Ex-Miss America Erika Harold's campaign plan

Politico ^ | 5 Jun 2013 | TAL KOPAN

[mandaladon]

For the former Miss America who just jumped into the race for Illinois’s 13th Congressional District, the Republican primary might be, well, a bit like a beauty pageant.

She calls her opponent, an incumbent freshman, a “good person,” insists there’s no need for attacks, and says let the judges, no, make that the voters, decide.

“I view this primary process as being very healthful to the party because we will be able throughout the campaign to debate the issues that are important to the party,” newly declared candidate Erika Harold told POLITICO, referring to her challenge of Rep. Rodney Davis in the GOP primary.

“I think he’s a good person, and that’s why I think in this case this can be a positive primary process where we can both make a positive case to the voters about why we can be a good representative,” she added.

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Harold, 33 and single, is a Harvard-educated attorney, a born-and-bred local and was a delegate to the 2004 Republican National Convention. She won the Miss America crown in 2003.

Harold, who announced her bid to take on Davis on Tuesday, says she has no problem with the attention on her pageant past. In fact, she says, it’s one of the things that make her qualified to serve in Congress.

[mandaladon]

This lady seems like a winner

[mandaladon]

Born and raised in Urbana, Ill., Harold graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Illinois and was accepted to Harvard Law School, but she said there was one problem: funds. “After I was accepted to law school and I saw how much I would have to pay, I realized I didn’t have any of it, and so I decided to enter Miss America,” Harold told POLITICO. And she won in 2003, singing opera for her talent. As Miss America, Harold focused her platform on combating bullying and violence in schools, as well as advocating abstinence from sex, drugs and alcohol....................I wonder how liberals will attack that.

[Oberon]

I wonder how liberals will attack that.

Just you wait and see...

[knarf]

Finish it up ...

She won Miss America 2003 and used her winnings to pay for Hahvid.

She's a Hahvid grad.

[taxcontrol]

Ok, just wondering out loud here.

She is smart and pretty and apparently fairly conservative. So why is she single? I would think that some like minded conservative men would be hounding her to death trying to get her to marry them. Perhaps that is a reflection more on the men than her.

[Obadiah]

I’d vote for her!

[jjotto]

I think RULES should be invoked.

And, oh yeah, not guilty.

[animal172]

One thing for sure. The women on our side are a lot easier on the eyes than those Commurat women. Oh, I forgot, I’m a male chauvinist despicable pig for pointing it out.

[mandaladon]

.........Seems like we have a lot of attractive ladies in the GOP.

[MWestMom]

Not to some of us conservative women you’re not. : )

[knarf]

Conservatives are the hottest !!

[Obadiah]

But is she “Black enough”? She certainly has more experience than Obama did when he ran for president.

She looks like a great candidate. Hope she wins. Hope Mia Love wins too.

[NavVet]

I want to vote for her even though legally I’m not entitled to. Does that make me a Democrat?

[popdonnelly]

She will be attacked and demonized by the Great Democratic Lying Machine.

[grania]

one thing for sure. The women on our side are a lot easier on the eyes than those communist women"

flattery and flirtation is acceptable behavior on our side. <^..^>

[McGruff]

Yowza!!!

[mandaladon]

Winning the competition gave her the scholarship money to “graduate debt-free” from Harvard Law School and work in communities across the country, an experience she holds as invaluable................Unlike Zero she didn't take out a loan or applied for affirmative action help.

[MilesVeritatis]

It will be nice to have someone in Congress who is “not guilty.” Too many of them already are.

[MilesVeritatis]

Of course, if she doesn’t get elected, I’ll gladly watch her anchor a show on Fox News.

[piytar]

Either she chose to be or she is wondering the same thing. The reality is that many men probably figure they aren’t in her league and don’t even try to ask her out. I’ve known a lot of very attractive smart single women who didn’t get asked out very often. (That is until I did. Lol.)