GOP primary key in battle for No. 2 post
JACKSON – Mississippi’s next lieutenant governor will almost certainly be an incumbent Republican officeholder who touts himself as a fiscal and social conservative.
The winner of the Aug. 2 Republican primary between Senate President Pro Tem Billy Hewes of Gulfport and Treasurer Tate Reeves of the Jackson area will not face a Democratic foe in November. No Democrat filed to run for the post, which wields considerable power as the Senate’s presiding office and first in line of gubernatorial succession.
“The Republican primary is for the whole shooting match in that race,” said Marty Wiseman, director of the Stennis Institute of Government at Mississippi State University.
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6/5/11
Magnolia Tribune
