Attorney Adair Boroughs to Challenge for Joe Wilson's House Seat
A Democratic Forest Acres attorney has announced she will run for the Second District U.S. House seat that has long been occupied by Republican Rep. Joe Wilson.
Adair Ford Boroughs launched her campaign on Wednesday. Originally from the small Barnwell County town of Williston, Boroughs is a Furman University and Stanford Law School graduate. A former math teacher at Mauldin High School, she began her legal career at the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. and served as a clerk for U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel. For the last three years she has been the executive director of Charleston Legal Access, a nonprofit "sliding scale" law firm aimed at people with moderate means.
Boroughs says she is stepping out of her executive director role at Charleston Legal Access to concentrate on her campaign for U.S. House. She'll still help out the firm on a part-time basis.
The Second District seat is up for election again in 2020.
A 38-year-old wife and mother of two children, Boroughs came out swinging in regard to Wilson, the congressman who was first elected to the Second District seat in 2001. In a video announcing her campaign, Boroughs lambasted Wilson for, among other things, his infamous incident of screaming "You lie!" at President Barack Obama during a speech to Congress in 2009, and, more recently, being duped into saying that toddlers should be armed with guns. The latter gaffe was part of prankster Sacha Baron Cohen's "Who is America?" program on Showtime.
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