Morgan Wadsworth, 26, recently announced her run to represent northern Nevada in the U.S. Congress with a modern western styled flyer and website titled “Battle Born. Ready to Fight.”
“I’m a sixth generation Nevadan and so my family has been here for quite a while,” the North Valleys grad and first generation UNR student told Our Town Reno in a phone interview this week ahead of June primary voting.
“I grew up in a working class family and I’ve been working myself since I was 14,” she says not afraid of what lies ahead in terms of campaigning as a Democrat to be able to face off against Republican Mark Amodei, representing Nevada’s red leaning 2nd District since 2011. Her first job was as a lifeguard at Wild Island in Sparks, while growing up with a single mom and SNAP benefits…