African-American Conservatives Running for Congress

Republicans have recruited their biggest roster of African-American candidates ever.

Many of them are gathered in Washington this weekend for the annual Frederick Douglass Foundation Leadership Summit, where Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele spoke.

The pro-life, anti-gay marriage political group was founded two years ago with the help of North Carolina Republican Party Vice Chairman Timothy Johnson.

Most of the African-American conservatives are long shot candidates. Many say they don’t expect to get the financial backing they desperately need, but they are still determined to raise money much like Obama, by appealing to small grassroots donors, including Tea Party Republicans and conservative Democrats.

Here is a list of black Republican candidates in 2010:

Candidates for the Senate

• Marion Thorpe , Florida
• Larry Linney, North Carolina
• Michael Williams , Texas

Candidates for Congress

• 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
• Prince Brown , Florida’s 8th 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
• Barb Davis White , Minnesota’s 5th District
• Martin Baker , Missour;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
• Jean Howard-Hill , Tennessee’s 3rd District
• Charlotte Bergmann,  Tennessee’s 9th District
• William Hurd , Texas’s 23rd District
• Stephen Broaden , Texas’s 30th District
• Coby Dillard , Virginia’s 3rd District

 

^{Source: The Daily Caller}

^{Hattip: Jim, Cleveland 9.12}