Conservative Black woman hopes to unseat Democrat

[Danno 1,228]

Angela McGlowan trying to turn 1st District on its ear

U.S. House candidate wants to expand GOP voter base

By Phil West

Posted February 28, 2010 at 12:04 a.m.

JACKSON -- Former Fox News commentator Angela McGlowan of Oxford is out to turn traditional politics upside down by running in the 1st Congressional District race in Mississippi.

She is a woman.

She is black.

She is a former beauty queen-turned congressional staffer-turned political analyst and is a best-selling author.

And she says she is the most conservative candidate in a three-way Republican primary race to unseat Democrat U.S. Rep. Travis Childers.

"I don't think that race and gender are going to matter," McGlowan said.

"At the end of the day, poverty and unemployment know no color."

McGlowan, 39, announced her candidacy Feb. 8, the day after her contract with Fox News expired.

Since then, she's been traveling the North Mississippi district in search of votes and campaign money.

McGlowan faces state Sen. Alan Nunnelee of Tupelo and former Eupora Mayor Henry Ross in the Republican primary.

Nunnelee is the acknowledged frontrunner in a race that is drawing national attention and is considered a toss-up between Nunnelee and Childers, who won a full term in 2008 after winning two special elections to succeed Rep. Roger Wicker, who had been named to the Senate after Trent Lott resigned.

McGlowan established her conservative reputation in the 1990s while working for Republican members of congress and as outreach director for former Sen. Bob Dole's Better America Foundation

She also cemented her right-wing values as a Fox News political commentator and author of the best-selling book "Bamboozled: How Americans Are Being Exploited by the Lies of the Liberal Agenda."

"I've had blue collar workers ask me to run, white and black, clergymen, physicians, people from all walks of life, people who've lost their homes, have come up to me and asked me to run," she said.

McGlowan said she was born and raised in Oxford, where her father was a minister.

After graduating from the University of Mississippi and going to Washington, she was crowned Miss District of Columbia, part of the Miss USA program, to go along with five beauty titles she had earned earlier.

One of her goals is to win black voters over to the Republican Party.

At a recent rally in Starkville, McGlowan said only about 10 of the 700 people on hand were black, and she wants to change that.

She noted that George W. Bush was re-elected in 2004 with only 11 percent of the black vote.

"The Republican Party makes the big mistake of not reaching out to black voters," she said.

McGlowan said she encourages black voters, who normally vote for the Democratic candidate, to pick her in the June 1 Republican congressional primary and again during the Nov. 2 general election.

"I'm not looking to earn votes from just Republicans, because when I go to Washington, D.C., I'll represent all people," she said.

McGlowan has been criticized for her suggestion the public should be allowed to invest at least some of the social security money the federal government deducts from paychecks.

That would benefit people who die before they can draw social security at age 63 or 65.

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Angela McGlowan

Age: 39, born March 3, 1970

Education: BS in public administration with emphasis on political science and criminal justice, University of Mississippi

Political experience: Outreach director for former Sen. Bob Dole's Better America Foundation; staff member for U.S. Rep Roscoe Bartlett of Maryland and for then-Rep. (now U.S. Sen.) John Ensign of Nevada; former political analyst for Fox News and BET Television. Currently is chief executive officer of Political Strategies and Insights. Also best-selling author for "Bamboozled: How Americans Are Being Exploited by the Lies of the Liberal Agenda."

Family: Married to John Venners, who owns several energy-related businesses around the country; two stepchildren

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[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

A "babe". Did you even read the article, or did you stop when you got to the photo?

[John and Camie 39]

Wow, well go on, girl. May the best man/woman win.

[Danno 1,228]

A "babe". Did you even read the article, or did you stop when you got to the photo?

Why do you hate Black women?

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Why do you love to ask "Why do you hate <insert noun>"?

[spookyturtle 9,466]

Why do you hate Black women?

I thought you hated blacks? Now I'm confused.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

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[spookyturtle 9,466]

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[Danno 1,228]

Who me???

I don't hate anyone.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Why do you hate the truth?

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

I she an Aunt Tomiqua?

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

Why do you hate Black women?

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