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November 10, 2015

NATCHEZDEMOCRAT reports Bob Dearing has unofficial lead over Melanie Sojourner by 53 votes #McGOP

Senate race still unresolved Dearing, D­Natchez, now has 3,700 votes in Adams County, ahead of the incumbent Sen. Melanie Sojourner, R­ Natchez, who has 1,770 votes in the county. The ballots tallied by the resolution board were absentee votes that were rejected by the optical scanning machine. The machine accepted approximately 200 ballots, but Election…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
November 10, 2015

CRAWFORD: What will legislative Republicans do wth increased power

BILL CRAWFORD: Will GOP strength result in politics or progress? Voters gave Republicans greater control over the Mississippi Legislature. What will they do with this increased power… play politics or push for progress? The last four years, with slightly less control, the Republican majority made fiscal progress by eliminating reliance on one-time funding for ongoing…