McKellar Again Enters Congressional Race; Town Hall Meeting Planned

TYLER — She’s become a perennial opponent to Republican Louie Gohmert, and Shirley McKellar of Tyler will again be seeking the Democratic nomination for U.S. Congress District 1 in 2018. An early chance to hear from McKellar and other Democrats comes Saturday, June 24th, with a town hall meeting of the East Texas Coalition of Black Democrats; McKellar serves as president of that organization, a subsidiary of the Texas Coalition of Black Democrats. The meeting is set for 11:00 a.m. till 2:00 p.m. at Liberty Baptist Church, on North Broadway in Tyler. McKellar says it will feature statewide candidates, elected officials, and others.

This year, McKellar has an opponent in the Democratic Primary: UT Tyler business Professor Brent Beal of Nacogdoches, who formally announced his candidacy June 3. McKellar is a nurse and U.S. Army veteran with a long history of community involvement. Gohmert has consistently defeated her by wide margins, but she continues to sound the call for change.