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.
Mississippi again elected a GOP Governor. I think the House is still controlled by Democrats.
Another Southern conservative Democrat jumped ship. The GOP is running out of Southern conservative Democrats to recruit. :)
There is no room in the Mississippi Democrat Party for White conservatives and there ain’t no Black conservatives in the Democrat Party.
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.
More of that ‘wave’ obummer was talking about.
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.
Someone you know?
Sounds like profiling to me - - - .
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
“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.
It’s more like a baby step from the DNC to the GOP than it is a leap.
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