Representatives Margaret Rogers and Russ Nowell announced that they were switching to the Republican Party today. Of course both of them had been voting with Republicans all along, including votes for Jeff Smith in the Speaker's race. Interestingly, Nowell voted for Smith after giving Speaker Billy McCoy his word that he'd support McCoy, which prevented Nowell from being effective in any way for his district over the last 3 years.
In reality, this is no big deal, as neither held any great power. Reaction from elected Democrats seems to be a collective yawn. Steve Holland, in a comment that typified the mood around the Capitol said, "It's good for them to finally embrace who they are."
Predictably, Majority in Mississippi, a Republican blog, has a post up that fixates on race. But are we surprised by that? Surely not.
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These guys in MIM cant so far right that a feather could knock them over.
As far as what they focus on, it just illustrates what may be hanging in the closet of their readership.
Mississippi will undoubtedly go even further right than it is now, and will continued doing so til the excesses of our particular faction of righies go so far overboard that certain less well-to-do segments of our population realize who is REALLY working to keep them down, and start voting for their own best self inerests.
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