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Fox News Alert: Trent Lott Resigning By End Of This Year
11/26/07 | FNC

Posted on 11/26/2007 4:48:16 AM PST by pookie18

More details at FoxNews Channel as they come in...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: 110th; lott; ms; retirement; trentlott
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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla

The Washington Post is reporting that Barbour has announced that there will be a special election next November. They also report that it’s likely Barbour will name Rep. Roger Wicker as interim Senator.


181 posted on 11/26/2007 11:17:08 AM PST by imdref
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To: G Larry

I suspect that Lott wanted to retire before the last election...but the state party talked him into continuing...with this interesting scenario...Trent does a easy cake-walk to win a six-year term. The party brings in a outsider to the state...who they give the state university chancellor job to (Retired AF general “Doc” Fogelsong). Lott puts in his time...and the right point arrives...to announce the retirement of Lott. The governor has to appoint a guy...who gets 11 months before elections to make his impressive start. Fogelsong easily wins the election next fall with impressive numbers.

So I’m predicted the governor picks the state chancellor...Fogelsong...as the replacement.


182 posted on 11/26/2007 11:20:32 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: Western Phil
Is this the person who was zorched for a court appointment?

His son.

183 posted on 11/26/2007 11:25:01 AM PST by writmeister
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To: Jim Noble
He flies home via Minneapolis too much?

Slander via innuendo?

184 posted on 11/26/2007 11:29:11 AM PST by Chunga (Fred Thompson '08)
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To: imdref
Rep. Roger Wicker??
185 posted on 11/26/2007 11:31:39 AM PST by Lucius Cornelius Sulla (All of this has happened before, and will happen again!)
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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Wicker
186 posted on 11/26/2007 11:33:49 AM PST by imdref
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To: MNJohnnie; basil; Theodore R.; fieldmarshaldj; Clintonfatigued; Kuksool; JohnnyZ; Clemenza; kalt

“Can a governor appoint himself senator to fill a vacant spot?”

“Not directly but he can in resign with the undstanding he will be appointed to the job by the Lt Gov. that replaces them. We had a Minnesota Gov do that in the 1970s or 80s.”


He can also leave the state on a trip so that the Lt. Gov. becomes Acting Governor, and the Lt. Gov. can thus appoint him to the Senate; in states where the Lt. Gov. does not become Acting Gov. automatically upon the Governor’s absence from the state, the Gov. can sign over his powers temporarily (because he’d be under the knife, for example). Not resigning gives the Governor something to fall back upon in case the Lt. Gov. double-crosses him.

Of course, getting yourself appointed to the Senate tends to be unpopular with the voters, and people who do that usually lose in the next election.


187 posted on 11/26/2007 12:15:10 PM PST by AuH2ORepublican (Fred Thompson appears human-sized because he is actually standing a million miles away.)
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To: KC Burke

> My dream is that Barber appoints Pickering <

Me too! But I’d prefer Judge CHARLES Pickering, as opposed to the Judge’s son, Chip.


188 posted on 11/26/2007 12:20:23 PM PST by Hawthorn
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To: rod1

> Darn the REPUBs lose a singer. How can we afford that? <

Larry Craig will now be the only remaining “Singing Senator,” since Jim Jeffords and John Ashcroft have already departed!

How’s that for cosmic justice?


189 posted on 11/26/2007 12:24:03 PM PST by Hawthorn
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To: pookie18

Wasn’t he pro Amnesty? Maybe it caught up with him.


190 posted on 11/26/2007 12:35:53 PM PST by BeckB
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To: BeckB

He had both good & bad points...like most of us ;-)


191 posted on 11/26/2007 12:37:24 PM PST by pookie18 (Of course, I'm voting for the Republican nominee!!)
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To: pookie18

Aww, I’m so sorry. We’ll sure miss your feathered hat, Trent.


192 posted on 11/26/2007 12:57:35 PM PST by Marysecretary (GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL.)
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To: pookie18
Does this means the Governor will place another person there (R) for the remainder of the term?

If so, it could be a way to make a one year incumbent that the electorate will know already and will vote again for.

193 posted on 11/26/2007 1:00:17 PM PST by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: A CA Guy

See comment #140...


194 posted on 11/26/2007 1:04:24 PM PST by pookie18 (Of course, I'm voting for the Republican nominee!!)
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To: MamaB

Who will pick better Justices and make taxes less likely, Rudy or Hillary?

Sitting out and not voting means you voted Hillary.
Voting third party means you voted Hillary.

I am no fan of Rudy and I hope he is not the winner, but if it is between that man and a Democrat (which wants to do 10,000% or social damage), then Rudy gets the vote.

Sometimes logic has to trump the desire to get everything we want all at once.


195 posted on 11/26/2007 1:04:31 PM PST by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: pookie18

WTF, Lott was already voted in through 2012 and is leaving at the end of 2007? Something stinks to high heaven here that goes way beyond lobbying IMO.


196 posted on 11/26/2007 1:06:43 PM PST by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: A CA Guy

Whatever the stench, I’d still rather have Pickering...if he makes it...


197 posted on 11/26/2007 1:17:03 PM PST by pookie18 (Of course, I'm voting for the Republican nominee!!)
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To: A CA Guy
Baloney. I will not vote for any pro-abortion, pro-gay rights, anti-gun ownership, pro-illegal immigration candidate. He has already said that his positions are like Clinton’s so why in the world would anyone vote for him? I was for him until I started learning what his beliefs are. He is simply a liberal with an R after his name. He should run as a dem. If the Republicans have him as their candidate, then a lot of people will not vote for him. People say what a great job he did after 9-11. Again, baloney. He did what any mayor would do when a disaster hits but that does not make them presidential material. For instance, this area has been hit by 2 F-4 or F-5 tornadoes. Our mayors did what they were supposed to do when a situation like that hits. I would not vote for either one for President based on what they did then. This is a conservative site and I do not understand the support of a liberal like Rudy.
198 posted on 11/26/2007 1:26:21 PM PST by MamaB
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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla; imdref; fieldmarshaldj; cll; rrstar96

If Barbour names Roger Wicker to the Senate, we might just lose the seat. We need Chip Pickering to run.

BTW, Wicker is in bed with liberal Democrats such as Ted Kennedy in their support for Puerto Rico’s “Commonwealth status,” which results in billions of federal dollars being sent to Puerto Rico but the 4 million U.S. citizens that live there not having to pay federal income taxes (except for employees of the federal government) or the right to vote for the President or members of Congress. Wicker actually appeared with Ted Kennedy and other liberal Democrats in a TV ad supporting liberal Democrat Aníbal Acevedo-Vilá for Governor of Puerto Rico, and wrote an op-ed for The Washington Post in support of Acevedo-Vilá when he stole the 2004 gubernatorial election by getting spoiled ballots (marked three times for two offices) to be counted for him. I assume that Wicker will again come to Acevedo-Vilá’s defense when the Governor and/or his closest cronies are indicted in federal court for corruption (which indictments are expected as early as this week).


199 posted on 11/26/2007 1:32:59 PM PST by AuH2ORepublican (Fred Thompson appears human-sized because he is actually standing a million miles away.)
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To: pookie18
"Fox News Alert: Trent Lott Resigning By End Of This Year:

Wants to Spend More Time With Larry Craig

200 posted on 11/26/2007 3:04:32 PM PST by JewishRighter
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