Tuck may be going to GOP

The Clarion-Ledger ^ | November 28, 2002 | Sid Salter

[Buggs]

Three months before candidates' qualifying deadline for the 2003 elections, Democratic Lt. Gov. Amy Tuck is expected to announce her conversion to the Republican Party on Monday at a state Capitol news conference, GOP sources confirmed Wednesday.

Tuck aide Nan Tarlton said the lieutenant governor was unavailable for comment on Wednesday and Tarlton also would not comment.

[afuturegovernor]

I've heard this rumor for at least a year, now it finally appears to be true. BTW, Chip Pickering would have beaten the socks off Ronnie Shows regardless of what kind of district was drawn. Pickering destroyed Shows in this last election 65% to 35%. Beating an incumbent congressman that badly is not common but Pickering did it.

[afuturegovernor]

http://www.amytuck.com/

[Gunder]

I love Haley Barbour! He's got that whole no-b.s., Dr. Phil kind of style.

[SoCar]

State Sen. Terry C. Burton, D-Newton, said he "was not shocked" to hear reports that Tuck had decided to switch parties. "I have heard all the rumors. If that what she's comfortable doing, I support her all the way. It won't affect her ability to preside over the Senate." Burton said he had been approached over the last two years about a possible switch to the GOP, but he said he had not reached a decision. "It's something worth thinking about and talking about," he said.

He's next for sure. I bet there's a lot more to follow.

For all those annoyed at the lack of an identifying state, I agree. I had no idea who Amy Tuck was or where this article was from until I saw Pickering's name.

Can anyone form MS explain to me the large disparity of Dems to Reps in the legislature there. I understand that southern Rats are slow to change on a local level, heck we just recently took over in Republican South Carolina. But that disparity in a conservative state is huge!

[SoCar]

BTW, watch out for Chip Pickering. I believe he is a future Republican star. Young with lots of appeal. Our party has a great future with people like him on the bench. The best the Rats can do is dig up fossils like Mondull and Lousyburg. They are in big trouble!! LOL!!

[afuturegovernor]

You're right that the Democrats have an overwhelming majority in both houses of the Mississippi legislature. Right now members of the legislature in both houses are broken up into three large factions, liberal (nearly all black) Democrats, conservative Republicans, and the moderate white Democrats. With things as that are now, the liberal Democrats and conservative Republican cancel each other out and that leaves the moderate white Democrats in power. Few Democrats have been willing to switch from the most powerful faction into another less powerful faction - even if it is where they belong.

Republican on the presidential level have done very well in Mississippi. Since the end of WWII Mississippi has only voted for two Democrats for president: Stevenson in the 1950's and Carter in 1976. Republicans have done fine on the Congressional level in Mississippi too. But on those levels it is easy for Republicans to paint the election as a classic battle of liberalism vs. conservativism. In the 2002 Congressional race the major issue was Speaker Hastert vs Speaker Gephart. When elections are striped down to that the Republican win overwhelming.

Local elections are harder to paint in such black and white terms. Issues like abortion and guns that Republican have an advange on in Mississippi are not covered much or as much in local elections.

Things are changing, I think 2003 will be a major breakthrough year for Republicans in Mississippi. Haley Barbour is a political genius. I believe he will destroy Ronnie Musgrove for governor in 2003. Musgrove was barely elected last time and his goverorship has been an embarassment.

[SoCar]

Thanks for the excellent analysis. I agree that 2003 has the potential of being a huge breakout year for Reoublicans in MS. Look at what happened in GA!!

[wardaddy]

I don't know much about her....explain ditz please?

I'm a kinsman btw and I'm only asking.

Regards.

[wardaddy]

Clarion Ledger Ill,

my hometown of Jackson Mississippi newspaper...another Gannett Dem organ now of course.

Happy Thanksgiving!

[Mind-numbed Robot]

Though I know more about MS politics than most Mississippians,....

Do you know Dick Hall? He and I were good friend and college roommates until I moved to Texas.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

my hometown of Jackson Mississippi newspaper...

Mine also from, 1938 - 1960, when I moved to Texas.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

See post #30.

[Wonder Warthog]

"Anyone who is not a liberal when they are 20 has no heart. Anyone who is not conservative when they are 40 has no mind."

I guess that means that I have never had a heart, having been conservative as far back as I can recall. This is one "Baby Boomer" who has never bought in to the supposed "Baby Boomer Zeitgeist".

[Buggs]

Sorry about that. I thought the location was obvious from the article, but maybe I'm to close to the situation to notice. The article was from the Jackson, MS Clarion-Ledger and Amy Tuck is the current Lt. Governor of Mississippi. She is up for re-election next November.

[WKB]

Is she pro second amendment?

A card carrying member of the NRA. Is that good enough?

[WKB]

another Gannett Dem organ now of course.

And you know what is really bad? I deliever about 600 of them every morning in Yazoo City Ms.

[my right]

Boy you beat me to it. I know a guy named Tuck but he ain't got enough sense to pour pi** out of a boot, much less change party to Republican so I had to strike him off my list of likely suspects but then I was at a total loss.

[Theodore R.]

No, is he a legislator? Obviously I don't know many state legislators by name in other states. I am just familiar with the governor, the two senators, and some of the congressman. I also once wrote a paper on the gubernatorial campaigns of Rubel Phillips, the first Republican to seek the MS governorship. I do know that the MS legislature is actually more Democrat than in some of the other southern states.

[wardaddy]

59-82 here....all my kin are still there....

It's decayed terribly.

[wardaddy]

We all have to make a living. Don't feel bad, here in Nashville....the Tennessean (another Gannett Dem blow job) is just as bad...maybe worse.