MS-01: Memphis Commercial Appeal Endorses Travis Childers

Before the April 22nd special primary, Democrat Travis Childers picked up the key endorsements of the Tupelo-based Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal and the Columbus Commercial Dispatch.  Add another key endorsement to the list for Childers — the Memphis Commercial Appeal:

The Commercial Appeal believes Prentiss County Chancery Clerk Travis W. Childers of Booneville is the best person to complete the U.S. House term, which expires in early January. […]

Childers, who labels himself a conservative Democrat, has stressed the importance of voting against trade deals that cost American jobs. He is a strong supporter of public education, saying it’s time for the nation, as a whole, to provide schools with the materials and support they need. That is important in a district where only 65 percent of teens graduate from high school and only 10 percent of the population has a college degree.

As for Iraq, Childers believes it is time to bring the troops home “honorably, safely and soon,” while providing them with material support until that happens. He recently told this newspaper’s editorial board that it is time to bring the troops home and spend the money we are sending to Iraq on projects in the United States.

Why not Greg Davis?  Because he’s an unapologetic agent of the Bush Administration’s disastrous policies at home and abroad:

Over the years, however, this editorial board always has looked favorably at candidates who have shown a degree of political independence. Davis has given no indication that he’ll stray far from the Bush administration’s stand on important issues, including the war in Iraq. That fact should not be lost on 1st District voters, especially when opinion polls are showing that the majority of citizens believe the country is headed in the wrong direction.

Well said.

9 thoughts on “MS-01: Memphis Commercial Appeal Endorses Travis Childers”

  1. isn’t that in Tennessee?  LOL, since we’re talking about Cheney and “south Memphis”, I thought this was a bit ironic.

    Still, good endorsement.  Now, what’s the circulation of this paper in MS-01?

  2. Huge.  Memephis is practically in MS, which is why the whole MS-TN thing has relevance in the non-Mempho area of the district.  The Daily Journal is the paper of northeast and north central MS, but the CA is read there too.  I grew up in Tupelo and we had three principal papers.  At my house we got the Daily Journal, Commercial Appeal, and Clarion Ledger (Jackson).  Of course we are pointy headed liberal types – snark.

    The Daily Journal is the biggest of the MS-01 papers, locate ina nd centered around Mississippi.  The CA covers MS, because of its readership.  A lot of the “white flight” areas of Memphis are around Southaven.  

  3. its circulation should be more in Davis’ strong areas. He won DeSoto with 81%, that was a margin of 8k votes. Perhaps Childers can boost his performance there, that would kill Davis.  

  4. Most GOP members, aides and operatives acknowledge that the most recent polling suggests Childers has a slight edge in a predominantly Republican seat, and that those numbers remain unchanged despite heavy adverstising by both sides.

    link

  5. a true democratic warrior.

    and thanks for everything else the swingstaters have done.  davidnyc, you still owe me a call!

    mush!

    –griff

    office manager, childers for congress

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