GOP’s McSally wants troops leaders hold accountable

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WASHINGTON — Arizona Rep. Martha McSally, a initial womanlike warrior commander to fly a fight goal and authority a warrior squadron, says she was a plant of passionate nuisance during her 26 years in a Air Force. But a newly inaugurated congresswoman opposes a offer to take passionate attack cases out of a sequence of command.

“We’ve got some Neanderthal people in a sequence of authority who now are going to feel like it’s not their problem anymore, though it is their problem,” McSally pronounced in an talk Wednesday with Capital Download

McSally — who wears a tiny attract on a bullion sequence around her neck of a A-10 “Warthog” she once flew — could be an successful voice on a issue, given her troops background. The late Air Force colonel also has landed seats on a successful Armed Services and Homeland Security committees.

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McSally’s position puts her during contingency with Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst, another Republican womanlike visitor to Congress and troops veteran. Ernst pronounced in a debate matter final summer that she would behind Gillibrand’s check if she won a election.

“Sexual harassment, passionate attack is still a really poignant problem” inspiring both women and group in a troops — including herself, McSally says, nonetheless she didn’t yield any details. “I’ve had my share of practice along a way, yeah.”

The conditions has softened given she entered a Air Force Academy in a 1980s, she told USA TODAY’s weekly newsmaker series, though she says a Pentagon hasn’t finished a good pursuit addressing it. “I consider they’ve failed,” mostly responding usually when debate erupts.

That said, she argues it’s essential that commanders sojourn obliged for preventing and traffic with passionate assaults.

McSally was a final member of a new 114th Congress announced a victor. Just 3 weeks ago, she won a relate of her plea to Democratic Rep. Ron Barber, defeating him by 167 votes out of some-more than 20,200 cast. Barber had succeeded Rep. Gabby Giffords after she was grievously bleeding in an assassination attempt.

That means McSally represents a many uniformly divided electorate in a nation.

“We are really different in a nation and really split, though there are things that combine us regardless of party,” she says, observant a stretched Republican infancy needs to send “pragmatic solutions” to President Obama’s desk. “There was really an critical choosing and it was a matter opposite a president, though they don’t adore Washington, D.C. They wish Congress to work for them.”

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