Mississippi agriculture official appointed to US Senate seat
Source: Longview News-Journal
The governor of Mississippi appointed state Agriculture Commissioner Cindy Hyde-Smith on Wednesday to succeed fellow Republican Thad Cochran in the U.S. Senate.
Cochran, who is 80, is stepping down April 1 because of poor health. Hyde-Smith, 58, would be the first woman to represent Mississippi in Congress. She will immediately begin campaigning for a Nov. 6 nonpartisan special election to fill the rest of Cochran's term, which expires in January 2020.
Hyde-Smith won a state Senate seat in 1999 as a Democrat. She switched to the GOP in late 2010 and was elected agriculture commissioner in 2011, holding the job since then. In 2016, she was one of many agriculture advisers to Republican Donald Trump's presidential campaign.
Gov. Phil Bryant is a Trump supporter and has said he believes the president will campaign for his Senate appointee in the special election, which could attract several candidates.
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Curious really....... 
Funny indeed... 
So much so, some of them Yankees might could take a liking to it too! 
Republican in November, with more to come as this develops.
The Republican Party is VERY unhappy about this appointment of a weak candidate. MS Repubs are now going to have either her or a hard-right racist and neo-Confederate jerk, Chris McDaniel, to go up against the Democratic candidate. And the GOP's already also extremely happy about him. He's so bad, a local columnist said John Grisham couldn't invent this mess, but I think he could and it'd be classic Grisham.
If McDaniels wins (did I mention he used to be a right-wing radio host spewing his toxic brew? 
), it'll be the Alabama senate race all over again except that MS isn't as conservative as Alabama. Also, a full third are black but haven't been voting full power in the past.
Go Mississippi Democrats! Get the vote out.
As 2018 progresses, the national press are going to love covering Chris McDaniel, the very symbol of much that's gone wrong with the GOP. He'll draw attention the way fresh manure draws flies.
This is from just ONE clip of McDaniel's old right-wing radio show, which manages to hit blacks, Hispanics, women and gays with a roll-out of obviously routine lines. He's not even really trying. I especially love his idea that learning Spanish for "Do you have a sister?" could be worthwhile.
"If they pass reparations, and my taxes are going up, I ain't paying taxes," he said on the clip.
McDaniel then went on to say the show should be moved and produced in Mexico.
"Why don't we all immigrate south. Let's go to Mexico!" he said. "You know, a dollar bill can buy a mansion in Mexico. And I think we all get together, go down there, build us a studio for like 26 pesos, and put on a radio show right there in Mexico. Live the rest of our lives there!"
Another person in the studio then asked McDaniel if they would "have to learn Spanish."
"Yes, regrettably," McDaniel said. "You'll have to learn just enough to ask where the bathroom is. Baños. Baños. That's what you say."
Following up on their discussion of the Spanish language, McDaniel then asked someone to translate the phrase, "Do you have a sister?"
After some discussion, he posited, "What about mamacita? Mamacita works. You say that at the wrong place at the wrong time, you will get beat down. Mamacita. It's not a bad word. It's just indicative. I'm an English-speaking Anglo. I have no idea what it means, actually, but I've said it a few times, just for, you know, fun. And I think it basically means, 'Hey, hot mama.' Or, you know, 'You're a fine looking young thing.'"
Later in the clip, McDaniel went on to discuss an ad for a Sony PlayStation Portable ad that had been criticized as racist. The commercial featured a white woman viciously holding a shorter black woman to promote the release of the white version of the PSP console. McDaniel noted a San Francisco politician had called the ad was racist, but he wondered why.
"She wasn't holding down a gay guy!" he said.
http://www.businessinsider.com/chris-mcdaniel-radio-show-comments-2014-4
