Retired astronaut Mark Kelly kicking off Arizona Senate race
By JONATHAN J. COOPER, Associated Press
Published: February 23, 2019, 2:38pm
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FILE- In this Oct. 2, 2017, file photo former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., right, listens as her husband Mark Kelly, left, speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Kelly is kicking off his U.S. Senate campaign Saturday, Feb. 23, 2019, with a rally in Tucson (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File) Photo Gallery
TUCSON, Ariz. — Retired astronaut Mark Kelly kicked off a “mission for Arizona” Saturday as he launched his U.S. Senate campaign with a rally in Tucson, the city where his wife, Gabrielle Giffords, survived a shooting when she was a congresswoman. That attack in 2011 led Kelly to leave NASA and become a political activist, pushing for gun control.
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