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July 5, 2013

BILLMINOR-EDINMAN Change sometimes circles back to the past

Change sometimes circles back to the past While the Voting Rights Act may well have outlawed prima facie voter discrimination, it is obvious it did not eliminate racial prejudice in choices for elective office. A shining example was the election of Mississippi’s state treasurer in 2003. Democrats put up a highly qualified black man, former…
Opinion  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
July 5, 2013

BRIANPERRY – Guns good politics for Hood

Guns good politics for Hood Governing Magazine’s recent profile of Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood, “The Last Democrat in Dixie,” describes Hood’s independent appeal in a Republican dominated state. It quotes House Democratic Minority Leader Bobby Moak saying Hood “takes the right stance on God and guns.” “As for guns,” the profile reports, “Hood earned…