Early Years
Lux was born and raised in Lincoln, Nebraska. He graduated from Lincoln Northeast High school and attended Oberlin College. Early in his career, he worked with the VISTA program with Southeast Nebraska Small Farms Action Group. He then went on to become the Executive Director of Iowa Citizen Action Network. During the 1988 election cycle he served on the senior staff for the presidential campaigns of Joe Biden, and later, Paul Simon. He then co-founded The Strategy Group with David Wilhelm and was PAC Director and chief lobbyist for the Iowa AFL-CIO.
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