I live in Mississippi, and after my first small donation to Colom's campaign, he called and thanked me. We didn't talk long, but I continue to be impressed by this guy. Hyde-Smith is known locally, among other things, for saying this: "If he invited me to a public hanging, I'd be on the front row." A casual remark about lynching that just popped out of her mouth. IMO, that means she talks like this in private and hangs out with others who do too. All she has to sell is MAGA hate & BS.
He cannot make the same mistake that Jamie Harrison made running against Lindsay Graham. He should not rely on democrats turning out. He has to go into White Red territory and campaign on higher minimum wage, breaking up corporate retail and corporate food stores and bringing back mom and pop stores that Mississippians own, bringing money into health care and hospitals and bringing green energy into the state to bring energy prices down. He has to be there every day to split the White vote and can do it if they hear policies that make their lives better and it will drown out the garbage that his opponents will throw at him.
Mississippi may be a hotbed of great thinking and action! In addition to Scott there’s also Ty Pickens, a recovering Dem running as an Independent. I first read about him from up here in NJ, then I read this piece he wrote. It’s wonderful. https://typinkins.substack.com/p/how-a-sweetgum-tree-reminded-me-who
Hyde-Smith sent her kid to a segregation academy is my recollection. I grew up in Virginia and went to school when a federal judge ordered school busing for integration. Many families sent their kids to private segregation academies. That was enough to instantly dislike her. So I hope she is unseated.
This was a blind spot so great post to raise his profile. I will definitely donate. Would love bulwark to have more recommendations for candidates that should be supported and need support. Some of the high profile candidates are raking in plenty but I’m sure there are others that might have good profile locally but not more broadly.
It will be a tragedy of historic proportions if the Dems fail to run a credible, appealing candidate in EVERY Senate race nationwide. Someone ready and able to carry the message as well as serve as an accomplished Senator. DON'T leave the Dem slot on any ballot to clowns and crackpots.
No matter how limited the financial resources or how much of a long-shot a race may be for Dems, it is imperative that there is someone real on the ballot for voters to choose if the anti-Trump and anti-GOP wave grows into a tsunami. I see no reason for small-ball here: done right, we could see a veto-proof margin, or even a super-majority!
I hope this election results in Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith regretting her objection to Scott Colom's nomination to the federal judiciary :-)
Thank you for taking the time to travel and cover this story. Republicans have gotten away with having complete control of many states (my state of Ohio included) for years and sometimes decades.
The cracks are beginning to show, even among voters who don't typically vote for Democrats. Read the Hyde-Smith campaign's critique of Colom to find out why: this is the kind of crap that's coming out of far too many Statehouses instead of focusing on the issues that affect (and afflict) residents.
Great article. Eye-rolling aside, forcing every incumbent to fight for their seat and make their case WHY they should be reelected has merits of its own. Lauren, please do Kansas! Another candidate entered the democratic primary and he's got a bit of this same vibe as Colom.
Gonna roll my eyes at this headline only because it’s April, and we get this kind of thing going every year - “we’re turning Texas blue! Florida is in play!” And it never happens.
I would like to have heard about how Colom has (or will) respond to the Republican attacks. Is there a place he can separate himself from the Dem boogeyman (Schumer, et. al.)? Is the transgender culture war attack about something specific from Colom or is it a national guilt by association with Dem policies? I don’t think ignoring these things or just “pivoting” to the weakness of the Republican candidate is sufficient.
The best the Rs can do is more pointless trans stuff?
Will be interesting to see if Warnock appears here in the summer to help campaign. Seeing an actual southern black Senator might be helpful messaging here.
I admit- as a woman born and raised in the middle of the Mitten I have paid little attention to Mississippi until my daughter up and went to USM to get her masters in vocal music last year. I visited Hattiesburg in March and spent a wonderful but quick week immersed in the arts and culture at Southern Miss and look forward to more opportunities. She now has a Mississippi born and raised music school teacher boyfriend and I just texted her that if he doesn’t vote in November and specifically for Scott Colom he will learn, next time I visit, how cold a cold shoulder from Michigan can really be.
I live in Mississippi, and after my first small donation to Colom's campaign, he called and thanked me. We didn't talk long, but I continue to be impressed by this guy. Hyde-Smith is known locally, among other things, for saying this: "If he invited me to a public hanging, I'd be on the front row." A casual remark about lynching that just popped out of her mouth. IMO, that means she talks like this in private and hangs out with others who do too. All she has to sell is MAGA hate & BS.
He cannot make the same mistake that Jamie Harrison made running against Lindsay Graham. He should not rely on democrats turning out. He has to go into White Red territory and campaign on higher minimum wage, breaking up corporate retail and corporate food stores and bringing back mom and pop stores that Mississippians own, bringing money into health care and hospitals and bringing green energy into the state to bring energy prices down. He has to be there every day to split the White vote and can do it if they hear policies that make their lives better and it will drown out the garbage that his opponents will throw at him.
Mississippi may be a hotbed of great thinking and action! In addition to Scott there’s also Ty Pickens, a recovering Dem running as an Independent. I first read about him from up here in NJ, then I read this piece he wrote. It’s wonderful. https://typinkins.substack.com/p/how-a-sweetgum-tree-reminded-me-who
Hyde-Smith sent her kid to a segregation academy is my recollection. I grew up in Virginia and went to school when a federal judge ordered school busing for integration. Many families sent their kids to private segregation academies. That was enough to instantly dislike her. So I hope she is unseated.
This was a blind spot so great post to raise his profile. I will definitely donate. Would love bulwark to have more recommendations for candidates that should be supported and need support. Some of the high profile candidates are raking in plenty but I’m sure there are others that might have good profile locally but not more broadly.
It will be a tragedy of historic proportions if the Dems fail to run a credible, appealing candidate in EVERY Senate race nationwide. Someone ready and able to carry the message as well as serve as an accomplished Senator. DON'T leave the Dem slot on any ballot to clowns and crackpots.
No matter how limited the financial resources or how much of a long-shot a race may be for Dems, it is imperative that there is someone real on the ballot for voters to choose if the anti-Trump and anti-GOP wave grows into a tsunami. I see no reason for small-ball here: done right, we could see a veto-proof margin, or even a super-majority!
I hope this election results in Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith regretting her objection to Scott Colom's nomination to the federal judiciary :-)
Thank you for taking the time to travel and cover this story. Republicans have gotten away with having complete control of many states (my state of Ohio included) for years and sometimes decades.
The cracks are beginning to show, even among voters who don't typically vote for Democrats. Read the Hyde-Smith campaign's critique of Colom to find out why: this is the kind of crap that's coming out of far too many Statehouses instead of focusing on the issues that affect (and afflict) residents.
Great article. Eye-rolling aside, forcing every incumbent to fight for their seat and make their case WHY they should be reelected has merits of its own. Lauren, please do Kansas! Another candidate entered the democratic primary and he's got a bit of this same vibe as Colom.
Gonna roll my eyes at this headline only because it’s April, and we get this kind of thing going every year - “we’re turning Texas blue! Florida is in play!” And it never happens.
Thanks Lauren, good bit of journalism here
I would like to have heard about how Colom has (or will) respond to the Republican attacks. Is there a place he can separate himself from the Dem boogeyman (Schumer, et. al.)? Is the transgender culture war attack about something specific from Colom or is it a national guilt by association with Dem policies? I don’t think ignoring these things or just “pivoting” to the weakness of the Republican candidate is sufficient.
Anti-trans is all they have. They're getting boring.
Okay, Bulwark members. You know what to do: https://scottcolom.com/
Another terrific Bulwark/Egan article.
The best the Rs can do is more pointless trans stuff?
Will be interesting to see if Warnock appears here in the summer to help campaign. Seeing an actual southern black Senator might be helpful messaging here.
I admit- as a woman born and raised in the middle of the Mitten I have paid little attention to Mississippi until my daughter up and went to USM to get her masters in vocal music last year. I visited Hattiesburg in March and spent a wonderful but quick week immersed in the arts and culture at Southern Miss and look forward to more opportunities. She now has a Mississippi born and raised music school teacher boyfriend and I just texted her that if he doesn’t vote in November and specifically for Scott Colom he will learn, next time I visit, how cold a cold shoulder from Michigan can really be.