The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal Editorial, 4/18/8
Voters in the 1st Congressional District on Tuesday will cast ballots in a special, non-partisan election to determine our next representative in the U.S. House – the person who will succeed now-Sen. Roger Wicker for the rest of the two-year term that began in 2007.
Travis Childers of Booneville, the top vote-getter among all candidates in party primaries completed on April 1, is the best candidate on the ballot. Childers is the Prentiss County Chancery Clerk, and his successful, positive and issues-focused campaign in the Democratic primary helped put him in the November general election. He will be on the ballot in November regardless of the outcome of Tuesday’s vote.
The other major contender on Tuesday’s ballot is Greg Davis, the mayor of Southaven in DeSoto County, a fast-growing county that’s part of metropolitan Memphis, Tenn. Davis, a Republican, won the nomination for the November general election in defeating former TVA Chairman Glenn McCullough, who also served as mayor of Tupelo.
John Wages, a Green Party candidate from Lee County, and Wally Pang, an independent from Panola County, also will be on the special election ballot and the November ballot. Neither faced a primary.
Magnolia Tribune
