Senator Boxer receives thousands of roses, donates to Walter Reed...

[Bluebear]

WASHINGTON Senator Barbara Boxer will receive perhaps the splashiest Valentine's Day gift on Capitol Hill today. Some 24-hundred roses will be delivered to her office from supporters who contributed to the "Barbara Boxer Rose Campaign." (note: actual number was 4500-5000)

The idea came from Stacy Davies, a writer from Claremont, California who cheered while watching Boxer challenge Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during last month's confirmation hearings over the Bush administration's rationale for invading Iraq.

Davies contacted a national online florist which set up a special phone line for the campaign. Then she sent e-mail appeals to several progressive Internet blogs, and got a pitch on Air America, the liberal talk-radio network.

Boxer says she was "very touched." Her office has arranged to transfer the flowers tonight to Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland and Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, which treats soldiers wounded in Iraq.

http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=2942639

[Stand and Fight]

1. 2400?

I had read that it was 5000!
Senator Boxer has her priorities straight though -- powerful statement to send them to military hospitals... Powerful indeed.

[Spazito]

2. It was actually 4500, the paper seems to have gotten the #

wrong. She posted a thank you, with pictures, on Daily Kos:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/2/14/204719/105

Here is one of the pics, looks awesome!

[Bluebear]

4. Thank you!

Edited to include pic and number!

[deminks]

3. dupe, sorry

[deadparrot]

5. That's one classy lady...

Way to go, Sen. Boxer. :)

[Cha]

6. Way to throw roses at

Barbara! I hope some of those jerk-offs on the hill get the message!

[usregimechange]

7. That is a wonderful story! And what is better:

she donated them to others, to wounded soldiers!