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At a Monday news discussion about an publicity by a National Right to Life Committee, Gov. Phil Bryant and Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith were asked about Hyde-Smith’s comments about attending a hanging, prisoner in a video posted online Sunday.
Luke Ramseth
WASHINGTON – Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith attended a separation academy in high propagandize and praised a Confederate soldier’s attempts to “defend his homeland,” according to reports.
The reports, from a Jackson Free Press, an eccentric journal in Mississippi, and CNN, are a latest that try to span Hyde-Smith with Mississippi’s extremist story forward of a moving runoff choosing opposite Democrat Mike Espy, who is opposed to turn a state’s initial African-American in the Senate given a Reconstruction.
In new weeks, Hyde-Smith was criticized for a fun where she pronounced she’d gladly attend a “public hanging” and be in a “front row.” She was also prisoner on video creation a fun about voter suppression, and photos posted to Facebook in 2014 uncover her with Confederate equipment and a heading reading, “Mississippi story during a best!”
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The Jackson Free Press reported Friday that Hyde-Smith attended Lawrence County Academy, a propagandize founded in 1970, a year many Mississippi open high schools integrated.
The Free Press reported a propagandize was combined for relatives who did not wish to send their children to schools with black students. The journal included photos from a school’s yearbook, including a organisation print of a cheerleading squad, of which Hyde-Smith was a member.
The print shows a school’s mascot dressed in what appears to be a Confederate uniform holding a Confederate flag.
Hyde-Smith debate mouthpiece Melissa Scallan responded to a report by saying: “In their latest try to assistance Mike Espy, a gotcha magnanimous media has taken leave of their senses. They have stooped to a new low, aggressive her whole family and perplexing to destroy her privately instead of focusing on a transparent differences on a issues between Cindy Hyde-Smith and her far-left opponent.”
On Saturday, another news delved into Hyde-Smith’s work as a authority and found she once praised a Confederate infantryman for his work to “defend his homeland.” CNN reports that as a state senator in 2007, Hyde-Smith co-sponsored a fortitude that respected Effie Lucille Nicholson Pharr, whose father was a infantryman in Robert E. Lee’s army.
The fortitude pronounced her father “fought to urge his homeland and contributed to a rebuilding of a country,” CNN reported.
Contributing: Associated Press