Bill Waller Jr. is running for Governor as a Republican in Mississippi’s 2019 statewide election.
Election 2019
Medicaid expansion big issue for gubernatorial candidates but not Mississippi voters
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Poll finds 48 percent of Republicans would be less likely to support a candidate who supported Medicaid expansion, while 61 percent of Democrats say they would be more likely to vote for a candidate who supported Medicaid expansion.
2019 Gubernatorial Candidates
Waller, GOP guv hopeful and ex-chief justice, cites ‘common sense’ in also not meeting with women alone
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Recently retired from the Mississippi Supreme Court, Waller is the second Republican candidate in recent days to say he practices the so-called Bill Graham rule. Waller added he never met alone with female colleagues or law clerks in his 22 years with the court
The Other Side Podcast
Ep. 62: The Candidates: Bill Waller Jr.
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Bill Waller Jr., one of three Republican candidates for governor, discusses why he’s running for governor.
Election 2019
Waller: ‘I have never in my life seen somebody raise money like one of my opponents’
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Reeves’s campaign war chest filled for stretch primary run; Democratic front-runner Jim Hood’s campaign says they have raised nearly $1.3 million in the past six months.
Rep. Foster uses ads, fundraising call to stoke firestorm over his campaign freezing out female reporter
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Rival campaigns wonder how big of a bump the freshman lawmaker gets from the news of his campaign barring a female reporter campaign access without a male chaperone
Election 2019
Should the person who wins the popular vote be governor? We asked top Democratic and Republican candidates
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Mississippi is the only state in the nation where a candidate could win a majority of the vote and not win a statewide office. The system is currently being challenged in federal court by four state residents.
In GOP governor’s race, Waller hits the May campaign trail harder than Foster and Reeves
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The former state supreme court chief justice visited the most counties of three Republicans seeking the governor’s office
Election 2019
Reeves banks $6.3 million, far outdistancing all others in governor campaign money race
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Primary elections in Mississippi take place Aug. 6
Commentary
Reeves’ message to voters – he has state moving in right direction; opponents say there’s still work to be done
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Lieutenant governor, in his eighth year in office, says state is on an upward trajectory while his opponents in the Republican primary are talking about issues and problems they want to solve.
Election 2019
Jim Hood, a self-styled pro-life Democrat, draws rebuke from the right and the left on abortion
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As anti-abortion bills in several states made national headlines this week, the frontrunner for Democrats’ nomination for governor made his boldest statements on abortions of the campaign
Hospitals retool Medicaid expansion, hope public outcry presses Gov. Bryant to action
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After the governor balked on a Medicaid proposal he requested last fall, the state hospital association reformulated the plan that could insure hundreds of thousands more Mississippians
Commentary
Reeves’ Republican foes in governor’s race must find way to overcome his statewide name recognition advantage
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Both Bill Waller Jr. and Rep. Robert Foster are canvassing the state, trying to cut into Reeves’ advantage. But politicians who have run statewide before say it takes money – a lot of money.
In 2019 governor’s race, Reeves and Hood flex large fundraising totals as Waller catapults into the fold
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Tate Reeves, Jim Hood and Bill Waller were the top fundraisers in the field
Election 2019
In governor’s race, Waller replicates father’s 1971 strategy that landed him in the Governor’s Mansion
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Nearly 50 years ago, some of the top issues facing Mississippians then remain among top concerns today: teacher pay, infrastructure, “talent drain”
2019 Legislative Session
Teacher pay: Candidates weigh in on botched pay raise but no consensus emerges on possible $15 million shortfall
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One official questions if it’s permissible for the Education Department to now take money already earmarked for other purposes and direct it to the pay raise.