PropertyManagementMaven: Nixon grandson running for Congress on Long Island

30 year old Christopher Nixon Cox is running for the First Congressional district seat on Long Island.  The announcement came on his website * chriscoxforcongress.com * where he promises to "revitalize Suffolk County's economy, protect jobs from being outsourced overseas, end  this period of over taxation, make sure those tax dollars are well spent."

The incumbent, Democratic Congressman Tim Bishop,  has said, "I don't know much about Christopher... I have several people vying for the Republican designation and I would be happy to talk about my opponent extensively once I know who he or who she is."

Cox's father is Ed Cox, current chairman of the NY GOP, and his mother is President Richard Nixon's daughter Tricia who were married in the White House in 1971.

Cos who has appeared as a political commentator on TV, graduated from Princeton and NYU Law School.  He later embarked on a career as a lawyer, international business advisor, and political talking head on television and became directly involved in Republican politics, serving as a John McCain delegate and was the New York State Executive Director of McCain's 2008 Presidential run. His father's family has deep roots in the Congressional district now represented by four-term Democrat, Bishop.

Cox  says now "there is a lot of voter anger about what is going on in Washington, and to have an incumbent who has voted 97% of the time with Nancy Pelosi, is someone who is representing San Francisco much more that he is representing Suffolk County. I want to be representing Suffolk County, I want to represent Suffolk County values and that's why I want to go to Washington."

There are seven candidates vying for the Republican nod, but Cox will certainly become the best known, and perhaps nationally financed, by dint of who he is. His grandfather was only three years older than Cox is now, when in 1946 he challenged a five-term incumbent Congressman and won, launching his political career that included election to the Senate, Vice-Presidency, and finally, the Oval Office.