Jolanda Jones is ready to channel childhood trauma to fight back for Texas in Congress: ‘If they go low, I’m going in the gutter’
Jolanda Jones is not your conventional candidate for U.S. Congress, something she quickly admits. “I’m not your traditional elected official,” said the Texas state representative running in a special election for Texas’s 18th Congressional District on Nov. 4. “I think people like my authenticity,” Jones told theGrio. Throughout the nearly hour-long Zoom interview from her car outside a Houston voting precinct during early voting, Jones stopped several times to introduce herself to voters and ask them for their support. “My […]