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A previous leader of the Democratic party confirmed on Thursday that Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) voted for Hillary Clinton in the 2008 Democratic presidential primary. Rickey Cole, the previous leader of the Mississippi Democrat Party, confirmed in a Facebook comment on Thursday. “Cindy was for Hillary in 2008,” Cole wrote in a Facebook comment on Thursday night. indy Hyde-Smith urged more women to run for office when asked about Hillary Clinton becoming the first woman nominated for a major political party in 2016. “We are always supporting women,” Hyde-Smith told the Clarion-Ledger. We want to promote women. I think women...

During 2003 the seemingly constant journalistic scandals at the New York Times caused reporters and editors who were busy corrupting the news at less notorious outlets to be overlooked. In addition to the Jayson Blair scandal, there were the newspaper of record's l'affaires Rick Bragg, Lynette Holloway and Maureen Dowd; the resuscitation of the Sally Hemings Hoax; the matter of the non-existent terrorist attack in Iraq reported by "Pfc. Jose Belen"; the newspaper's postmortem castration of photographer Marvin Smith; its premature burial of dancer Katharine Sergava; and editorialist and Jefferson-hoaxer Brent Staples' baseless smear, claiming that Strom Thurmond had raped...

<p>About a half-dozen Mississippi Republican Party staffers received letters this week saying they must reapply for their jobs.</p> <p>There's no guarantee they will stay aboard. It's part of a shakeup the state GOP headquarters is experiencing as Gov.-elect Haley Barbour prepares for his Jan. 13 inauguration.</p>

<p>The Mississippi Republican Party began the election season with a barrage of faxes and Web sites attacking Democratic lawmakers with hopes of increasing GOP numbers in the 2004 Legislature.</p> <p>The strategy failed on at least one front, laments GOP Chairman Jim Herring.</p>

<p>The long-running legal saga between the state Democratic Party and its former executive director ended Wednesday with a settlement.</p> <p>Alice Skelton worked for the party from February 1995 to December 1996 before an ad hoc committee ousted her.</p> <p>In 1997, she sued for $54,500, but her lawsuit eventually turned into a $170,000 breach of contract case, in which she also demanded money for interest and legal fees.</p>