The Time is Right for Mee (NR)
synopsis
This film tells the story of Mee Moua's remarkable first campaign for the Minnesota Senate. An accomplished attorney and community advocate when she decided to run in 2002, Moua nonetheless faced an uphill battle to win the Democratic primary with only three weeks to spare. The result was a massive mobilization of new citizens into registered voters and her triumph as the first Hmong-American elected official in America. Born in war-torn Laos in 1969, Moua fled at five with her family to a Thai refugee camp before resettling in the United States in 1978. Working her way up from the public housing projects of Appleton, Wisc., Mee Moua graduated from Brown University in Rhode Island, earned her Masters in public affairs from the University of Texas at Austin and her J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School. Moua is currently Senator (DFL) for St. Paul District 67 and serves as the Senate's Majority Whip.
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synopsis
This film tells the story of Mee Moua's remarkable first campaign for the Minnesota Senate. An accomplished attorney and community advocate when she decided to run in 2002, Moua nonetheless faced an uphill battle to win the Democratic primary with only three weeks to spare. The result was a massive mobilization of new citizens into registered voters and her triumph as the first Hmong-American elected official in America. Born in war-torn Laos in 1969, Moua fled at five with her family to a Thai refugee camp before resettling in the United States in 1978. Working her way up from the public housing projects of Appleton, Wisc., Mee Moua graduated from Brown University in Rhode Island, earned her Masters in public affairs from the University of Texas at Austin and her J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School. Moua is currently Senator (DFL) for St. Paul District 67 and serves as the Senate's Majority Whip.
