Miss GOV. BARBOUR-R 44% DISAPPROVAL RATING 3/17 SURVEY USA POLL

Political Prognosticators have said it’s impossible to defeat Haley Barbour, really? Survey USA says differently. In fact, reading the crosstabs indicates vulnerability for this Governor:

He is losing Independents. 51% disapprove of the Governor’s performance.

The Governor is vulnerable among women. 47% disapprove of his performance. 51 % of women 18-34 dissapprove of the Governor’s performance.

Men make up the difference you say. Not so, 41% of men disapprove of the Governor’s performance.

62% of the Democrat party disapprove of the Governor’s performance. I remind y’all again that Mississippi primaries are open to whomever wishes to vote in them. AMY CAN WIN!

poll results below
http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollReport.aspx?g=1cd76ba5-0480-4d03-8600-eae62c43ed61

Governor Amy Tuck R-Mississippi has a nice ring to it.

To borrow a phrase from Ronald Reagan: “Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Haley Barbour loses his.”

Amy Tuck will be the people’s choice for Governor any way you slice it in 2007.

To quote Bill Pittman:

“1. She took the opposite side from the Governor when he initiated legal action to end the $20 million annual payments of state money to a private foundation created by then state Attorney General Mike Moore, a Democrat. Tuck joined present Democrat Attorney General Jim Hood in opposing the Governor’s attempt to place the funds, which have no cutoff date, under legislative control, as required, the Governor contended, by the Constitution. This issue is still in court.

2. Tuck announced her support for state funding for a three-county plan to create a 1,500-acre “mega site” as a lure for a possible location of an automobile assembly plant in northeast Mississippi. The state would fund a $15 million bond issue for the counties to acquire the site although there are no current prospects for location at the site. Tuck lined up with Democrat House Speaker Billy McCoy in supporting the proposal although the Governor had voiced his opposition, holding that state funds should be set aside for such projects only when there is a commitment from a company to locate at the site and create a sufficient number of jobs.

3. And Tuck’s advocacy for the tax increase on tobacco while, at the same time lowering the sales tax on food, flew in the face of Governor Barbour’s opposition to any tax increase. The Governor has said he is opposed to any change in the state’s tax structure until he has more information on the cost of recovery from Hurricane Katrina. One Democrat who has reportedly been encouraging Tuck to return to the party and who has offered his support for her as a Democrat candidate for Governor is Senator Jack Gordon, who was appointed by the Republican Lieutenant Governor as chair of the powerful and influential Senate Committee on Appropriations. As committee chair, Gordon is also a member of the Legislative Budget Committee, a House-Senate committee that holds strong influence on state taxation and spending.”

The Lt. Governor has moved deftly to chart an independent course from the Governor just like another Independent Republican woman running for Governor in Texas. Texas Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn is blazing the trail Amy can follow in challenging a Republican Governor ideologically too rigid to govern the state effectively or fairly for all of the people. I will flatly state that I believe Amy can win a Republican primary. Especially, if as I suspect, the Democrats put up nobody for Governor.

Amy’s principled leadership during this crisis legislative session has been too independent and strong to ignore. The people of Mississippi are noticing and they approve, particularly Mississippi’s women. A coalition of Mississippi voters of all parties from every background is starting to awake to the possibility of principled, yet conservative leadership. Haley should tread lightly.

http://www.djournal.com/pages/story.asp?ID=216078&pub=1&div=News

TUCK FOR GOVERNOR

The time has come that the people of Mississippi should rise up and declare that Lt. Gov. Amy Tuck should become the next Governor of the Great State of Mississippi. The Lt. Governor has shown courage and fortitude in taking on the special interests and Governor Barbour in his misguided and unconscionable veto of legislation to reduce or eliminate the sales tax on food and increase the sales tax on cigarettes.

She has placed the people first as she promised she would do. For that, she is to be commended. She is the people’s champion and the only hope for Mississippi in this time of crisis. She has been called a pragmatic conservative, a label that fits her like the finest of silk. She has wielded the gavel of the Senate deftly and led the majority of her colleagues to do the right thing in voting to override the Governor’s veto.

It is time now for the Lt. Governor to step up to the plate and take the Governor on in next year’s primary. Only a conservative will be governor of Mississippi. Therefore, it should be a compassionate conservative, one who is a reformer with results. Lt. Governor Tuck fits the bill.