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Underwood has a heart.
……As a child, Lauren Underwood had a heart condition. Cured now. What was not cured was her interest in medical care. Lauren Underwood became a nurse. She became interested in health care policy, earned a degree from Johns Hopkins, and served in the Health and Human Services Department of the Obama administration implementing the Affordable Care Act (the health care part, not the computer part).
……Laura Underwood https://www.underwoodforcongress.com/ is particularly conscious of preexisting conditions. Not just medical conditions. She gets a mention in the articles about the enormous number of women running for Congress in 2018. She is a black women who grew up in this overwhelmingly white district — a district that runs south from the Wisconsin border along the western border of Chicago, an area that was infamous in the sixties for being unwelcoming to blacks.
……Lauren Underwood does not shy away from conversations about being a woman or being black. Her political and professional focus and continued interest are about health.
……Her focus has served her well. Lauren Underwood did not enter the Democratic primary as a favorite, but won the primary with 57% of the vote — three times as many votes as her next rival. ……Lauren Underwood has a politician she admires. In high school, she had a brief internship with Senator Barack Obama. She had local political projects, too. When her high school allowed students to serve on the school board, she served on the school board. She served on the local Fair Housing Commission. On the Commission, she reviewed cases in which there were claims of discrimination and made recommendations to the city council. She is an Obama-type candidate in Obama’s home state.
Can Lauren Underwoodwin in Dennis Hastert’s old district? Lauren Underwoodis targeting Randy Hultrgren, the current Congressman for his vote on health care and his integrity. She tells her story about what convinced her to run.
Lauren Underwood attended Hultgren’s only public event and asked about health care. Hultgren promised that he would not vote to make it more difficult for people with pre-existing conditions to get health care. Ten days later, Hultgren voted for the Republican American Healthcare Act that would increase the cost of health insurance for people with pre-existing medical conditions. Lauren Underwood condemns Hultgren’s lack of integrity, his failure to keep a promise, and his position on health care.
……Lauren Underwood has some issues besides health care. She sees investments in infrastructure as central to sustaining the economy — both for the jobs that those investments create and the economic effect of improved infrastructure. She is an advocate for public education, for child care services and paid family leave, and for women’s health services.
……While health care is Lauren Underwood’s professional and political interest, her story is striking. She is a thirty-one year old candidate for Congress. The youngest candidate for Congress in this district ever, the only woman to ever run for Congress in this district, the only African American to run for Congress in this 85% white district.
……Lauren Underwood https://www.underwoodforcongress.com/ is local. She grew up in her congressional district, overcame serious illness, stood out as a diligent and agreeable student. People in the district know her, like her, and she knows them. They know her as a courageous, even an audacious young woman. Her run for Congress, as a young, black woman counts as audacious.
……Laura Underwood https://www.underwoodforcongress.com/ won the primary convincingly. She has not convinced pundits she can win the election. The experts see this district as likely Republican. Lauren Underwood was underestimated in the primary. She beat expectations and her opponents. She can beat expectations and her opponent in the election. She will need resources to do that. Provide some support.…
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