Marjorie Margolies On Voting Your Conscience

“The moral of my brief political story is not that casting a tough and decisive vote necessarily predicts a bad electoral outcome for you, nor that the majority of your constituents is always wrong or always right. It’s that there are times in all our careers when we must ask ourselves why we’re here. I decided that my desire for public service at that moment was greater than my desire to guarantee continued service.”
-Marjorie Margolies, who, as a freshman representative in 1993, cast a deciding vote for Bill Clinton’s first budget and wound up losing the next election, urges wavering House Democrats to follow their conscience on health care.