Posted on 07/31/2008 8:03:46 PM PDT by Maelstorm
“I’ll get to the worn-out old political tricks in just a moment,” the former governor said calmly as supporters of U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker interrupted Musgrove’s speech with chants of “Ro-GER! Ro-GER! Ro-GER!”
Musgrove is trying to unseat Wicker in a November special election that’s attracting national attention as Democrats try to strengthen their majority in the U.S. Senate.
“Almost three decades ago, Ronald Reagan spoke from this very stage,” Musgrove said. “During that campaign, Ronald Reagan asked Americans a very simple question. It’s the same question I ask today — are you better off now than you were a few years ago?”
That prompted a torrent of “No!!!” from Musgrove supporters and “Yes!!!” from those in Wicker T-shirts.
In his own speech moments later, Wicker talked about the 2003 gubernatorial race, when Musgrove was unseated by Republican Haley Barbour. Barbour appointed Wicker to temporarily fill a U.S. Senate seat when the GOP’s Trent Lott retired last December, just one year into a six-year term. One of Barbour’s nephews is managing Wicker’s campaign.
“When Ronnie ran against Haley, he spent the entire race beating up on Haley and telling us what a bad person Haley was and what a terrible governor he’d turn out to be. Now we know how that turned out,” Wicker said. “Ronnie had a chance to be good governor. He let us down, and we gave him his walking papers.”
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Don’t forget to help if you can.
http://www.wickerforsenate.com/
To any FReeper or Moderator
Is their any thread ongoing now about senate and house races?
I believe if for nothing else we could lend our voices and maybe help influence some of those voters in other states.
Who are they replacing?
nevermind...lol
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