McGlowan The Outsider?
Included in Angela McGlowan’s campaign kickoff press release yesterday was one major theme: she is an outsider. I’ve heard people make comments about her work in DC disqualifying her of “outsider” status, but we’ll leave it at that.
Most likely McGlowan has known she was going to run- or at least thought about it- for some time. The Tea Parties were an excellent platform for her to really introduce herself, and there is no doubt that she wants to be the Tea Party candidate. Interestingly, Alan Nunnelee spoke at one of the original Tea Party events on April 15 of last year but have not heard about him making the rounds since then.
She is also sounding the tune of Scott Brown, now the Senator of Massachusetts who once thought to have no shot in the deep blue state. Both in her speeches and in the press release, she refers to this seat as the “people’s seat.” Brown hit a homerun during a debate when he said he was not running for “Kennedy’s seat,” but the “people’s seat.” It became a major theme of his winning campaign, and I imagine we will hear a lot of it from McGlowan.
McGlowan also railed against “incumbent career politicians.” Jere Nash was right when he pointed out that Alan Nunnelee can easily be considered a “career politician.” (Although Alan @ Y’all Politics noted that Childers has been in elected office longer than Nunnelee.) But, I think it is fair to say that this was an indirect shot at Nunnelee- not Travis Childers. She didn’t- and I don’t think she will- mention Nunnelee by name but obviously she needs to make headway to upend him in the primary. Look for McGlowan to make references to the tobacco tax, possibly the hospital tax over the next few months. She knows she is not going to win by simply being a female version of Alan Nunnelee, so separation is necessary for her.
While I believe McGlowan’s decision to make a name for herself with the Tea Party movement was very wise on her part, she is going to have to expand upon that base in the primary. She is working on it, but will it work is the question.
This is why everone should be looking very carefully at our third choice for this “the peoples seat”. This race is not between just these two. Lets make this race about the people of District One and not about McGlowan/Nunnelee/Childers. Ross may be some what of a dark horse but he is legitimate dont overlook him as a voter.
Yall politics is running the interview with her on the Gallo show where she made anti-gun ownership remarks.
http://yallpolitics.com/index.php/yp/post/21328/
It is like someone said in another post “McGlowan is an outsider” to those of us who live and work in Dist. 1. Yall are just misunderstanding what she means when she says outsider.
What does she mean by “outsider?”
What she means by outsider is “outside the district for the last twenty years” and outside of true conservative thought patterns”.