Have You Heard the Incredible Life Story of the GOP‘s ’Rising Star’ Mia Love?
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Mayor of Saratoga Springs, Utah Mia Love speaks during the Republican National Convention at the Tampa Bay Times Forum on August 28, 2012 in Tampa, Florida. (Credit: Getty Images)
She came out of nowhere, delivering a blistering speech on opening night of the Republican National Convention that has political analysts everywhere calling her the next “rising star” of the Republican Party. But for Mia Love — mayor of Saratoga Springs, Utah, and GOP nominee for U.S. Congress — the journey to that stage was as remarkable as it was improbable; proving that in America, anything is possible.
After living for years in Haiti, a country torn apart by wars and socialism, Love’s parents immigrated legally to the United States in the 1970s with $10 in their pockets and the desire to find what they considered to be the “American Dream.”
“They worked hard for everything they had. When times were tough, they certainly didn’t say, ‘Hey who’s going to give me a check?” Love told TheBlaze in an exclusive interview on the floor of the RNC in Tampa.
And when times did get tough, Love’s parents did exactly what many wish the federal government would do: They cut back on spending and lived within their means.
“So, I grew up with the principles of fiscal discipline, limited government and personal responsibility,” Love said.
Love was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. in 1975 before moving to Connecticut, where her mother and father would break their backs to earn a living and pay for their three children to get their education. According to her official website, the day Love eventually graduated from the University of Hartford, her father gave her an important piece of advice that she would carry with her for the rest of her life: “Mia, your mother and I never took a handout. You will not be a burden to society. You will give back,” he said.
Love, a Mormon, says she’s been using the principles instilled in her by her parents in her political career, first as a city council woman in Saratoga Springs and eventually mayor. Now, she’s hoping to become the first black GOP congresswoman in the history of the United States.
While some people on the left see America as an unjust society that only benefits the rich (Occupy Wall Street comes to mind), Love told TheBlaze that she is living proof that the United States is the only country in the world where we are “not predestined to be poor.”
“I think it says that we are concerned about giving everyone the opportunity,” Love said. “We look at everyone equally and we want to give people the opportunity to go out and make whatever they want to of their lives. This is the only place where you can come with very little money in your pocket and go out and create something. Only here, that you are not predestined to be poor.” [Emphasis added]
“This is the only place that you can go invest and suffer the consequences or reap the benefits,” she added.
Love also reacted to a recent NBC/WSJ poll that showed GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s support among African-Americans at zero percent, saying “Obviously, that’s not true.”
“I deserve a president that sees me as an individual, We deserve a president that sees us all equally as Americans, and obviously that’s not President Barack Obama, that’s going to be a President Mitt Romney,” she said.
Love continued: “We’ve got people who have suffered and died to make sure that we have this life where we are all seen as equals. We are all created equally under God and we want a president that sees us equally.”
“We are going to elect differently — hope and change lies with us, not Washington,” she concluded.
Watch TheBlaze’s exclusive interview with Love at the RNC below:
Following her breakout speech at the RNC on Tuesday, people immediately began attacking her for being a “token” black for the Republican Party and even edited her Wikipedia page, calling her a “dirty, worthless wh*re who sold her soul in the name of big business,“ and a ”house ni**er.” Truly repulsive.
However, Love told Glenn Beck on his radio show Wednesday the fact that she is being so savagely attacked by the left only means that they see her as a threat.
“You know what– I’m fine with it. If I wasn’t a threat, if I wasn’t speaking to the American people and having it have an effect, they would probably leave me alone,” she told Beck, adding “They can come after me with whatever they want to…I’m a mother; I’m a wife; I’m a concerned citizen, and they can bring it.”
If she wasn’t a viable candidate before the GOP convention, she certainly is now. Demonstrating that Love has a bright future in the Republican Party, her campaign has shattered its “Love Bomb” fundraising goal and has raised more than $180,000. Their initial goal was $50,000.
In case you missed it, here is some of Love’s phenomenal speech given at the Republican National Convention Tuesday:
The Blaze’s Benny Johnson contributed to this report.
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RLTW
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 8:41pmWhat an amazing young woman, thank God for clear thinking people like her.
Report Post »Formula382
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 8:26pm@Cornholeatheist
You may want to check your history, I do believe it was in fact the Lib.tard.s that owned slaves. Hey….they still do own slaves, what do you know..?
Report Post »diaspora-Rep
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 6:55pm“We built it”is for all, the little train that could…. BUILT IT !!!!! from childhood we are told to build our careers, our businesses and we can BUILT IT. Go Mia Go.
Report Post »buttpatriot
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 7:06pmhave we seen her birth certificate?
Report Post »FoxholeAtheist
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 7:41pmWonder how she likes standing around all those former Democrats. You know, the ones who switched parties and joined the Republicans all because of the civil rights act in the 1960′s? I wonder if she reads the part of her Bible which the southern traitors used to justify enslaving her ancestors.
Report Post »Twobyfour
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 8:21pmFoxholeAtheist:”Wonder how she likes standing around all those former Democrats. You know, the ones who switched parties and joined the Republicans all because of the civil rights act in the 1960′s?”
What on earth are you blathering about?
The voting record (yea/nay):
The original House version:
Democratic Party: 152–96 (61–39%)
Republican Party: 138–34 (80–20%)
Cloture in the Senate:
Democratic Party: 44–23 (66–34%)
Republican Party: 27–6 (82–18%)
The Senate version:[16]
Democratic Party: 46–21 (69–31%)
Republican Party: 27–6 (82–18%)
The Senate version, voted on by the House:
Democratic Party: 153–91 (63–37%)
Republican Party: 136–35 (80–20%)
It is apparent that in each case, republican yea vote was 80% or greater.
So,in your book, Democrats that opposed the act switched parties to one that voted 80% or more for it? Sounds deranged.
BTW, I don’t recall the KKK Grand Kleagle Byrd switching to republicans.
Report Post »Twobyfour
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 5:36pmAs I understand it, her parent were not immigrating under a refugee provision, thus they had to have a sponsor. Hence, no gummint help is entirely possible.
Immigrant too, take it from me that it is possible.
Report Post »TreeTrimmerJim
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 12:51amLegal immigrants can not get government support checks. On average immigrants earn more than native born of the same ethnicity. Do you think the government check has anything to do with that?
Report Post »SouEu
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 3:36pmI‘m in her district and I’m voting for her. She’s great. She’s running against Jim Matheson, Who is a 4 time Democrat representative.
Granted, Matheson is quite conservative for a Democrat (one of the blue dogs), and he has voted conservatively, but during the whole Obamacare debacle, he was “undecided” for a while, before he eventually voted against it. I was afraid that he would bend to his party leadership. I would be afraid that if another critical vote were to come up that he may give in to his leaders in the Democrat party.
Mia is smart and more conservative and I feel would do a great job. She’s got my vote.
Report Post »rgesl
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 5:41pmYou do know that the only reason Matheson voted against Obamacare is because they didn’t need his vote to pass it, right? Had it been a close vote, you better believe Matheson would have been in favor. He’s a solid democrat when needed, but plays nice when he can score political points with his semi-conservative constituency.
Report Post »olderjarhead
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 3:23pmThe key here is that she is comes from a first/second generation immigrant family. They have not been told by the progressives that their skin color will limit their horizons. They had not yet been blinded by the racism of the left, and the premise that they need the government to help (enslave) them for life.
Report Post »SavvyCowboy
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 3:35pmSEMPER FI!! Great observations from a wise man! I think more “minorities” are realizing they’ve been lied to by leftists for generations.
Report Post »yonah
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 5:15amYes they think differently than those of us African Americans who have been here 4,5,6,7,8 generations and never saw any American Dream-only an American nightmare.They have no experience with Jim Crow,colored and white signs,completely racist hiring practices in every walk of life because of the color of our skin,the complete dehumanization of a people who were stolen from the land of there ancestors,who did not immigrate,who were sold on the block and enslaved from generation to generation for hundreds of years,who were robbed of their names,religions,cultures and history and were not allowed to be a part of the so called melting pot.
She was born after we Black folks had to have a revolution called the Civil Rights Movement to begin to get our opportunity to participate in the so called American dream,after generations of living in a nation were we had no rights that a white man was obligated to respect.Don’t you ever forget the history of the vast majority of Blacks in America,who are not first,second or third generation immigrants and who built America and never received one penny for our labor.
Report Post »fgbouman
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 3:17pmHaiti wasn’t torn apart by “wars and socialism”. It was a thugocracy that preyed on its own people. There was contention for power between groups of thugs but there was no war. The author should be more careful of his claims.
Report Post »fgbouman
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 3:13pmMore power to her. I hope she does well. I do not for a moment believe that a family arriving in the U.S. with $10 in assets accomplished much without any government assistance. There will be more on this story as she becomes better known as a public person. There is no shame in getting a hand up from the government when one uses it to excel as she clearly has done. I hope she doesn’t turn out to be one of those who, after climbing the ladder, wants to pull it up so that the ones following don’t have the same opportunities.
Report Post »LifesNotARehersal
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 6:03pmI’ve finally read some common sense on the blaze, so thank you.
Report Post »Twobyfour
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 6:04pmSee my reply a few comments above.
What “opportunity” means is that it is unhindered system, not something subject to government dispensation.
Refugees may need some initial help. But that should not mean a spigot open without sunset clause.
Report Post »I immigrated to Canada as a refugee, with $20 in my pocket and got some initial help, but had to repay it to the last dime (granted, it was interest free).
FoxholeAtheist
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 7:50pmNo help at all, huh? No college loans or grants? No public school system paid for by our tax dollars? No affirmative action for her parents? Nothing? What a crock of s*%t.
Report Post »As a Moron, I mean Mormon, I wonder if she knows that according to the Moron church that black skin is of the devil.
QuincySmith
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 8:25pmmisplacedfoxhole;
You need to do research before letting everyone know how bigoted and narrow you are.
Report Post »Jenny Lind
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 3:01pmI saw her somewhere, can’t remember the link, about a month ago, I was so impressed, and hoped she would get elected. Now here she is on a national stage and I pray it pushes her forward into the job she wants, because America needs her and people like her who have there heads on straight. Bright mind, bright future ahead of her.
Report Post »fdraiden
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 2:38pmWhat an inspiration to all americans regardless of the color of the skin!
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 2:37pmShe sounds like a responsible lady that has her head on straight,her parents raised her to not be a burden on society but more importantly be a productive member of society.She escaped the public school indoctrination that says blacks can’t succeed and must be dependent on government from cradle to grave.Good for her,I just hope she doesn’t become a lifetime politician,even though I like her politics I still don’t like the idea of a lifetime politician.
Report Post »Simonne
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 2:37pmI thought she was very impressive.
Report Post »MODEL82A1
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 2:34pmLet’s see the Hatred and Racism spew from the Lefties over this one (which they will feebly attempt to Project back on us):
Report Post »GoodStuff
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 2:33pmThe Left hates any black person who escapes the Democrat plantation. That’s why they unleased a torrent of hatred on twitter right after her speech. The Left is collapsing before our eyes.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 3:04pmGood point, and when our usual left wing trolls get to this story, they will call all of us racists as we praise this wonderful woman.
Report Post »justangry
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 4:02pmSeems both parties are collapsing. One can only hope.
Report Post »LifesNotARehersal
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 6:09pmI find these types of statements hil” tharious. In order for her to “step off the plantation” that means she must have already been on the plantation suggesting that all black people are “born on plantations” and can’t think for themselves. Don’t you people realize that these types of statements make repubilcans look like racists.
Report Post »justangry
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 6:41pmWell there are a lot of people here adamant about replacing Obama with a white dude that shares his views on practically everything. What else could it be?
Report Post »michael48
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 7:08pmwell just…. that may work in your circles , with me a tree stump is better than the “white trash” lush, chairan ocommie…he’s half white..the rest is under seal ..somewhere..I guess…you know more about the transparency thingy than most…right???
Report Post »justangry
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 7:16pm@Michael, I don’t know more about “the transparency thingy” than most. I don‘t even understand what you’re getting at tbh. I don’t see a difference between the policies of BO and Romney on anything important though. Regulatory and energy policies are better. His warmongering is worse. So it’s just a hunch, and only referring to certain individuals based on their comments here.
Report Post »michael48
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 7:22pmlife ..you the official dictionary of racism???well this means this, and that means that…these folks are just using the language of the leftist 40 year indoctrination…name a working plantation with slaves…He!! in my mind the inner cities are concentration camps set up by LBJ…so what’s the racist meaning of that????…reality=“sweat has no color” you don‘ work you don’t eat…tweek that one..sorry for the steam…65 years of, had enough… venting…
Report Post »Twobyfour
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 7:53pmLifesNotARehersal, not close and no cigar.
You seem to be
1. grasping at straws;
2. a result of a deficient educational system.
Even me as English-as-second-language speaker knows that escaping something does not equal escaping from something. It means avoiding, be free of, not be trapped by.
Shove your racist projections up yours.
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