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#MSLeg: How the heck did Democrat Brandon Presley get bill to sail through GOP-run Legislature?
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Jan 25, 2019 02:10pm |
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| Category | Opinion |
| Author | Geoff Pender |
| News Date | Friday, January 25, 2019 12:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | With the GOP firmly in control of the state House, Senate and governor's office, Democrat-led initiatives and legislation in Mississippi typically end up in the waste basket.
Not so with the first major legislation passed on to Gov. Phil Bryant in the newly minted 2019 legislative session.
The measure to allow electric cooperatives to provide internet service to rural areas was led by one of the state's (few) top Democratic elected leaders. It was accepted promptly and wholeheartedly by the GOP leadership and an overwhelming majority of Republican lawmakers.
How the heck did that happen?
Democratic Public Service Commissioner Brandon Presley's rural broadband campaign should be taught as a case study in political science classes. He turned the lack of internet service in rural Mississippi into a populist political juggernaut that flattened partisan opposition and some pretty powerful big-money lobbies — the cable industry, telecoms. |
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