Reeves vs. Hood in the 2019 Mississippi governor’s race? (Jackson: attorney, closing)

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I hope Jim Hood runs against Tate Reeves in the 2019 Mississippi governor’s race


Analysis: Hood, Reeves could headline 2019 governor's race - Washington Times


JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The closing weeks of June have brought the first previews of what could be Mississippi’s 2019 race for governor - Jim Hood versus Tate Reeves.
At this time last year, Phil Bryant was cruising toward re-election, while truck driver Robert Gray was still six weeks from shocking the world by winning the Democratic primary without even voting for himself. Bryant, of course, demolished Gray in the general election.
So maybe it seems too soon to be talking about 2019. But word began to trickle out following the Democrats’ annual Jefferson-Jackson-Hamer dinner in May that the attorney general, the last heavyweight Democratic politician in Mississippi, was finally going to take a shot at the governor’s mansion. And Hood’s actions since then - wading into the midst of the state’s budget difficulties - bear that out.


Talking to reporters last week, Hood expressed opposition to corporate tax cuts and called for more spending on roads and bridges, subjects pretty far afield from the usual public utterances of the Chickasaw County prosecutor.


Reeves’ calling card, since winning election as state treasurer before turning 30, has been skill as a money manager. The current budget problems cut against that strength. Bolstered by a recovery in state revenues following the 2009 recession, Republican leaders have often boasted that they had stopped spending one-time money. But the budget that ends Thursday has been pasted together using lawsuit settlements that Hood won and state savings, and even then will likely end tens of millions short.


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