Love Inspires NFIB Gathering in Park City

Date: August 26, 2014

Mia Love is on a mission to make work less of an alien concept to a growing number of Americans falling under the federal government’s spell. Given her own past and political success, it would be hard to find a better messenger. 
“Big government doesn’t make the American dream work, people make the American dream work,” Love told a meeting of NFIB state directors in Park City on August 26. And there is no better example of people making the American dream work than small-business owners, according to Love, who said telling their stories is at the heart of her campaign for Congress, because “stories have the capacity to tell what statistics and figures can’t.”
Love’s parents immigrated from Haiti to New York and later to Utah with only $10 in her father’s pocket. But by working three jobs to make ends meet, Love’s father was not only able to raise a healthy family, but also instilled in his daughter a work ethic that many Americans need to re-embrace. 
“David ran to Goliath,” Love said, “that is the type of confidence we need to have. The free market has lifted more people out of poverty than any other policy.”
Love is running in Utah’s Fourth Congressional District to replace U.S. Rep. Jim Matheson, whom she almost defeated in 2012. Once again, hard work is at the center of everything she does. “When you lose by 768 votes, you take nothing for granted. When you don’t win the first time, you keep at it.”
She is glad her numbers are higher than her new opponent’s at the moment, but that will not slow her down. “No matter how high up you are in the polls, you won’t win unless you get every individual who would support you to the polls.”
Love is no stranger to effective public service. As mayor of Saratoga Springs, she managed the exponential growth of her city while limiting the size and scope of municipal government. “Washington can take a lesson from what we’ve done.”
Right now, said Love, people and businesses who are surviving are doing so “in spite of the federal government. Not one person I talk to, on either side [Democrat or Republican] says the current administration is doing anything.”
Growing the size of government will only have the opposite effect of what is intended. Love said she doesn’t want any of her three children coming to her someday, saying, “Mom, I played by the rules, but society has left a burden on me.”
In introducing Love, NFIB/Utah State Director Candace Daly recalled the time she left a convention of delegates with goose bumps after recounting her life story, and her father’s words, “Mia, we worked for everything we have. You will  not be a burden to society. You will give back.”
Save America’s Free Enterprise Trust, the political action committee of NFIB has endorsed Mia Love for Congress. You can learn more about Mia Love at www.love4congress.com and hear her speeches on YouTube by typing in Mia Love.

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