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TexasTowelie

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Sun Jul 7, 2019, 11:54 PM Jul 2019

Jim Hood loss could position Mississippi Republicans for an era of long-time dominance

Late in the evening just before the 2011 November general elections, then-Republican Gov. Haley Barbour was spotted sitting in a chair in the middle of the ornate, marble encased second floor rotunda of the Mississippi Capitol, holding a microphone and looking into a camera.

A closer look showed Barbour had an apparatus attached to his ear. He was doing a live remote – as they say in the business – answering questions from CNN about the upcoming state elections.

A Mississippi Highway Patrol security officer stood respectfully at a distance in the otherwise empty and cavernous rotunda.

After finishing his CNN interview, Barbour stopped to talk to a Mississippi reporter about the elections.

Read more: https://mississippitoday.org/2019/07/07/jim-hood-loss-could-position-mississippi-republicans-for-an-era-of-long-time-dominance/

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Jim Hood loss could position Mississippi Republicans for an era of long-time dominance (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jul 2019 OP
What is it about Mississippi politics that makes me think of a sausage factory ... marble falls Jul 2019 #1

marble falls

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