Score another one for the NRCC’s recruitment, although this one has been talked about for a while:

Republican state Sen. Alan Nunnelee of Tupelo has filed qualifying papers to run for Congress in Mississippi’s First District. Nunnelee, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, has traveled and raised money throughout the district during the past year. He qualified Tuesday for the election. The post is currently held by U.S. Rep. Travis W. Childers, D-Miss.

This is a district with a Partisan Voting Index rating of R+14; McCain carried 62 percent of the vote.