Politics is a game and a profession. It doesn't really serve the people the politicians are supposed to serve.
I thought if anyone need a leg up, it was our foster children. So, I started getting involved in education reform, and that was back in 1998. And as a result of all the reform work that I had done, people urged me to run for the Minnesota state Senate. I did, I was there for six years.
I'm very independent, creatively, always trying to push myself - and I think that comes from my mother.