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Will Thesouthdecide Will Thesouthdecide WILL THE SOUTHSOUTH DECIDEDECIDE THETHE SENATE?SENATE? SouthernerCan a Ever Win the White House Again? Departments a note from publisher 4 6 PUBLISHED BY INSIDERADVANTAGE.COM, INC. 27 INTERNET NEWS AGENCY, LLC P.O. BOX 724787 ATLANTA, GEORGIA 31139 404 • 233 • 3710 Features READ DAILY UPDATES AT WWW.SOUTHERNPOLITICALREPORT.COM PUBLISHER/EDITOR-IN-CHIEF MATT TOWERY 14 PUBLISHER EMERITUS HASTINGS WYMAN CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER LOUIE HUNTER EDITOR/CO-PUBLISHER Columns PHIL KENT CO-EDITOR/STAFF WRITER Southern GOP Governors GARY REESE Don’t Have it So Easy COO/STAFF WRITER LOUIE HUNTER by Hastings Wyman 8 CIRCULATION DIRECTOR/STAFF WRITER PATRICK HICKEY Southerner STAFF WRITER Can a LOUIS MAYEUX Ever Win the White House Again? CONTRIBUTING WRITERS by Phil Kent 16 RONNIE ELLIS ERIC GARCIA GEOFFREY SKELLER Tech Industry Increasingly ELIZABETH WHARTON Looks to States for SALES & PRODUCTION Policy Solutions SCOTT BARD by Elizabeth Wharton 20 SALES DOLLE ECKERT TOWERY DESIGN & LAYOUT STATE SENATE RACES BURTCH HUNTER DESIGN ARKANSAS 10 GEORGIA 13 SOUTHERN POLITICAL REPORT WEST VIRGINIA SOUTHERNPOLITICALREPORT.COM 19 KENTUCKY INSIDERADVANTAGE POLLING 22 LOUISIANA INSIDERADVANTAGE GEORGIA 23 INSIDERADVANTAGEGEORGIA.COM NORTH CAROLINA 25 INTERNET NEWS AGENCY VIRGINIA 26 INTERNETNEWSAGENCY.COM a note from publisher The genesis of this new Southern magazine n late 1999 InsiderAdvantage was incorporated and region filled with a dynamic African-American population, began as an idea to be a cutting-edge, web-based a growing and complex range of Hispanic-Latino commu- source of news about politics and government. By nities, as well as a growing population reflective more of early 2000 the Internet bubble was well underway and the the “melting pots” of the great cities of the Northeast. The company shifted gears. It purchased political newsletters once dominant “White southerner” is being replaced in such as Bill Shipp’s Georgia and the Washington-based large measure with residents from other states who have Hastings Wyman’s Southern Political Report. As the jour- chosen to populate the region. ney continued we bought assets from a longstanding Today four of the nation’s ten largest Metropolitan research company and established our polling division. Areas, as defined by the federal government, are in the That led to creating several state-oriented political maga- South: Dallas, Houston, Miami, and Atlanta. Tampa-St. zines, most notably Georgia-based James. Petersburg and Charlotte are not far behind. Cities that, As we reach our 15th anniversary we are taking a step just 50 years ago, were small regional powers are now larg- that we planned to take before the Great Recession. We are er than once-powerful locations to their north and west. launching The Southern Political Report magazine, a quar- This year is the perfect one to launch our newest prod- terly journal about politics, government, business and life uct. With control of the U.S. Senate hanging in the balance, in the South. contests in the South will play a critical role in determining It marks a bold move for us in reaching out to the lead- if Democrats hold on to their control or Republicans take ership community of 13 states: Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, over both houses of Congress. As of our date of publication, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, that issue remains very much up in the air. North Carolina, Kentucky, Virginia and, for added measure, Then there is the presidency—two years away from Oklahoma (which was part of Hastings Wyman’s original this election cycle. In this issue, veteran journalist Phil Kent Southern Political Report). Also included is West Virginia, examines the question of whether a Southerner can ever which we consider part of our region as well. And we also be elected president again. That’s ironic given that, since add Washington, D.C., because, as President John F. 1976, three of our six presidents hail from states that make Kennedy once noted, “It has all the charm of the North and up our Southern Political Report. all the efficiency of the South!” But this is not a publication of “grits and gravy” versus There is no lack of online and print sites devoted to pol- the world. The South is now a constantly changing and itics, government, and virtually every aspect of life in gener- certainly growing region. As a result, if you enjoy our print al. But the so-called “South” remains an enigma to many in magazine we invite you to visit our daily updated Southern America, as it does many lifelong natives of the region. Like Political Report at www.southernpoliticalreport.com. our college football, our politics is viewed by much of the Finally, a special thanks to the man who in 1978 started United States as unusual and, often, unusually tough. Yet what we affectionately call “SPR” and thus created the sec- once one understands the wide array of demographics the ond-longest running, continuously published Washington- region offers, along with the unique flavor they all provide, based political newsletter—Hastings Wyman. He is truly a one can understand that politics and government in the “gentleman and a scholar” in every sense on the word. South truly requires fulltime attention to fully understand and appreciate the unique characteristics they possess. Matt Towery founded InsiderAdvantage with Pierre Howard in 1999. Towery is a national- The South truly is no longer lost in some romanticized ly syndicated columnist (Creators Syndicate), author, pollster, attorney and former member of haze from a Civil War now long forgotten. It is, instead a the Georgia House of Representatives. He lives in Atlanta and St. Petersburg, Florida. SPR southernpoliticalreport.com Making Connections One Relationship At A Time. With more than 20 years of delivering results for clients across the Southeast, HBS has the experience and relationships to help you bridge through any number of legal and business issues. Our full-service and diversified offering brings the depth of resources found at many larger firms, together with a high level of personal attention and competitive fees. With HBS as your partner, the gap ahead just became easier to cross. Why did Travis County, Texas, District Attorney A feature of soap operas is that they never Rosemary Lehmberg decide to make a fool of her- seem to end. True enough with the tawdry saga self for so long? First she was arrested for DUI and of Republican Congressman Mark Sanford of was belligerent during the arrest. Then she refused South Carolina. Recall that as governor in 2009 to resign under pressure from Gov. Rick Perry. Now Sanford announced he was hiking the her office in liberal Austin has produced an indict- Appalachian Trail when in fact the married father ment against Perry for two things: vetoing the dis- was cavorting with his mistress in Argentina. trict attorney’s state appropriation, and for giving Fast-forward to the fall of this year, when Sanford his opinion about it. (Really!) But the loud secret is was not only ordered by a judge to enter media- the real reason Lehmberg refused to resign in the tion with his ex-wife, the former first lady of first place: The Travis County district attorney’s South Carolina, he also chose his Facebook page office includes a special unit that investigates state to inform the same mistress that their engage- officials—most of them Republican. Had Lehmberg ment is off. Who could make this up? Losing resigned as DA, the governor could have appointed a fellow Republican and neutralized one of the plum The United States already narrowly escaped an Democratic gigs in Texas. Losing outbreak of the Ebola virus—in 1989. That’s when Army researchers diagnosed the deadly disease in Florida is host to the only medical marijuana African monkeys in a research distribution center ballot initiative in the nation in 2014. Polls cast in Reston, Virginia. The monkeys were about to doubt that the measure will win the necessary 60 be sent to labs all over America when the virus was percent of the vote, but keep an eye on this one. discovered. Miraculously, no humans were infect- Some look at Florida as a sort of ‘California of the ed. That time government did its job! Winning South’—a political bellwether for what may one day happen in other states across the region. in play It’s a first for the largest education award ever presented to public school systems nationwide. What government voted to support a Jewish Jurors awarding the prestigious $1 million Broad homeland in Israel 11 years before the U.S. govern- Prize split the money between two urban districts: ment did? The answer is Alabama, in 1937. In that The Gwinnett County, Georgia, system in metro tradition, the contemporary Alabama Israel Task Atlanta and the Orange County school system in Force is working on emergency disaster relief and Orlando, Florida, will each get $500,000 in college preparedness in response to the fighting in Gaza. scholarships for their high school seniors. The prize Alabama also in recent years has provided human- rewards districts for improving achievement itarian relief and bomb shelters for Israel. Looks like among disadvantaged students. Winning there’s plenty of heart—and initiative—in the “Heart of Dixie.” Winning Are party nominees really damaged by nasty primary races? We’re about to find out in Mississippi. Longtime incumbent GOP Sen. Thad Cochran for much of the general election campaign SPR southernpoliticalreport.com has enjoyed a double-digit lead in the polls over recent study reveal that Mississippi has the Democrat Travis Childers. But Cochran’s tea party fourth-highest rate in America, and is near the bot- primary opponent Chris McDaniel refused to drop tom among states for tax fairness? Say it ain’t so, a lawsuit challenging Cochran’s victory over him.
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