This race pits two incumbents in one reconfigured district. Democrat Ronnie Shows, a two-term congressman, has distinguished himself as a fighter for America’s seniors, children and working families. An advocate for Social Security, health care and preserving family wage jobs, Shows was a key member of the House team that produced the corporate accountability legislation that became law last summer.

Rep. Charles Pickering, a three-term Republican, is Shows’s opponent. Pickering supports President Bush’s plans to privatize the system. After promising to protect Social Security, Pickering broke the trust of seniors in Mississippi by voting to raid the Social Security trust fund by $800 billion. On issues important to the IBEW, Pickering voted wrong 78 percent of the time.

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Charles Pickering ® W W R W W R W W W 2 7

Ronnie Shows (D) A A R R R R R R R 7 0

The IBEW has 1,155 members in Mississippi’s 3^rd District.