Hyde-Smith campaign knocks 'gotcha' report that she attended a 'segregation academy'
Source: The Hill
BY TAL AXELROD - 11/24/18 01:32 PM EST
Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smiths (R-Miss.) campaign on Saturday ripped an article from the Jackson Free Press reporting that she attended and graduated from a Mississippi segregation academy in the 1970s, calling it part of the gotcha liberal media.
Hyde-Smith spokeswoman Melissa Scallan called the report "a new low" in a statement to The Hill while claiming the report was intended to help Hyde-Smith's Democratic opponent Mike Espy, who she is facing off against in Tuesday's runoff election.
In their latest attempt to help Mike Espy, the gotcha liberal media has taken leave of their senses. They have stooped to a new low, attacking her entire family and trying to destroy her personally instead of focusing on the clear differences on the issues between Cindy Hyde-Smith and her far-left opponent, Scallan said in the statement.
The Jackson Free Press report, published Friday night, shows a yearbook picture in which Hyde-Smith poses with other girls and a mascot seemingly dressed as a Confederate general and holding a Confederate flag. The school was one of several private institutions set up to bypass integration after Mississippi Gov. John Bell Williams in 1969 ordered that public schools integrate.
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ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Time for Cindy "Hiding in plain sight" Smith to fess up to her racism.
SpankMe
(2,937 posts)pecosbob
(7,511 posts)School was founded one year after the court order to desegregate schools.
Merlot
(9,696 posts)However, if it's true she sent her daughter there...well, nuff said.
racism is inherited.
Shaddox
(384 posts)SergeStorms
(18,903 posts)It's known as "personal history". Or as my High School Principal used to tell me, "it's part of your permanent record!"
Solly Mack
(90,740 posts)Facts as an attack on them personally.
LMAO
Sad little beings they are.
Gothmog
(144,005 posts)Marcuse
(7,399 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,111 posts)bonniebgood
(937 posts)piant of blood. uuh a natural inbred hatred.