32 Conservative African-Americans Running For Congress (2010)

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32 conservative African-Americans running for congress- Election 2010 Politisite


July 19, 2010 · 6 Comments





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Nearly thirty-two African-Americans are running this election season as Republicans. If you only watched the mainstream media, you would think there were only three: South Carolinas’ Tim Scott, Allen West of Florida, and Republican strategist Angela McGlowan of Mississippi. But there are 28 others who are running under the banner of Lincoln and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the most since reconstruction. Many are running in the deep south and maybe I shouldn’t use this word, but the south appears to be more “progressive” than its northern neighbors.







Many of the candidates have been endorsed by their local teaparties and the always controversial former Vice-Presidential candidate, Sarah Palin. Maybe that is the reason the media isn’t reporting on these candidates, their endorsements from the tea party movement doesn’t jive with their premise that the movement is racist because of their disagreement with President Obama’s policies. Maybe the real truth is the tea parties descent is about ideology and not the color of Obama’s skin.





The New York Times took a look at the many candidates of African descent who are running under the Republican banner. We have added the names of the candidates and a link to each so one can learn more about each of the candidate running this election season.



Among the many reverberations of President Obama’s election, here is one he probably never anticipated: at least 32 African-Americans are running for Congress this year as Republicans, the biggest surge since Reconstruction, according to party officials.







The House has not had a black Republican since 2003, when J. C. Watts of Oklahoma left after eight years.



But now black Republicans are running across the country — from a largely white swath of beach communities in Florida to the suburbs of Phoenix, where an African-American candidate has raised more money than all but two of his nine (white) Republican competitors in the primary.



Party officials and the candidates themselves acknowledge that they still have uphill fights in both the primaries and the general elections, but they say that black Republicans are running with a confidence they have never had before. They credit the marriage of two factors: dissatisfaction with the Obama administration, and the proof, as provided by Mr. Obama, that blacks can get elected.



“I ran in 2008 and raised half a million dollars, and the state party didn’t support me and the national party didn’t support me,” said Allen West, who is running for Congress in Florida and is one of roughly five black candidates the party believes could win. “But we came back and we’re running and things are looking great.”



But interviews with many of the candidates suggest that they felt empowered by Mr. Obama’s election, that it made them realize that what had once seemed impossible — for a black candidate to win election with substantial white support — was not.



via Black Hopefuls Pick This Year in G.O.P. Races – NYTimes.com.



Here is a list of black Republican candidates in 2010



Senate candidates:

Marion Thorpe, Florida

Larry Linney, North Carolina

Michael Williams, Texas



Congressional candidates:



Lester Phillip, Alabama’s 5th District

Princella Smith, Arkansas’s 1st District

Vernon Parker, Arizona’s 3rd District

Virginia Fuller,California’s 7th District

Star Parker, California’s 37th District

Chrystopher Smith, California’s 39th District

Mason Weaver, California’s 53rd District

Ryan Frazier, Colorado’s 7th District

Eddie Adams, Florida’s 11th District

Corey Poitier, Florida’s 17th District

Allen West, Florida’s 22nd District

Deon Long, Florida’s 24th District

Cory Ruth, Georgia’s 4th District

Deborah Honeycutt, Georgia’s 13th District

Rupert Parchment, Georgia’s 13th District

Isaac Hayes, Illinois’s 2nd District

Robert Broadus, Maryland’s 4th District

Charles Lollar, Maryland’s 5th District

Bill Hardiman, Michigan’s 3rd District

Angela McGlowan, Mississippi’s 1st District

Martin Baker, Missouri’s 1st District

Shannon Wright, New Jersey’s 6th District

Michael Faulkner,New York’s 15th District

Jerry Grimes, North Carolina’s 1st District

Lou Huddleston, North Carolina’s 8th District

Bill Randall, North Carolina’s 13th District

Tim Scott, South Carolina’s 3rd District

Jean Howard-Hill, Tennessee’s 3rd District

Charlotte Bergmann, Tennessee’s 9th District

Stephen Broaden, Texas’s 30th District