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Article: Miss. Gov.'s Private Life in News
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- May 26, 1999
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GINA HOLLAND, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
05-26-1999
Miss. Gov.'s Private Life in News
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- Gov. Kirk Fordice is staying out of sight these days, which is a good thing for him: Reporters keep pestering him with questions, questions, questions about why he bought an elegant house in the suburbs and didn't invite his wife of 44 years to live there.
The gossip mill is running full steam in country barbershops and on newspaper editorial pages. Fordice's aides haven't been this uptight since 1996 -- when the governor crashed a state-owned car after having lunch and holding hands with a woman while Mississippi's first lady was in France.
``I've spent 52 years covering the ...