Krystal Ball
| Krystal Ball | |
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Ball in 2009
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Krystal Marie Ball November 24, 1981 King George County, Virginia |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Jonathan Dariyanani |
| Children | Ella Marie, Lowell Maxwell |
| Residence | Louisville, Kentucky |
| Alma mater |
Clemson University, University of Virginia |
| Occupation | Small business owner, accountant, political commentator |
Krystal Marie Ball (born November 24, 1981) is an American businesswoman and was a certified public accountant. She was a co-host on the MSNBC's afternoon news/talk show The Cycle for the duration of the show's run from June 2012 to July 2015. She was also the Democratic Party nominee for United States Congress in Virginia's 1st congressional district in the 2010 election, losing to Republican Rob Wittman.
Ball was born to Edward and Rose Marie Ball, a physicist and a teacher, respectively. The name Krystal came from her father, a physicist who did his dissertation on crystals.
Ball graduated from King George High School and received a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Virginia. She also attended Clemson University for a year where she participated on the swim team. She is a business owner and certified public accountant. Ball previously worked for the federal contractor CGI Group and traveled to Louisiana to assist in the courts' efforts to recover after Hurricane Katrina.
Ball is married to Jonathan Dariyanani, and they have a daughter named Ella Marie, born in 2008, and a son Lowell Maxwell born in 2013.
In 2012, Ball launched a website calling for a boycott of advertisers on the Rush Limbaugh Show after Limbaugh's comments about Sandra Fluke. The boycott attempted to get almost 100 advertisers to drop the show but eventually the boycott died out.
In 2010 Ball ran to represent Virginia's 1st congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives and was defeated by Republican incumbent Rob Wittman. Despite being defeated by a margin of 63.90% to 34.76%, the former candidate was named by Forbes Magazine as number 21 on the magazine’s "The Top 25 Most Powerful Women Of The Midterm Elections".
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