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July 17, 2007

Ross vigorously courts DeSoto vote

The Memphis Commercial Appeal, 7/17/7 State Sen. Charlie Ross, a Republican candidate for lieutenant governor, was in DeSoto County three times last week. Monday, he was back again, and Thursday he will meet GOP women. “DeSoto County is one of the fastest-growing areas in our state,” said Ross after a business luncheon in Hernando Monday.…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
July 17, 2007

Are Barbour’s coattails broad enough to carry Legislature for Republicans?

The Leader Call Editorial, 7/16/7 Another election in Mississippi. The sitting governor was popular. His political party’s confidence level heading into the general election was running high — poised, by some estimations, to make major inroads in the Legislature. It didn’t happen. It was the election of 1995. And the political magnetism of Republican Kirk…