THREAD w/ highlights from Cindy Hyde-Smith's interview today. Yes, this is the trainwreck you think it is.
The interview starts with asking Cindy why she refused to debate @MikeEspyMS and OMG this is awkward. 1/
Byron asked Cindy about her statement that the home of Jefferson Davis president of the Confederacy, is "Mississippi history at its best."
BYRON: "Is this really Mississippi's history at its best?"
CINDY: "It is displayed very well." 2/
The "civil unrest"?
Cindy refers to lynchings in Mississippi as "civil unrest." There's nothing civil about terrorism. 3/
BYRON: "Do you support a bill that would keep children under the age of 26 on their parents' health insurance?"
CINDY: "For people that can afford that, when they're in the position that they need affordable healthcare."
Huh? (Then Cindy lied about lowering drug costs.) 4/
"Do you think the president should have set an example of wearing a mask more often?"
Oh, Cindy not gonna talk smack about Trump. 😂 5/
Cindy should never speak about qualified immunity again. She is clearly too ill-informed to speak about it. 6/
Cindy opposes Initiative 65 and Initiative 65A because (a) law enforcement opposes it, (b) she believes the federal gov't should decide this issue for Mississippi, (c) people abuse opioids, and (d) illegal drugs come across the border.
Wow. 7/
Here is Cindy's complete interview with WJTV. Cindy's campaign has collapsed, and she knows it. 8/
If anyone wants to give Cindy the benefit of the doubt about whether Jefferson Davis is one of the pieces of MS's history that Cindy's "not proud of," please note that when Cindy was a state senator, she tried to name a highway in her county after Jefferson Davis. 9/
I wanted Byron to ask Cindy who she refers to as "they" in this quote. Sadly, that question didn't get in.
"They remind me that there's a lot of liberal folks...who maybe we don't want to vote. Maybe we want to make it more difficult to vote. I think that's a great idea." 10/
For comparison, @MikeEspyMS also gave an interview yesterday. See below: 11/
While Republicans nationally aim to prevent children from coming into custody, Andrea Sanders tells @NicoleAkinsBoyd Mississippi has an alarming, ever-growing intake of children entering custody and some MS courts are conducting suspicionless drug tests en masse on all parents.
"Bringing children into custody does not make every child safer, and in fact it should be a last resort for the state with other measures taken if possible."
—Andrea Sanders to @NicoleAkinsBoyd @bricewigginsMS @JeremyEnglandMS @SenRodHickman @SenDavidBlount @zakiyasummers
@NicoleAkinsBoyd @bricewigginsMS @JeremyEnglandMS @SenRodHickman @SenDavidBlount @zakiyasummers Sanders warns of a backward-thinking political push in Harrison County to drive up the number of families CPS breaks apart in Mississippi.
1. Harris' housing plan includes tax cuts and deregulation to boost supply, whereas Trump's global tariffs would and mass deportations would limit supply. If England wants to help, he should sponsor zoning reform legislation.
2. I don't know of a plan to give taxpayers more money for groceries unless @JeremyEnglandMS means the child tax credit. To that end, Harris' proposal is quite modest compared to JD Vance's.
Huh. @RepEzell thanked @SecretaryPete for the historic support Pete's giving the MS Gulf Coast—but then Ezell told WLOX that Pete neglects the MS Gulf Coast because he only cares about Biden supporters.
Ezell said that's why Pete joined @BennieGThompson in Jackson and the Delta.
I always thought it seemed like @RepEzell gets along with @SecretaryPete quite well.
@RepEzell @SecretaryPete If @RepEzell wants more one-on-one time with @SecretaryPete, why doesn't he just ask?
🧵 Dep. Tommy Mason beat James Hughey so badly in 2017 that he broke several of Hughey's ribs and ruptured Hughey's spleen.
Judge Percy grants Mason's motion for qualified immunity because Hughey does not remember enough specific details of the attack due to ammonia poisoning.
Mason's first of several motions for QI argues that Hughey's complaint should be thrown for failure to plead specific facts about the attack beyond Hughey's ability to remember them. Mason does not state his verion of events.
Hughey responded by claiming he pleaded sufficient facts to overcome QI and alternatively that, the court should allow Hughey to conduct discovery on Mason's QI claim.
🧵 Tate promised to cut vehicle purchases when he ran for lt. gov.
But upon getting approval to sign contracts worth $15,505,234,725.00 for Tate's donors, Tate's administration got permission to buy the state another airplane for $8,000,000.00 via non-competitive procurement.
"My savior was betrayed by one of his chosen, and I believe we've experienced the same," a weeping Wendell Ladner told Madison County's board today, speaking against rental property.
"Judas was honorable enough to recognize the magnitude of his betrayal and committed suicide." https://t.co/FaBWhHlotz