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Boucher has run in seventeen political campaigns (and won fifteen). She and her late husband, Bud, have been involved in many startups and business innovations. Each of these involved risk and belief in pursuit of an idea even when others lose faith. Bud and Boucher's father, who brought the family to the United States when she was a little girl, have inspired her over a lifetime. 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