Monday, May 12, 2008

NPR Coverage of MS-01

Today's Morning Edition on NPR featured a more-than five minute story on the MS-01 race, including an interview with Travis Childers as he was pumping gas at Kent's Citgo in Grenada last Friday. You can listen to the story here. Listen close and you can even hear the moustache.

Background: Last Friday, the Travis Childers visited 3 gas stations around the MS-01 district- 1 each in Tupelo, Columbus, and Grenada- offering the first 50 motorists at each location up to 10 gallons of gas apiece at $1.25 a gallon, which was the average price of gas in Mississippi on March 5, 1997, the day his Republican opponent Greg Davis, then serving a term in the state Legislature, voted to increase the state tax on a barrel of oil produced in Mississippi. (I'll take "Run-On Sentences" for $400, Alex) The Childers campaign paid the difference and Travis even pumped some of the gas himself. The NE MS Daily Journal has a nice story on his visit to Grenada, which also included an appearance by 4th District Rep. Gene Taylor, here.

Back to NPR, the MS-01 race is also used as example about GOP nervousness arising from losing ground in special house races in Ken Rudin's "Political Junkie" column on the NPR website.

(I'm back stateside and off tornado patrol, so hopefully I can regain a little regularity with my posting around here)

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