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Mia Love Celebrates Big Victory in Utah: 'I Wasn't Elected Because Of The Color Of My Skin'

Congressman elect Mia Love celebrated her surprise victory in Idaho as the first black Republican woman to be elected to the House of Representatives.

But during an interview with CNN this morning, Love was quick to explain that she was not elected because of her race or gender.

“I wasn't elected because of the color of my skin. I wasn't elected because of my gender,” she said during the interview. “I was elected because of the solutions that I put at the table because I promised I would run a positive issues-oriented campaign and that's what resonated.”

According to the Associated Press, Love earned 50 percent of the vote against her Democratic opponent Doug Owens who earned nearly 47 percent.

Love said it was clear that Utah citizens were “not interested in dividing Americans based on race or gender,” but electing people who had integrity.

“Washington has gotten too big and people have gotten too small so we’ve got to start rolling up our sleeves and making sure that we bring balance back to government," she said.

Meet Mia

Learn why Mia is right for Utah

What we need right now in Washington are tough, consistent, tested leaders who put the American people first. For too long Congress has run up trillion dollar deficits, made promises it cannot keep, and failed to balance the budget. A change is needed, and that’s why I am running to represent Utah’s 4th congressional district in Congress. As the mayor of my city I have brought coalitions together to balance budgets, cut wasteful spending, keep taxes low, and limit the size and scope of government. I will do the same in Washington.

Ludmya Bourdeau "Mia" Love (born December 6, 1975) is an American politician, she is the representative-elect for Utah's 4th Congressional district. She was the former mayor of Saratoga Springs, Utah and was the 2012 Republican Party nominee for the United States House of Representatives in Utah's 4th congressional district. In 2012 she ran on a fiscally conservative platform of limited government and placed a heavy emphasis on personal responsibility during her campaign. She was also a speaker at the 2012 Republican National Convention.

On May 18, 2013, Love said that she would run again in 2014.^[1] Upon being sworn in as a member of the United States Congress, she will be the first Haitian American and first black^[2]^[3] female Republican ever elected to Congress. Love won the Republican nomination in the 4th Congressional district at the April 26th, 2014 Utah Republican convention. She won election to the House of Representatives from the 4th District of Utah, defeating Democratic opponent Doug Owens.

Early life and education

Love was born Ludmya Bourdeau on December 6, 1975, to Mary and Jean Maxine Bourdeau in Brooklyn, New York.^[4] Both of her parents emigrated from Haiti in 1973,^[5] leaving their two children behind.^[6]^[7]

According to Love, her birth occurred just before an immigration law would expire in 1976.^[8]^[9] Her father had been threatened by the Tonton Macoute, the secret police in Haiti, and came to the United States on a tourist visa.^[10] After the family moved to Norwalk, Connecticut, her parents brought her older siblings from Haiti.^[11]^[3] Love attended Norwalk High School.^[10]

Love graduated from the University of Hartford with a degree in the performing arts. While at the University of Hartford she was part of the Hartt School's Music Theatre program.^[10] She worked at Sento Corp. and the Ecopass Corporation.^[12] She was also a flight attendant with Continental Airlines.^[8]^[13]

Career

In 1998 after graduating from college Mia Love joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She had been a Roman Catholic until that point.^[14] As part of her job as a flight attendant she moved to Utah to be closer to the temple and to learn more about her faith.^[10] Upon moving to Utah she got an apartment with a Utah woman she had known as a nanny in Connecticut. Mia contacted Craig Smith, a missionary she had known in Connecticut for help moving in. Smith referred her to Jason Love, whom she had met briefly when he was an LDS missionary in Connecticut. Jason helped Mia move in and they went on their first date (to a shooting range) in September. Mia and Jason were married in December, 1998. Mia turned down an offer to appear in the Broadway show "Smokey Joe's Café" that started two days before her marriage.^[10]^[15] They have three children.

Love served as the community spokesperson in an effort to get the developer of her neighborhood in Saratoga Springs to spray against flies.^[10]

Saratoga Springs government

City Council

Love won a seat on the Saratoga Springs City Council in 2003, becoming the first female Haitian-American elected official in Utah County, Utah; she took office in January 2004.^[16] After six years on the Council she was elected Mayor^[17] winning with 861 votes to 594 for her opponent Jeff Francom.^[18]

Mayor

Love served as Mayor of Saratoga Springs from January 2010 - December 2013.^[19] Love was part of the city council that approved a transition from the agriculture tax to municipal tax. She also worked with other city council members to cut expenses, reducing the city’s shortfall during the economic downturn from $3.5 million to $779,000. Saratoga Springs now has the highest possible bond rating for a city of its size.^[20]

Also during her time as mayor Love led the city through natural disasters of a wild fire and a mudslide shortly later.^[21]

2012 congressional election

Love ran in Utah's 4th congressional district, which was created after the 2010 Census.^[22]^[23] She competed for the Republican nomination against attorney Jay Cobb and State Reps. Stephen Sandstrom of Orem and Carl Wimmer of Herriman; she won the nomination on April 21, 2012 at the 2012 Utah Republican Party Convention with over 70 percent of the vote and faced six-term Democrat Jim Matheson in the general election.

Nationally, Love received campaign support from Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican Presidential nominee, his wife Ann Romney, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, House Budget Committee Chairman and 2012 Republican Vice Presidential nominee Paul Ryan, and Speaker of the House John Boehner.^[24]^[25]

In August 2012, National Journal named Love one of "Ten Republicans to follow on Twitter".^[26]

Love was a speaker at the 2012 Republican National Convention on August 28, 2012. She spoke of the lessons she learned from her parents.^[27]

In September 2012, Forbes investigated a claim by a September 2012 article by Mother Jones that Love's parents could not be citizens of the US. After Forbes investigated the Mother Jones claim, Mother Jones retracted the article.^[4]^[6]^[28] In an October interview, her father stated that Mia's birth as a US citizen was key to gaining permanent legal status and citizenship.^[10]

Love lost the election to Jim Matheson by 768 votes out of 245,277 votes cast,^[29] a difference of 0.31%.

2012 election results for Utah's 4th congressional district^[30]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Jim Matheson (incumbent)	119,803	48.84%
	Republican	Mia B. Love	119,035	48.53%
	Libertarian	Jim L. Vein	6,439	2.63%
Totals			245,277	100.0%
	Democratic hold

2014 congressional election

In March 2013, Love stated that she was seriously considering another run against Matheson.^[31] In May 2013 she announced she would run in 2014.^[32] As of July 2013, Love had raised over $475,000 for her campaign.^[33]

Love was an opening speaker at the 2013 Western Conservative Summit. She spoke on the need for increased grassroots organization in the GOP, and the need to be independent from the government.^[34]

In August 2013, Love was chosen by Newsmax as an "Up and Comer" in their list of top "25 Influential Women of the GOP"^[35] In November 2013, Love acknowledged the growing consensus that the Tea Party needed to shift away from being the "party of no"^[36] while still supporting the philosophy of the Tea Party and many of its leaders, including fellow Utah Sen. Mike Lee.^[37]

On December 17, 2013, Matheson announced that he would not run for reelection, leading Love to be the favored candidate to win in the upcoming election. In early October of 2014, the National Journal listed Utah's 4th district as the number one most likely district to change hands in November.^[38]

In early 2014 Love was made a member of the Republican National Committee's National Advisory Council on African-American outreach.^[39]

On April 26, 2014 Love won the Republican nomination for the 4th congressional district at the Utah Republican Convention, with 78% of the vote at the convention.^[40] On November 4, 2014 Love won the congressional election with 50.04% of the popular vote. ^[41]

Political positions

Love favors "fiscal discipline, limited government, and personal responsibility."^[42] She has also said that she asks herself three questions whenever she approaches an issue, "Is it affordable? Is it sustainable? Is it my job?"^[43] She has advocated for reducing federal aid to students and allowing loan rates to be set by the free market.

At her college orientation Love’s father told her, "Mia, your mother and I never took a handout. You will not be a burden to society. You will give back." She underscored this philosophy on the campaign trail to sum up her conservative views.^[44]

Love is pro-life and has been endorsed by the Susan B. Anthony List.^[45] She supports domestic energy exploration, local control of education, Second Amendment rights, and state control of public lands.^[46]

She has said that if elected to Congress, she would “join the Congressional Black Caucus and try to take that thing apart from the inside out” and has described the Democrat-dominated Caucus as characterized by “...demagoguery. They sit there and ignite emotions and ignite racism when there isn’t. They use their positions to instill fear. Hope and change is turned into fear and blame. Fear that everybody is going to lose everything and blaming Congress for everything instead of taking responsibility."^[47]

I wonder if the RNC and Reince Priebus gave her any help during the election?

Outside of my own interest in her politics I have heard very little from the Republican Party in her behalf.pws