Why did your Gov appoint her instead of McDaniel in the first place?
let me anticipate his delusional answer:
BECAUSE HE IS A LOUSY RINO ESTABLISHMENT CRONY-CAPITALIST GOPE UNIPARTY BUSHITE OPEN BORDER GLOBALIST CORPORATIST FREE-TRAITOR NEOCON MULTILATERALIST SCUMBAG!!
Sorry, i'm not from Mississippi. I'm just upset about what the Rino establishment did to McDaniel in the previous election.
At a guess, I would say he didn't appoint McDaniel because the Mitch McConnell smear coalition has so badly damaged McDaniel that the national media would have destroyed him if he had to run for office.
The Barbour/McConnell coalition smeared him as a racist, and it's virtually impossible to get back your reputation after that.