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12/21/16

Sid Salter: Griping about the Electoral College is easy What is it? It’s the lead-pipe-cinch fact that it’s a lot easier to gripe and complain about the Electoral College than it is to actually change or eliminate it. Why? The only people really concerned each election cycle about the Electoral College and the occasional disparity…

Former mayoral candidate appointed to city election commission TUPELO – Mayor Jason Shelton has appointed a one-time political opponent to the city’s election commission. On Tuesday, the Tupelo City Council approved Shelton’s nomination of Fred Pitts to fill a vacancy on the municipal election commission. Pitts served a term on the City Council from 2009-13…

BRIAN PERRY/Evers chooses Trump As a member of U.S. Senator Thad Cochran’s staff, White then was ineligible for qualification. Under Mississippi state law, “the other electors attending shall appoint some person or persons to fill the vacancy or vacancies.” The electors chose Charles Evers, an active advocate for the election of Obama in 2008 and…

Former Hinds Assistant DA admits to taking bribe JACKSON, MS (Mississippi News Now) – Former employees of the Hinds County District attorney’s office, turned FBI informants, took the stand in the trial of Hinds County District Attorney Robert Shuler Smith. The county’s top prosecutor is being charged with helping criminal defendants. Former assistant District Attorney…

Former lawmaker denied motion to withdraw guilty plea in corrections corruptions case Former Mississippi lawmaker Cecil McCrory wanted to withdraw his guilty plea for money laundering conspiracy. It’s been nearly two years since he entered that guilty plea. He’s since changed attorneys. His new lawyer didn’t think he had sufficient counsel previously… …The judge denied…

Oxford mayor not seeking re-eletion OXFORD, Miss. (AP/WTVA) — Oxford Mayor Pat Patterson says he will not be running for re-election in 2017. WTVA confirms reports that Patterson’s official announcement comes after 16 years of serving in the city government of Oxford. WTVA 12/21/16

More Mississippians on the job in November JACKSON, Miss. (WTVA) – The Mississippi Department of Employment Security says more Mississippians were on the job in November. The latest figures released Wednesday morning show the unemployment rate is 5.2 percent. Over 1.2 million Mississippians were working, but 63,700 were still listed without work. WTVA 12/21/16

AGs from Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, Texas, Florida and Georgia as well as other AGs representing a combined 24 states penned a letter to US Senator Chuck Grassley supporting the confirmation of Donald Trump’s nominee for AG, Sen. Jeff Sessions. Mississippi’s AG Jim Hood (D) was notably absent from the list of Session supporters. Mississippi…

From the Award Winning Y’all Politics Memory division, here’s a smattering of media coverage of the incident shortly before the election http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/02/us/mississippi-black-church-vandalized-vote-trump/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2016/11/02/vote-trump-painted-on-wall-of-burned-out-black-church-in-mississippi/?utm_term=.de6091a3db30 http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/11/a-black-church-burned-in-the-name-of-trump/506246/ http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/11/03/500496061/fbi-investigating-burning-of-black-church-painted-with-vote-trump http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/03/us/black-church-burned-in-mississippi-with-vote-trump-scrawled-on-side.html?_r=0 Now, we in fact know that there’s been an arrest of a church member in that crime and that it looks less and less like it was a hate…