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Trent Lott Says Goodbye to All That
This just in: Mississippi senator Trent Lott is calling it quits after nearly 20 years in the Senate. He's not sick, just sick of the Senate apparently, but no word on his future plans. Perhaps he needs to devote more time to his lawsuit against State Farm, which is still refusing to pay the claim on his Katrina-damaged Pascagoula house.
Despite Lott's devotion to Strom Thurmond, in recent months, he's come off as one of the saner members of the GOP (he made early calls for Donald Rumsfeld's resignation, for instance, and his dismay over the Bush administration's handling of Katrina prompted him to consider retiring a few years ago). His replacement, though, is likely to be more of a firebrand. Congressman Chip Pickering, who appears in the movie Borat, with a bunch of Pentacostal Christians cheering against the teachings of evolution, is the odds-on favorite to fill Lott's empty seat.
being from mississippi, i think a more likely replacement will be former attorney general mike moore. pickering has already announced his retirement from the house in order to, "spend more time with the family." i don't see him trying to get elected to the senate while his party is the minority, a fact which i suspect is the real reason he is leaving the house. mike moore is popular here. i think he has a real chance to pick up the seat.
GOd forbit that borat's buddy might take over as senator. I lived in his district, and his is clueless. I've dealth with the staff of all of the MS delegation and his was the only one that wouldn't respond to letters, calls, etc.-and I was in his district. At least you'd get meetings with Trent's people.
Hell, Jim Herring, the Repub. party chairman for MS, had to about whip him to keep him from resigning his seat a couple of years back. Chip is totally mediocre
God forbid my terrible spelling in the above post, too.