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Article: Democrat Childers takes First District after tough battle
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- The Mississippi Business Journal
- Article date:
- May 19, 2008
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After a seemingly endless parade of primaries and runoffs, Mississippi's First Congressional District finally has a representative. At least temporarily.
Democrat Travis Childers outpolled Republican Greg Davis in the May 13 special general election and will fill Roger Wicker's old seat on an interim basis until the general election in November.
Childers, the Prentiss County Chancery Clerk, got 54% of the vote.
Childers and Davis, the mayor of Southaven, had been locked in a bitter campaign since a runoff in April left them as the two remaining contenders. Special interest groups had flooded media markets with attack ads. Davis tried to link Childers with Barack Obama and the controversy ...