Title: Former DOJ attorney challenges Joe Wilson for SC Congress | The State
Headings: Former DOJ attorney launches bid for Congress against Joe Wilson
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Former DOJ attorney launches bid for Congress against Joe Wilson
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Content: “I was morally indignant about it,” Boroughs told The State. “ My daddy worked his butt off and paid his taxes, and then these companies and the uber-wealthy were building tax shelters when my daddy paid his taxes.” Boroughs later went on to clerk in the office of federal court Judge Richard Gergel, where she worked on the death penalty trial of 2015 Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof. “That had a big impact with me on issues of race. It gave me a perspective I did not have before,” Boroughs said. “ I remember asking a friend who’s African American, ‘How are you not angry all the time?’ It’s a lot to have someone hate you for the color of your skin that much. She says she grew up “in a double-wide trailer” in Williston, the daughter of a cabinet maker and a public school teacher. After graduating from Williston-Elko High School, Boroughs went to Furman University and taught high school math in Greenville County before she attended Stanford University for law school. Follow more of our reporting on First in the South
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