Barb Davis White to challenge Ellison again

Barb Davis White

Despite losing to Rep. Keith Ellison by a record margin last November, Barb Davis White is giving it another go. The evangelical minister announced her candidacy in September, but no media outlets have made mention of it. And her campaign’s filings to the Federal Elections Commission have been rife with errors.

Ellison trounced White in November, setting records for the margin of victory. According the Smart Politics, Ellison’s 48.9 percent win over White was the second highest in state history and the “largest margin of victory for a 1-term incumbent in the history of the Gopher State.”

A staunch conservative in the state’s most progressive district, White has burnished her credentials this year through involvement with the local Tea Party movement. “I want to be listed as a Christian and a patriotic right-wing conservative American,” she told Tea Partiers in April.

In the two years that White’s campaign for Congress has been active, the FEC has served notice of late filings and incomplete filings 14 times. In the 2008 cycle, the FEC took special notice in her campaign’s failure to file on time.