Carmela Conroy thinks she can beat Baumgartner this time. Who is she?

The challenger wants to be the first Democrat since ’92 to be elected to the 5th Congressional District seat.

By: Aaron Hedge

Outlets: RANGE Media

Published: October 21, 2026

Words: 2,361

Last Updated: 2 weeks, 4 days ago


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It was winter at the beginning of one of the most difficult of President Barack Obama’s years in office, and a crisis was brewing in the streets of Lahore, Pakistan. Raymond Davis, a former US Army soldier working as a CIA contractor, was stopped at a red light on January 25, 2011, he said, when two men approached his vehicle on a motorcycle. He later said he thought he was being robbed, that one of …

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