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June 17, 2010

Bill Minor – Should we ditch the primary election

Should we ditch the primary election Mississippi’s “open primary” law, similar to Louisiana’s wherein candidates from all parties run in the same primary, with the two highest finishers vying in a general election, ironically was left in a state of “suspended animation” in January, 1971 when a three-judge federal panel found the Department of Justice…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
June 17, 2010

MCCLATCHY – Trent Lott dismayed by today’s partisanship; blames it on the 60s and 70s

AP – Trent Lott dismayed by today’s partisanship; blames it on the 60s and 70s WASHINGTON — Trent Lott never saw partisanship permeate the very fabric of Congress during his 35-year tenure there the way it divides Capitol Hill today, the former Senate majority leader lamented on Wednesday. Today’s bitter partisan culture is a long…