Black Conservative Mia Love Wins Utah GOP’s 4th Congressional District Nomination

Posted by Jim Hoft on Sunday, April 22, 2012, 12:19 AM




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.


From the Love4Utah website:



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.”



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.
Go Mia, Go!

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From Love4utah.com

Issues



Fiscal Discipline Smaller Government Personal Responsibility
Washington does not have a revenue problem; it has a spending problem. Balancing the budget is only part of the solution. We must cut federal spending to begin to restore America’s economic strength and citizen liberties. The United States of America is a federal republic of 50 sovereign states. The federal government must be confined to the enumerated powers granted by the Constitution.
 American society must return to valuing and rewarding hard work, independence and personal responsibility. Government dependency on entitlement programs and welfare is a failure.
Jobs Tax Reform Energy
Government does not create jobs, the private sector does. Government simply needs to get out of the way.
 Our taxation system must be made more fair, more simple and more transparent.
 Explore and develop fossil fuel sources responsibly to provide energy and jobs Utah needs, continue to explore alternative energy sources.
Military Illegal Immigration Social Security
Equip our armed forces, and engage only when there is a defined national security objective and with the consent of Congress, not the United Nations.
 Protect our borders and remove the magnets. Only after we have plugged the hole in the boat can we begin to deal with the water in it.
 We must keep the promises made to our seniors to provide for their retirement while we move aggressively to more solvent alternatives.
Healthcare Education Regulation
Government mandated health care goes against free market principles and personal liberties. The more socialized our health care becomes, the fewer choices people have.
 Local control is paramount in education. The federal government has proven it cannot produce outcomes better than local decision makers.
 Excessive government regulation is stifling business growth, profits and innovation, which negatively impacts jobs. We must reign in some regulatory agencies and eliminate others.
Religious Freedom Lands 2nd amendment
For far too long we have been nudged from religious freedoms that formed underpinnings of our great nation to religious oppression. We cannot allow this fundamental liberty to continue to be trampled.
 The federal government has too much control over Utah's public lands. We must take action to reasonably and responsibly access this land for recreation, jobs, energy and public education funding.
 Our right to bear arms is fundamental to American liberty and must not be infringed.

Issues - Mia Love


Mia Love seems to be a strong, sensible woman worth watching.