
Funny how beauty queens tend to be intelligent as well . . .
Ex-Miss America Erika Harold's campaign planBy TAL KOPAN | 6/5/13 8:16 AM EDT
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.
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.
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http://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/ex-miss-america-erika-holders-campaign-plan-92261.html#ixzz2VNcMhjUEHmmm! Me likey! And she's hot, too! The primary process will be interesting, I think.