Besides his first ad with the minivan we would say this is the best ad we have seen from Billy.
Even though it’s almost all still pictures and we usually hate these kinds of ads.
The message brings this one through.
ROM Overall Grade: B+
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Archive for the ‘Tate Reeves’ category
Billy Hewes “Back Then”
July 29, 2011Phony “Log Cabin Republican” Endorsement letter floating around in Mississippi
July 27, 2011***UPDATE*** This letter is absolutely fake
This was just emailed in and it looks bogus. I doubt the Log Cabin Republicans are getting involved in the Mississippi Republican Primaries. Smells like someone is up to some dirty tricks. The letter is not mentioned on their website: LOG CABIN REPUBLICANS
And the signature and the name of the executive director do not match.
We don’t appreciate this kind of dirty, nasty, underhanded politics so we are here to call this out, that’s why blogging can be a force for good. If this letter is in fact fake and if anyone else received this please let us know.
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Billy Hewes “Testing”
July 26, 2011Billy Hewes for Lt. Governor, new ad “Testing”
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Tate Reeves tosses up “Basketball”
July 26, 2011New Ad from the Tate Reeves camp.
“Basketball”
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Bad Tate, Bad, Bad Tate
June 25, 2011This new ad from Billy Hewes has us totally entertained, I am not sure if you can even call it a negative ad when there is a chihuahua in it. Anyway the production value looks really good and the message, although Tate Reeves probably does not like it will probably be somewhat effective.
Regardless of our feelings about this race we love ads and we REALLY LOVE attack ads.
Positive ads are so boring most of the time.
Political silly season just started.
Overall ROM Ad Grade: B+
We won / They won / Mississippi Won on Redistricting
May 17, 2011The ink is barely dry on the 3 judge panel decision and there is already a back and forth on who won (Democrats of Republicans) over here at ROM we say that all of Mississippi won because right or wrong our Constitution stood strong and carried the day, the citizen legislators of Mississippi will have to come to a compromise on new districts and the courts and justice department will not be drawing our lines.
Congrats to all on the winning side.
Kingfish Claims Victory for Delbert Hosemann
STATEMENT OF TREASURER TATE REEVES
ON TODAY’S REDISTRICTING RULING
May 16, 2011
“The court made the proper ruling today and followed the Mississippi Constitution, which calls for redistricting to occur the year after census data is released. I applaud and congratulate Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann for his successful advocacy of the correct outcome in this matter. Today’s ruling is a victory for local election officials and voters who won’t have to be rushed into contending with new maps and district lines this year, only to have them change again next year.”
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We all win.
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Tate Reeves: Mississippi King of Campaign Cash 2011
May 12, 2011
Yep, that’s State Treasurer Tate Reeves who has apparently been making his fund-raising calls and it has paid off.
$724,126.52 in the door this period
$2,100,473.21 CASH ON HAND
Seriously folks this is a candidate on a mission.
His opponent obviously worked had and has 1,169,744.00 but I cannot think of another candidate off had that has been outspent by a million dollars and won a primary in MS political history.
(if I am wrong please remind me)
If team Tate (Justin Brasell) spends their money wisely this race is over.
BUT,
A million dollars goes a long way in Mississippi, we could still have a race but I suspect Reeves is out front and doubt that Hewes can catch him.
Currently Handicapping this race at 75/25 Reeves
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Mississippi State Campaign Finance Reports for April 30th 2011
May 11, 2011April 30 campaign finance reports were due today, generally these are the best indicator of who will win primaries for the statewide races as campaigns begin spending money very shortly, the April 30 reports are generally close to the high water mark for a primary campaign, many campaigns will raise more cash in the next 2 months but generally it gets harder as most have picked the low hanging fruit by now.
Cash on Hand is really all that matters so it is all we are reporting here:
GOV:
Dave Dennis: COH = $708,867.54
Phil Bryant: COH = $2,015,988.00
Bill Luckett: COH= $518,526.77
Johnny DuPree: COH= $82,752.66
Lt. GOV:
Tate Reeves: COH = $2,100,473.21
Billy Hewes: COH = $1,169,744.00
Attorney General:
Jim Hood: COH = $439,537.77
Steve Simpson: = $200,058.54
Secretary of State:
Delbert Hosemann: COH = $814,994.05
Ricky Dombrowski: = $10,847.61
State Treasurer:
Lucien Smith: COH = $427,476.00
Lynn Fitch: COH = $115,129.10
Lee Yancey: COH = $122,655.28
State Auditor:
Stacey Pickering: COH = $115,328.74
Agriculture Commissioner:
Max Phillips: COH = $136,594.08
Dannie Reed: COH = $8857.00
Cindy Hyde-Smith: COH = $37,302.50
Insurance Commissioner:
Mike Chaney: COH = $204,292.48
Updates as they become available.
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Mississippi Campaign Finance Report Day February, 2011
February 1, 2011Who went big and who may be stumbling out of the gate. Those are just a few of the questions that are so frequently answered by our State’s yearly campaign finance reports. Political junkies and reporters have been camped out on Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann’s website all day to see who did well and who fell flat in the very first real indicator of campaign and organizational strength as we move into the 2011 election season.
2 things to check out:
1. COH = Cash On Hand available
2. Total cash burned and total burn rate (ROM formula for Burn Rate is = TOTAL SPENT 2010/TOTAL RAISED 2010) The higher the number the worse the $ burn. This can be confusing for candidates whom have just entered a race (see the State Treasurer race where 2 candidates reported $0 expenditures)
GOV:
Dave Dennis: COH = $527,199.73 BURN RATE = .522
Phil Bryant: COH = $2,023,993 BURN RATE = .321
Bill Luckett: COH= $350,622.88 BURN RATE = .279
Lt. GOV:
Tate Reeves: COH = $1,644,598.59 BURN RATE = .167
Billy Hewes: COH = $1,016,257.67 BURN RATE = .165
Attorney General:
Jim Hood: COH = $402,378.73 BURN RATE = .266
Steve Simpson: DID NOT FILE
Secretary of State:
Delbert Hosemann: COH = $532,261.11 BURN RATE = .209
State Treasurer:
Lucien Smith: COH = $256,549.00 BURN RATE = 0
Lynn Fitch: COH = $163,119.04 BURN RATE = 0
Lee Yancey: COH = $71,410.99 BURN RATE = .233
State Auditor:
Stacey Pickering: COH = $140,097.62 BURN RATE = .546
Agriculture Commissioner:
Max Phillips: COH = $106,389.41 BURN RATE = .123
Dannie Reed: COH = $4082.72 BURN RATE = 1.07
Cindy Hyde-Smith: COH = $6664.65 BURN RATE = .675
Insurance Commissioner:
Mike Chaney: COH = $195,264.00 BURN RATE = .230
Updates as they become available.
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