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   LaShonda has pulled together a mix of voters that has a pathway to victory. But there seems to be a conservative media blackout of this campaign, much like the last two hundred years of failing to report the real Jacksonville history.

     While Biden’s executive action will benefit thousands of people by making it easier for them to find housing, get a job or apply to college, it does nothing to help the hundreds of thousands of mostly Black and Hispanic Americans still burdened by state convictions for marijuana-related offenses, not to mention the millions more with other drug offenses on their records.

     Since starting her career journey in the chemical industry while at Southern University and A&M College, she has defied many odds for what is possible for a lifelong career doing what she loves and being who she is. She wears her overcoming many odds success stories as a badge of honor, considering the struggles her ancestors endured to make it possible for her to be here today. 

Dr. Sandy Womack Jr., currently an Area (Assistant) Superintendent with the Columbus City School District (which happens to be the largest school system in the State of Ohio), has always been a strategic thinker and advocate for underdogs. Like most natives of disadvantaged urban neighborhoods, Womack gained an uncanny and often underestimated perspective of the learning process despite being exposed to a frequently challenging, yet character-building environment that private and parochial school systems do not offer.