Trent Kelly: From the Trenches of City Court
to the Halls of Congress
by Grant Fox

June 8, 2015

The day before the special election for congress in #MS01, Morgan Baldwin, North Mississippi campaign guru in charge of Trent Kelly's campaign for congress, found himself at the Parham Bridges Tennis Center in Jackson, Mississippi, as the Tupelo High School Tennis coach; he couldn't miss the state playoffs, his team needed him. Baldwin had stretched the Kelly limited campaign dollars as far as they would go and was hopeful that the Kelly GOTV (get out the vote) effort would carry the day. As his phone blew up, even he couldn't have imagined that his candidate would find himself the next night in the runoff with the lone democrat Walter Zinn, in essence sealing the win for Kelly and completing a remarkable 16 year run for Kelly from city court prosecutor to district attorney to congress.

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Establishment GOP Donors Place Their Bets on MSCD1 Race
by Grant Fox

April 16, 2015

The Federal Election Commission campaign finance reports in the MSCD1 race were filed on April 15, 2015, and the race is now a bit clearer. The surprise candidate in fundraising was Tupelo tax lawyer Greg Pirkle, a graduate of Baylor and Ole Miss Law School. Pirkle raised $156,646 and loaned his campaign another $100,000. He is sitting on $244,753 cash on hand.

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Mississippi's First Congressional District Race has Drawn a Crowd
by Grant Fox

March 28, 2015

A special election set for May 12, 2015, in Mississippi's First Congressional District has drawn a crowd following Congressman Alan Nunnelee's death on February 6, 2015, due to brain cancer. The district stretches from the GOP vote rich Memphis suburbs in Desoto County, across the Tennessee/Mississippi border, down to Tupelo and on to Columbus in the Golden Triangle.

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