(guest blogged by Howie Klein)
Hilda Solis is one of the dozen most progressive members of Congress. She represents East L.A. and the burgeoning suburbs around it and she’s as energetic and filled with verve as her revitalized district.
Tomorrow at 11am, PT, she’s the Blue America guest at Firedoglake. Somehow while she was telling me about the work she had been doing to help put a stop to the systematic and brutal murders of women in Ciudad Juárez (just a couple blocks from El Paso) in her capacity as head of the Congressional Caucus for Women’s Issues, we got off on a tangent. We started talking about how music can be such an uplifting and healing part of life for people. She told me how early on Shakira’s music had been such a big deal for her and how Los Lobos was something she still loves listening to.
But when I asked her to pick a song for the LNMC, she honed in on one she first heard when she was down in El Paso, a song that became an international smash by a Texas band from San Angelo: “Heaven” by Los Lonely Boys. (Note from Nicole: Our more astute C&L LNMClubbers will remember that we’ve featured this song before, but this was Rep. Solis’s choice and we’re so happy to have her working with Blue America, that we don’t mind repeating it.)
Don’t forget to go over to FDL and meet Congresswoman Solis tomorrow; she’s the bomb!
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