Game On in Mississippi
Posted by Matt Ortega on January 15, 2008 at 10:46 AM
The special election for the seat of retired Senator Trent Lott (R-Mississippi) will be on or before March 19, a judge ruled. Republican Governor Haley Barbour "exceeded his constitutional authority" by scheduling the special election for November.
In his order, DeLaughter said the election should be held "within 90 days of the governor's Dec. 20, 2007 proclamation of writ of election...on or before March 19, 2008.
Hood cited Mississippi Code 23-15-855, which applies to U.S. senator vacancies. He and Barbour have differing interpretations of that statute.
Several prominent local Democrats have jumped into the race to unseat Gov. Barbour's appointed replacement, Senator Roger Wicker. Mississippi Democrats can start the wave of Republican seats tipping over to the Democrats before the summer.
(Hat tip: Swing State Project)
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Delicious! In NC we've got a very, very good chance of replacing two very, very bad representatives in DC. Roy Carter is already close enough to catch up and beat that odious Virginia Foxx (R, NC05) whose voting record makes it clear that she lock-stepped and rubber-stamped every anti-American piece of legislation the neocons cooked up. Larry Kissell is also within striking distance of republican fat-cat and self-servative pocket-liner, Robin Hayes (R, NC08). Larry financed his own start in the race and has put elbow-grease, shoeleather and good, old-fashioned honest work into making it a success. He's a regular poster at BlueNC, personable, accessible and wonderfully down-to-earth. Of anyone in this world, he certainly deserves to go to Washington.
Grass-roots efforts are working. Dr Dean's example of building the party from the ground up at the national level has reached all the way out here in the hinterlands. May this early race in MS catalyze, inspire and boost our efforts nationwide.
There is no big deal about the decision of Judge Bobby DeLaughter it was in accordance to law. The hoopla is over class-actions and all the illegal activity associated thereto.
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