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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • "Now, they’re scheduled to meet on Friday. And they have over a dozen new rules and new proposed agenda items. We’re less than 50 days out of an election. So Secretary of State Raffensperger’s lawyer sent a pretty scathing letter to the State Election Board saying, you really shouldn’t change these rules."

    The bottom line, he added, is that “we’ll see what happens Friday with the State Election Board in Georgia. But when it comes to concerns about the new laws, that’s where we see the most action, at least right now.”

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  • The city received permission from the Mississippi Department of Archives and History to move the Confederate monument, as required. But Rep. Stacey Hobgood-Wilkes of Picayune said the fire station site is inappropriate.

    “We are prepared to pursue such avenues that may be necessary to ensure that the statue is relocated to a more suitable and appropriate location,” she wrote, suggesting a Confederate cemetery closer to the courthouse square as an alternative. She said the Ladies Cemetery Association is willing to deed a parcel to the city to make it happen.

    Of the Mississippi Hobgood-Wilkes? Ohhh! That Ladies Cemetery Association. Not the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Sure.