Representative Mia Love made history in 2015 when she became the first African American Republican woman to serve in Congress, the Daily Herald reports.
Love went back to her home district in Utah this week in effort to sell her party's plan for tax reform.
She worked hard to make the case that the GOP's plan to raise standard deductions for both individuals and families would be good for people, and spoke directly to her state's farmers in effort to show that a the new tax plan's repeal on estate taxes doesn't just help the wealthy.
“[Farmers] don’t have a bunch of money sitting in a vault somewhere, and when they work hard every day to leave a little bit of something for their family, they should be able to leave that something for their children,” Love said. “And when did success become such a bad thing in this country?”
Love also took some time to lash out at House Democrats who she believes have made it their duty to "take her down."
She claims that these "attacks from the left" expose the true nature of the Democratic Party, and reveal unsavory facts about what it really means to be a liberal in the country. At a meeting of Utah County Republican Women, Love had some advice on how Republican women, especially those of color, might handle these "attacks."
“The advice I would have is, don’t let anyone put you in a box,” Love told attendees. “The other advice I would have is, there are a lot of people who have died and paved the way for us to be independent thinkers, and I hate the fact that they’re like, okay, we are okay with your diversity as long as you think just like us.”
Love also insinuated that some of the country's racial divide can be attributed to Democrats because of their "divisive politics," citing a comment former first lady Michelle Obama made earlier this year. Obama criticized the overwhelming whiteness of the Republican Party, while praising the Democrats for their party's diversity.
Finally, Love had some strong words for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, who donated to Love’s campaign opponent during the last election cycle.
“[Pelosi] is always going out and finding people that think like her,” Love said. “To me, when someone says, ‘You look at one side, then you look at the other side,’ that’s divisive politics. I believe that we are more divided today than we were, racially, than we were eight or nine years ago.”
Despite this, Love finds solace in the fact that she, a black woman, was elected to Congress and suggested that other districts could learn something from her voters.
“When people say to me, ‘You’re from Utah’? I say yeah, now you know how cool we are,” Love said. “We care more about the policies, we care more about our values than we do about what someone looks like or what their gender is.”
