Talking M4ALL,Gerrymandering, Running for Congress, Why Trump won TX, Ground Game TX Julie Oliver

Julie Oliver was born poor and grew up in a working class family in Ovilla, Texas. At seventeen, she dropped out of high school and became a teenage runaway, but after her daughter was born, Julie got a second chance -- she was able to put herself through college and law school, before going on to work in healthcare, and then, as a healthcare reformer and advocate.
Julie's a political outsider who knows that big corporations and the ultra-wealthy have too much power in Washington, and who isn't afraid to stand up to leaders of both parties to do what's right. Julie was born poor and grew up in a working class family, right here in Texas. She spent her early years in South Oak Cliff, in Dallas, but when she was 11 the family moved to the little town of Ovilla. Her mom was a public school teacher and cleaned houses to make extra money. Her dad owned a pawn shop. She knows the struggles that Texas families face to maintain decent housing, healthcare, and steady work because she has lived that experience. Julie often shares her story -- dropping out of school, living in abandoned buildings, and becoming pregnant at 17, before going on to finish high school with her baby daughter, putting herself through college and law school with a young family, and going on to a career in healthcare finance and nonprofit accounting -- because it is a story of everyday struggles that so many Americans have experienced in some way. She relied on Medicaid for prenatal care, applied for Pell Grants, and was able to use the Earned Income Tax credit and work summer jobs to get through college. And Julie knows that it is the community who supported her that made it all possible.