Washington – Marsela Powell is not a very big softball fan, nor is it a political addict. So why did she travel more than 1,000 miles from her home in Washington, DC in Washington, DC to participate in the women’s softball game of Wednesday’s annual Congress?
“When it came, I was so,” I really want to do it. ” Therefore, I made it no hesitation, no attempt, no other idea, “Powell said.
Unlike their male counterparts, Whose annual baseball Republican, Congress women against the game Democrats, who already begin to practice months, play with no party affiliation. This is just against the “Team Congress” “Bad News Babes”, a team that includes media members.
Republican rape. Kimberlin King-Hindi, who is a non-compliment representative representing the North Mariana Islands, has enjoyed a break from biased politics on the hill.
“I will be honest, when you reach there (on Capital Hill), this team is like red or team blue, okay?” But here, man, they are just women coming together, playing for a good reason. “
It is a good reason why Powell is here. The game is played for a charity, young survival alliance, which helps young adults with breast cancer.
“I want to know that I want to know before cancer. I just had this energetic bloom, this ray of sunshine,” Powell said, which was detected in breast cancer at the age of 31. “When cancer came, I like it. YSC helped me find my pleasure again.”
The young survival coalition provided it with resources and connections that he did not find anywhere else.
Powell now holds monthly meetings with the remaining people. She says that meetings have exceeded just one support group, but “a family.”
The family was one of the reasons that wanted to play in the King-Hindi softball game. Both her mother and sister are saved from breast cancer.
“You know, when he said that this is why they were playing, I was allowed to go, ‘I am down,” said King-Hinds.
Democratic rape. Debbie Wasraman Shults of Florida, at the age of 41 in 2009, co-established the game after detection of breast cancer.
“I mean it’s very emotional,” he said about the annual softball game. “It is very deeply individual. A large part of it is raising awareness about women who pay attention to their breast health.”
After seventeen games, the event has increased by $ 5 million for Young Survival Alliance.
“It’s an amazing feeling that everyone can come together for breast cancer,” Powell said. “I mean, this is something that can affect anyone.”
And for the members of the Congress, this is a night that they take a break from the participation division and find a normal land for a reason.
