CQ Does a Little Q&A With KT: Why McFarland Has Decided to Run

KT McFarland, in a fresh interview with Congressional Quarterly, says it was her kids that took her out of big-time politics two decades ago and her kids who urged her to get back in the game.

The former Reagan-era Defense Department spokeswoman says the one issue that motivated her back then is the same issue she is most concerned about now - national security.

Read the full text of the CQ interview.

McFarland will have her first face off with her Republican opponent, former Yonkers mayor John Spencer, Monday night in Glenns Falls, NY (way up in the Adirondacks). The political forum will be held at the Glenns Falls Civic Center at 7:00 pm EST. It's not a debate so much as a chance for each candidate to present thier views and take question individually. GOP gubenatorial hopeful John Faso, the former Assembly minority leader will also be there.