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Current Events => Archives => Politics => Election 2012 => Topic started by: franksolich on April 22, 2012, 12:33:48 PM
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http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/04/black-conservative-mia-love-wins-utah-gops-4th-congressional-district-nomination/
Oh my.
Black Conservative Mia Love Wins Utah GOP’s 4th Congressional District Nomination
Black Mormon Conservative Mia Love won the GOP’s 4th Congressional District nomination at the Republican convention today.
Mia Love pulled a major upset, winning the Republican Party nomination in Utah’s 4th Congressional District, advancing to face U.S. Rep. Jim Matheson in November. Love won 70.4 percent of the vote from the delegates while former state lawmaker Carl Wimmer captured 29.6 percent.
In November 2011, Mia Love filed to run for Utah’s newly formed 4th Congressional District based on her demonstrated leadership on conservative principles. She credits her parents with providing the foundation for her ideals. After many years of living in the unstable, regime-torn socialist island country of Haiti, her parents immigrated legally to the United States with $10 in their pockets in hopes of achieving the American Dream.
Mia was born in Brooklyn, New York and eventually moved to Connecticut. Mia recalls both parents working hard to earn a living, her father at times taking on second jobs cleaning toilets to pay for school for their three children. On the day of Mia’s college orientation, her father said something to her that would become the ethos for her life:
“Mia, your mother and I never took a handout. You will not be a burden to society. You will give back.â€
Mia graduated from the University of Hartford with a degree in fine arts. She found faith. Then she found Jason. And then she found herself in Utah ready to give back. Mia served two terms on the city council of Saratoga Springs, one of Utah’s fastest growing cities. As City Councilwoman and eventually Mayor, Mia led the city through a period of 1700% population growth in a decade. Under her leadership, the city was able to successfully navigate the drastic transition from agricultural fields to a booming residential community. When the citizen growth necessitated fire and police services, Mia fought to make sure the city’s first ever residential tax implementation would only pay for those essential services, and she structured it in such a way that the tax decreased as a percentage of property value.
TDhere's a youtube thingamajig at the link; I dunno what she said.
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Matheson won't be a pushover - he's not a classic lib Dem like many of his buddies. He was elected 5 times in an overwhelmingly red state, though it can be said that most of his district now comprises the more-liberal Salt Lake City valley.
It was said that he never missed a vote. I stopped tracking him a few years ago, but of the very few Dems that have my respect, he's one of them.
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Damn...I'm IMPRESSED!!
Definitely the same route Sarah Palin took, but in my opinion, more substantial. If she wins, I hope Paul Ryan takes her under his wing. Once she gets the Uncle Tom / Sambo treatment from the Sharptonites, you know she'll be in good stead for the rest of her career.
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http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/04/black-conservative-mia-love-wins-utah-gops-4th-congressional-district-nomination/
Oh my.
TDhere's a youtube thingamajig at the link; I dunno what she said.
The video is good. She starts off basically talking about what the text under the video shows, then they show her and her family, and her going around talking to folks, she mentions that freedom is important and it is not the government's job to fix everything, but ours.
The left will be try to destroy her for being a black Mormon married to a white guy.
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I agree about Matheson--the family has been a powerhouse in Utah politics for decades, and he won't be a pushover.
But we're going to see the long knives out at DU/Kos and elsewhere. Guess who the racists are, Dems? Look in the mirror.
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She is awesome. Professor Jacobsen has been following her closely, and noted today how the media completely ignored her win: http://legalinsurrection.com/2012/04/mainstream-media-ignores-mia-b-loves-historic-first/
They will devour her. Paraphrasing some vicious tweet I saw: She is one of 2 blacks in Utah that don't play for the Jazz.
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They'll do to her what owebuma will do to Bo, eat them alive.