In 2001, House Speaker Tim Ford of Baldwyn supported the plan of fellow Democrats to place much of suburban Jackson in a congressional district with northeast Mississippi.
Explaining the congressional redistricting effort featuring the Tupelo to Jackson district, Ford off-handedly dubbed it âthe tornado planâ because of the way it looked on the map. Fordâs intent was not to sabotage the plan, and most likely opposition to the plan would have been intense regardless of what it was called, but the âtornadoâ moniker stuck and not in a good way.
Indeed, the moniker helped galvanize opposition.
The political landscape of the state was much different in 2001, though in hindsight the writing already was on the wall portending the rise of the Republican Party and fall of the Democratic Party.
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Hank Naughton, Ronnie Shows: Why we attended President Biden’s inauguration
Hank Naughton, Ronnie Shows
The recent deadly and insurrectionist attack on the United States Capitol was a low point in American history. Democrats and Republicans who cherish the rule of law and nonviolence were horrified.
We believe the men and women who entered the Capitol Building wanted to intimidate and capture by force what was not theirs to take:our American democracy.
But as the son of a prisoner of war, captured by the Nazis during the Battle of the Bulge, and an Army veteran of multiple deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan, we decided to attend the inauguration of President Joe Biden to declare that no American should be intimidated from visiting our nation’s capital. In fact, before the incident at the Capitol, neither one of us had committed to attend the inauguration.