Crowder Web Site is Up

Campaign Web Site ^ | 18 Jul 2003 | self

[Amish]

Roger Crowder, a Republican candidate for Secretary of Agriculture in Mississippi, has just put up his web site.

Be sure to check out his theme song in the "media center" at:

http://www.votecrowder.com/index.htm

Primary is: August 5, 2003

[Amish]

http://www.mississippilink.com/pv/pageview.pl?section=hotstories&newsfile=n2003030610.txt

Mississippi Republican Party Chairman Jim Herring, whose party has several African-Americans running for offices this year including Rita Wray (House District 59), William Gene Coleman (House District 39) and Columbus Dunn (Senate District 11), agreed and said his party has done a good job in reaching out to African-Americans.

“We want them to be a part of our party. It’s an ongoing process; I think we are beginning to have some success,” said Herring, who added that three members of the state’s Republican Party Executive Committee are African-American. “It would certainly be to our advantage to make inroads into the African-American community. Therein lies the margin of victory in so many of these races. The Democrats can say whatever they want to say, but we are out their hustling to get African-Americans that believe what we believe to join our party.”

Herring also said he believes that Crowder will give current Ag Commissioner Lester Spell a run for his money.

“He is going to be a major candidate this year,” said Herring. “He is not obsessed with race issues. He is running as a Mississippian, [not as an black Republican]. He is not looking at it in those terms. That impressed me very much.”