By Katherine Burgess
Mark Rawles, Constitution Party candidate for the Eighth District seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, kicked off his Madison County campaign Thursday.
He did so by speaking to approximately 20 people at the monthly meeting of the Jackson-Madison County Tea Party at Casey Jones Village.
Rawles is a Jackson businessman and veteran of the Air Force. This is Rawles’ third campaign for Congress but his first year with the Constitution Party. He previously ran as an independent.
When Rawles explained he is running on a Constitution Party platform, a Tea Party member in the audience said, “You’re never going to make it on that.”
The man said Rawles is splitting the Republican vote and will give the seat to a Democratic candidate.
Rawles spoke about how Americans must regain control of the federal government and avoid ascribing to parties that are giving away freedoms under the “banner of economic globalism” in the case of the Republican Party and the “banner of social globalism” in the case of the Democratic Party.
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