Full Name:
Kara Young
Gender:
Female
Family:
Husband: Christopher
Birth Place:
Hartford, CT
Home City:
Glastonbury, RI
Religion:
Roman Catholic
Bachelors, Advanced Communication Practices/Writing/Art History, Boston University, 1992
Candidate, Rhode Island State Lieutenant Governor, 2014
No caucus information on file.
Former Employee, Marketing Department, Providence Civic Center
Former Employee, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Director, Sales and Marketing, Ryan Center, The University of Rhode Island
Former Co-Chair, Southern Rhode Island Business to Business Expo
Former Member, Board of Directors, South Kingstown Chamber of Commerce
Former Member, South County Tourism Council
Producer, St. Charles Speaks, Cox Channel 14/Verizon 33
Producer, Standing for Life in Rhode Island, Cox Channel 14/Verizon 33
Emcee, Pill Kills National Symposium, American Life League, 2012
Awards:
Winner, Women of Grace Contest
Favorite Book:
Story of a Soul - the Autobiography of Saint Therese
Secular Sabotage by: Bill Donahue
The End of the Present World and the Mysteries of the future Life by: Father Charles Arminjon
Favorite Movie:
Jesus of Nazareth, America: Freedom to Fascism, Maafa 21: Black Genocide in 21st Century America, Demographic Winter, Indoctrination, Blood Money, The Sound of Music, Arthur (the original version), The Shawshank Redemption, It's a Wonderful Life, Trading Places, The Hidden Agenda: The Flouride Deception, 180 Movie, Groundhog Day, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, Hoosiers, The Natural
Favorite Musician:
Christopher Young, Kara Young, Corey Heart, 38 Special, The Bee Gee's, Journey
Favorite Quote:
"If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone under."
- Ronald Reagan
"Let's bring Rhode Island back to Life!" - Kara Russo
"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really co-operating with it." - Martin Luther King Junior
"If the world thinks you're crazy, you're probably on the right track!" - Father John Corapi
"No pain, no gain. No guts, no glory. No cross, no crown. NO GOOD FRIDAY, NO EASTER SUNDAY!!!" - Father John Corapi
"A society where faith is prevented from vigorous public expression is a society that has fashioned the state into an idol - in a new kind of state encouraged atheism." - Archbishop Charles Chaput
"Can there be any doubt that Almighty God will, in His own time and way, pass judgment upon our state, its leaders and citizens, for abandoning His commands and embracing public immorality? I encourage Catholics to pray for God's patience, mercy and forgiveness in these distressing times." - Bishop Thomas Tobin
"We've had enough of exhortations to be silent! Cry out with a hundred thousand tongues. I see that the world is rotten because of silence." - Saint Catherine of Siena
"Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire." - St. Catherine of Siena
"History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"Do not let your heart become troubled by the sad spectacle of human injustice. Even this has its value in the face of all else. And it is from this that one day you will see the justice of God rising with unfailing triumph. " - St. Padre Pio
"The little time we have in the world needs to be made good use of." - St. Bernadette
"The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." - Plato
"You're not a Christian unless you're a thorn in somebody's side." - Mother Angelica
"Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring." - St. Catherine of Siena
"The bravest are the tenderest - the loving are the daring." - Bayard Taylor
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy," - Martin Luther King Junior
"Don't draw back, and worse still, don't stop going up the Calvary of Life. Jesus will extend His hand to steady you. The thought of the sustaining grace of God and the prize that Jesus has reserved for you will be a sweet comfort." - St. Padre Pio
"America is suffering not so much from intolerance, which is bigotry, as it is from tolerance, which is indifference to truth and error, and a philosophical nonchalance that has been interpreted as broad-mindedness." - Archbishop Fulton Sheen
"Do not allow the world to form you to itself." - Father John Corapi
"It is impossible to further the common good without acknowledging and defending the right to life, upon which all the other inalienable rights of individuals are founded and from which develop" - Pope John Paul II Gospel of Life Number 101
"If things always went wrong, no one could endure it; if they always went well, anyone would become arrogant." - Doctor of the Church St. Bernard of Clairvaux
"Let us not grow tired of doing good, for in due time we shall reap our harvest, if we do not give up." - Galatians 6:9
"No one should feel secure in this life, because the whole of it is one long test; and no one who is able to pass from a worse state to a better one can be certain that he will not later also pass from a better state to a worse. Our only hope, our only confidence, our only assured promise, Lord, is THY mercy." - Saint Augustine
"I only fear bad Catholics." - St. Bernadette
"We cannot diminish the value of one category of human life -- the unborn -- without diminishing the value of all human life." - Ronald Reagan
"Sometimes you've got to rock the boat, if you want to keep it from sinking!" - Kara Russo
"Nor shall you stand idly by when your neighbor's life is at stake." - Leviticus 19:16
"The only thing necessary for the triumph (of evil) is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke
"Pray, hope, and don't worry. Worry is useless. God is merciful and will hear your prayer." - St. Padre Pio
Favorite TV Shows:
Women of Grace with Johnnette Benkovic (on EWTN), The World Over with Raymond Arroyo (on EWTN), Super Saints, with Bob and Penny Lord (on EWTN), The Jeffersons, All in the Family