Infinite Possibilities

Well, I'm exited.  Potential always excites me.  And the potential I'm talking about today is in  an announcement made by Mississippi's former Democratic Governor, Ronnie Musgrove.  

 

There was plenty of "good sense" coming through Musgrove's seriously Southern drawl on Sunday.  He was talking about a new multi-state pac called the Southern Progress Fund.  Move over Carl, Crossroads, and the brothers Koch:  You can no longer count on the South as a sure thing.

 

 (Image from Americans Against the Tea Party, posted by my friend Cherie on Facebook.)

 

Soft-spoken Governor Musgrove was convincingly strong in his determination that this new pac would start with down-ticket races, impacting local and state elections.  Including governor's races.  Seems like a sensible way to go.  You've seen what's been happening in North Carolina  and in other state legislatures lately—not a minute too soon to work on down-ticket races.  Anyway, he said that all too often Southern Dems get good candidates for governor.  Then, they lose 48-52%, and we never see that candidate again.  So, the Southern Progress Fund will address that by working with candidates at all levels—"from Arkansas over to Georgia, Kentucky to Louisiana. . . ."

 

Thankfully, the disappearing gubernatorial candidate syndrome is not currently active here in South Carolina.  State Senator Vincent Sheheen, defeated by a narrow margin when he ran against current Governor Nikki Haley, is up for another go at it.  And he'll be a fine governor.

 

Musgrove said a separate entity, a 501(c)(4), will work on voter registration and voter protection.  The voter and the vote need protecting in the face of SCOTUS repealing the key provision in the Voting Rights Act.  (Marc Morial, Urban League CEO,  said about the hhigh Court's action: "They took the smoke alarm out of the house.")

 

This new Pac—combined with the energized grassroots activism like we're seeing in North Carolina (10,000 estimated at Moral Monday in Asheville yesterday)—is signaling infinite possibilities here in the Southland.    We're about to give birth to "the blue," I tell you.