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Mia Love Clinches GOP Nomination for Congress
Roll call ^ | April 26, 2014

Posted on 04/27/2014 3:08:43 PM PDT by SMGFan

Former Saratoga Springs Mayor Mia Love earned ample support from Utah Republicans on Saturday to win her party’s nod for the House — and most likely become the GOP’s first black congresswoman.

(Excerpt) Read more at atr.rollcall.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Utah
KEYWORDS: mialove; saratogasprings; utah
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To: SMGFan
I think this is still true:

The Democrats have never elected a Black representative from a majority white District.

Republicans have done that at least three times.

J.C. Watts, Allen West, and I can't recall the third, maybe Senator Edward Brooke from Massachusetts.

21 posted on 04/27/2014 3:51:46 PM PDT by zeestephen
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To: gaijin
Despite her angelic looks and her peaceable last name, she's one tough little cookie!

Leni

22 posted on 04/27/2014 3:59:19 PM PDT by MinuteGal
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To: zeestephen

Dems have those who can’t see past the superficial completely fooled.


23 posted on 04/27/2014 4:00:01 PM PDT by PieterCasparzen (We have to fix things ourselves)
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To: Tennessee Nana
First she has to get out of Utah... if the Democrat nominee is a white male Mormon, or the same one that won in 2012, he will win in Utah.. the only chance she has as a black woman in Utah is if her opponent is not a Mormon...

Hate to break it to ya, but Mia is BLACK, a WOMAN, CONSERVATIVE and - gasp a MORMAN.

Sorry if that bursts your bubble...

24 posted on 04/27/2014 4:02:17 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (Christian is as Christian does - by their fruits)
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To: maine-iac7
Hate to break it to ya, but Mia is BLACK, a WOMAN, CONSERVATIVE and - gasp a MORMAN.

I'm waiting for some from around here to declare that Freepers should not support her, because of her religion.

25 posted on 04/27/2014 4:09:36 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: PapaBear3625
yep - me too. Expect ‘elsie’ to come screaming in as soon as she hears....

wonder how they'll reconcile their beliefs that Mormons are racist?

there’ll be some blown gaskets, for sure

26 posted on 04/27/2014 4:14:54 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (Christian is as Christian does - by their fruits)
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To: Tennessee Nana

https://www.facebook.com/votedougowens

Sorry Nana but I think he is weak. Mormon or not. And he went on a mission to France...chuckle Romney chuckle.


27 posted on 04/27/2014 4:15:29 PM PDT by Utah Binger (Southern Utah where the world comes to see America)
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To: maine-iac7

Is it possible for a candidate to ever break through so many sterotypes ever again? A conservative black female Mormon....she has to be tough!


28 posted on 04/27/2014 4:19:48 PM PDT by grania
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To: SMGFan

Mia Love in Congress would be interesting. Among the beneficiaries will be a number of quiet, competent, and generally overshadowed female members of the Congressional Black Caucus. Usually the public face of the CBC is Sheila Jackson Lee or Eleanor Holmes Norton or Maxine Waters, simply because the noisiest people tend to get coverage, even if (especially if?) the clown factor comes into play. If there should suddenly be an African American Republican woman in the House, the press will immediately make her a go-to spokesman. Seriously — what democratic woman would YOU put on the air as a counterpoint? None of the aforementioned three, I’ll warrant.


29 posted on 04/27/2014 4:20:15 PM PDT by sphinx
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To: sphinx

Not to mention the fact that The Rule will again be confirmed.


30 posted on 04/27/2014 4:20:53 PM PDT by sphinx
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To: 9YearLurker

I wish folks would excerpt more details or elaborate on articles so the drive bys who comment without checking the article are shown to be the idoits they are. From the article:

Love is running to succeed her former foe, retiring Rep. Jim Matheson, D-Utah. . . . — a departure that all but certainly threw the seat into the GOP’s column

The race is rated Safe Republican by the Rothenberg Political Report/Roll Call.

Last cycle, Mitt Romney won Utah’s 4th District by a 37-point margin. That same year, Matheson defeated Love by 768 votes.

I would suggest that she is a shoein for this election at this point.


31 posted on 04/27/2014 4:22:45 PM PDT by Steven Scharf
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To: SMGFan

Congrats to Mia!


32 posted on 04/27/2014 4:22:47 PM PDT by Jane Long (While Marxists continue the fundamental transformation of the USA, progressive RINOs assist!)
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To: maine-iac7
Mia is BLACK, a WOMAN, CONSERVATIVE and - gasp a MORMAN.

...and the daughter of a Haitian refugee. Good for her...!

33 posted on 04/27/2014 4:25:46 PM PDT by Does so ("Miranda Warnings" and loss of "Common-Law Marriage" = 2 Big Mistakes...)
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To: zeestephen

Are requiring beyond a simple majority a good or bad thing. It has lead to runoff defeats of African Americans candidates.


34 posted on 04/27/2014 4:29:46 PM PDT by SMGFan (Sarah Michelle Gellar is now on twitter @RealSMG)
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To: maine-iac7; PapaBear3625; Elsie; Jim Robinson

Common decency states you include those Freepers you attempt to malign in a post by including them.

Show a bit of common courtesy. I know Jim Robinson expects it of you.


35 posted on 04/27/2014 4:50:24 PM PDT by Utah Binger (Southern Utah where the world comes to see America)
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To: Utah Binger; maine-iac7; PapaBear3625; Elsie

Doesn’t bother me in the least if a Mormon runs for office. As long as he/she has a proven track record of being an honest to God pro-life, pro-family, pro-small government, constitutionalist conservative (unlike Romney)!


36 posted on 04/27/2014 4:58:15 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: SMGFan; Elsie

This is going to be extremely enjoyable for some of us here in Utah. We do not live in her district, however her opponent’s campaign manager is a very close relative.

Needless to say this makes reunions and such quite a time for the popcorn as we get to hear all the smears from the “good Mormons” and quite a few of the queer Mormons, all against her. I would support her no matter what and I will report more after I finally get to meet her. Nothing wrong with a bright conservative Mormon lady.


37 posted on 04/27/2014 5:04:27 PM PDT by Utah Binger (Southern Utah where the world comes to see America)
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To: maine-iac7
wonder how they'll reconcile their beliefs that Mormons are racist?

Well; some things are written down by the Mormon religious organization that's based in Salt Lake City.


Here are a few...




"You see some classes of the human family that are black, uncouth, uncomely, disagreeable and low in their habits, wild, and seemingly deprived of nearly all the blessings of the intelligence that is generally bestowed upon mankind.

The first man that committed the odious crime of killing one of his brethren will be cursed the longest of any one of the children of Adam. Cain slew his brother. Cain might have been killed, and that would have put a termination to that line of human beings.

This was not to be, and the Lord put a mark upon him, which is the flat nose and black skin. Trace mankind down to after the flood, and then another curse is pronounced upon the same race--that they should be the 'servant of servants', and they will be, until that curse is removed."

Brigham Young-President and second 'Prophet' of the Mormon Church, 1844-1877- Extract from Journal of Discourses.



Here are two examples from their 'other testament', the Book of Mormon.

2 Nephi 5: 21 'And he had caused the cursing to come upon them, yea, even a sore cursing, because of their iniquity. For behold, they had hardened their hearts against him, that they had become like unto a flint; wherefore, as they were white, and exceedingly fair and delightsome, that they might not be enticing unto my people, the Lord God did cause a skin of blackness to come upon them.'

Alma 3: 6 'And the skins of the Lamanites were dark, according to the mark which was set upon their fathers, which was a curse upon them because of their transgression and their rebellion against their brethren, who consisted of Nephi, Jacob and Joseph, and Sam, who were just and holy men.'



August 27, 1954 in an address at Brigham Young University (BYU), Mormon Elder, Mark E Peterson, in speaking to a convention of teachers of religion at the college level, said:

"The discussion on civil rights, especially over the last 20 years, has drawn some very sharp lines. It has blinded the thinking of some of our own people, I believe. They have allowed their political affiliations to color their thinking to some extent.I think I have read enough to give you an idea of what the Negro is after."

"He is not just seeking the opportunity of sitting down in a cafe where white people eat. He isn't just trying to ride on the same streetcar or the same Pullman car with white people. It isn't that he just desires to go to the same theater as the white people. From this, and other interviews I have read, it appears that the Negro seeks absorption with the white race. He will not be satisfied until he achieves it by intermarriage."

"That is his objective and we must face it. We must not allow our feelings to carry us away, nor must we feel so sorry for Negroes that we will open our arms and embrace them with everything we have. Remember the little statement that we used to say about sin, 'First we pity, then endure, then embrace'...."

(Rosa Parks would have probably told Petersen under which wheel of the bus he should go sit.)



1967, (then) Mormon President Ezra Taft Benson said,

"The Communist program for revolution in America has been in progress for many years and is far advanced. First of all, we must not place the blame upon Negroes. They are merely the unfortunate group that has been selected by professional Communist agitators to be used as the primary source of cannon fodder."



We are told that on June 8, 1978, it was 'revealed' to the then president, Spencer Kimball, that people of color could now gain entry into the priesthood.

According to the church, Kimball spent many long hours petitioning God, begging him to give worthy black people the priesthood. God finally relented.



Sometime before the 'revelation' came to chief 'Prophet' Spencer Kimball in June 1978, General Authority, Bruce R McConkie had said:

"The Blacks are denied the Priesthood; under no circumstances can they hold this delegation of authority from the Almighty.

The Negroes are not equal with other races where the receipt of certain blessings are concerned, particularly the priesthood and the temple blessings that flow there from, but this inequality is not of man's origin, it is the Lord's doings."

(Mormon Doctrine, pp. 526-527).



When Mormon 'Apostle' Mark E Petersen spoke on 'Race Problems- As they affect the Church' at the BYU campus in 1954, the following was also said:

"...if the negro accepts the gospel with real, sincere faith, and is really converted, to give him the blessings of baptism and the gift of the Holy Ghost, he can and will enter the celestial kingdom. He will go there as a servant, but he will get celestial glory."



When Mormon 'Prophet' and second President of the Church, Brigham Young, spoke in 1863 the following was also said:

"Shall I tell you the law of God in regard to the African race? If the white man who belongs to the chosen seed mixes his blood with the seed of Cain, the penalty, under the law of God is death on the spot. This will always be so."

(Journal of Discourses, Vo. 10, p. 110)





Yeah; Native Americans are althroughout the Book of MORMON; too.

 

“I saw a striking contrast in the progress of the Indian people today ... they are fast becoming a white and delightsome people.... For years they have been growing delightsome, and they are now becoming white and delightsome, as they were promised.... The children in the home placement program in Utah are often lighter than their brothers and sisters in the hogans on the reservation.

At one meeting a father and mother and their sixteen-year-old daughter were present, the little member girl-sixteen-sitting between the dark father and mother, and it was evident she was several shades lighter than her parents—on the same reservation, in the same hogan, subject to the same sun and wind and weather.... These young members of the Church are changing to whiteness and to delightsomeness.

One white elder jokingly said that he and his companion were donating blood regularly to the hospital in the hope that the process might be accelerated.

 

(Improvement Era, December 1960, pp.922-23). (p. 209)

 



 

38 posted on 04/27/2014 5:05:35 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Jim Robinson
Well, here's her platform:

Highlights: against tax-funded abortion, pro 2A, in favor of border security, against federal control of education.

39 posted on 04/27/2014 5:05:44 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: SMGFan
Former Saratoga Springs Mayor Mia Love earned ample support from Utah Republicans on Saturday to win her party’s nod for the House — and most likely become the GOP’s first black congresswoman.

Transparency is a GOOD thing!


Former Saratoga Springs Mayor Mia Love (Mormon) earned ample support from Utah Republicans(Mormons) on Saturday to win her party’s nod for the House — and most likely become the GOP’s first black (Mormon) congresswoman.

40 posted on 04/27/2014 5:07:17 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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