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Salerno touts experience in bid for Congress Early voting for the primary election runoff began May 14, 2018 and congressional candidate Lillian Salerno is optimistic about the future as she encourages voters to give her the Democratic nod. In the Garland Journal, she shares her platform: Lillian Salerno is an experienced leader and public servant running for Congress to expand economic opportunity for Dallas working families. She is a native of Dallas and as a single mom she raised a son and two adopted daughters. Through her decades long career, Lillian has been a successful entrepreneur, civil rights attorney, advocate for health care safety and always fighting for underserved communities in Texas and across the country. Lillian is a health care crusader. She went on to earn her law degree from Southern Methodist University and opened a civil rights law practice serving her community. While in law school, Lillian lived with her grandmother and began noticing her grandmother’s health was failing. She quickly realized that it was the medications making her unwell and that many seniors like her grandmother suffered the effects of being overmedicated. This started Lillian on a lifelong battle against the Pharmaceutical industry. In the 1990’s, Lillian joined the fight against HIV/AIDS, advocating for better health care practices that prevent the spread of infection. She worked with talented
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engineers to develop and manufacture medical technology to prevent HIV transmission and fought back against the lack of transparency in the healthcare market. Lillian organized nurses and unions to pass federal needle stick protection legislation that was signed into law in 2000. She knows how to work across the aisle to get critical legislations passed. In 2008, Lillian worked as an external advocate with the White House on the design and implementation of the Patient Protection Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare. She will continue to fight for broad access to affordable healthcare for all citizens. Lillian is a fighter dedicated to expanding economic opportunity. Lillian started her first company at the age of 25, helping people find jobs, and this experience inspired her life’s work of fighting for economic opportunity. When she was a graduate student at the University of North Texas, Lillian worked with inmates trying to re-enter the workforce and saw how race and economics predetermined who was locked up. This an experience that deepened her lifelong commitment to fighting for economic and social justice. Lillian, whose grandfather was an immigrant and small business owner, was the sixth of nine children and attended the University of Texas with the help of Pell grants and low-interest loans while waiting tables to make ends meet. She is determined to help all Texas students access a quality, affordable education that gives them the opportunity
to thrive in tomorrow’s economy. As Deputy Undersecretary for Rural Development for the USDA in the Obama Administration, Lillian spent five years working tirelessly to ensure that rural communities had access to safe drinking water, affordable housing, and broadband internet access in Texas and across the country. “I’ve defended forgotten communities, family farmers and small businesses decimated by corporate takeover,� she has said. Lillian is a champion for small businesses and entrepreneurs, the engines that drive innovation and grow our economy. “When government fails, it lets the monopolies run wild and the elite call the shots,� Lillian has said. When elected she will fight tirelessly for policies that fight back against special interests that stand in the way of innovation small businesses face. With Lillian, the Texas 32nd has the opportunity to flip a seat from red to blue. Lillian wants to take on vulnerable incumbent Congressman Pete Sessions, an extremist whose top priority is advancing the GOP’s dangerous agenda that hurts the working families he was elected to serve. Now in his 11th term in Congress, Sessions is out of touch with the hardworking Dallas families he is supposed to represent. Sessions is the man who gave
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the green light to President Trump when he wanted to kick millions off health care. He also voted “no� on the Violence Against Women Act. He has not held a town hall in the district in more than a year. Lillian’s opponent, Colin Allred played in the NFL and was in the Obama Administration for 5 months. He is not ready for the fight against Pete Sessions in the Fall. Lillian has what it takes to beat Pete Sessions. From years of standing up to institutional power, she has demonstrated her ability to fight for the constituents of Texas 32nd. Lillian is running to take on the system and stand-up for all Texans who want a better future for the next generation. Lillian has committed to not letting any lobbyist or party leadership dictate her actions.