Their backgrounds could hardly be more disparate. Tim Scott grew up in a single-parent home in Charleston, South Carolina. Nick Muzin was raised in a stable, Orthodox Jewish home in Toronto.
While Scott was at risk of flunking out of high school, Muzin was hurtling along on a fast track to earn medical and legal degrees at Albert Einstein and Yale.
Their divergent paths crossed when Muzin served as legal counsel for his father-in-law’s private equity firm in Charleston and Tim Scott was running for lieutenant governor, seeking support from the local business community. One of the roles of South Carolina’s lieutenant governor is to oversee the state office on aging, so Scott found that tapping Muzin’s knowledge of health care issues produced added value for his campaign.
When local congressman Henry Brown announced his retirement in early 2010, Muzin called Scott and suggested he drop his race for lieutenant governor and run for Congress instead.
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