Hyde-Smith campaign knocks 'gotcha' report that she attended a 'segregation academy'

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill



BY TAL AXELROD - 11/24/18 01:32 PM EST

Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith’s (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]

1. How is it "gotcha" when it's just the plain truth?

Time for Cindy "Hiding in plain sight" Smith to fess up to her racism.

[SpankMe]

2. She's racist a segregationist and has no business in the US Senate. n/t

[pecosbob]

3. Not like they didn't know what the school was...she also enrolled her daughter there.

School was founded one year after the court order to desegregate schools.

[Merlot]

4. I can't blame her for going there - her parents would have sent her

However, if it's true she sent her daughter there...well, nuff said.

racism is inherited.

[Shaddox]

9. I agree - she is a racist and unfit but too stupid to understand that she was raised to hate

[SergeStorms]

5. It's NOT "gotcha" journalism.

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]

6. No wonder conservatives hate facts - they see facts as someone trying to trip them up ("gotcha").

Facts as an attack on them personally.

LMAO


Sad little beings they are.

[Gothmog]

7. This is a weak response

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[Marcuse]

8. She stands on that statement and has nothing further to say.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

10. K&R

[bonniebgood]

11. I swear that woman looks like a vampire who has just finished drinking a

piant of blood. uuh a natural inbred hatred.