Annette Polly Williams
[1] Williams was born in Belzoni, Mississippi, in 1937 and graduated from North Division High School, attended Milwaukee Area Technical College from 1971–73, then went on to earn a BS degree from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee in 1975.After working as a mental health assistant, counselor, cashier, clerk, keypunch operator, and typist, while raising four children.[citation needed] In 1980 she won the Democratic nomination in what was then the 17th Assembly district by a vote of 1291 to 762, unseating four-term incumbent Walter L. Ward Jr.; and was unopposed in the general election.Williams later said Michael Joyce of the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation and other school choice proponents wanted to expand the program to middle-class families by ending the income limits ("Joyce wanted to make it universal") and called it "a Catholic program".She accused choice and voucher proponents of exploiting black parents and children, saying "I haven't changed.