The group Men Against Breast Cancer couldn’t have asked for a better advocate.
Coby Dolan, the legislative director for Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., accepted the organization’s Yetta Rosenberg Humanitarian Award on behalf of his boss Tuesday night, and gave a rare glance of what her close friends and staffers went through when Schultz was fighting a secret battle with breast cancer last year.
“Anyone who knows the congresswoman knows how tough, but also how warm, a person she is, and watching her go through that year — and we were there as staff — she had seven surgeries in D.C. and we were there by her bedside,” Dolan said, choking up.
He and the Florida representative have been friends since college, and he said he views her like a sister.
“That’s why what this group does is so important, because it reaches what people like me go through as family supporting someone who is dealing with the diagnosis of breast cancer.” Dolan said. “We are guys, we like to just ‘fix it,’ but as the wiser sex knows, there are some things that we are just supposed to be there [for] and be supportive.”
Men Against Breast Cancer held its annual Pink & Blue gala Tuesday night at the W Hotel and at the event raised $12,000, which will pay for more than 100 mammograms.
