Tracy Strauss' very birth was a lie.
Not that she knew that, of course. As far as she was aware, she was born in Beverly Hills, CA to W. Strauss and Rebecca Rosenthal. What she is not aware of is Dr. Zimmerman, the company doctor who genetically altered Tracy and her two twin sisters, Barbara and Nicole. What she is even less aware of is the synthetic ability to freeze. No, for Tracy Strauss, life was more or less what could be expected being a Beverly Hills girl.
Fast forward 32 years, and Miss Strauss' name is murmured through political circles, not only for her political-spin prowess but for her icy demeanor, and her not so icy body between the sheets. Her name became so known, that by 2005 she was working for (and sleeping with) the Governor of New York, Robert Malden as his DC liaison. She was in DC when the bomb went off.
While something like a bomb going off in New York City is a horrible event, with all those deaths, for someone like Tracy Strauss, it opened up a whole new league when it came to her work. She got her eyes locked on one Senator Nathan Petrelli, who seemed to be rising through the ranks quickly. However, she did not join his staff as of yet, but continued to work for other senators and governors in Washington, all the while making note of Petrelli's progress. To her, he was excellent raw material, not only for rising in power, but for being one of the greats. After all, it's Tracy's job to spot those people, and help them reach their potential, right? Nevermind that by pushing them forward, she'll happen to move forward as well.
This all came into focus much more tangibly when Petrelli stood up and explained the truth behind the bombing: the terrorist Sylar and Evolved abilities. It was a shock to Ms. Strauss, to be sure. After all, she still had no idea that she, herself, was synthetically evolved. Evolved people didn't directly affect her, so once the shock of realization was over, she began her work again. Now, she knew, there was no way she could touch Petrelli: his own staff were bending over backwards to keep him happy for the same reason Tracy wanted to be a member of that staff. So Tracy took a different route. Through connections and friends and former lovers in the business, she kept a close tab on Petrelli's likes and dislikes in the political world. When 2007 rolled around, Tracy was well-known enough in her field to have more than a few prospectful employers. She made a point to choose the ones that favored Senator Petrelli's ideas. This meant supporting the Linderman Act (This is a scientific phenomenon the likes of which our time has only seen in comic books and movie screens, and the Linderman Act will help us understand these changes in our species and ourselves.) and condemning PARIAH (The United States will not allow attacks on any of it's citizens. Any group that adopts the ways of Al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations will be hunted down as fiercely as Osama Bin Laden himself. We will protect all of our people.).
Tracy was still very good at her job, and her opportunity finally came when Nathan Petrelli became president. He needed to branch out, needed more communications officers. Just as Tracy planned, she'd caught his eye, and in early 2009 was hired as his Director of Communications, New York.
Tracy still has no knowledge of her ability to freeze. She has worked to set up the Linderman Act and other legislation to limit Evolved, simply because it would propel her career - not from any internal prejudice. Her knowledge of Dr. Zimmerman is also nonexistent. As far as Tracy is concerned, she is the average politico.
