Sonia Chang-Díaz

Sonia Rosa Chang- Díaz ( born March 31, 1978) is an American politician and Member of the Senate of Massachusetts, where she represents the second constituency of Suffolk County. She is the first elected female Hispanic or Latino Members in this Parliament.

Background

Chang- Díaz has by her father Franklin Chang- Díaz, one originating from Costa Rica physicist and former NASA astronauts, both Chinese and Spanish ancestors. He had attended the University of Connecticut and was enrolled in a program with federal funding that was intended for college students of the first generation in the United States with low income. As their political opponents Chang- Díaz accused that she was no person of color, called Chang- Diaz these allegations as " dishonest " and commented on the matter, saying: " Let me be very clear: I am proud of my Latino origin, my father emigrated from Costa Rica in this country. " She believes that skin color and ethnic identity for voters are unimportant and noted that this " is not the one from the direct conversation with the voters in everyday life, what the voters actually interested " in their experience.

Sonia Chang- Díaz was born shortly after her father had completed his doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She grew up in Newton, Massachusetts, where her mother worked as a social worker. Both parents were active as volunteers in the community.

Chang- Díaz studied at the University of Virginia. Before their main occupation as a politician she was a teacher in Lynn, Massachusetts, in Boston.

Nominations to the Senate of Massachusetts

In 2006 it had the incumbent Senator for the second constituency of Suffolk County, Dianne Wilkerson failed to submit timely a sufficient number of signatures for the nomination at the Democratic primaries, so that the primaries were conducted with blank ballots, where voters the had to enter the name of the desired of them candidates. Here occurred Chang- Díaz in the election campaign and called Wilkerson in a constituency out, were a minority in the White. This district covered some downtown Boston area, including the South End and Roxbury, Dorchester and Jamaica Plain. Wilkerson won the primary and was re-elected in the elections to the Senate of Massachusetts in 2006 as a senator.

2008 called Chang- Díaz Wilkerson out again, and both candidates were out on the ballots for the primaries. In the primaries in September Chang- Díaz won the Democratic nomination. October 28, 2008 Wilkerson was arrested by the FBI because she was accused of corruption. It has charges against them for their failure was to be seen on a video recording, as they allegedly stuffed bribes in her bra, which is to have it as a reward for favors. The fees charged by the FBI allegations, according to Wilkerson should have accepted the money because they favored the granting of a liquor license for a nightclub and for supporting the transfer of public land to a federal agent who had appeared as part of an undercover operation as a private contractor. Because of their arrest Wilkerson could not run in the election to the Senate from Massachusetts in 2008 and Chang- Díaz won this election on November 4, 2008. In January 2009, she was sworn in as deputies.