Thursday, June 28, 2007

The Mississippi Municipal League Event

Some Observations:

- Barbour scheduled his appearance so that it would come during the luncheon event Wednesday. This way he guaranteed a crowd. All the other candidates had to speak at a seperate "stump speaking" event after the luncheon.

- Barbour went further into the story of Marsha Barbour and her heading down with the State Troopers after Hurricane Katrina. In his story he told of poor folks with twisted trailers and caved in roofs. He said he was touched by how selfless they were. (These are the same folks the Barbour tried to kick off Medicaid so he obviously doesn't care about them that much. They do make a good story though.)

- Other than the story he just said the same things he has been saying including, but not limited to, how absolutely wonderful everything is for everyone in Mississippi. (I think a sizable number of Mississippians would disagree.)

- I watched the state office candidates watch as all the folks left who they had been hoping to speak to either heading back to hotels or the casinos. (the folks are city officials from every community in the state)

- At the "stump speaking" event almost everyone there was a candidate or was specifically there with a candidate.

- Marty Wiseman is a great host and moderator and Todd Brand acknowledged him as one of the folks he had learned under. Wiseman was actually on Brand's doctoral committee.

- The candidates made mention of how they were only speaking to themselves several times and overall the speeches were good.

- In the props department Max Phillips featured a rubber chicken, Mike Chaney had a toy monkey, and one of the transportation commissioner candidates held up a newspaper to highlight some point.

- One candidate each from the Northern and Southern Transportation Districts played off their weight in promising the most transportation commissioner for the votes.

- Feel free to include your observations in the comments section.

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