Posted on 05/12/2015 5:11:08 PM PDT by SMGFan
OLIVE BRANCH, Miss.– Thirteen candidates are looking to fill the state congressional spot once held by Alan Nunnelee who passed away last year from brain cancer.
The Circuit Clerk for DeSoto County said a runoff election was bound to happen, which would cost taxpayers about $52,000.
The Mississippi Secretary of State said on Tuesday voter turnout has been low in all 21 counties that make up District 1.
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All Republican primaries should have runoffs.
This is an all-party primary for the special election.
Just voted for Henry Ross. After last summer I don’t trust anyone in the GOP down here
They did this back in the day to make sure Republicans could not win by winning a plurality over a Democrat field.
I voted for Ross, too. Some church friends know him and say good things about him. I met him at Sweat Peas myself a few weeks ago. It wasn’t the right milieu for a real discussion, but I appreciated what he had to say.
FWIW, I also spoke to Boyce Adams. He didn’t say anything I particularly disagreed with, but for some reason I wasn’t sure I could trust him.
Candidates
Republican
Boyce Adams - Businessman
Nancy Collins - State Senator
Trent Kelly - District Attorney
Quentin Whitwell - Former Jackson city council member
Chip Mills - Itawamba County Prosecutor
Greg Pirkle - Attorney
Daniel Sparks - Attorney
Mike Tagert - Transportation Commissioner for the Northern district
Sam Adcock - Executive at Airbus Helicopter
Ed Holliday - Dentist
Starner Jones - Physician
Henry Ross - Former Eupora Mayor
Democratic
Walter Zinn - Attorney
Myself, family and neighbors I know of cast 11 votes today for Henry Ross, I don’t know of anyone who voted who did not vote for Henry.
Did Hussein lose? Could be a first.
I met Henry Ross at SWEET Peas, not Sweat Peas. I’m sleepy!
Mississippi ping
Does anyone know where to find results?
Looks like Kelly vs Zinn.
Yeah, and today on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi, residents just elected a “Republican” who had recently converted from being a Democrat. Stupid gets what it deserves.
http://www.sunherald.com/2015/05/12/6223780_gilich-wins-biloxi-mayors-race.html?rh=1
It’s all over
Only rat in the race, Walter Zinn, places first with 17%
Alcorn County Prosecuting Attorney Trent Kelly (R) is 2nd with 16%.
Henry Ross, who is the only candidate I’ve seen touted here (maybe cause those world beaters at Tea Party Express endorsed him) is 7th with 5%.
Looks like there were just too many Republicans in the race to keep Zinn from getting into the runoff. But Kelly is heavily favored.
33% of the voters decide the “winners”, while 67% get the shaft. This has got to change.
To what? Instant runoff, Aussie style?
There needs to be a pre-primary convention held to settle on 3 or so candidates and get rid of the nuisance ones, then hold the primary (closed) and (if necessary) run-off. I’m not keen on instant runoffs, because if we had had that in TX for the Cruz-Dewhurst showdown, an instant one would’ve had Cruz lose. The runoff gave him time for a come-from-behind victory.
I also don’t particularly care for an all-party primary as such. If it ends up with 2 Republicans, it almost inevitably favors the RINO. I’d rather the Democrats be allowed to run their own (ditto for having a Republican in a district with 2 Dems in a runoff).
You should be less concerned about him being a former democrat and more concerned about him being a member in good standing with the Dixie Mafia.
We don’t need any pre-primary anything, much less some “convention” that could be overrun by a few Paulistinians or something. Regular elections in MS and throughout much if the South (but not TN, of course) already have a good system in place: a partisan primary with a run-off between the top two if no one gets 50%+1 (or 40%+1 in the case of NC) and a general election among the nominees of each party. Such system should be adopted by all 50 states, not replaced with something out of Ron Paul’s book of tricks. The problem with yesterday’s election was that MS doesn’t follow its own rules as would have been applicable for a regular election and instead uses that retarded, Louisiana-style “jungle primary” format where everyone runs on the same ballot irrespective of party and the top two go on to the general. If MS used its regular-election rules for special elections, the problem would be solved. (The one remaining problem in MS is that it doesn’t have party registration and thus Democrats can pretend to be Republican and vote for the likes of Cochran in the GOP primary, which is something that the legislature should remedy as well.)
Of all possible results from yesterday, having the one RAT make the run-off against a conservative Republican (which is what happened) was just about the best possible one. Had two prominent Democrats run they may have finished one-two due to the plethora of GOP candidates, thus guaranteeing a RAT congressman; and had a conservative arepublican and a moderate Republican made the run-off, Democrats would have voted for the moderate in the general and thus subvert the will of most Republican voters in the district. At least with a run-off between a conservative Republican and a RAT we know that the conservative Republican will get elected.
BTW, Poliics1 described Republican Trent Kelly (the next congressman from MS-01) as “Alcorn County prosecuting attorney,” and that technically is not incorrect given that he’s from Alcorn County and is a prosecuting attorney, but he is not a mere county prosecutor, but the District Attorney for a six-county or so area in NE MS (that includes Lee County, the largest of the region). That makes Kelly an experienced and prominent figure.
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