Wednesday, 22. September 2004
Topic: POLITIK - on September 22, 2004 at 11:02:00 AM CEST
Politician injured by too much handshaking
Lawmaker Margaret May is all shook up.
The Queensland state legislator has pressed the flesh with so many voters in the first two weeks of campaigning for Australia's Oct. 9 election she has damaged tendons in her wrist and thumb and needs surgery to fix them.
"Being a woman, you shake men's hands all the time and they've got hard and very strong handshakes," said May, who was first elected in 1998. "In a campaign you would shake hundreds everyday."
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