PERRY/Election time again already
A score of campaigns are gearing up for next year’s elections. I don’t mean the August primary or November general elections, but rather a special election on Jan. 11, 2011 to fill the Northern District Transportation Commissioner seat, a state Senate seat and a state House seat. Less than two weeks into the new year, more than a third of the state will have an opportunity to vote again.
Special elections do not have partisan designations on the ballot, but there are no restrictions on campaigning with partisan affiliations.
Northern District Transportation Commissioner Bill Minor suffered a heart attack and died on November 1. Minor, a Benton County Democrat, spent 20 years in the Mississippi Senate and served as State Highway Committee Chairman before winning his MDOT seat in 2003 by defeating Republican nominee John Caldwell with 57 percent of the vote. Caldwell’s campaign was interrupted when he was activated for military service. Minor was reelected without opposition in 2007.
http://onlinemadison.com
12/15/10
