Posted on 05/20/2008 4:17:27 PM PDT by LdSentinal
GRENADA, Miss. (AP) - State Rep. Sidney Bondurant of Grenada has switched to the Republican Party.
He was elected in 2003 and 2007 as a conservative Democrat in House District 24 in Grenada, Calhoun and Yalobusha counties.
Bondurant, 61, is a physician. He said he decided to change parties after talking with his family and friends. He said Republican Gov. Haley Barbour and others encouraged him to make the leap.
This past January, Bondurant supported conservative Democrat Jeff Smith of Columbus as Smith tried unsuccessfully to unseat populist Democrat Billy McCoy as speaker of the 122-member House.
Ouch...that’s gonna leave a mark...
So, what’s the math in the Miss. Legislature?
Why, I do declare that this would have been a major headline if it’d had been a switchover from a Republican to the Democrats.
*reaching for the smelling salts*
But I thought the GOP brand was poison even in Miss. :-)
The Senate is about equal.
So he was a dino?
Or maybe a Reagan Democrat?
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