Gabe Amo | |
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Member of the U.S.HouseofRepresentatives from Rhode Island's 1st district | |
Assumed office November 13, 2023 | |
Preceded by | David Cicilline |
Personal details | |
Born | Gabriel Felix Kofi Amo December 11,1987 Pawtucket,Rhode Island,U.S. |
Political party | Democratic |
Education | Wheaton College (BA) Merton College,Oxford (MSc) |
Website | House website |
Gabriel Felix Kofi Amo (born December 11,1987) [1] is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Rhode Island's 1st congressional district .
Before running for Congress,Amo worked in the Biden administration as the deputy director of the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs. He has also worked in the Obama administration,on several Democratic political campaigns,and in Rhode Island governor Gina Raimondo's administration. [2]
Amo was born and raised in Pawtucket,Rhode Island. [3] His father and mother immigrated to Rhode Island from Ghana and Liberia,respectively. [4] [5] His mother is a nurse and his father owns a liquor store. [6] He graduated from the Moses Brown college preparatory school in Providence,Rhode Island,where he was part of the student senate and received the Rhode Island Secretary of State's Civic Leadership Award. [3] He also was selected to participate in the United States Senate Youth Program in Washington,D.C.
Amo earned a Bachelor of Arts from Wheaton College in Massachusetts,where he studied political science and graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude. [7] [8] He also was a member of the student government association. [9] He received a Truman Scholarship,a Public Policy and International Affairs Fellowship,and a Marshall Scholarship to study comparative social policy at Merton College,Oxford. [10] [11]
In college,Amo volunteered on Sheldon Whitehouse's 2006 U.S. Senate campaign and then on Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign. [7] He worked in the Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs in the Obama administration,serving as a liaison to governors and other state officials. He was also a national political coordinator for Obama's 2012 re-election campaign. [12] [2]
Amo served as Governor Gina Raimondo's principal advisor on outreach to Rhode Island's local government,business,and faith communities, [3] and worked as a senior advisor on her 2018 re-election campaign. [2] He returned to national politics as a strategist and program advisor on Joe Biden's 2020 presidential campaign and later served on his transition team. [11] He then served as the special assistant and deputy director of the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs,working as the principal liaison to mayors and local elected officials. [9]
Amo left his White House job to run in the 2023 special election for Rhode Island's 1st congressional district, after incumbent representative David Cicilline announced his resignation from Congress to run the non-profit Rhode Island Foundation. [13] Amo's campaign focused on protecting Social Security, Medicare, and abortion rights, while tackling gun violence and climate change. [5] He received endorsements from the Congressional Black Caucus, former Rhode Island representative Patrick J. Kennedy, and former White House chief of staff Ron Klain. [14] He also was supported by outside spending from Democrats Serve PAC and Collective PAC. [15] [16]
Amo was criticized for accepting over $20,000 from federal lobbyists representing major corporations, including Fox Corporation, Eli Lilly and Company, Philip Morris USA, Marathon Petroleum, and others. His receipts also included more than $8,000 from lobbyists for Wall Street firms and banks, such as Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Mastercard, and Bitcoin. [17] His primary campaign received more than $600,000 in donations in total. [5] In late August, a poll conducted for his campaign showed him in second place. [18]
In September 2023, in an upset, Amo won the Democratic primary to become the party's nominee for Rhode Island's 1st congressional district. [19] [20] The general election was held on November 7. [21] [22] Amo won the election, becoming Rhode Island's first black candidate elected to Congress. [23] He was officially sworn into Congress on November 13, 2023. [24]
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Amo voted in favor of three military aid package supplementals for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan respectively in April 2024, along with most Democrats. [26] [27] [28] After all three bills successfully passed the House, he criticized House Republicans for “months of reckless delays”. [29]
In 2017, Amo received Higher Ground International's Clan Chief Award. In 2019, he received the distinguished Young Alumnus/a Award from Moses Brown School. In 2022, he was the Ghana Diaspora Public Affairs Collective's distinguished honoree at the Golden Gala and Awards Symposium, honoring senior Ghanaian-American government officials. [31]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Gabe Amo | 12,946 | 32.4 | |
Democratic | Aaron Regunberg | 9,960 | 24.9 | |
Democratic | Sandra Cano | 5,574 | 13.9 | |
Democratic | Sabina Matos | 3,210 | 8.0 | |
Democratic | Stephen Casey | 2,329 | 5.8 | |
Democratic | Walter Berbrick | 1,453 | 3.6 | |
Democratic | Ana Quezada | 1,415 | 3.5 | |
Democratic | John Goncalves | 1,118 | 2.8 | |
Democratic | Donald Carlson (withdrawn) | 690 | 1.7 | |
Democratic | Allen Waters | 503 | 1.3 | |
Democratic | Stephanie Beauté | 428 | 1.1 | |
Democratic | Spencer Dickinson | 354 | 0.9 | |
Total votes | 39,980 | 100.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Democratic | Gabe Amo | 43,290 | 64.73 | +0.70 | |
Republican | Gerry Leonard Jr. | 23,393 | 34.98 | −0.78 | |
Write-in | 193 | 0.29 | +0.06 | ||
Total votes | 66,876 | 100.00 | |||
Democratic hold | |||||
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