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• NEWS_POSTED_BY: Haiti Place
• NEWS_POSTED_ON: Nov 18, 2014
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  Haitian American Ludmya “Mia Love” Bourdeau has secured her seat in history as the first black female Republican elected to Congress.

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• Haitian American Ludmya “Mia Love” Bourdeau has secured her seat in history as the first black female Republican elected to Congress.

  "Tonight you have made history!" the former Saratoga Springs mayor said to her supporters Tuesday night. Love defeated Democrat Doug Owens in Utah’s 4th House district with a little over 50 percent of the vote. "Many of the naysayers out there said that Utah would never elect a black Republican LDS (Latter Day Saint) woman to Congress. Not only did we do it, we were the first to do it!"

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