Mississippi Gubernatorial Debate goes WILD!!

[Maddy McCall]

I am listening to the debate, which is happening at Delta State University, on the radio.

After the introduction of the Republican and the Democratic candidates Haley Barbour and Ronnie Musgrove respectively, as questions were to begin, the Green candidate stood up in the audience and screamed, "My name is Sherman Lee Dillon! I have not been properly introduced in this debate! I would like to introduce myself and let people know about my candidacy in this race, and how democracy is being denied by not allowing me to participate in this debate!" Greens in the audience went WILD!

The moderator told security to remove Dillon; Greens continued to scream, "Hear the Green candidate!" "Allow him to speak!" "Democracy denied in Mississippi!"

Guys, this was wild. The Green, Libertarian, and Independent candidates have been shut out of the debates. Well, bluesman Sherman was heard tonight! Rowdyboy, other Mississippians, did you hear it?

[Terwilliger]

1. Good for Sherman Lee Dillon!!

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[E_Zapata]

2. Splendid!

Go democracy!

[HFishbine]

3. If the dem candidate had any balls

he'd have said, "Sure, come on up here. Let's have a real debate. I'm all for democracy."

[Maddy McCall]

4. ANOTHER INCIDENT!!

A woman in the audience started screaming "Haley Barbour leave!" "Haley Barbour leave!" or something like that. Can only comprehend that she must mean for him to go back to his lobbying job in Washington.

Moderator called for security to "control this WOMAN!"

[Terwilliger]

5. wasn't Barber the RNC chairman

up until Marc Racicot?

[Maddy McCall]

7. YES! AND he worked in the Reagan administration

He is a gasbag. A blowhard. An illiterate redneck. Amazing that he has "accomplished" so much--I don't get what people see in him. Wish you guys could hear this.

[pandatimothy]

13. "illiterate redneck"!

I love it! No wonder we do poorly with rural white Southerners like myself. WOO HOO!

[Terwilliger]

20. are you an illiterate redneck?

:D

[Terwilliger]

26. oh lighten up!

certainly you would acknowledge that there are a bunch of racist nutballs all over the South. I used to live in Georgia, Virginia, Florida, and Alabama....don't tell me :eyes:

[quaker bill]

10. Yes

You are correct.

[Devlzown]

6. Thanks for the heads up, jchild!

I just turned my radio on PRM. Hate I missed the beginning:mad: !

[Maddy McCall]

8. keep listening...it is obvious that Sherman has supporters in the...

audience who are going to disrupt this debate all the way though. Especially when Barbour speaks.

[Devlzown]

12. Yeah, I'm loving it!

This election's going to be so close -- I just hope the campaign doesn't turn too many people off from voting. Barbour's obviously full of shit, but he's a hell of a con man. He and Amy Tuck could do a lot of damage together.

[Maddy McCall]

14. I know it...

They (Barbour/Tuck) are coordinating their campaigns, and they both have huge ties to the Bush admin.

I am finishing my doctorate now; if we have a Repub admin for the next 4 or 8 years, I am leaving this state.

[Devlzown]

16. I don't blame you, but I hate to see you go!

This state has always been poor, but it could get a lot worse. Tuck and Barbour are pushing tort reform and I'm sure deregulation is on the way, too.

[Maddy McCall]

18. What amazes me is that we are one of the poorest states in the union...

and we benefit immensely from federal programs and "big government," yet voters here HATE the federal government.

Go figure.

[Devlzown]

22. There's a strong libertarian streak in Southerners

(myself included, though not for the same reasons). Many down here think that the feds were being hypocritical when integration and other social reforms were shoved down their throats. And of course we all know what happened 100 years before that........

[Maddy McCall]

9. Again!!

"Where are all the voices! Sherman Lee Dillon has a voice, too! He's a candidate too!"

[Blue-Jay]

11. Without a LaRouche-douche or two

it just ain't a lively debate!

[Maddy McCall]

15. "Haley, you ought to be ashamed of yourself..."

(Barbour distorts Musgrove's record on education) Musgrove continues, "That (lying) may be the way you do it in Washington, but that's not how we do it in Mississippi." Crowd cheers wildly.

[Maddy McCall]

17. Barbour is getting booed now, LOUDLY!

Barbour says that Musgrove is distorting HIS record and running attack ads, so obviously Musgrove turned to the audience in dismay. Barbour told him, "You need to face me like a man!"

Guys, the debate is over, but politics are WILD here. Not that skanky kind of wild in California, but very ALIVE here.

[Terwilliger]

19. HEY!

hahahahaha "skanky kind of wild" :D

[Maddy McCall]

21. Not meant to hurt Cali residents' feelings :-) n/t

[jiacinto]

23. Great

And let me guess he spent the few minutes he had attacking MusGrove and calling him a "corporate whore".

[rads]

24. Summary?

Who seemed to win/lose? Are people paying attention yet or is it still inside baseball at this point?

I would love to see Haley go down in a rout.

[Maddy McCall]

25. I may be biased...

but Musgrove won this debate. He held his cool, while Barbour went off on a rant, and he basically challenged Musgrove to a fistfight. LOL!

Musgrove is strong on education, job creation, teacher raises, and he has not had to cut social services--only state in the SE not to have to--in the face of a downward spiraling national economy.

Haley Barbour tried to defend his role as a Washington lobbyist for NAFTA, saying, get this, "I was paid by the Mexico government to lobby for provisions to keep their trucks out of Mississippi." Yah, right, Haley. His accusations that Musgrove is a liar were hollow.

Of course, it was hard to concentrate on the debate, because questions were disrupted several times by Greens (and I LOVE my Mississippi Green friends...that took GUTS!)

Musgrove will carry this election. He continues to emerge on the high ground, while Barbour looks like a jealous, evil little troll with too much RNC money to spend.

[rads]

27. It's not bias

Just intelligence ;-)

[laura888]

28. fantastic! The voices of dissent start at the universities...

...it's bound to spread!