If being too liberal for Mississippi politics means fully funding education every year and not just election years, Billy McCoy is guilty of being the only candidate for Speaker to do so. He is also the only candidate to stand up to Governor Barbour when he tried to take 65,000 seniors and kids off of health insurance. He is the only candidate for Speaker to support building a Burn Center in Jackson so Mississippians suffering burn injuries could be treated at home instead of some strange place away from friends and family. Billy McCoy has supported all of the economic development money the Governor asked for, and millions more, which makes him the only candidate for Speaker with that kind of record on economic development, not to mention the only candidate for Speaker who will make sure we cut the tax on groceries.
If the opposition to Speaker McCoy and his House Leadership want to play games and circumvent voters who elected democrats to the legislature, then I say let them. Do what they say. Ask Representatives who they intend to support for Speaker. It's a Republican strong armed maneuver to split the House completely down partisan lines and the voters ought to know the facts. Let them make it simply Republicans versus Democrats and complete the gridlock so despised in our nation's capital.
I do hope and pray that those folks who committed to progress for Mississippi and re-electing current Speaker Billy McCoy hold their ground and re-elect him this week. Otherwise these are going to be a sad next few years with one man (Barbour) holding almost a stranglehold on our government. Voters elected him governor, but elected an expanded Democratic legislature to hold him in check. We should respect their wishes.
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