Showing posts with label Walter Michel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Walter Michel. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Southern Political Retort

The "Southern Political Report" should read a couple state blogs before issuing their opinion.

Here is their view on the Republican field:
The three most likely Republican contenders are attorney Gregg Harper, chairman of the Rankin County Republican Party; state Sen. Walter Michel from Madison County; and John Rounsaville, the state director of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development Office. None have formally announced, but are telling friends and associates that they are likely to run.

Somehow they left out Charlie Ross who released a letter where he says that he is seriously considering the race. Oh, the three folks who I've never heard of are the leaders. Right.

Here is their view on the Democratic field:
For the Democrats, the most prominent prospective contender is state party chair and former Congressman Ronnie Shows, who represented most of the district before the post-2000 reapportionment. Shows lost to Pickering by 64% to 35% in 2002.

I'm sure former Congressman Shows would be surprised to find that he is now State Party Chair. Also, who gets to tell Wayne Dowdy that the "Southern Political Report" has dethroned him?

Before the "Southern Political Report" decides that it can tell us how our elections will turn out perhaps it should do a simple fact check and a scan of blogs left and right in the states they are supposedly analyzing.

The (as of 2:25PM Wed. uncorrected) Full Report
The (as of 10:59PM Wed. uncorrected) Full Report

Friday, August 17, 2007

Your Next 3rd District Congressman Could Be...

Republican:

Mary Hawkins Butler - Mayor of Madison
Mike Callahan - Former Public Service Commissioner
Harold Cross - Former Adjutant Feneral of Mississippi
Haley Fisackerly - Entergy Executive / Worked for Thad Cochran
Heath Hall - Worked for Kirk Fordice
Gregg Harper - Former Rankin County GOP chairman
Delbert Hosemann - Attorney / Current GOP Candidate for SOS
Whit Hughes - MDA Official / Former MSU Basketball Player / Friend of Charlie Ross
Tim Johnson - Madison Alderman / Former State Senator
Mark Keenum - USDA Undersecretary / Former Thad Cochran Chief of Staff
Dean Kirby - State Senator
Walter Michel - State Senator
Sam Mims - State Represenatative
Jim Perry - Policy Director to Haley Barbour / Former Roger Wicker Aide
Parker Pugh - Trent Lott Staffer
Brad Reeves - Attorney
Tate Reeves - State Auditor
Charlie Ross - (soon to be) Former State Senator / Recent Candidate for Statewide Office (lost in Republican Primary)
John Rounsaville - Mississippi State Director for USDA Rural Development
Greg Snowden - State Representative
Amy Tuck - (soon to be) Former Lt. Governor
Nick Walters - Former USDA State Director
Quentin Whitwell - Mississippi Mortgage Bankers Association Executive Director / Former State Senate Candidate
Craig Ziemba - Radio Talk Show Host

I'd like to thank Will Bardwellwho organized most of the previous in the easy to read alphabetical order. He is a saint (The Saint of Organizing Online Information in an Easy to Digest Format). :)