Looking back on his unlikely journey to become the first Black speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates, Don Scott (D) cites a self-belief spurred by adversity as the underlying theme through it all.
“I’ve had some very difficult experiences, some very hard life lessons that I learned,” Scott said in an interview. “But those life lessons forged the type of tenacity and … the ability to suffer a little bit to get to the goal that you need.”
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