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State Chapters => State Politics/Government => Topic started by: TomSea on November 12, 2018, 04:49:25 pm
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Even Mississippi is going to a run-off on November 27th? Wow. Espy is a Dem, Hyde-Smith, the lady a Republican.
Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith’s Democratic opponent Mike Espy slams ‘public hanging’ remark as ‘reprehensible’
Elizabeth Zwirz
Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., insisted Sunday that she was complimenting a supporter when she said, “If he invited me to a public hanging, I’d be on the front row,†a comment that was captured in a video recording.
The Republican lawmaker is now facing backlash for the remark from her opponent in Mississippi U.S. Senate race, which will head to a runoff later this month.
The video clip surfaced on social media Sunday in a post by Lamar White Jr., who is the publisher of the news site The Bayou Brief. White told The Associated Press he obtained the recording from an individual he described as “a very reliable, trusted source.†White added that his source acquired the video from the individual who recorded it, he said.
Read more at: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cindy-hyde-smiths-democratic-opponent-mike-espy-slams-public-hanging-remark-as-reprehensible (https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cindy-hyde-smiths-democratic-opponent-mike-espy-slams-public-hanging-remark-as-reprehensible)
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Who was the third party spoiler who forced the runoff?
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Who was the third party spoiler who forced the runoff?
McDaniel and Bartee.