JACKSON (AP) — Conservative author and TV commentator Angela McGlowan on Monday became the third Republican to jump into northern Mississippi’s 1st District congressional race, seeking a seat the GOP hopes to reclaim from the Democrats.
McGlowan was raised in Lafayette County and has spent much of her time in Washington since the mid-1990s. She announced her candidacy Monday during a news conference at the Lafayette County Courthouse in Oxford.
She has made several appearances at Tea Party events in the past several months, including a speech this past weekend at the group’s national convention in Nashville, Tenn.
McGlowan said in a news release Monday that she would promote job creation, oppose abortion, defend gun owners’ rights and “help make your families secure in the face of radical Islamic terrorists sworn to the destruction of our Judeo-Christian values by any means necessary.”
Democrat Travis Childers has held northern Mississippi’s 1st District seat since mid-2008, when he won a special election to succeed Republican Roger Wicker. Wicker won the seat in November 1994, and Gov. Haley Barbour moved Wicker to the U.S. Senate in December 2007 when Trent Lott stepped down.
McGlowan will face state Sen. Alan Nunnelee of Tupelo and former Eupora Mayor Henry Ross in the Republican primary.
Childers is the only Democrat in the race so far in the district that stretches across 23 counties.
Candidates’ qualifying deadline is March 1, party primaries are June 1 and the general election is Nov. 2.
Mississippi Republican Party officials said McGlowan had not filed qualifying papers by Monday. McGlowan did not have a 2009 campaign finance report available on the Federal Election Commission Web site.
Nunnelee, 51, reported to the FEC that in 2009 he raised $421,937, spent $129,546 and had $292,391 cash on hand. He showed no campaign debts.
Ross, 53, is a former judge who served as senior counsel at the Justice Department under then-President George W. Bush. The FEC Web site showed that Ross neither raised nor spent any campaign cash by the end of 2009.
Childers, 51, reported that in 2009 he raised $822,870, spent $301,815 and had $550,303 cash on hand. Childers listed a campaign debt of $100,000.
McGlowan has worked as a Fox News analyst and published a book in 2007 called, “Bamboozled: How Americans Are Being Exploited by the Lies of the Liberal Agenda.”
Nunnelee, chairman of the powerful state Senate Appropriations Committee, has long been considered the front-runner for the GOP nomination in the 1st District this year. He has been receiving help from the National Republican Congressional Committee, which announced in early January that Nunnelee had reached the second of three steps in its “Young Guns” candidate recruiting program. The NRCC said Nunnelee had proven an ability to raise money and build a campaign structure.
Jesse Ferguson, southern regional press secretary at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, issued a statement Monday saying McGlowan’s entry into the Republican primary shows people are dissatisfied with Nunnelee’s record at the state Capitol.
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