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VICKSBURG It was a big day last week when a skinny kid from Holly Springs - the 10th of 15 children of a holiness preacher and his wife - walked up to the microphone at the Republican National Convention in New York City's Madison Square Garden. It will be an even bigger day if Clinton LeSueur actually accomplishes his larger quest: winning a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives from Mississippi's 2nd Congressional District. In LeSueur's way is a formidable obstacle. Bennie C. Thompson is solidly entrenched after five full terms - and not giving any indication he fears...

Republican Candidate For Congress In The Second District of Mississippi To Speak At GOP Convention In New York On Monday (Greenville, MS) Clinton B. LeSueur, the Republican candidate running for Congress in the Second District of Mississippi, will address the Republican National Convention in New York on Monday. "It is an honor to be chosen to speak at this year's convention," LeSueur said. "We are running a tough, grassroots campaign in Mississippi. And it's a privilege to be able to tell the nation about what's happening here." LeSueur, who received 44% of the vote against Bennie Thompson in 2002 despite...

Tireless campaigner made a strong showing in GOP primary. Clinton B. LeSueur amply demonstrated in Tuesday's congressional primary that he is no flash in the pan. The indefatigable fellow knows how to get votes. LeSueur set up a November rematch with incumbent Rep. Bennie Thompson after easily dispatching two challengers for the Republican nomination. Although the turnout was terribly light, LeSueur did a good job of showing the Republican Party leadership that his campaign will be worth investing in. He more than doubled his vote total from the 2002 GOP primary while capturing 85 percent of the vote. He still...

Congressmen Taylor, Thompson to Face Republican Challengers Mississippi's two Republican congressmen will run unopposed by Democrats this year, but Democratic U.S. Reps. Bennie Thompson and Gene Taylor face challenges from the GOP. The qualifying deadline for candidates was Friday. In the 4th District represented by Taylor, a last-day Republican qualifier was state Rep. Mike Lott of Petal. Also running as Republicans are Karl Mertz of Long Beach, who challenged Taylor in 2002; Steven McCaleb of Long Beach and Randy McDonnell of Biloxi. Tracella Lou O'Hara Hill of Hattiesburg is running as a Reform Party candidate in the 4th District. The...

VERY NICE CANDIDATE WEB PAGE NOW UP... see link... It's a tough district for a Republican, but Clinton took a surprising 44% of the vote without much funding in 2002. Could he win? He "has shot". BIOGRAPHY A Mississippi native, Clinton B. LeSueur understands the issues facing the Second District. And as a proven vote-getter in the 2002 election, he has already caught the attention of the national media in 2004. The tenth of fifteen children, including three sets of twins, his parents, Jeremiah and Hazel LeSueur, raised a close-knit family where the values of religion, education, hard work, and...

Buoyed by taking 44 percent of the vote in the 2002 general election, Republican Clinton B. LeSueur is even more confident that he is the candidate to unseat incumbent Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., for the 2nd Congressional District seat. Thompson, a Democrat, is a five-term congressman from Bolton. LeSueur works as a consultant with the Yazoo County Community Action Agency in Yazoo City. LeSueur of Greenville made his formal announcement on Wednesday of his candidacy for the Republican nomination on the steps of the Washington County Courthouse. LeSueur will face off against two other announced Republican candidates in the March...

Jackson, MS -- Stephanie Summers-O’Neal, a Jackson native and local business owner, announced her historic candidacy for Mississippi’s second congressional district during press conferences in Jackson and Greenville today. Summers-O’Neal will be the first African-American, female, Republican elected to the U.S. Congress when Mississippians send her to Congress next November. “As a citizen of the Second District, I believe we deserve the best this country has to offer. We deserve better job opportunities so we can build better lives, quality education so our children can contribute to society, access to the best in health care, and strong communities in which...

As the 2003 election season kicks off I hope we the citizenry will factor in candidates moral stance on issue before we cast our vote. As I continue to travel the 2nd District and the State, I am motivated yet humbled by the number of people, both black and white who are asking me to run for U.S. Congress again in 2004. However, I am disheartened and saddened by some of our leaders, both political and religious, weak stance on moral issues. Many have expressed privately their concerns with the growing homosexual movement in our district, our state and our...

<p>One question can launch Marty Davis into motion -- darting up ladders, side-stepping chutes and zigging around vacuum presses, diamond-polishing beds and rows of quartz slabs at his family's year-old Cambria stone plant in Le Sueur, Minn.</p> <p>As co-owner and general manager of the new company, Davis, 37, is out to tackle the most minute problem and prove that Cambria can thrive among importers as the only U.S. maker of quartz countertops.</p>