CONWAY — Retired Marine and former Obama administration official Maura Sullivan told the Sun on Wednesday that if elected to Congress she will question authority and fight for affordable health care.
Sullivan, 38, is a Democrat from Portsmouth who is seeking the seat now held by Carol Shea-Porter (D-Rochester). As a Marine captain, she served in Fallujah, Iraq, in 2005.
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