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Apr 22, 2016: LifeZette: Mississippi GOP Threats
Mississippi Tea Party activist and former congressional candidate Bill Marcy said Friday that the GOP Establishment in Mississippi — headed by party Chairman Joe Nosef — are trying to bully potential convention delegates into backing Gov. John Kasich. April 23,2014: Jackson Free Press: Party Switchers Cause Rifts
Ken Dale Sullivan, a Democrat who lives in Wesson, has twice run for a seat in the Mississippi Legislature—for the House in 2007 against Rep. Becky Currie, R-Brookhaven, and for an open seat in the Senate in 2011. He sued his party earlier this month for allowing Bill Marcy's name to appear on the party primary ballot as a Democrat for U.S. Senate. Marcy lives in Jackson and ran as a Republican in 2012 against eight-term Democratic Congressman Bennie Thompson. In Sullivan's complaint, filed in Copiah County Chancery Court earlier this month, he argues that Marcy should not have been certified to compete as a Democrat because he is "not in accord wit the principles and the rules" of the party as outlined by the party's constitutional bylaws. 
Apr 10, 2014: Clarion Ledger: Decision to let Bill Marcy on ballot prompts filing of suit
The Mississippi Democratic Party is facing a lawsuit over its decision to allow Bill Marcy, who ran for the U.S. House of Representatives as a Republican and touted himself as a conservative Republican in campaign literature, to run as a Democrat for U.S. Senate. Jan 10, 2014: Gulf Live: Former Republican Bill Marcy running as Democrat in U.S. Senate race in Mississippi
Bill Marcy says he's changing party labels, but not beliefs, to run as a Democrat for the U.S. Senate in Mississippi this year. |
Bill Marcy was born and raised in Chicago and spent summers visiting his grandmother in Mississippi, where he said his black and Choctaw ancestors had lived more than 200 years. He moved to Meridian, Miss., in 2001 and to Vicksburg, in 2010, where he currently resides. Marcy studied chemistry at City Colleges of Chicago and the University of Illinois-Chicago. He studied for three years but stopped short of earning a bachelor's degree. He joined the National Guard, and then worked as a Chicago police officer from 1968 to 1978 before going into the private sector. He was security director at Miami Omni Hotel, Eden Roc Hotel in Miami Beach and Cedars Medical Center in Miami.
Marcy was district manager for an electronic security company, Emergency Networks. He worked in the Chicago offices of Edison Security Systems. He retired from Interstate Security Systems as regional vice president in Chicago. Bill Marcy is challenging Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson, the ranking Democrat and former chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, in the November 2012 general election for Mississippi's 2nd Congressional District seat. Thompson has represented the poor, mostly rural district since winning a special election in 1993. Also on the 2012 general election ballot are independent Cobby Mondale Williams and Reform Party candidate Lajena Williams. Marcy has a fundraising disadvantage. As of June 30, 2012, he reported having $5,853 in campaign funds, while Thompson had nearly $1.3 million. Marcy, a retired Chicago police officer, wants to outlaw abortion, cut federal spending and reduce the size of government. He is courting tea party voters and other conservatives as he tries to unseat Thompson, Mississippi's most powerful and connected Democrat, in the state's only majority black district. Marcy has written two books, "Brainwashing the American Black Child" and "Don't Let Me Confuse You With The Truth." In the latter, he argues that black voters have blindly followed the Democratic Party, to their own detriment. He writes that blacks can't give a "thoughtful answer" when asked why they vote for Democrats. He says they normally respond that they're Democrats because their parents were and that the Republican Party is the party of white people and rich people. Marcy ran unsuccessfully for an open seat in the state House of Representatives in 2009. He also ran for Mississippi's 3rd District U.S. House seat in 2008, losing in a nine-person primary. He lost to Thompson in the 2nd District U.S. House race in November 2010, garnering about 37 percent of the vote. Marcy was the only candidate in the March 2012 Republican primary in Mississippi's 2nd District. Leading into the general election, he received the endorsement of U.S. Rep. Allen West of Florida. Jun 3, 2014: Marcy was defeated by Travis Childers as a Democratic candidate who sought election to the U.S. Senate from Mississippi. |
June 23, 2010: Greenwood Commonwealth: Marcy Wins GOP Runoff
Bill Marcy of Meridian says now that he’s the Republican nominee for Mississippi’s 2nd District congressional seat, he’s going to move into the district.
“We’re buying property even as we speak,” Marcy told The Associated Press from a campaign party Tuesday night in Vicksburg. “One way or the other, I’m going to be living in Vicksburg. This is our new adopted home.”
Bill Marcy of Meridian says now that he’s the Republican nominee for Mississippi’s 2nd District congressional seat, he’s going to move into the district.
“We’re buying property even as we speak,” Marcy told The Associated Press from a campaign party Tuesday night in Vicksburg. “One way or the other, I’m going to be living in Vicksburg. This is our new adopted home.”