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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Not to worry.
MormonISM has a LOT of brain-dead minions that will!
Does she want to go further than Utah?
Accept the REAL Jesus as Savior!
Throw OFF the bondage that is Mormonism!
Watch for the MEMO from high above SLC soon...
The Mormon god relented about his take on blacks in 1978.
Will 15 count as an Elsiethon?
and I'm a MormonWife, mother, and Mayor. My name is Mia Love, and I'm a Mormon. YouTube.com/Mormon |
Granted but her ancestors in Haiti would have been slaves...
unlike Obama’s family...
An Elsiethon starts as soon as Elsie wakes up in the morning and hits her computer..
probably even before her first cup of coffee..
:)
Like Obama is so much of an improvement...
NO one can FORCE me to choose the lesser of two evils.
A refusal to choose, is itself a choice.
you are right; of course.
And I CHOOSE to CHOOSE neither.
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