Weston Wamp and Chuck FleischmannRepublican Weston Wamp plans to mount another attempt this year to unseat two-term Rep. Chuck Fleischmann in Tennessee’s 3rd Congressional District.
Wamp, the 26-year-old son of former U.S. Rep. Zach Wamp, is expected to launch his second congressional campaign Monday to challenge Fleischmann in the Aug. 7 congressional GOP primary.
Wamp declined Friday to discuss his political plans in advance of a news conference he has called Monday morning at the Lamp Post Group, where Wamp has operated his communications and marketing company, Wamp Strategy, for the past three years. But Wamp has been talking with potential supporters for the past couple of months and said he is encouraged by a survey he conducted last fall that showed most East Tennessee Republicans might want another congressman.
“I’ve always been in a group of people who believe our district deserves better representation,” Wamp said Friday.
His father served 16 years in the U.S. House before running unsuccessfully for Tennessee governor in 2010. Fleischmann succeeded the elder Wamp four years ago by winning a 30 percent plurality of the GOP vote in August 2010 and then won a second term in 2012, after winning with a 39 percent plurality of the GOP vote.