More Black Republicans Running For Congress in 2010
By HHR | February 8th, 2010 | Category: Featured, General |(hat tip: Booker Rising)
Mississippi: McGlowan Announces Bid
Angela McGlowan today held a news conference in Oxford, Miss. to formally announce that she’s seeking the Republican nomination for Congress. The GOP is hoping to unseat Rep. Travis Childers (D-Miss.), who has held Mississippi’s 1st Congressional District seat since mid-2008. Ms. McGlowan, a FOX News analyst and tea party movement speaker, faces state Sen. Alan Nunnelee of Tupelo and former Eupora Mayor Henry Ross in the June 1 Republican primary.
The National Journal weighs Ms. McGlowan’s candidacy: “McGlowan’s candidacy will put the NRCC [National Republican Congressional Committee] in an awkward spot. Nunnelee is a highly-touted recruit, and he’s already been promoted to the ‘Contender’ tier of the ‘Young Guns’ program. Inclusion among the Young Guns does not denote an endorsement — several members face each other in primaries — but the NRCC has long been optimistic about Nunnelee….. Privately, GOP sources question how serious McGlowan’s candidacy will be. She has been a lobbyist for Steve Wynn’s gambling empire — something that won’t be as acceptable to voters in the northern-based 1st district as it would be to voters in the state’s gambling-friendly coast. Plus, she’s from the wrong part of the district. Childers represents an area stretching from the Memphis suburbs in the west to Tupelo in the east. McGlowan’s base in Oxford is in a less populated area.”
South Carolina: Tim Scott To Seek 1st Congressional District Seat
South Carolina State Rep. Tim Scott announced today that he is running as a Republican to represent South Carolina’s First Congressional District. The seat is currently held by Rep. Henry Brown (R-S.C.), who is retiring. “I’m a conservative Republican and I want to go to Washington to win our country back,” Mr. Scott, who is now abandoning his bid to be South Carolina’s lieutenant governor, said. “I believe America is at a crossroads, and we must quickly reverse the course the Obama Administration and the Democrats in Congress have charted of more government spending, more government involvement in the lives of its citizens, and ever higher taxes to pay for it.”
Mr. Scott was the first African-American Republican elected to the state assembly since Reconstruction. Before being elected to the state House, Mr. Scott served on Charleston County Council for 13 years. Mr. Scott will join an already crowded Republican primary field which includes: Paul Thurmond (son of the late Sen. Strom Thurmond), Carroll Campbell III (son of the late South Carolina Gov. Carroll Campbell), tea party activist Katherine Jenerette, Charleston County School Board member Larry Kobrovsky, Isle of Palms City Councilman Ryan Buckhannon and former Brown aide Stovall Witte.
As a rule I could not care less about what color someones skin happens to be. That being said, I also live in the real world. It seems as though Jessie Jackson, Al Sharpton and the likes have played the race card so much that in today’s world people do look at skin color more. So it does make me feel good that more and more intelligent thinking people who happen to be black are starting to take leadership roles in our party. As I stated before conservative first and than whatever else.
Wait.
Jackson and Sharpton make us look at race more? Are you saying that without them America would not concentrate on race so much? Wow.
Rush is a race baiter with huge audience and three hours of racist screed. The same for Beck and Savage. And they are way more influencial in the GOP than Sharpton or Jackson could ever be to the DNC. According to Rush black success can only be explained through affirmative action. Yet, black candidates continue to support the party this man currently leads.
Usually,comments like that about Rush Limbaugh are made by people who never listen to his program or read into what he says what they want to read into it. Jackson and Sharpton have been “Poverty Pimps” for decades. They live lush while making the same arguements to Whites of disenfranchisemnt and to Blacks of hold on until the government arives. They have been allies to the treadmill designed specifically for Blacks.
As to the many Black conservatives that have been showing up lately,like myself, we have figured out that the devotion to the Democrats over the last 40 years has not brought about any change engineered by government. We figured out it’s up to us to carve out place in the scheme of things. It’s the “American Way”.
Just a thought….
Yes Sharpton and Jackson are poverty pimps.
Yes. Black should rebel against the perpetual cycle of poverty.
Yes. Family values are an important step.
But somehow blacks folks should not be held accountable for their actions? Its the liberal government policies
to blame. Other nationalities take welfare all the time and the use it to lift themselve out of poverty. What is it in our DNA that prevents us from doing this? This is the problem not programs that feed poor children.
And yes Limbaugh saying that the Health Care plan is reparations or black kids beating up a white kids is part of Baracks America. Or Glen Beck saying that the President took the name Barack to disassociate himself from America. These people are racist and they have too much influence in your party. You dont have to shoot Megar Evars to be racist.
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I applaud all black Conservatives who have the guts to stand up for their beliefs. I live in North Alabama & while I hate it, in our race it could play a role as much as the good old boy political system. We have an excellent Conservative Republican candidate that is any conservative’s dream candidate & wow he happens to be black. He is more important a Naturalized Citizen, Graduate of US Naval Academy, Naval Helicopter Pilot (& yes in wartime), small business owner. Les Phillip has been a teaparty activist since the start. What is he up against? 1 Republican candidate in the form or Parker Griffith-who most have heard of, after voting with Dems 87% of the time (& only voted against them when Pelosi did not need his vote), well he did an internal poll in Oct & it showed that he couldn’t be elected as a Democrat so in Dec he flipped parties-now RNC wants us to accept him as a “conservative candidate”. The other one in the race is a small time local politician, that is on state GOP executive board, the local good old boy system at its best-his claim why he is the best candidate-I been in more elections-ah, forgot to mention also been on public teat for 25 yrs, lost part of those elections & contrary to claims nothing in documentation to support that ever fought for anything. What is he not saying? That is the more important part. This is a seat that has been in Democrat hands for the past 100 yrs, the only time a Republican sat in the seat was during Reconstruction when Democrats were not allowed to vote. Are the voters of AL05 smart enough to pick the best man regardless of race? I have no idea, I am proud to say at least I was.
mr. tim scott —-i think you will make it to washington….but not now! i have researched you and like all that i know about you.. but i think you are desperately needed where you are in sc congress! i think you are “one of a kind”
there with your background and though it will be very hard on you –you need to try to get some of of your ideas
and experience ..and your success across to them. show them who you !!!!! be cool and kind.
enjoyed you speech at m.b. (on internet) i’m glad you’re running, it will get you before all the people of the state.go for it!!!!
Welcome to the fun Angela and Tim. I hope I have the pleasure of working with the two of you as fellow freshmen!
I truly feel sorry for the three of you……you are all products of your environments and know who you must depend on to get elected…….it WILL NOT HAPPEN. Look at this posting one year from now…… I would love to be wrong!!!!!
dont know anything about tim scott, but another strom Thurmond in office would be a step in the wrong direction, as would a “tea party” activist. tea party activists are generally a bunch of neocons who want more of bush. Hopefully we can get someone in between an obama superliberal and a bush neocon…
McGlowan is honestly a terrible candidate, she was approached by the Young Americans for Liberty student group at Ole Miss and asked to recite the first ten amendments, which she could not do. From the article I read, most people could not name them, but instead of saying she couldnt name them and asking for a pocket constitution, she called the cops to remove them, very unprofessional and disrespectful.
Heres the full article: http://umfreedom.com/2010/02/21/mcglowan-snubs-constitution/