A Waller victory would change dynamics for Hood in general election
That time-tested adage “be careful what you wish for” could prove prophetic for the gubernatorial campaign of Democratic Attorney General Jim Hood.
When former Chief Justice Bill Waller Jr. announced in February only two weeks before the qualifying deadline that he was entering the governor’s race on the Republican side, nobody was happier than the Hood camp.
After all, Waller was a respected jurist with a political lineage – his father was governor – who could occupy the time and money of Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves, the Republican front-runner. The Hood campaign reasoned Waller and upstart gubernatorial candidate Robert Foster, a freshman state House member from DeSoto County, would be hammering Reeves on the campaign trail – weakening him for Hood in the November general election.
In addition, the theory went – Reeves would have to use some of his unrivaled campaign war chest, still more than $5 million, on something other than lambasting Hood.
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(Gulfport Sun Herald)
