Posted on 11/05/2014 12:40:02 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Even her name is media friendly. Mia Love instantly became the darling of the Republican Party on Wednesday, after being elected as its first black female member of Congress -- and a Mormon to boot.
And she has also rapidly drawn comparisons with Barack Obama, not least since she wowed her party's 2012 national convention with a tale of rags-to-political riches, much like the young Senator Obama did in 2004.
"Many of the naysayers out there said that Utah would never elect, a black Republican LDS woman to Congress," she said at her victory rally, referring to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or Mormons.
"Not only did we do it, we were the first to do it," said the 38-year-old, who was previously mayor of Saratoga Springs, a city 35 miles south of Salt Lake City.
Born Ludmya Bourdeau in Brooklyn to Haitian-American parents, Love catapulted herself into Washington's political spotlight by winning the Mormon-dominated western US state's Fourth Congressional District.
Love's parents came from Haiti in the mid-1970s, and she recalls in interviews how her father at times took second jobs cleaning toilets to pay for school for their three children.
She graduated from the University of Hartford, Connecticut with a degree in fine arts. A Catholic by upbringing, she found the Mormon faith before finding her white Mormon husband Jason Love.
Love is a minority in both her state and church: barely 1 percent of Utahans are black or African American, while only an estimated 3 percent of Mormons are. Mormons make up an estimated 60 percent of Utah's population.
She is fond of recalling what her father told her during her college orientation: "Mia, your mother and I never took a handout. You will not be a burden to society. You will give back,"
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polar opposite of Obama.
“You will not be a burden to society”...Gee, now isn’t that a phrase you wish every politician would utter!
Can’t she just be a qualified, articulate PERSON instead of a guru, a symbol, a token, a personality?
This is sick liberal crap, everybody has to be an icon of some sort.
She’s not a demon, so she’s not the “Obama” of anything.
Mia has not had the pampered path that was set for Obama. This young lady will prove her mettle
You can bet your bottom dollar that Ms. Love will be Palinized at every turn. She isn’t going to have that Obamadoration that old Barack Hussein had the luxury of receiving. She better prepare for a real fight.
Yup. I love Mia Love because she’s a fantastic speaker, moral, and a positive fighter. She’s got a great way of articulating the Conservative position and we desperately need that now.
I wish her all the best.
No. I don’t worship her. I got over the whole ‘hero worship’ thing many years ago. I can like, trust, and believe in a candidate without adoring them. (And I’m always ready for them to let me down)
IMHO, Mia Love should have won in 2012 had the Libertarian, Jim L. Vein not taken nearly 3% of the votes from Republicans.
In 2014, many of the Republican loses (e.g. Virginia ) and runoffs (e.g. Louisiana ) came as a result of Libertarians siphoning votes away from Republicans.
Thankfully, Mia Love won over 50% of the vote this year.
I’m swell with her representing Utah, but I think Mormonism cost Romney a lot of votes. Hate me if you must.
With one exception: she, at least, is a US citizen. I don't think OhVomit ever was, he is likely a fraud.
She’s the one who needs two autobiographies.
Just the opposite:
Mia ran on principles, values, not her race.
Somewhere, a liberal in his parent’s basement is busy photoshopping a bandana onto Mia Love’s head.
That’s a horrible thing to say about Mrs Love.
It sounds like a porn star, but what the hey.
See. See how subtle this load of lying MSM crap is? The darling of Republicans instantly, as of Wednesday? Are you flipping' kidding me?
How many years have we been strongly behind Mia? Did this joker see her Convention speech in 2012?
This is the subtlety the MSM deploys to change the narrative and to rewrite history. What a pant-load.
RE: Mia has not had the pampered path that was set for Obama. This young lady will prove her mettle
She also has private business experience, having worked as an airline stewardess and at a Call center company.
And unlike Obama, she has EXECUTIVE experience as Mayor of a city — Saratoga Springs.
Love was part of the city council that approved a transition from the agriculture tax to municipal tax. She also worked with other city council members to cut expenses, reducing the city’s shortfall during the economic downturn from $3.5 million to $779,000.
Saratoga Springs now has the highest possible bond rating for a city of its size. WE NEED THAT KIND OF FISCAL DISCIPLINE ON CONGRESS DAMMIT !
Also during her time as mayor Love led the city through natural disasters of a wild fire and a mudslide shortly later
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