Mississippi Democrats Request Payment From GOP For Services Rendered In Delivering Election For Thad Cochran…
The irony will be lost on the professional political class.
Mississippi Democrat Bennie Thompson asks GOP Thad Cochran to repay the Democrats in Mississippi for helping him win his re-election.
MISSISSIPPI -
Senator Thad Cochran (R., Miss.) needs to reward the black voters who
crossed party lines to support him in his runoff against tea party
challenger Chris McDaniel by backing some concrete policy initiatives,
according the the state’s only member of the Congressional Black Caucus.“We have historically black colleges in our state who do the best job they can trying to educate our citizens,” Representative Bennie G. Thompson told National Review Online during a Wednesday interview at the Capitol. ”I’d like to see efforts that they receive full funding. I’d like to see the health care of our citizens improved; our children die too young. I’d like to see an increased effort to make sure that the minority unemployment rate inn our state is reduced. So, there are a lot of opportunities for us to start with.” (read more)
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