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April 22, 2015

Nunnelee donates to Trent Kelly in #MS01

Special Election Candidate Gets Unlikely Donation One of the candidates running for the late Rep. Alan Nunnelee’s Mississippi seat got some help from beyond the grave last month. Trent Kelly, the district attorney for the First Circuit Court District, received a $4,000 donation from Nunnelee for Congress. Consultants for the late congressman — including one…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
April 22, 2015

Former governor Barbour speaks at Jackson State, says “We need two parties made up of both races”

Barbour: We need salt-and-pepper political parties Former Gov. Haley Barbour, who helped Republicans sweep Congress in 1994 and Mississippi offices starting a decade later, says the state and country needs a strong two-party system to keep governance in the middle. Barbour, in a guest lecture at Jackson State University, invited African American students to “keep…