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State Senator Gray Tollison of Oxford jumps from Democrat to Republican (Mississippi)
Sun Herald.com ^ | 11/10/11

Posted on 11/10/2011 6:48:14 PM PST by LdSentinal

Longtime state Sen. Gray Tollison of Oxford is switching from Democrat to Republican.

The state Republican Party announced the change Thursday.

Republicans already held the majority in the 52-member Senate. With Tollison's switch, the GOP will hold 31 seats and Democrats will hold 21.

Republicans will hold a three-fifths majority - the margin needed to pass revenue bills.

Tollison was elected Tuesday to his fifth term. His north Mississippi district includes all of Lafayette County and parts of Tallahatchie and Yalobusha counties.

In mid-September, state election commissioners removed Tollison's Republican opponent, Todd Wade, from the ballot because Wade couldn't prove he'd been a registered voter four years.

On Monday, Tollison endorsed Republican Phil Bryant for governor. Bryant defeated Democrat Johnny DuPree.

Legislators begin their new four-year term on Jan. 3.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: mississippi; republican; tollison

1 posted on 11/10/2011 6:48:17 PM PST by LdSentinal
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To: LdSentinal

Mississippi again elected a GOP Governor. I think the House is still controlled by Democrats.


2 posted on 11/10/2011 6:52:33 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: LdSentinal

Another Southern conservative Democrat jumped ship. The GOP is running out of Southern conservative Democrats to recruit. :)


3 posted on 11/10/2011 6:54:40 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: goldstategop

There is no room in the Mississippi Democrat Party for White conservatives and there ain’t no Black conservatives in the Democrat Party.


4 posted on 11/10/2011 6:57:56 PM PST by Tupelo ( 2012 TEA PARTYER but no longer a Republican)
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To: Tupelo

Across the South the Democrats have urban white liberals, blacks and Hispanics. That’s not enough to win them power statewide. They’re too liberal for mainstream white Southerners.


5 posted on 11/10/2011 7:02:26 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: LdSentinal

More of that ‘wave’ obummer was talking about.


6 posted on 11/10/2011 7:17:13 PM PST by PeaceBeWithYou (De Oppresso Liber! (50 million and counting in Afghanistan and Iraq))
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To: goldstategop

No, the GOP won the House, too. 63R-59D on Election Night, but I’m sure more Dems will jump now that this is likely to be a shift for the forseeable future. Of the former Confederate States, only AR still has a Dem legislature, but the GOP is only a few seats down and it will fall before long.


7 posted on 11/10/2011 7:23:17 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Rick Perry has more red flags than a May Day Parade)
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To: wardaddy

Someone you know?


8 posted on 11/10/2011 7:28:31 PM PST by Pelham (Every nation that rose to power did so by protecting its manufacturing base)
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To: Tupelo

Sounds like profiling to me - - - .


9 posted on 11/10/2011 8:33:04 PM PST by Graewoulf ( obama"care" violates the 1890 Sherman Anti-Trust Law, AND is illegal by the U.S. Constitution.)
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To: Pelham; dixiechick2000

I know his daddy quite well...he represented me in a serious matter while at Ole Miss

Fine lawyer...big yellow dog...that boy has broke away is newsworthy


10 posted on 11/10/2011 11:33:39 PM PST by wardaddy (Ethnonationalist...I'll cop to that....Suicide of a Superpower...I've decided for Newt)
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To: wardaddy; Pelham; Black Agnes

“Fine lawyer...big yellow dog...that boy has broke away is newsworthy”

Agreed!

The fact that the House flipped is icing on the cake.

This makes me so happy, and I can’t wait to have a home there.


11 posted on 11/10/2011 11:41:05 PM PST by dixiechick2000 (Proud barbarian TEA Party SOB and, apparently, an evil Capitalist.)
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To: LdSentinal

It’s more like a baby step from the DNC to the GOP than it is a leap.


12 posted on 11/11/2011 8:46:52 AM PST by SaraJohnson
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