Born into extreme poverty in communist China, Sue spent her childhood in the remote mountain region of Hainan Island, far from civilization and without running water or electricity.
Sue』s grandfather had served as a military leader in the war against the communist party in the late 1940』s. After losing a bloody civil war, the communist party executed her grandfather and many other male members of the family before confiscating her grandfather』s property, leaving her family with nothing.
Sue learned firsthand that allowing a national government to consolidate power over the economy and the lives of the citizens will lead to violence, oppression, and poverty.
Sue』s childhood days were filled with hard labor and daily struggle, but as a young girl Sue began to show a talent for reading and writing poetry. Her parents were illiterate but they held education in high regard. So, with the help of a family friend, Sue was sent to a local boarding school at the age of 11 where she had to learn to manage her life and her finances on her own.
At the age of 20, Sue was given the opportunity to move to the mainland to take her first job in the manufacturing industry as an accountant. In 1998, at the age of 26, Sue moved to the United States on a student visa where she studied Computer Science at Wake Tech Community College from 1998-2000.
In 2000, Sue began working in the information technology industry, as a software engineering contractor, while she continued her education at UNC-Chapel Hill, where she studied Information and Library Science from 2001-2005.
By the Fall of 2005, Sue』s dream of becoming an American citizen became a reality and in 2010, as she continued her work in the IT industry, she founded a real estate investment company in Cary.
Sue and her husband of 15 years have been residents of Wake County for nearly two decades. They both enjoy traveling, boating, and flying airplanes. Sue also loves to ride horses and spending time outdoors.
She feels blessed to have had the opportunity to pursue her dreams and live her American Dream and she is committed to fighting the corruption and cronyism in our political system, which is threatening the very foundation of our nation』s prosperity and opportunity for all.
Sue wants to be a new voice, for a new generation, to ensure that the American Dream is alive and thriving for all Americans. She seeks to unite the citizens of North Carolina』s Fourth District behind a common goal to achieve sustainable prosperity and opportunity for all.
(上面的是她的競選標誌,下面是Google。圖片來自Will
Google sue Sue Googe )可以很清楚的看出,僅僅是把L去掉,改了一下顏色。
Sue Googe的競選議題可以在她的網站上看到,基本上是共和黨的框架。她並沒有提到Affimitive Action 或者是工作簽證這些關乎華人的核心議題,理由大概是她說的那樣「華裔在我的選區只有不到1%的人數」。 其中的有一個提案倒是很有意思:她認為應該給參眾議員加上任期的限制,眾議員最多當三屆,參議員最多當兩屆。這樣的提案,打個比喻,就好像有人向人民代表大會提交了一個提案,禁止共產黨員兼任人大代表。
North Carolina 是一個深紅州,13個congress district,共和黨佔了10個。兩個現任參議員也是共和黨人。本來民主黨的註冊選民要略多於共和黨,然並卵,這麼多年共和黨人依然把持著大權。個中的奧秘就是gerrymandering,相信大家都很熟悉這個概念了,我就不多廢話了。Sue Googe是競選第四選區,如下圖所示:
這樣的一個畸形的選區,就是gerrymandering的產物。換言之,這是共和黨人刻意的把儘可能多的民主黨選民都划到一個區里,這個選區相當於拱手相讓給民主黨。從1901年至今,這個選區只有六年的時間是在共和黨手上,上一次共和黨人贏得選舉是1995年,再上兩次是1985年和1967年。現任的congressman David Prince從1997年連任至今。