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June 10, 2008

Campaign challenges Barbour strengths

The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal Editorial, 6/10/8 During recent debate in the Mississippi House about whether to increase the tax on cigarettes or levy a hospital patient tax to fund the $90 million deficit in the Division of Medicaid, Rep. Steve Holland, D-Plantersville, warned his Republican colleagues that Gov. Haley Barbour will not be running…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
June 10, 2008

Taylor unlikely to make commitment as Dem. superdelegate

The Sun Herald, 6/10/8 A Mississippi congressman, who’s a Democratic superdelegate, says he probably won’t attend his party’s national convention this summer. U.S. Rep. Gene Taylor said he might not even vote for the Democratic presidential nominee in the fall. “I just try to use my time well. I just don’t know what I would…