Dan Eubanks Wins Mississippi State Rep Primary: “Huge Earthquake”

UPDATE: Dan Eubanks defeated Democrat Harold D. Harris on November 3, 2015 in the District 25 state House race. Dan Eubanks was one of four conservatives in Desoto County, Mississippi to defeat anti-school choice incumbent legislators in August. The conservative group Empower Mississippi was instrumental in their success. As stated in Jackson Jambalaya: “A huge earthquake took place in Desoto County last night as the Kuykendall machine took a clobberin’ from The Thing known as Empower Mississippi. The Desoto County legislators made a name for themselves over the last four years in fighting all educational reforms that came through the House. A PAC was formed by conservative activists, candidates were recruited, and the fight was taken to the home turf of Milton Kuykendall and his machine.”

A husband, father, pastor, and youth director, Dan Eubanks has always cared about those with whom he works and serves. He has long had a passion and desire to do political work. Leading up to his decision to run for Mississippi State Representative this year, Dan had been growing impatient with the direction of America’s political spectrum and finally felt that he couldn’t sit still.

“Over the last decade, the pain has been too great to sit back and not do anything about where our country is headed,” he said. Running for office seemed like a natural choice for Dan, who attended seminars and trainings programs as he prepared a strategy, including American Majority’s Empower Campaign School in Olive Branch, MS 2014.   “The folks there said there’s no substitute for boots on the ground,” said Dan, who doesn’t think his challengers did as much as he did in the way of personally reaching out to voters. Like most who run successful campaigns in grassroots politics, Dan’s primary strategy and means of success was getting out the vote through personal interactions.

To this end, he spent much time in his campaign knocking on doors and going out of his way to meet relevant groups and individuals. “I wanted people to see me and I wanted to learn what was near and dear to them,” said Dan. “In our current political landscape, you tend to have politicians who show up at election time and then are gone until the next election cycle. I want to stay in touch with them [the voters], that’s what a representative democracy is supposed to be all about.” Dan was amazed at the way the “veil was pulled back,” when he stepped into the campaigning world, and encountered the dishonesty and personal attacks of people with all kinds of agendas. For example, for no other reason than he identified himself as a Conservative Christian and Republican, and since he used his state flag in a campaign promotion piece, he was attacked by individuals who wanted to label him a racist and a homophobe. He wants people to know that he is running for office out of pure and honest motives. He hopes to change the perception of politicians from that of greedy ideologues to public servants. “The system isn’t bad,” said Dan. “It’s just that human nature surfaces in the system.” As he faces the upcoming November election, Dan is optimistic. He is challenging a Democrat in a traditionally-Republican county. “People act like it’s a done deal,” said Dan, “but I believe being over-confident is a mistake. I’ve put too much time and energy into this to relax now.”

Dan’s focus as a politician is on promoting states’ rights and fighting government overreach. As of now, he is particularly concerned with Common Core education, the right to bear arms, religious freedom, and national debt. “I believe our Founding Fathers knew exactly what they were doing to ensure that we have a republic that is truly free, but I think there are a lot of people who have an agenda to destroy that,” said Dan. “I want to champion our freedoms and liberties everywhere I can.”