I Like Tate Reeves Proposal

He proposes that the state start savings accounts at birth with a $500 contribution with those accounts to be managed by the state with the option to put up to $2,000 into those accounts each year. The contents couldn't be touched until the folks turn 18 and could use it for college education or to help pay for a house among other uses. This kind of long term plan makes a lot of sense and as Tate Reeves pointed out could surely help in a state with a negative savings rate. Count me as one in support of this plan.

Check out The Sun Herald for more.

Statewide Races I'm Watching (and perhaps you'd like to, too)

STATEWIDE
You should watch the races for Governor, Attorney General, and Treasurer for big spreads.

Haley Barbour (R), Jim Hood (D) and Tate Reeves (R) will all win big.

The two races that will be nail bitingly close are the races for Agricultural Commissioner and Insurance Commissioner.

The race for Agricultural Commissioner features scandal-tainted party-switcher Lester Spell (R) and farmer and Democratic activist Rickey Cole (D).

The race for Insurance Commissioner features State Senator Mike Chaney (R) who has taken tens of thousands from insurance interests and former Mississippi Chief Financial Officer Gary Anderson (D). Anderson would be the first statewide African-American elected official.

Though losing at least half of the statewide races Democrats will retain their majority in the State House and regain their majority in the State Senate.

Democratic Candidate For Treasurer Shawn O'Hara

Republican Candidate For Treasurer Tate Reeves

Mississippi Public Broadcasting produced these video clips.

The Man ... The Myth ... The Legend: Shawn O'Hara

Yeah, he nuts.