Mississippi Political Blogwire

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• McGlowan The Outsider?

  —Majority In Mississippi

  Number of comments: 1
  Included in Angela McGlowan’s campaign kickoff press release yesterday was one major theme: she is an outsider. I’ve heard people make comments about her work in DC disqualifying her of “outsider” status, but we’ll leave it at that. Most likely McGlowan has known she was going to run- or at [...]
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  Posted: February 09, 2010, 9:19am EST
  by Brett

• Quorum | MPB - "K-12 and Beyond"

  —State Street Posts

  From MPB: "Time and again, education is cited as a key factor behind everything from economic prospects and revenue growth to health issues and safety. But, even as state education leaders cite progress in standards and accountability, they face pressure to do more in the classroom with fewer...
  
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  Posted: February 09, 2010, 8:38am EST
  

• JATRAN plaintiffs: "we're going to trial"

  —State Street Posts

  New buses won't deter lawsuit | clarionledger.com | The Clarion-Ledger: "One of a dozen disabled people suing the city of Jackson in federal court over access to public transit said Monday he thinks the city isn't showing good faith in settlement negotiations. 'We're going to trial,' predicted...
  
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  Posted: February 09, 2010, 7:35am EST
  

• XGR: Pearl Levee Board expansion opposed

  —State Street Posts

  Jackson Free Press: Jackson, Mississippi - Noise - City/County - development - Pearl River - Levee Board Opposes State Takeover Attempt: "The Rankin-Hinds Pearl Flood and Drainage Control District Levee Board voted this morning to deliver a letter to the state Legislature opposing a bill that would...
  
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  Posted: February 09, 2010, 6:49am EST
  

• XGR: later school year?

  —State Street Posts

  Legislative Highlights | clarionledger.com | The Clarion-Ledger: "Mandatory school start date: Beginning with the 2010-11 school year, all public schools in Mississippi would start on Sept. 1, based on an amendment approved Monday in the House. House Bill 624 was held on a technicality, allowing...
  
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  Posted: February 09, 2010, 6:46am EST
  

• Finding support to expand MS deer hunting season via HB 1282

  —Yall Politics

  "Columnist" dogs "primitive weapons" season expansion by Alan LangeI read with great disappointment the column written by David Hampton in Sunday's Clarion Ledger entitled "Hunting bill just chasing rabbits". In his column, David Hampton excoriated the great unwashed of Mississippi and deemed that any hunting bill that took the precious time' [...]
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  Posted: February 09, 2010, 2:27am EST
  

• Angela McGlowan (con't)

  —Red/Blue

  In the press release her campaign issued today, Angela McGlowan talked about her desire to "take back the peoples’ seat in Congress and safeguard it against entrenched, incumbent career politicians."  She went on to complain mightily about Travis Childers, Nancy Pelosi, Barak Obama, et al.  Well, let's think about this for a minute.  Of [...]
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  Posted: February 08, 2010, 10:31pm EST
  by jerenash

• Read 'em and weep

  —Jackson Jambalaya

  Today's action in the Mississippi Legislature:
  
  HB #1599 is referred to Ways & Means Committee. Allows a municipality to impose a special sales tax of not more than 1%. Requires a 3/5 vote. Bill status
  
  HB #113: passed the House. Limits costs of public records request to [...]
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  Posted: February 08, 2010, 9:46pm EST
  

• On Wordpress Backups and Disqus Comments

  —Sam R. Hall

  Wordpress and I are not getting along lately. Don’t get me wrong: I love Wordpress. To me, it’s the best blogging platform around. I’ve toyed with Tumblr, Posterous and Blogger. And I’ve never left Wordpress.

  It started last week when some of my tables corrupted. I knew I [...]

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  Posted: February 08, 2010, 9:43pm EST
  by Sam R. Hall

• PRESS RELEASE - Angela McGlowan’s Anti-Incumbent Campaign Takes Off

  —Yall Politics

  PRESS RELEASE - Angela McGlowan's Anti-Incumbent Campaign Takes Off Angela McGlowan Kicks Off Campaign for Congress “Massachusetts was just the beginning, let the rebellion in the House of Representatives start right here in Mississippi” Oxford, MS – Oxford native, author, and former Fox News Political Analyst, Angela McGlowan kicked off her campaign today [...]
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  Posted: February 08, 2010, 9:29pm EST
  

• Powerful Video about the Massachusetts Miracle

  —Ponderstorm

  

  This is a powerful 1 minute 40 second video that I feel puts the Scott Brown electoral victory in a proper historical context. Please watch:

  Click here to view the embedded video.

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  Posted: February 08, 2010, 8:31pm EST
  by PonderstormMike

• CNN - Barbour stopping by South Carolina … “another key early voting state”

  —Yall Politics

  CNN - Barbour stopping by South Carolina ... "another key early voting state" Washington (CNN) - Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, one of several Republicans thought to be considering a White House bid in 2012, is making another trip to a key early voting state. Barbour, the chairman of the Republican Governors Association, [...]
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  Posted: February 08, 2010, 8:09pm EST
  

• Hot Line - Tea Partier, Angela McGlowan, Set For House Bid

  —Yall Politics

  Hot Line - Tea Partier, Angela McGlowan, Set For House Bid A well-known favorite of the Tea Party movement is planning to announce a House bid Monday, setting up a challenge to an NRCC-favored candidate. Fox News analyst Angela McGlowan will announce her bid against Rep. Travis Childers (D-MS) today in Oxford. [...]
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  Posted: February 08, 2010, 8:07pm EST
  

• Levee Board Opposes State Takeover Attempt

  —JFP: Noise

  by Ward Schaefer February 8, 2010 The Rankin-Hinds Pearl Flood and Drainage Control District Levee Board voted this morning to deliver a letter to the state Legislature opposing a bill that would expand the board's membership, and possibly reverse its decision on a controversial Pearl River development plan. Board members expressed concern [...]
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  Posted: February 08, 2010, 8:06pm EST
  

• MIM - NRCC Goes After Childers For Huckabee Comments; uses Childers’ close ties to Joey Langston

  —Yall Politics

  MIM - NRCC Goes After Childers For Huckabee Comments; uses Childers' close ties to Joey Langston Over the weekend, Brad Morris- chief of staff for Rep. Childers- said this about former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee: “Why would he bring in a guy who lets murderers loose on the street?” During his' [...]
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  Posted: February 08, 2010, 8:04pm EST
  

• Hal Neilson update - pleads not guilty, possible media leak explains exclusion from Scruggs case

  —Yall Politics

  Neilson update - pleads not guilty, possible media leak explains exclusion The case surrounding FBI agent Phillip Halbert “Hal” Neilson is shaping up to be a politically charged one, as allegations fly about a troubled relationship between Neilson and recently retired U.S. Attorney Jim Greenlee that had gone on for [...]
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  Posted: February 08, 2010, 7:55pm EST
  

• DCCC cashing in on MS-01 three-way primary

  —Yall Politics

  Yet Another Conservative Republican to Challenge Washington’s Choice for Mississippi’s Representative Democrats responded to today’s announcement by conservative activist Angela McGlowan that she will join the growing field of candidates who are challenging Alan Nunnelee’s conservative credentials in a Republican primary for Congress in Mississippi. Recently, Representative Geoff Davis raised [...]
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  Posted: February 08, 2010, 7:53pm EST
  

• New Buses Give Boost to JATRAN

  —JFP: Noise

  by Lacey McLaughlin February 8, 2010 The uncertain future of JATRAN will become a bit more certain this afternoon when Mayor Harvey Johnson Jr. unveils 16 new JATRAN buses at a 1:30 p.m. press conference. [...]
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  Posted: February 08, 2010, 7:35pm EST
  

• JFP Person of the day: Kynesha Williams

  —JFP: Noise

  by Ashley Hill February 5, 2010 "You can dream it, or you can make it happen" are words Kynesha Williams lives by. Williams, 28, is the founder of BeanSprout Benefit, a foundation that raises money for rehabilitation of people with spinal cord injuries. [...]
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  Posted: February 08, 2010, 7:30pm EST
  

• Monday Election Notebook

  —Majority In Mississippi

  Number of comments: 1
  MS-01: In what may or may not be an issue in the GOP primary, Hotline says that some Republican sources question what effect Angela McGlowan’s ties to Steve Wynn’s gambling empire will have on her chances as the race heats up. The First District is not exactly as friendly toward [...]
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  Posted: February 08, 2010, 7:24pm EST
  by Brett

• Community Events and Public Meetings

  —JFP: Noise

  by Latasha Willis February 8, 2010 Monday, Feb. 8 6 p.m., "The Vagina Monologues" Auditions, at The Cedars Historic Home (4145 Old Canton Rd.). Open auditions will be held for a reading of Eve Ensler's book. E-mail kimberly@jacksonfreepress.com to reserve a time slot. [...]
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  Posted: February 08, 2010, 6:58pm EST
  

• Can We AT LEAST Wait Until He Stops Twitching?

  —Liberal Smash

  Number of comments: 1
  Murtha's traitorous body is not even finished with the final twitching and already MORONIC Democrats are using his death for the umpteenth push to nationalize medical services. (Stolen from Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit.)
  
  
  
  Seriously, do these fucking GHOULS not have an ounce of decency left [...]
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  Posted: February 08, 2010, 5:51pm EST
  by paul mitchell

• Bill Advocates School Bus Ads

  —JFP: Noise

  February 8, 2010 In a 94-21 vote last week, Mississippi House members voted to allow advertising on school buses as a measure to offset some of the state's budget belt-tightening, reports The Sun Herald. The bill imposes some restriction on the types of ads that would be allowed. Ads for alcohol, [...]
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  Posted: February 08, 2010, 3:52pm EST
  

• Angela McGlowan

  —Red/Blue

  www.majorityinms.com has the goods: Angela McGlowan has officially announced her campaign in the Republican Primary for the First Congressional District seat.  Buckle up.  [...]
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  Posted: February 08, 2010, 3:52pm EST
  by jerenash

• It looks as though the Voter ID petition is going to make it

  —Red/Blue

  The efforts of the Mississippi Republican Party grassroots organization and the extraordinary verve and passion of the Mississippi Tea Party organization have apparently combined to meet the petition signature requirements to get a photo Voter ID provision on next fall's general election ballot.
  
  Needing on the order of 18,000 or [...]
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  Posted: February 08, 2010, 3:36pm EST
  by AndyTaggart

• Paul Quinn on Hal Neilson arraignment and whistleblower allegations

  —NMissCommentor

  

  The photo above, by Eli Williams for the Oxford Enterprise, of Hal Neilson leaving his arraignment.

  Paul Quinn has a story about the Hal Neilson arraignment in yesterday’s Oxford Enterprise and the reports about whether or not he was a whistleblower.  Paul has talked to [...]

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  Posted: February 08, 2010, 3:29pm EST
  by NMC

• Saints and Signs

  —Sam R. Hall

  I’m one of those people who often makes fun of church signs. Many of them kill me, mainly because they are so poorly thought out and corny that any intended Good News Message is lost on me.

  For instance, one of my all-time favorites read:

  If you can read this, you can [...]
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  Posted: February 08, 2010, 2:47pm EST
  by Sam R. Hall

• Marathon Pundit - Miss. guv Haley Barbour speaks at Ill. GOP unity breakfast

  —Yall Politics

  Miss. guv Haley Barbour speaks at Ill. GOP unity breakfast The Illinois Republican Party chose wisely when it selected Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour to speak at Wednesday's post-primary Illinois Republican Unity Breakfast. Not only was Barbour the chairman of the Republican National Committee in that great GOP year in 1994, but [...]
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  Posted: February 08, 2010, 2:17pm EST
  

• Barbour trims $21 million in fourth round of budget cuts

  —Yall Politics

  Barbour trims $21 million in fourth round of budget cuts State senators on Friday took back nearly half the money they voted a day earlier to restore to education, and Gov. Haley Barbour then took some of the money schools are still getting by announcing $21 million in new spending cuts. Barbour's' [...]
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  Posted: February 08, 2010, 2:15pm EST
  

• RIP John Murtha

  —Liberal Smash

  Number of comments: 15
  My good friend, Oddybobo, just e-mailed me and said that John Murtha had died.
  
  This was the only image that I found that captured his true essence. The quote is from a absolute lunatic rant he gave on our United States military in Iraq.
  
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  Posted: February 08, 2010, 2:09pm EST
  by paul mitchell

• CL - Legislators fear deer bills - no way to win

  —Yall Politics

  Legislators fear deer bills - no way to win I couldn't help but laugh at the reaction of House members when speaker Billy McCoy called up the controversial deer season bill for debate on Thursday. Even on the Web cast I could clearly hear catcalls, whistles and even feet shuffling. I could feel' [...]
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  Posted: February 08, 2010, 2:05pm EST
  

• MIM - Angela McGlowan Campaign Flyer - Oxford today at 12:30 in front of Courthouse

  —Yall Politics

  MIM - Angela McGlowan Campaign Flyer - Oxford today at 12:30 in front of Courthouse She will be speaking in Oxford on Monday, Corinth on Tuesday, Tupelo on Wednesday, Columbus on Thursday, and Hernando on Friday. Last night at the National Tea Party Convention she said she could not make an official [...]
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  Posted: February 08, 2010, 2:00pm EST
  

• YP lost a friend - Remembering Maria Becker

  —Yall Politics

  There are lots of folks around the Capitol and throughout Jackson that are mourning the loss over the weekend of Maria Becker. Maria fought a courageous struggle against cancer and handled it with the poise and class that she did everything else in her life. Maria was a Millsaps graduate. I [...]
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  Posted: February 08, 2010, 1:54pm EST
  

• AP - Miss. considers allowing ads on school buses

  —Yall Politics

  Miss. considers allowing ads on school buses JACKSON, Miss. -- Those traditional yellow school buses might soon be decorated with advertising, if some Mississippi lawmakers get their way. Supporters say allowing commercial messages on buses is a way to help school districts increase their local revenues when budgets are tight, while opponents [...]
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  Posted: February 08, 2010, 1:50pm EST
  

• Scipps - Mid-South is ground zero for GOP to win seats

  —Yall Politics

  Scipps - Mid-South is ground zero for GOP to win seats The influential Cook Political Report last week said the 8th District seat held by retiring U.S. Rep. John Tanner, D-Tenn., which includes northern parts of Shelby County, is a "toss up," and the First District seat held by retiring Marion [...]
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  Posted: February 08, 2010, 1:40pm EST
  

• Business attire for the JFP

  —Jackson Jambalaya

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  This is the JFP photographer at the Rankin-Hinds Levee Board meeting this morning. He was the only one to wear glow-in-the-dark attire. The pants were a light green. Everyone else [...]
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  Posted: February 08, 2010, 1:36pm EST
  

• AP Analysis: Schools’ money won’t be swiftly restored

  —Yall Politics

  Analysis: Schools' money won't be swiftly restored As Mississippi's legislators continue to wrangle over how much money will be restored to K-12 public education, school district leaders have moved ahead with cost-saving plans. And that's a good idea, according to the chairmen of the education committees in the House and Senate. It [...]
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  Posted: February 08, 2010, 1:35pm EST
  

• A new Mississippi blog for you “fashionistas”

  —Yall Politics

  A new Mississippi blog for you "fashionistas" A friend of YallPolitics recently started her own blog, Mississippi Maven, about culture in Oxford MS. She describes her site as: "AN EXAMINATION OF ALL THINGS STYLISH IN THE SPLENDID LITTLE TOWN OF OXFORD: THREADS, GRUB, BOOKS, BLING, TUNES, SOCIALISTAS AND FASHIONISTAS." http://mississippimaven.blogspot.com/?spref=fb Good luck! yallpintern [...]
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  Posted: February 08, 2010, 1:27pm EST
  

• MS-01: McGlowan Is Officially In

  —Majority In Mississippi

  Number of comments: 4
  We can now say there are three official candidates in the GOP primary for the First District. In one of the worst kept secrets in recent memory, Fox News analyst and conservative author Angela McGlowan made her official intentions known in Oxford earlier today. She will be visiting courthouses through the [...]
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  Posted: February 08, 2010, 1:24pm EST
  by Brett

• Heat in the Senate

  —Red/Blue

  Last week, the seriousness of the governor's cuts was (finally) felt in the Mississippi Senate.  Enough so that nine Republican senators joined with 23 Democrats to approve an amendment (opposed by the Senate leadership and the governor's office) to use $45 million from one of the state's savings accounts to offset [...]
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  Posted: February 08, 2010, 12:59pm EST
  by jerenash

• Does Obama Really Have a 52 Percent Approval Rating In Mississippi?

  —Majority In Mississippi

  According to Gallup he does. In a tracking poll that began on January 21 of last year and ran through December 31, Barack Obama had an approval rating of 52 percent in the Magnolia State with 40 percent disapproving. In the world of instant polling, this is a bit of an [...]
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  Posted: February 08, 2010, 12:51pm EST
  by Brett