A First Is On the Way: Angela McGlowan
February 6, 2010
by Hughes
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Ladies! Keep your ears open for an exciting announcement on Monday. A woman will be announcing her candidacy for Congress. Her victory will be historic as she will become the first woman to serve Mississippi in Congress. That’s right. Mississippi has NEVER sent a woman to the House of Representatives OR the Senate. She would be the first! This opportunity for history comes in the form of a Tea Partier, Republican, African American woman, Angela McGlowan.
Friday, she was the first speaker at the first National Tea Party convention. There’s that word again: first. I like it! I hope to hear it again in November. In her speech, she all but declared her candidacy and took a head-on shot at her rival too. The video is long, about 10 minutes, but worth it if you want to get a feel for who she is. Here are some highlights:
I truly believe that we can take back the Congress, put some folks back in there that are from our walks of life that can actually make a difference. Not people shucking and jiving, not people lying, not people telling us one thing at home and then going back and voting with Nancy Pelosi. We’ve got a congressman that represents my district, the first district of MS, and he’s about to lose is job. I’m just letting you know right now. (applause) He’s about to lose his job.
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And if y’all don’t know him, his name is Congressman Travis Childers.
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You guys have inspired me. So on Monday, I want to let you know, I’m about to embark on another endeavor in life. I cannot make a formal announcement now.
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I’m going to make a special announcement on Monday and I want you guys to join me in a rebellion against the house of representatives.
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I’m getting a little emotional. This is amazing and I’m living a dream. Because, you guys, our forefathers meant for folks like us to be able to go to Washington DC to make a difference.
If you do have time to watch the video, you will probably notice Angela’s country-girl, charismatic style. I like it! She’s got personality with a capital “P”!
Ladies, for those of you excited about getting more women into the House, and make a little history at the same time, this is going to be a fun ride!
Bio from FOX NEWS:
Angela McGlowan joined FOX News Channel (FNC) in February of 1999 as a contributor covering political, special interest groups and lobbies. Prior to this, she served as the manager of legislative affairs and policy research enhancement at the American Trucking Association (ATA). McGlowan is the founder and CEO of Political Strategies & Insights (PSI), a government affairs, political strategy, public relations, and advocacy consulting firm based in Washington, D.C.
From 1999 to 2005, McGlowan served as director of government affairs and diversity development for Chairman Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, responsible for the development and implementation of aggressive diversity initiatives within the FOX Entertainment Group and its owned and operated interests. She was also a lobbyist and advocate within News Corporation to Congress for federal, legislative and regulatory policies supportive of corporate objectives.
Prior to her work for News Corporation, McGlowan was the director for outreach in the Better America Foundation under honorary chairman, Sen. Bob Dole, where she conducted policy meetings with members of Congress and served as foundation spokesperson to Independent and Republican constituencies interested in policy objectives. She also represented the District of Columbia in the Miss USA pageant in 1994 and worked as the press secretary to the Honorable John Ensign, representing the 1st District of Nevada and as the public affairs assistant for Mirage Resorts, Inc.
McGlowan received her bachelor’s degree in public administration with a concentration in criminal justice and political science at the University of Mississippi and is a member of the Mississippi Society.
Just posted: on http://www.majorityinms.com
MS-01: In 2008, Rep. Childers defeated Southaven Mayor Greg Davis 54-44. The current Cook PVI is R+14.
Travis Childers (D), incumbent (100)
Alan Nunnelee (R), state Senator (100)
Henry Ross (R), former Eupora mayor and senior counsel in the Justice Department under George W. Bush (100)
Angela McGlowan (R), FoxNews analyst and conservative author (100)
Ed Holliday (R), dentist and Tea Party activist (49)
We rate this race as Toss-Up.
well Lisa, I have not made up my mind. too unfamiliar with Southern styles.
not so fast in dismissing her.
the bashing because of being conservative and because of being a lobbyist does not resonate well on that blog. that is the traditional democratic smear machine.
from the 10 minutes posted here, i get that she is conservative, fiscally responsible. supposedly her opponent is a blue dog democrat and claims to be fiscally responsible. do we know whether he was one of the blue dogs like nelson?
i don’t know anything what Angela McGlowan thinks about supporting women.
in contrast to the more known ones like Kay Hutchinson who clearly has strong pro women stances, or Sarah Palin, who understands disrespect against women very well – and not only directed at herself. the problem is the ones we know better get the “incumbent” or “establishment” plaque around their neck. so a no name on womens issues is not the Robin Hood women are voting for. what i mean despite teaparty, she can’t go around on a 200k miles truck and be against government spending and win the hearts. that works for men only.
to be a fox commentator and a lobbyist is not necessarily negative.
remember all the democratic lobbyists having their hayday these days.
I just posted what I found on this candidate – no more no less.
The rate is a toss up now but she hasn’t even announced her candidacy yet. She has a strong chance. Grassroots support. National involvement by women could make a difference.
A quick perusal of her book, Bamboozled, on Google Books, shows that the first and last chapters are attacks on the women’s rights movement. “For those women who’ve been hurt or disappointed by men in their lives, liberals package and market their emotional appeals in a sterner, more jaded form — it’s called feminism. Bamboozling these women means filling their head with alarmist rhetoric that validates their negative male preconceptions: Men are all misogynists! Marriage is a manmade institution designed to oppress women! Men earn more than you do!” she writes in the introduction to her book. This is not a woman I will be supporting in any way, and I’m pretty sure she would regard TNA as a “radical feminist” “victimhood vendor.”
the15th, a lot of women follow feminist beliefs but don’t realize it. One blogger I visit rails against “feminism”, but then posts articles that are very pro-woman. She is a feminist but doesn’t realize it. In reality, she is railing against hypocrisy and things falsely labeled feminism. A lot of conservatives are disenchanted with “feminism” because of liberal attacks such as what happened to Palin. To follow these women, I really had to develop two definitions of feminism because I saw two different definitions in use.
Aside from her statement about earnings – which I disagree with – I think her paragraph is really a statement against some anti-male beliefs. Does she mention the sufferage movement or any other movements? I might have to read her book to figure her out.
Karen, you make good points, and maybe I should give her more of a chance; I don’t even disagree with everything she says about modern feminism. But the left and right each have their own anti-woman tropes, and the right’s is this kind of attack on “radical feminism.” (Palin completely avoided this kind of rhetoric and is still a huge success on the right, which leads me to believe that the left may be currently worse.)
Many Americans, not just conservatives, have a similar view of feminists and women’s rights activists. In addition to the helping to elect the first congresswoman ever from MS, many feminists and women’s activists will support Angela b/c they want to our country to realize the benefits of having women’s perspective in the House. Angela will bring that important perspective whether she’s conservative, liberal or center. I see Angela’s candidacy as an opportunity for Angela and her conservative supporters to see what today’s women’s activism is all about and I’m pretty sure they’ll like it.
Karen,
I know of whom you speak and other than her “i am not a feminist” and her pro-porn and pro-prositution stances she is one of the finest writers I have read (and I read a lot) and she speaks for women in a way that takes my breath away. Angela needs just a ‘few minutes’ with us to see the light and she would be spot on, and I am willing to give her that chance. The problem is that she is not wholly incorrect, because faux feminists like Pat Ireland, N. Wolfe, etc., etc., created the anger that real feminist have to deal with.
Angela rocks, and I will back her and ask for a few minutes to discuss the real feminist movement. I think she could be a strong voice for us—American women!!
I think that this woman can hold her own in Washington, and I pray she gets there….
[...] February 6, 2010 by Halane HughescloseAuthor: Halane Hughes Name: Halane Hughes Ladies! Keep your ears open for an exciting announcement on Monday. A woman will be announcing her candidacy for Congress. Her victory will be historic as she will become the first woman to serve Mississippi in Congress. That’s right. Mississippi has NEVER sent a woman to the House of Representatives OR the Senate. She would be the first! This opportunity for history comes in the form of a Tea Partier, Republican, African American woman, Angela McGlowan. More at the NewAgenda.net [...]
“For those women who’ve been hurt or disappointed by men in their lives, liberals package and market their emotional appeals in a sterner, more jaded form — it’s called feminism. Bamboozling these women means filling their head with alarmist rhetoric that validates their negative male preconceptions: Men are all misogynists! Marriage is a manmade institution designed to oppress women! Men earn more than you do!” she writes in the introduction to her book.
This first sentence to me does not make any logical sense to me. Do you really think that women sit around and blame “men” for the disappointment in their lives? If so – then she needs a good gal pal to kick her in the pants and tell her to put on her big gal pants and get over it.
Marriage is a man-made institution – all of our institutions are man made – who else can create an institution. Read, Susan Squires, “I DON’T A CONTRARIAN VEIW OF MARRAIGE.” Its not a “feminist” book rather she spent over 13 years researching the material and its a hoot to read.
I don’t know where this lady stands on privacy but I wonder if she supports choice and gay rights. Anyone know.
I was fortunate enough to see Ms. McGowan’s speech at the convention in Nashville and I was very impressed with her, so impressed that I did some research on her and I like what I see. In fact, I found your site while doing a search for a place to donate to her campaign and I hope you don’t mind my putting my two cents in.
Please don’t judge her because she doesn’t call herself a feminist. No one in the world is more pro-woman than me but I don’t call myself a feminist either, largely because they don’t want me, so I call myself an Equalist because I want women to have equal rights to men, no more, no less.
I am so tired of NOW telling women that we have to tow the party line or we aren’t really feminists!!! I’m pro-life, which makes me the enemy to them. I personally believe that we can’t really be pro-woman if we don’t agree to respect the opinions of other women, even when we disagree, but I am definitely not in the majority on that opinion.
IMHO, women who beat up on other women because of a difference of opinion are no different from the people who will call Ms. McGowan a “sell out” and an “Uncle Tom” because she’s running as a Republican. No one is more beaten up on than African American conservatives – it makes what NOW did to Palin look like summertime stuff.
I really hope that at some point women can rise above the issues that divide us and instead focus on the many issues that unite us. Until then, it seems to me that we are like crabs in a basket, pulling each other down when one starts to climb out to freedom.
Thanks.
Kathleen,
I am President of TNA and I don’t consider myself a “feminist” either. Welcome!
We would love to have you write a blog piece about seeing her speak at the convention. You can submit it to our blog under the “Contact Us” (About Us tab).
Amy
“women who beat up on other women because of a difference of opinion are no different from the people who will call Ms. McGowan a “sell out” and an “Uncle Tom” because she’s running as a Republican. No one is more beaten up on than African American conservatives”
Kathleen, just about every Republican who also belongs to a minority are shunned and insulted and horribly mistreated by their liberal counterparts. It really aggravates me to see them be the victims of hypocrisy. They are accused of being traitors to their fellow minorities when they really just have different opinions. Yet their liberal counterparts never permit them the freedom to enjoy their individuality. These groups have my deepest sympathy.
http://gayconservative.org/
I am not feeling comfortable with this “I am not a feminist” and branding the term like some of the NOW women we disagree with. I called myself a feminist ever since I knew the term. 2nd wave feminism was not just about being liberal, pro gay, pro choice but also for recognizing womens’ accompolishments in politics, arts, music and everywhere. and for attempting to build spaces for rescue and development for women. the many women bookshops, literature and CDs digging out forgotten women which are available are often the result of these earlier attempts. the first wave the suffragettes were greatly disrespected and ridiculed and it takes conscienceness raising to pull out their achievements. the second wave has been silenced by the typical practices of patriarchy.
but one does not have to go back to the past movements. today there are pro-choice liberal women calling themselves feminists, there are pro-life women supporting women. and there are many in between see the MORE discussion on pro-choice. and many call themselves feminists.
I hope that somehow Angela McGLowan can raise above the statement stated here. and recognize that feminism is not embracing victimhood helplessly attacking the almighty, but I complicated mix of women who all intend to support each others endeveours and not fall for the cheap praise they get from the right and left when attacking or distancing from other women.
My thoughts and feelings exactly, Marille! I want to see the word “feminist” become a positive and empowering term for everyone to use. That was how women meant the word to be used. I am proud to think of myself as a feminist, and I want other women to be proud as well.
Marille and Karen,
I am 45 years old and thought of myself as a feminist from the time I could pronounce the word until I was told I could not use that word to describe myself – by other women. Go to any “feminist” site and admit that you are pro-life and see what happens.
The word “feminist” has been so co-opted by a certain group of women that I’m not sure it really does represent a lot of us anymore. That doesn’t mean that we can’t be proud and pro-woman. It just means that some of us aren’t comfortable with that label anymore. I wish we could come up with a new word. Equalist is the best I’ve been able to do – I welcome any suggestions.
I like “the women’s rights movement” and “women’s rights advocates,” if you’re going to get rid of “feminism,” a term I believe is still relevant. The two points any term has to cover: we’re fighting for equality between men and women, and right now women are disadvantaged. “Equalist” covers the first, sort of (no mention of gender) and doesn’t cover the second at all.
Personally, I don’t feel that I am disadvantaged by being a woman. In fact, I don’t feel victimized at all. While I readily admit that there are many areas in which improvement could be made, I also recognize the tremendous and amazing strides that American women have made toward true equality with men. Personally, and it’s only my opinion, I think the whole victimization mentality holds any group down way more than outside societal pressures do. Attitude is all.
Do we have a woman president yet? No. But we haven’t had a woman run for president yet either. Do women support women who run for vice president? Hell no. Hillary was too _______ (fill in the blank) for some women to support. Sarah Palin was right out because she was pro-life and conservative. Geraldine Ferraro was ___________.
All my life I have watched women and have seen them attack each other viciously. Women who stay home with their kids criticize those who work. Working women criticize stay at home moms. With friends like each other, why would women need enemies? Seriously, men are not our worst enemies: we are.
That’s why I am so happy to find this site. I love the idea of women coming together to support each other while agreeing to respect each other’s differing opinions. It’s time we stopped criticizing each other and start working together. Men do that so well: why can’t we?
Kathleen, those are my exact feelings! I believe inequality can exist without oppression, so that even though there is no oppression whatsoever in our country, plenty of inequality does exist and must be eliminated. I have joined The New Agenda to make women equal.
I think not so fast, to all the statements that there is inequality but not real oppression. there is oppression and silencing of women’s achievements on so many levels. we need to dig out and speak about women’s achievements. just when we think bout women running for president. i think Hillary was number 8, from the crowd sticking out is Victoria Woodhull as the first, Chisholm the firs African American women who run for president and was very aware of the antifemale propaganda. there was in 2008 a book on how the press dealt with the female runners for president and amazingly little has changed. many people say there was no female Einstein, no female Mozart, Mendelssohn. few know there was a Einstein girlfriend and I believe married who contributed a lot and supported her guy. oOf course there was nannerl Mozart who for sure composed as a teenager, but was told to hide her creative ambitions or not find a husband. Mendelssohn’s sister (Fanny Hensel) did not give up composing like Nannerl but was finally supported by husband and brother to have her works published over 400 of them.
to say we have come a long way sounds a long way off to me.
we rather need to keep going, recognize what our foremothers did, what we are accomplishing and keep fighting. that is the difference between the anti racism movement and the anti sexism movement. we are always told and enough believe it, that we are already there at equal participation in society.
We have come a long way since the time of Mozart and Mendelssohn! Remember, we couldn’t even vote until 1920! When my grandmother was first married, my grandfather could have cost her the job she loved just by walking in and telling her boss that he didn’t want her to work anymore. My mother and father fought horribly when my mom wanted to go back to work when I was a pre-teen. None of her friends worked and my father thought it looked bad, but my mother prevailed and went on to a wonderful career.
There are women CEO’s, women doctors and lawyers, even a woman Secretary of State. At this moment in time, women make up more than half the work force in this country. We’ve come a long way baby!
No one is saying that women have achieved complete equality, but we are definitely a heck of a lot closer to it than we were even 10 years ago. IMHO, the way forward to complete equality is to just get in there and keep plugging, proving ourselves every day.
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