Gop Candidate for D.C. Delegate Is On Her Own ; No Party Backing for Staunch Pro-Life Stance

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You won't find her mentioned on the D.C. Republican website, but activist Missy Reilly Smith constitutes a kind of one-woman "tea party" movement in the liberal bastion that is the nation's capital.

The staunch pro-lifer, running a long-shot campaign against longtime Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, a Democrat, is trying to wake up the city's lethargic GOP and push the abortion issue to the front of the party's agenda with new, graphic ads airing this week.

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Gop Candidate for D.C. Delegate Is On Her Own ; No Party Backing for Staunch Pro-Life Stance

The D.C. Republican Party does not support Mrs. Smith's campaign, and local party leaders asked her not to run. In an interview, she said they told her, "You never will be able to win."

Mrs. Smith, who worked i...

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