Mia Love – Mary Curtis

The Criminal Justice Bill Shows Where the GOP Is on Race

OPINION — Sen. Tim Scott, Republican from South Carolina, was optimistic after the Senate passed an amended bill this week that makes bipartisan progress on an issue — criminal justice reform — that has divided lawmakers for years. Scott, an original co-sponsor of the bill, said in a statement: “By cutting recidivism, encouraging job training, education […]

Mia Love is black, Mormon, Republican and blowing people’s minds

Featured at The Washington Post / Mary Curtis

Mia Love is already getting more attention than most of her newly elected congressional colleagues. She is Haitian American, a woman, daughter of immigrants, Mormon, Republican and from Utah, all things that she seems eager to boast about, except when she isn’t, as those who contrasted her post-election speech with a subsequent CNN interview noted.

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