Power Women
You Want To Run For Office. Now What?
07.10.09, 3:45 PM ET
Lesia Liss never thought of going into politics. She worked in health care for 23 years, but after spending 13 years as a registered nurse in the emergency rooms of the Henry Ford Medical Center in Warren, Mich., she had a change of heart.
To Liss, 42, her patients seemed to be a mirror of the souring economy, since Michigan had been hit harder by falling home prices, and unemployment had long been an issue as car industry slowly deteriorated. "[My patients] were like economic indicators," she explains. "In the ER, I could see everything that was wrong with society. I was at ground zero."
