Posted on 11/05/2014 7:38:02 AM PST by Ripliancum
A Mormon mother of three secured her place in American history as the first black female Republican elected to Congress.
"Tonight you have made history!" Utah's Mia Love told supporters after winning the state's 4th House district. "Many of the naysayers out there said that Utah would never elect a black Republican LDS (Latter Day Saint) woman to Congress. Not only did we do it, we were the first to do it!"
Love, 38, who also will be the first Haitian-American to serve in the Capital, was surrounded by her husband, Jason, and their kids: Alessa, 14; Abigail, 11; and Peyton, 7. ..
...The family moved to Connecticut when Love was 5, but New York City remained her dream, and, after taking dance, acting and singing classes at the University of Hartford, Love hoped to make it on Broadway.
Instead, she got a job as a flight attendant and followed her older sister from Catholicism, their family faith, to the Mormon church. "At first I thought it was kind of weird. Three hours for church seemed like a long time," Love has said.
But she was attracted to the church's teachings about eternal marriage and respect for women. She met Jason Love when he was serving his Mormon mission in Connecticut and got her first taste of politics when, on behalf of neighbors at their first home on Utah Lake, she went toe-to-toe with the developer about getting rid of a bug infestation.
As she now prepares for work in Washington, Love is eager to defy anyone who thinks she should vote a certain way because she's black or a woman.
(Excerpt) Read more at people.com ...
Good stuff. May she be successful in aiding our efforts to vanquish inferior thinking (e.g. progressives).
Now, think of the diff between Mia (a self made woman) and the Hillabeast (no definition provided without extensive use of four-letter words).
I really like her and hope she does great in her job..Go get them Mia..
It will be interesting to see how the left vilifies a black, conservative woman.
It will be interesting to see how the left vilifies a black, conservative woman.
& married to a white guy..libs will be especially vile.
Not only did she leave the plantation but left with a white guy.
We know how they will do it, they have only so many plays in their book. The question is, will they at least wait until she takes her seat in congress before starting?
The supreme irony is that the Love’s children are more authentically African-American at 50% than the left’s iconic hero BO who is, at most, 3/8th and perhaps at little as 1/8th AA.
She's a Mormon, as well. If you want to see it, look up the epithets she was given after the 2012 GOP convention (where she spoke). The vilest crap you ever saw was thrown her way.
LOVE me some Mia!
Gorgeous family - I was glad she won.
Does anyone know if that young lady won who would have been the youngest female Republican? I think she was about 30 years of age, not sure where from....New York?
She won.
I’m surprised I haven’t heard anything mentioned this morning. Was she from New York? Do you know her name?
God Bless this woman! Mia, you fought the good fight and won!
Elise Stefanik
Thanks! Glad she won, as well as Martinez.
So glad to see the end of Wendy Davis and Sandra Fluke...hopefully.
You are welcome. I am also thrilled this morning. I have had one week of good news. I am waiting to get hit by a car.
Can she get into the Congressional Black Caucus or will they have to rename themselves to a more realistic Congressional Black Communist Caucus?
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