Bryant Wins Mississippi Republican Primary
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on August 3rd, 2011 4:39 am by HL
Bryant Wins Mississippi Republican Primary
The Hotline reports that Mississippi Lt. Gov. Phil Bryant (R) won a crowded Republican primary with 59% of the vote, avoiding an August 23 runoff that will most likely be necessary for Democrats Johnny DuPree and Bill Luckett.
Bryant is the presumed favorite in the general election, as Republicans continue to dominate state politics in Mississippi. “A sign of Democrats’ plight in the Magnolia State: they failed to get a single candidate on the ballot for lieutenant governor, secretary of state, or auditor.”
Man Jumps White House Fence
CNN has video of a homeless man who jumped the White House fence being “apprehended by uniformed Secret Service officers who approached him with guns drawn,” broadcast live on John King USA.
“After the man jumped the fence, armed officers ordered him to lie down and then handcuffed him before taking him into custody. A backpack thrown over the fence and lying on the ground nearby was being checked by security officers, who locked down the area as a precaution… He will be charged with unlawful entry and contempt of court because he previously had been ordered to stay away from the White House due to past incidents.”
Massa Claims Plot Forced Him from Office
Former Rep. Eric Massa (D-NY) “is trying to piece together the events surrounding his hasty departure from office more than a year ago, and is making a case to the House Ethics Committee that he is the victim of a devious plot to force his ouster,” the Elmira Star Gazette reports.
Massa resigned on March 8, 2010 “and offered several reasons for his action at the time, including an ethics inquiry, his failing health and a conspiracy by Democrats related to his opposition to their health care plan. His resignation came under a cloud of suspicion from a House ethics investigation that followed him onto cable news programs, where he recounted a tickling incident with a staff member.”
Now, using House staff e-mail messages, Massa “constructs a chain of events that led to his resignation and lays his demise at the feet of his former chief of staff, Joseph Racalto, in documents submitted in March of this year to the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct in an effort to clear his name.”