Delbert Hoseman Says He'd Like To "Explore" Early Voting

In the Commercial Dispatch:

Secretary of State-elect Delbert Hosemann also said during his campaign that he's interested in allowing early voting, but measures would be needed to ensure voting machines are tamper-free from fraud.

“It helps with absentee-voting issues and the security of the vote,” Hosemann said. “Early voting is something we need to explore.”

I hope he does make early voting a priority. It's been done elsewhere with few problems. Voter fraud does need attention, but access is a far more important issue. Hopefully we can tackle both.

Noteable Quote on "Coattails"

“It’s clear Haley’s coattails are worn, ragged and frayed."

- Mississippi Democratic Party Chairman Wayne Dowdy

Noteable Quote on Who Liberals Are

We are the coalition of the benevolently irrational people doing good things for no particular reason.

- Jeff Smith at Yearly Kos 2007

Congressman Gene Taylor (D) On Crooked Insurance Companies

"Greed is the main disconnect in this situation," said Taylor, D-Miss. "It's easy for them to walk around in their Gucci suits and defend their companies, but the reality is down there on the Gulf Coast, where all of the destroyed homes and property of my constituents are. Of course, these companies don't want to change the rules that are currently in their favor.

- Congressman Gene Taylor (D-MS) 7/2007

Notable Quote: July 03, 2007

From Political Wire:

"Why is the President flip-flopping? Why does Scooter Libby get special treatment?"

-- Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE), noting that just last year, the Bush administration filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the Supreme Court in an attempt to uphold a lower court's ruling that a 33 month prison sentence for Victor Rita, who was convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice, was reasonable.

Bush commuted Libby's prison sentence of 30 months for perjery and obstruction of justice yesterday because it was "excessive."

Trent Lott Immigration Roundup: "Goats"

First, Trent's "Goats" remarks have made the rounds appearing accross the net:
The story that started it all

Laura Hipp has it up at the Clarion Ledger

We put up our original post. (I read it in the Sun Herald at breakfast.)

This influential political website (PoliticalWire) picked it up from us.

So did influential progressive blogging hub Daily Kos

A simple search of Google shows many more results."

My favorite response so far though is this: Photoshop of Lott's book on RightOfMississippi

And I might as well show my support for NAVY with Billy the Goat:

Notable Quote: June 21, 2007

"If the answer is 'build a fence' I've got two goats on my place in Mississippi. There ain't no fence big enough, high enough, strong enough, that you can keep those goats in that fence."

"Now people are at least as smart as goats," Lott continued. "Maybe not as agile. Build a fence. We should have a virtual fence. Now one of the ways I keep those goats in the fence is I electrified them. Once they got popped a couple times they quit trying to jump it."

"I'm not proposing an electrified goat fence," Lott added quickly, "I'm just trying, there's an analogy there."

- Trent Lott 6/20/07

From The Sun Herald

Notable Quote: June 19, 2007

"The people of Mississippi should not have to file an open records request to find out if their State Auditor has been auditing."

- Charlie Ross (From a Press Release issued June 19, 2007)