 rosemary "rosie" kane (nÃ©e mcgarvey) (born on 5 june 1961 in glasgow) is a scottish socialist party politician, and former member of the scottish parliament for the glasgow region. ==political history== ===introduction to politics=== she entered politics after becoming involved in a campaign against the extension of the m77 motorway. in 1996 she was the first ever candidate of the newly formed scottish socialist alliance when she contested a glasgow city council by-election in the toryglen ward, an area threatened by the m74 extension plan, and came third with 18%. after this she was an election candidate a number of times for the scottish socialist alliance and its successor the scottish socialist party. she served on the national executive committee of the party for a number of years and as the party's environmental spokesperson, writing a column "one world" for the scottish socialist voice. ===parliamentary work (2003-2007)=== kane stood for election to the scottish parliament in 2003, and was placed second on the party's list in glasgow region. she was elected alongside tommy sheridan, who was first on the list."new faces gain as labour lose seats" bbc news in her victory speech, she stated how she planned to shake up the parliament, stating "they're going to be amazed at all the madness and craziness that's going to happen in there"."holyrood set for 'craziness'" bbc news msps are required to swear an oath of allegiance to the queen before they can take their seat in parliament. as the scottish socialist party is a republican party, their msps held various protests during the oath ceremony, during which kane took her oath with her hand raised which had the words "my oath is to the people" written on it."oath protest as msps start work" bbc news in late 2003, she announced that she was taking a short break from politics to deal with clinical depression. she returned to work early 
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