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News  |  Sarah Ulmer  • 
February 20, 2019

SALTER: Waller’s entry into 2019 governor’s race reshuffles the political deck- perhaps

By: Sid Salter As noted last fall in a previous column, the 2003 election cycle saw Mississippi voters make some interesting choices in terms of the 2019 election cycle in our state. In that 2003 general election, Republican Haley Barbour unseated incumbent Gov. Musgrove by taking 52.6 percent of the vote (470,404) to 45.8 percent…
News  |  Courtney Ingle  • 
February 19, 2019

Former Hattiesburg mayor and gov candidate Johnny Dupree runs for Secretary of State

Johnny Dupree is running for Secretary of State, according to The Clarion-Ledger. Dupree, a Democrat, was the longtime mayor of Hattiesburg, from 2001 to 2017. In 2011, he became the first African-American since Reconstruction to be a major party nominee in the State of Mississippi. Governor Phil Bryant defeated Dupree by 22 points in that…