Not this sh** again!
Posted on 01/04/2008 8:09:35 PM PST by WKB
OXFORD, Miss. -- Former Mississippi Gov. Ronnie Musgrove confirmed to The Associated Press on Friday that he will run for the U.S. Senate.
Musgrove plans to hold a series of news conferences Monday in Tupelo, Jackson, Hattiesburg and Gulfport.
"I'll be announcing, yes," Musgrove told the AP in a telephone interview from his law office in Madison County.
Musgrove, a Democrat, will run in a special election against Republican Roger Wicker, who was appointed this week to fill the job left vacant by the retirement of the GOP's Trent Lott.
The date of the special election is in dispute. Republican Gov. Haley Barbour has set the election for Nov. 4, but Democratic Attorney General Jim Hood says he believes state law requires the election to be held within 100 days of when Lott resigned.
Lott was first elected to the Senate in 1988 after serving 16 years in the U.S. House of Representatives. He resigned in late December with five years left in his six-year term. The winner of the special election will serve through January 2013.
Musgrove was governor for one term, from January 2000 to January 2004. Barbour defeated him in the November 2003 election.
Musgrove also served one term as lieutenant governor, from January 1996 to January 2000. Before that, he was a state senator from Batesville.
The highlight of his legislative career was the passage of the Mississippi Adequate Education Program, a complicated funding formula designed to ensure that each school district receives enough money to meet midlevel accreditation standards. Musgrove started working on the formula when he was chairman of the Senate Education Committee.
As lieutenant governor, he pushed the bill into law over the veto of then-Gov. Kirk Fordice, a Republican.
Musgrove and Wicker are longtime friends and shared an apartment in Jackson when they served together in the state Senate.
Wicker, who's from Tupelo, was elected to north Mississippi's 1st District congressional seat in November 1994. Wicker plans to run in the special U.S. Senate election.
Wicker is on a two-week tour of the state by airplane and bus that started Jan. 2. The Senate convenes Jan. 22.
There will be no party primaries for the special election, and it's unclear how many Republicans and how many Democrats will jump into the race.
Mississippi ping
I found this a few minutes ago. You beat me to it.
I just heard it on the 10pm news.
I’ll let you win next time. :>)
This will be competitive.
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CONTACT: 662-840-9494
U.S. SENATOR ROGER WICKER LAUNCHES STATE-WIDE BUS TOUR
(Friday, January 04, 2008) — U.S. Senator Roger Wicker today announced a state-wide bus tour to kick off his campaign as part of his effort to visit with people from across Mississippi.
Beginning Monday, January 7th in Tupelo, and concluding Friday night the 11th, the Senator will be traveling non-stop across the state. The following dates, times, and places have been released:
Monday, January 7th
8:00 AM Tupelo - West Main Shopping Center (across from Danver’s)
9:20 AM New Albany - Bankhead Street across from the Courthouse
10:45 AM Holly Springs - Board of Supervisors Building, Market Street
12:10 PM Senatobia - Courthouse
1:30 PM Marks - Courthouse
2:05 PM Clarksdale - Courthouse
4:35 PM Yazoo City - Triangle Cultural Center, 332 North Main Street
Tuesday, January 8th
7:00 AM Vicksburg - The Clondike, Washington Street
10:00 AM Natchez - Convention Center
11:30 AM Woodville - TBD
1:10 PM McComb - 5 Points (tentative)
2:25 PM Tylertown - May’s Restaurant (tentative)
3:35 PM Columbia - Marion County Development Partnership building
6:30 PM Wiggins - Stone County Courthouse
Wednesday, January 9th
7:00 AM Gulfport - Leadership Gulf Coast Breakfast, Garden Park Hospital
10:00 AM Wicker for Senate, Gulf Coast Campaign Office Opening (TBD)
12:00 PM Pascagoula - Pascagoula Rotary Club, LaFont Inn
2:00 PM Long Beach, Little Ray’s
2:20 PM (Mult) Post-Katrina tour with municipal officials
5:30 PM City of Jackson - Gulf Coast Legislative Reception, Mississippi Trademart
Thursday, January 10th
8:00 AM Laurel - Courthouse
9:35 AM Magee - (mult stores), Highway 28 at the Intersection of Hwy 49
11:15 AM Monticello - Henri’s Restaurant
12:30 PM Brookhaven - The Country Fisherman Restaurant, Highway 51
3:25 PM Jackson
Friday, January 11 - Day 5
TIMES TBD Madison, Canton, Philadelphia, Starkville, Columbus, West Point
Paid for By Wicker for Senate
P.O. Box 233
Tupelo, MS 38802
Roger Wicker for U.S. Senate
1755 Lelia Drive
Suite 404
Jackson, MS 39216
Paid for by Friends of Roger Wicker
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Any polling data ?
So Gomer Pyle is gonna run. Yuck! He was a lousy governor.
As far as I could tell, my eyes are a bit weary, there weren’t any hard numbers in that piece.
Ack ! I know Richard Lawson.
Oh, Lordy!
When I was in Mississippi last week, my mother took part in a poll.
She was asked who she would vote for...Wicker or Musgrove.
She told them she didn’t know who Wicker was, but she would vote for him over Musgrove any day of the week! lol
For some reason “hard numbers” are hard to find
in Ms politics.
When Haley beat Musgrat I never heard the results
of any poll before the election
LLS
LLS
If it is evil and nasty... then ronnie muskrat is there.
LLS
Would you suck toes for several million dollars?
UGH!
That’s too much information!
Hope you will make that information freely available in the event this turkey gets past the Dumbocrat primary.
heh, I think I would.
The article said there would be no primaries.
Not this sh** again!
:-)
LLS
...”but Democratic Attorney General Jim Hood says he believes state law requires the election to be held within 100 days of when Lott resigned.”
Wonder why the election date is being debated? Seems like state law is still written in English, at least for now...
(not saying I can discern all those laws, but surely someone in Jackson can).
:)
Here see if this clears it up for you :>)
http://www.sunherald.com/news/breaking_news/story/274032.html
Thanks for the link.
Woe is me, I’m still confused. What’s your take on the state law as mentioned below... sounds like maybe the Dems argument is valid??
“Mississippi law states that after receiving official notice of a Senate vacancy, the governor has 10 days to announce an election to fill the seat. That election must be held within 90 days of the announcement, unless the vacancy occurs during a year when ‘there shall be held a general state or congressional election.’”
“Mississippi law states that after receiving official notice of a Senate vacancy, the governor has 10 days to announce an election to fill the seat. That election must be held within 90 days of the announcement, unless the vacancy occurs during a year when ‘there shall be held a general state or congressional election.
The difference of opinion is in the word “unless ffff”.
There was “general election” in 2007 there will be a “congressional election” in 2008. It looks like they are both right.
Haley said it was a bad worded law and hard to interpret.
IMHO Haley Barbour’s political savvy will prevail
if for no other reason than to save the state the cost
of a special election when there is no need for one.
Thanks for your comments...sure helped to understand the situation better.
It will be interesting to see how it turns out.
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