YP Daily Roundup 10/28/19

A spokeswoman for Vice President Mike Pence says he will campaign in Mississippi for the Republican nominee for governor.

Katie Waldman confirmed to The Associated Press on Friday that Pence will speak at a Tate Reeves rally on the Mississippi Gulf Coast on Nov. 4. That is the day before the election.

Reeves is the second-term lieutenant governor. He faces Democrat Jim Hood, who is the fourth-term attorney general. Two other candidates are running low-budget campaigns. The winner will succeed Republican Gov. Phil Bryant, who is limited to two terms.

Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant says the state’s cash reserves are at their highest level ever.

The Republican said Friday that the state Department of Finance and Administration has transferred just over $205 million into the state rainy day fund. The money was the unspent surplus for state government for the budget year that ended June 30.

With the transfer, the rainy day fund has hit its limit, by law, of $554.8 million.

Bryant said on Twitter that the amount of money in the fund is “the most in Mississippi’s history.”

A groundbreaking ceremony will be held Tuesday for a new state veterans home at Tradition in Harrison County.

Mississippi Veterans Affairs announced Gov. Phil Bryant will be the keynote speaker at the event and will be held outside Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College’s Bryant Center at Tradition.

The $56 million project, first announced in February of this year, will feature 100-singe occupancy beds and will bring about 200 new jobs to the area.

Espy calls for $15 minimum wage

The federal minimum wage hasn’t moved from $7.25/hour in over a decade. It’s time to give American workers the raise they deserve and increase the minimum wage to $15/hour.

— Mike Espy (@MikeEspyMS) October 27, 2019

WTOK – Tupelo mayor injured after tree falls through home

The mayor of Tupelo, Jason Shelton, was taken to the hospital after a tree fell through his home.

According to the City of Tupelo’s Facebook page, Shelton and his wife became trapped after the large tree ripped through his home. He was taken to the North Mississippi Medical Center for observation.

A few hours after the incident Mayor Shelton posted a thank you to everyone that reached out to his family.

WXXV – South Mississippi Schools prepare for State Superintendent of Education to visit

DESOTO TIMES – Voter campaign causes voter confusion

In many cases, the recipients are actually registered and active participants in the election process. The source of the campaign apparently used a bad mailing list, but the result has made some voters unsure about their status for the general election.

The letters have come from the Democratic Attorneys General Association (DAGA) as part of its Voter Registration Project and are penned by the association’s Executive Director Sean Rankin.

“You’re receiving this letter because our records show that you are not registered to vote at this address,” Rankin writes.

In most cases, the letters were delivered before the Oct. 7 registration deadline, however some were delivered after that date. Several Democratic voters, especially African-American voters who were targeted by the campaign, were left wondering if they actually were active on the voter rolls, according to Kelly Jacobs of the DeSoto-Marshall Federation of Democratic Women, who alerted the DeSoto Times-Tribune to the issue.