Republican members of the Mississippi House have vowed to vote in a bloc for the next speaker of the House – and the votes won’t go to incumbent Democrat Billy McCoy of Rienzi.
“We’re going to have a new speaker next January, and it’s not going to be Billy McCoy,” Rep. Greg Snowden, R-Meridian, assistant leader of the 47-member House Republican Conference, said Thursday.
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