The first act Frank Bordeaux took as the Mississippi GOP's new chair? He visited Robert Foster to kiss the ring.
Foster last night asked @KentMcCarty & @JansenOwen to strike up an argument with him, but sadly for Foster, they declined to participate. McCarty & Owen should... 1/5
...instead organize with other GOP lawmakers who share their views so the Mississippi GOP will take them more seriously than it takes last year's fourth-place finisher for governor out of four candidates.
Foster's disagreements with McCarty & Owen clearly include: 2/5
➡️ Whether Republicans should treat Democrats with good manners
➡️ Whether Republicans should concede when a Democrat wins or, alternatively, attack public confidence in government 3/5
I suspect Foster's areas of disagreement with McCarty & Owen also include:
➡️ Whether Republicans should support voting rights
➡️ Whether open government and sunshine laws are good ideas
Whether my intuition is right or wrong, @KentMcCarty, @JansenOwen, and other Mississippi GOP legislators would increase their effectiveness and influence if they form a caucus and spell out the views they seek to promote within the Mississippi GOP and in Mississippi. 5/5
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Wallace sponsored HB570 to increase ticketing of drivers by authorizing more law enforcement agencies to detect speed-limit violations using radar. billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2020/pdf/histo… 2/
Fitch filed this brief in a different case earlier this year asking SCOTUS to hold that racially discriminatory laws don't violate the voting rights act if the discriminatory burden on the right to vote is minor: supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/19/1…
Earlier this year, Fitch also filed a brief in the federal 5th Circuit Court of Appeals arguing that courts have no jurisdiction to protect voting rights during pandemics. See pages 9-10: ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/2…
THREAD: I asked @pricewallace who is trying to take his guns (see QT), and I even defended his view that gun owners have valid concerns (see images). Wallace didn't like what I had to say, though, and blocked me.
So, I read the bills Wallace has sponsored in the MS House. 1/
For reference, @pricewallace won a special election in 2018 to represent Mississippi House District 77 (below), which became vacant when Phil Bryant appointed Andy Gipson to be Mississippi's agriculture commissioner.
I'll start with bills Wallace sponsored this year. 2/
Gun owners have valid concerns, so I won't attribute bad faith to @pricewallace. He's just wrong that Biden and Harris threaten Mississippi gun owners.
Recent limitations on gun-owners rights in Mississippi currently come from GOP-appointed federal judges. For example...1/4
...Judge Wingate (a Reagan appointee) on the US District Court for the Southern District of MS ruled that Nissan had the right to fire an employee for lawfully keeping a gun stored in the center console of his locked, parked car while he was at work. 2/4 courtlistener.com/docket/6854761…
The 5th Circuit federal appeals court this year affirmed Wingate's ruling in an opinion by Judge Southwick (a W appointee), joined by Judges Owen (W) and Oldham (Trump).
Cindy's 2018 donors are still waiting for $50,000+ worth of refunds they demanded when Cindy said "I'd be on the front row" for a public hanging and "it's a great idea" to make voting "more difficult." abcnews.go.com/Politics/repub…
Keep the support flowing to Mike, everyone—Cindy couldn't even break six figures on her own, but Lord knows how much Trump raked in for her yesterday 😬 secure.actblue.com/donate/espy-so…
THREAD: @aidachavez reports below on @cindyhydesmith's 1990s lobbying work for the health policies she now opposes, so...did @MikeEspyMS have a healthcare platform in the 1990s, you ask?
Why, yes he did! Espy's plan was basically rural Obamacare. 1/4
Espy noted that health insurance companies gouged agricultural workers and businesses on premiums because farming is a high-risk occupation and farmers had little or no opportunity to pool their risks. 2/4
Espy remarks about how the Clinton administration's health plan would meet rural needs apply fittingly to the guaranteed issue and community rating provisions ultimately passed into law in the ACA, that we all now rely on (and that Cindy wants to gut). 3/4