Columnist Patsy Brumfield covered the MS-01 debate for the Daily Journal and caught this little news nugget.
MS-01 Republican candidate Angela McGlowan was quoted as saying . . .
“I was told by some elected officials not to run – that it was Alan Nunnelee’s turn . . . They’re saying I want to take guns away from white people. But here I stand and here I’ll stay.”
Maybe she is to the point in her campaign where she feels that she has to do truly outrageous things to get coverage. I hope that’s the case and that she doesn’t really mean it. My questions are:
1. Who is “they”?
2. Where/when exactly did “they” say you wanted to take guns away from “white people”?
What could have been a promising campaign has become an amateurish gaffe-fest for McGlowan. One can only hope that for all her missteps she supports the eventual nominee for Republicans in MS-01, which looks increasingly likely to not be her. With no money, no true base and having spent the entirety of the campaign wholly off-message, it’s tough for me to believe that she will earn more than 15% of the vote in the primary. She could be a force to get in and help the eventual nominee close the deal. If she could get/stay on message, she has the energy to help unseat Childers (her stated goal at the beginning of the campaign). Though her stock as a talking head may rise as a result of this exercise, any promise of holding real elective office in Mississippi looks slim and will evaporate entirely if she poisons the well.
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