Congress
House candidate and rising GOP star is black, female – and Mormon
To call Mia Love a minority is an understatement. She’s a black woman who won an upset primary race to become the Republican candidate in Utah’s 4th Congressional District. If elected, she’d be the first black Republican congresswoman in the House of Representatives. Love, who has attracted lots of national Republican support, also stands out [...]
Bill Randall: Not just another Black Republican
In the 2010 midterms, voters sent two black Republicans to the House. Allen West (FL-22) and Tim Scott (SC-01) were the only two of a field of 32 to make it, and are currently the only African American Republicans in Congress. Bill Randall was in the field with West and Scott, and is coming back [...]
New map, new election challenges for U.S. Rep. John Conyers
U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., has never had to worry too much about re-election. Only his first race in 1964 — when he beat Richard Austin in the August primary by a mere 78 votes — gave him much of an electoral scare. But in 2012, with a newly redrawn congressional district that carves out [...]
Senate Dems ready bill freezing student loan costs
Senate Democrats are ready with an election-year bill preventing interest rates from rising for millions of college students with federal loans. Republicans are already balking at the way Democrats would cover its $5.9 billion price tag: boosting payroll taxes on the owners of some privately held firms. Democrats unveiled their bill late Tuesday, a measure [...]
Mia Love: black, conservative, Mormon, GOP House candidate from Utah
Amid the crowded field of House candidates across the country in 2012, expect to hear a lot about Mia Love, a Republican who is an African American and a Mormon and who on Saturday defeated a handful of rivals to clinch the party nomination in the campaign for Utah’s fourth congressional district. Love is preparing [...]
