The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 12/31/7
If 1st District U.S. Rep. Roger Wicker is appointed interim U.S. senator today, more than a few congressional hopefuls will be doing more than wishing for their turn.
Gov. Haley Barbour is expected to announce his choice at 11 a.m. in Jackson, then on the Gulf Coast. The person, whom many political observers say will be Wicker, will become Mississippi’s junior senator until a statewide election decides who serves out the final five years of the term recently vacated by Trent Lott of Pascagoula.
Wicker and his aides have kept a discreet posture since Lott unexpectedly announced his retirement Nov. 26.
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