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dflprincess

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22. Mother Jones has a good article on this
Tue Nov 20, 2018, 09:36 PM
Nov 2018
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/11/two-weeks-later-the-only-black-republican-woman-in-congress-loses-her-seat/


The upset comes in a district that was specifically gerrymandered to favor Republicans and minimize the influence of liberal Salt Lake City voters, who make up a corner of the district. (Salt Lake City has about 40 percent of the state’s population, and it’s liberal: Hillary Clinton beat Donald Trump there in 2016 by 37,000 votes.) The state hasn’t had a Democratic representative since 2014, when Jim Matheson decided not to run again and paved the way for Love to sail to victory that year....

...Haitian-American, Mormon, and conservative, Love rose to prominence with the tea party in 2012, when she first ran against Matheson on a right-wing platform that called for ending the school lunch program and federal student loans—even as she was paying off her own. A former actress and flight attendant who moved to Utah from Connecticut after converting to Mormonism, Love had limited political experience before running for Congress, having served as the part-time mayor of Saratoga Springs, a suburb of Salt Lake City, while she also worked as a fitness instructor.

But since taking office in 2015, Love has struggled with ethics problems and bad press, including a controversy over whether she had been an “anchor baby,” the derogative term conservatives use to describe children born to undocumented immigrants. More recently, she was the subject of a Federal Elections Commission inquiry this fall into her fundraising. Love had raised more than $1 million for a primary she knew she was never going to have, in violation of federal rules.


It also mentions that Love has had some ethics probleam

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To whom should we give the credit for the blue wave? ProudLib72 Nov 2018 #1
Trump Kaleva Nov 2018 #2
Hmmmm, but they picked up some seats in the Senate ProudLib72 Nov 2018 #8
The Repubs may have gained more seat in Senate but for Trump. Kaleva Nov 2018 #9
I need a hint - male or female? rurallib Nov 2018 #10
Starts with a "P" and five white guys are anti-this person ProudLib72 Nov 2018 #16
Considering the circumstances, I think they would have picked up seats without Trump. In It to Win It Nov 2018 #14
i think 38? 39 assuming we win ny-22? unblock Nov 2018 #3
Yes that should be the last one grantcart Nov 2018 #12
...by one of the anti-Pelosi signers... brooklynite Nov 2018 #4
So now it's 15. GulfCoast66 Nov 2018 #7
Woo Hooooooo!! BootinUp Nov 2018 #5
Bye bye Wellstone ruled Nov 2018 #6
A better number is 234. George II Nov 2018 #11
excellent, Democracy at work. nt mastermind Nov 2018 #13
Yahoo! NurseJackie Nov 2018 #15
That - plus T.J. Cox is set to overcome Valadao (CA 21st). sandensea Nov 2018 #17
I'm watching that race! California_Republic Nov 2018 #27
IMHO Horizens Nov 2018 #18
Can't speak for the other states, but we lost MN 1 and MN 8 as well LakeSuperiorView Nov 2018 #19
We lost 3 seats. So net 38 at this time. Blue_true Nov 2018 #24
would have been at least 50 edhopper Nov 2018 #20
More than 50. nt Blue_true Nov 2018 #25
True, but without the gerrymandering, we would have already had the majority AdamGG Nov 2018 #26
K&R... spanone Nov 2018 #21
Mother Jones has a good article on this dflprincess Nov 2018 #22
Thanks malaise Nov 2018 #23
good Demovictory9 Nov 2018 #28
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