I believe the Bush Administration misled the American people about the intelligence and the motivation for the war, I firmly believe we need to focus on a forward-looking policy that secures Iraq without an indefinite commitment of our troops and their families.

Let me be clear: our troops have done everything we have asked of them, and they have done it with courage, honor, and a willingness to sacrifice on behalf of the greater good. They deserve our admiration and respect.

We asked them to topple a brutal dictatorship, and they did it faster than anyone believed possible.

We asked them to make sure there were no weapons of mass destruction, and they did that.

We asked them to maintain order while the Iraqis formed an interim government and negotiated a constitution, and they did that.

We asked them to hold back an increasingly violent insurgency while Iraqis held another election, and they did that.

And now, they are there waiting while the politicians in Washington D.C. fail to figure out what’s next and how we give Iraq back to the Iraqis and bring our brave soldiers home. We owe it to them to have clear benchmarks to measure success. We owe it to them to ask the tough questions and hold this administration accountable.