Mississippi

Let's just start with - briefly - my disappointment with like 6 (?) democratic house members who couldn't have bothered to vote either way (!) on Pete Hegseth's impeachment.  

Disappointments all. 

And it doesn't bode well for going forward with the underperforming democrats.  Blast !   Maybe the new ones coming in will really shake things up. 

.....and speaking of......

Scott Colom was finally declared the winner of a senate seat for Mississippi. 

The final count was 49.19% to 48.71%. 

So for anyone who ever says, "I didn't vote because mine doesn't count" should really really look at a lot of these mid-term races. Many were by the skin of the teeth. 

I won't lie, the win kind of surprised me. No - scratch that. The closeness surprised me. A person of colour in Mississippi with even the whiff of a chance seemed so unlikely to me. 

So I was surprised to find out Colom is the first black senator from Ole Miss in over a 140 years. 

Ok - they had one before? Oh, and the last black senator was a woman !   In 1874!!!!!!   Less than a decade after the Civil War.  What-the-what????

Could have knocked me over with a feather with that. 

So, impeachment shit aside, let's hope this goes our way, shall we? 

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