GOP Picks Promising ‘Young Guns’ Candidates … including Nunnelee
The NRCC has already endorsed Kinzinger in his race against freshman Rep. Debbie Halvorson of Illinois. Ross, who is running in the open-seat race in Florida’s 12th district, has also been endorsed by the committee.
Among the 32 new On the Radar candidates are several recruits whom the NRCC has been touting for months, including state Sen. Alan Nunnelee in Mississippi’s 1st District and attorney Ethan Hastert, the son of former Speaker J. Dennis Hastert, R-Ill. (1987-2007), in Illinois’ 14th District.
But there are also a few candidates who have emerged only recently after posting impressive fundraising showings in the third quarter. Farmer and gospel singer Stephen Fincher, for example, came from nowhere to top Democratic Rep. John Tanner’s receipt total by $252,000 in Tennessee’s 8th District.
CQ Politics
10/27/9
Magnolia Tribune
