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Candidate Profile:
Gwen Moore
Office:
U.S. Representative District 4
Party:
Democrat
Address:
P.O. Box 16646 ,
Milwaukee WI 53216
Phone:
(414) 322-6161
Related websites:
Campaign Finance
Opponents:
Eddie Ahmad Ayyash
Kenneth Lipinski
Paul Morel
Dan Sebring
Campaign Web site:
www.gwenmooreforcongress.com/
Biography
Gwen Moore has served Wisconsin’s 4th Congressional District since 2005. She previously served in the Wisconsin State Senate from 1993-2003, and the State Assembly from 1989-2002.
Moore serves on the Budget, Financial Services, and Small Business Committees in the House. She is an advocate for the federal government to play a role in improving economic development and job creation in low-income communities. In 2005, some of the provisions she proposed in the SHIELD Act were included in the re-authorization of the Violence Against Women Act. These provisions ensure that victims of domestic violence who flee their abuser cannot then be tracked and found through the Housing and Urban Development’s new Homeless Management Information System.
Moore was born in Racine and was raised in Milwaukee. She attended Marquette University as an expectant mother on welfare who was able to afford her education with the help of the TRIO program, which provides aid to low-income Americans. In 2000, earned a Harvard University Certificate for Senior Executives in State and Local Government. She has three children and three grandchildren.
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