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The 2017 United States Senate special election in Alabama took place on December 12, 2017, to fill a vacancy in the U.S. Senate through the end of the term ending on January 3, 2021. The vacancy arose from Jeff Sessions' resignation, on February 8, 2017, to serve as the 84th United States attorney general. Democratic candidate Doug Jones defeated Republican candidate Roy Moore by a margin of 21,924 votes (1.63%). Jones became the first Democrat to win a U.S. Senate seat in Alabama since 1992.

On February 9, 2017, Governor Robert J. Bentley appointed Luther Strange, the attorney general of Alabama, to fill the vacancy until a special election could take place. Bentley controversially scheduled the special election to align with the 2018 general election instead of sooner. When Kay Ivey succeeded Bentley as governor, she rescheduled the special election for December 12, 2017.

Jones, a former U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, won the Democratic primary election. Moore, a former chief justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama, competed with Strange and U.S. Representative Mo Brooks in the August 15, 2017 Republican primary; the two highest vote-getters, Moore and Strange, advanced to a runoff. President Donald Trump supported  Strange during the primary runoff, in addition to much of the Republican establishment in the Senate, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who made the success of Strange's candidacy a major priority. Trump's efforts on behalf of Strange included tweeting and a rally in Huntsville, Alabama. Vice President Mike Pence campaigned for Strange as well. With McConnell's help, Strange outspent Moore by a margin of 10-to-1. However, Moore won the primary runoff on September 26, 2017. This was the first time that an incumbent U.S. senator having active White House support lost a primary since Arlen Specter lost to Joe Sestak in 2010.

In mid-November 2017, multiple women alleged that Moore had made unwanted advances or sexual assaults on them when he was in his early thirties and they were in their teens (the youngest was 14 at the time), attracting widespread national media coverage of the election. As a result of these allegations, many national Republican leaders and office holders called for Moore to withdraw from the special election or rescinded their endorsements of him. However, Donald Trump and many Alabama Republicans reaffirmed their support. At the time of the revelations, it was too late to remove his name from the ballot. Many Republican leaders proposed shifting their support to a write-in candidate such as Strange. Moore has stated that he never engaged in sexual misconduct, although he has not denied that he approached or dated teenagers over the age of 16 while he was in his 30s (sixteen is the legal age of consent in Alabama). In late November, retired Marine Colonel Lee Busby launched a write-in campaign.

At 9:23 p.m. CST, the Associated Press called the election for Jones, though Moore refused to concede. Jones was the first Democratic candidate to win a statewide election in Alabama since former Lieutenant Governor Lucy Baxley was elected president of the Alabama Public Service Commission in 2008. Jones was sworn into office on January 3, 2018, becoming the first Democratic U.S. senator from Alabama since Howell Heflin's retirement in 1997. As of , this is the most recent special election to the U.S. Senate that did not take place simultaneously with a round of regularly scheduled elections and the last time a Democrat won statewide office in Alabama.

Background

Potential appointees
Following then-President-elect Donald Trump's nomination of then-Senator Sessions to be U.S. attorney general, Robert Aderholt, a member of the United States House of Representatives, had asked to be appointed to the seat. Representative Mo Brooks had also expressed interest in the seat, while Strange had stated before being selected that he would run for the seat in the special election whether or not he was appointed. Other potential choices Bentley interviewed for the appointment included Moore;  Del Marsh, the president pro tempore of the Alabama Senate; and Jim Byard, the director of the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs.

Republican primary

Campaign
The Republican primary attracted national attention, especially following Trump's endorsement of incumbent Senator Luther Strange. Strange was backed by several key figures within the Republican establishment, most notably Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. His two main rivals in the primary consisted of former state judge Roy Moore and Mo Brooks. While Strange showed no signs of losing the first round of the primary, almost every opinion poll showed him trailing Roy Moore in a runoff. Strange came in second place in the first round of the primary behind Roy Moore, securing a spot in the runoff.

National interest in the race dramatically increased in the month before the runoff. Strange maintained his endorsement from Trump, who campaigned for him in Huntsville during the closing days of the campaign. Trump's endorsement of Strange sparked criticism among his own base, many of whom preferred Moore and detested Strange for his seemingly establishment feel. Several notable people close to Trump broke from the president to endorse Moore, including HUD Secretary Ben Carson and Breitbart Executive Chairman Steve Bannon. Despite the endorsement of Trump, Strange was handily defeated by Roy Moore in the runoff.

Candidates

Nominated
 Roy Moore, former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court and candidate for governor in 2006 and 2010

Eliminated in runoff
 Luther Strange, incumbent U.S. senator (appointed) and former attorney general of Alabama

Eliminated in primary
 James Beretta, physician
 Joseph F. Breault, Air Force chaplain and nominee for the Utah House of Representatives in 2016
 Randy Brinson, gastroenterologist and activist
 Mo Brooks, U.S. representative
 Dom Gentile, businessman
 Karen Jackson, attorney and perennial candidate
 Mary Maxwell, candidate for NH-02 in 2006
 Bryan Peeples, businessman
 Trip Pittman, state senator

Withdrew
 Ed Henry, state representative (withdrew from race on May 17).

Declined

 Robert Aderholt, U.S. representative
 Slade Blackwell, state senator
 Bradley Byrne, U.S. representative
 Bill Hightower, state senator
 Perry Hooper Jr., former State Representative
 Mary Scott Hunter, member of the Alabama State Board of Education
 Del Marsh, president pro tempore of the State Senate
 Jonathan McConnell, businessman and candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2016
 John Merrill, secretary of state of Alabama

 Glenn Murdock, associate justice of the Alabama Supreme Court
 Gary Palmer, U.S. representative
 Jimmy Rane, businessman
 Martha Roby, U.S. representative
 Mike Rogers, U.S. representative
 Connie Rowe, state representative
 Cam Ward, state senator
 Jim Zeigler, Alabama state auditor

Endorsements

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U.S. representatives
 Mark Meadows, U.S. representative (R-NC) and chairman of the House Freedom Caucus
 Mike Rogers, U.S. representative (R-AL)
 Lamar S. Smith, U.S. representative (R-TX)
State representatives
 Ed Henry, state representative and chairman of Donald Trump's Alabama campaign
Organizations
 Courageous Conservatives PAC
 FreedomWorks
 Gun Owners of America
 Senate Conservatives Fund
 Students for Trump
Individuals
 Ann Coulter, conservative commentator
 Sean Hannity, conservative talk radio host and host of Hannity
 Laura Ingraham, conservative talk radio host
 Mark Levin, conservative talk radio host
}}

First round

 Polling
{| class="wikitable"
|- valign= bottom
! Poll source
! Date(s)administered
! Samplesize
! Marginof error
! style="width:55px;"| JamesBeretta
! style="width:55px;"| JosephBreault
! style="width:55px;"| RandyBrinson
! style="width:55px;"| MoBrooks
! style="width:55px;"| MaryMaxwell
! style="width:55px;"| RoyMoore
! style="width:55px;"| BryanPeeples
! style="width:55px;"| TripPittman
! style="width:55px;"| LutherStrange
! Undecided
|-
| Trafalgar Group (R)
| align=center| August 12–13, 2017
| align=center| 870
| align=center| ± 3.3%
| align=center| 1%
| align=center| 1%
| align=center| 6%
| align=center| 17%
| align=center| 1%
|  align=center| 38%
| align=center| 1%
| align=center| 6%
|  align=center| 24%
| align=center| 5%
|-
| Emerson College
| align=center| August 10–12, 2017
| align=center| 373
| align=center| ± 5.0%
| align=center| 1%
| align=center| 0%
| align=center| 0%
| align=center| 15%
| align=center| 0%
|  align=center| 29%
| align=center| 0%
| align=center| 10%
|  align=center| 32%
| align=center| 11%
|-
| Trafalgar Group (R)
| align=center| August 8–10, 2017
| align=center| 1,439
| align=center| ± 2.6%
| align=center| 1%
| align=center| 1%
| align=center| 4%
| align=center| 20%
| align=center| 2%
|  align=center| 35%
| align=center| 1%
| align=center| 6%
|  align=center| 23%
| align=center| 8%
|-
| Cygnal (R)
| align=center| August 8–9, 2017
| align=center| 502
| align=center| ± 4.4%
| align=center| –
| align=center| –
| align=center| 2%
| align=center| 18%
| align=center| –
|  align=center| 31%
| align=center| –
| align=center| 7%
|  align=center| 23%
| align=center| 13%
|-
| Strategy Research
| align=center| August 7, 2017
| align=center| 2,000
| align=center| ± 2.0%
| align=center| 1%
| align=center| 1%
| align=center| 1%
| align=center| 19%
| align=center| 4%
|  align=center| 35%
| align=center| 1%
| align=center| 9%
|  align=center| 29%
| align=center| 0%
|-
|JMC Analytics (R)
| align=center| August 5–6, 2017
| align=center| 500
| align=center| ± 4.4%
| align=center| –
| align=center| –
| align=center| 2%
| align=center| 19%
| align=center| –
|  align=center| 30%
| align=center| –
| align=center| 6%
|  align=center| 22%
| align=center| 17%
|-
|RRH Elections (R)
| align=center| July 31 – August 3, 2017
| align=center| 426
| align=center| ± 5.0%
| align=center| –
| align=center| –
| align=center| 2%
| align=center| 18%
| align=center| –
|  align=center| 31%
| align=center| –
| align=center| 8%
|  align=center| 29%
| align=center| 11%
|-
| Strategy Research
| align=center| July 24, 2017
| align=center| 3,000
| align=center| ± 2.0%
| align=center| 1%
| align=center| 1%
| align=center| 2%
| align=center| 16%
| align=center| 5%
|  align=center| 33%
| align=center| 2%
| align=center| 5%
|  align=center| 35%
| align=center| –
|-
| Cygnal (R)
| align=center| July 20–21, 2017
| align=center| 500
| align=center| ± 2.0%
| align=center| –
| align=center| –
| align=center| –
| align=center| 16%
| align=center| –
|  align=center| 26%
| align=center| –
| align=center| –
|  align=center| 33%
| align=center| –

 Results

 Runoff
President Donald Trump supported Strange during the primary runoff, and almost the whole national Republican establishment were supporting Strange's campaign. Trump's efforts on behalf of Strange included a rally in Alabama, plus tweeting.

Debates
 Complete video of debate, September 21, 2017

 Averages

 Polling

 Results

Democratic primary

Candidates

Nominated
 Doug Jones, former United States attorney for the Northern District of Alabama

Eliminated in primary
 Will Boyd, pastor, former Greenville, Illinois city councilman, nominee for AL-05 in 2016 and write-in candidate for the U.S. Senate from Illinois in 2010
 Vann Caldwell, Talladega County constable and perennial candidate
 Jason Fisher, businessman
 Michael Hansen, activist and nonprofit executive
 Robert F. Kennedy Jr., digital marketing executive for a laboratory supply company (no relation to the Massachusetts Kennedy family)
 Charles Nana, candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2016

Withdrew
 Ron Crumpton, activist, nominee for the state senate in 2014 and nominee for the U.S. Senate in 2016
 Brian McGee, retired teacher and Vietnam War veteran

Declined
 Roger Bedford, former state senator and nominee for the U.S. Senate in 1996
 Elaine Beech, state representative
 Sue Bell Cobb, former chief justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama
 Chris England, state representative
 Craig Ford, state representative
 Gary Johnson, minister and political activist
 Walt Maddox, mayor of Tuscaloosa
 Terri Sewell, U.S. representative

Endorsements

Polling
{| class="wikitable"
|- valign= bottom
! Poll source
! Date(s)administered
! Samplesize
! Marginof error
! style="width:75px;"| WillBoyd
! style="width:75px;"| VannCaldwell
! style="width:75px;"| JasonFisher
! style="width:75px;"| MichaelHansen
! style="width:75px;"| DougJones
! style="width:75px;"| RobertKennedy Jr.
! style="width:75px;"| CharlesNana
! Undecided
|-
| Emerson College
| align=center| August 10–12, 2017
| align=center| 164
| align=center|
| align=center| 8%
| align=center| 2%
| align=center| 1%
| align=center| 0%
|  align=center| 40%
|  align=center| 23%
| align=center| 1%
|  align=center| 25%
|-
|Strategy Research
| align=center| August 7, 2017
| align=center| 2,000
| align=center|
| align=center| 9%
| align=center| 5%
| align=center| 3%
| align=center| 7%
|  align=center| 30%
|  align=center| 40%
| align=center| 5%
| align=center| –
|-
| Strategy Research
| align=center| July 24, 2017
| align=center| 3,000
| align=center|
| align=center| 6%
| align=center| 4%
| align=center| 4%
| align=center| 4%
|  align=center| 28%
|  align=center| 49%
| align=center| 5%
| align=center| –

 Results

Independents and write-in candidates
Candidates
Declared
 Ron Bishop (L, write-in)
 Lee Busby (R, write-in), retired Marine colonel
 Jeff "Cog" Coggin (I, write-in), Air Force veteran
 Chanda Mills Crutcher (I, write-in), minister
 Eulas Kirtdoll (I, write-in)
 Arlester "Mack" McBride (I, write-in)
 Mac Watson (R, write-in)

Declined
 Craig Ford, Democratic State representative

General election

Controversies
Roy Moore sexual misconduct allegations

On November 9, The Washington Post reported that four women had accused Roy Moore of engaging in sexual conduct with them when they were teenagers and he was an assistant district attorney in his thirties. One of the women was 14 years old at the time, below the legal age of consent. A few days later a fifth woman said that she had received unwanted attention from Moore when she was 15 years old, and that in December 1977 or January 1978, when she was 16, Moore sexually assaulted her. Moore denied the allegations.

After this, certain Republican leaders and conservative organizations withdrew their endorsements of Moore or asked him to drop out of the campaign. These included Texas Senator Ted Cruz, U.S. Attorney General and former seat holder Jeff Sessions, Ivanka Trump, the National Republican Senatorial Committee, former Republican presidential nominees Mitt Romney and John McCain, Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Ohio Governor John Kasich, Utah Senator Mike Lee, Montana Senator Steve Daines, and House Representatives Barbara Comstock, Carlos Curbelo, and Adam Kinzinger, as well as the Young Republican Federation of Alabama. The state's senior Senator Richard Shelby also refused to endorse Moore. Other conservative websites and organizations such as National Review'' urged readers not to vote for Moore. Despite this, Moore continued to receive support from the state party and a week before the election, President Donald Trump strongly endorsed Moore. Following Trump's endorsement, the RNC reinstated their support for him, and Republican leaders said they would "let the people of Alabama decide" whether to elect Moore.

At the time of the revelations, it was too close to the election for Moore's name to be removed from the ballot. Republican officials proposed various ways to promote an alternate Republican candidate. One suggestion was to ask Governor Kay Ivey to delay the special election until 2018, but Ivey said she had no plans to change the election date. Some Republicans such as Senator Lisa Murkowski floated the prospect of a write-in campaign to elect Luther Strange, with Utah Senator Orrin Hatch actively endorsing a write-in campaign for Strange. However, Strange said it was "highly unlikely" that he would run a write-in campaign. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell proposed Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who formerly held the Senate seat, as a write-in candidate. In late November, Retired Marine Col. Lee Busby launched a write-in campaign stating that he thought there is room for a centrist in the race.

Debates
Republican nominee Roy Moore refused to debate Democratic nominee Doug Jones. Moore turned down debate invitations extended by the League of Women Voters, WHNT-TV and AL.com. Jones' campaign said that Jones was "willing to debate Roy Moore anytime, anywhere" and accused Moore of "hiding from the voters, from the media and from his record for weeks." Moore and his campaign stated that he refused to debate Jones because their policy positions were already clear to voters and thus there was no need for a formal debate.

Predictions

Candidates

On ballot
 Doug Jones (D), former United States attorney for the Northern District of Alabama
 Roy Moore (R), former chief justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama

Write-in
 Ron Bishop (L)
 Lee Busby (R)
 Jeff "Cog" Coggin (I)
 Chanda Mills Crutcher (I)
 Eulas Kirtdoll (I)
 Arlester "Mack" McBride (I)
 Mac Watson (I)

Endorsements

Polling

* Unpublished poll released on December 15

with Roy Moore on ballot and Luther Strange as write-in candidate

{| class="wikitable"
|- valign= bottom
! style="width:120px;"| Poll source
! style="width:140px;"| Date(s)administered
! Samplesize
! Margin
! style="width:100px;"| RoyMoore (R)
! style="width:100px;"| DougJones (D)
! style="width:100px;"| LutherStrange (R)
! Other
! Undecided
|-
| Opinion Savvy
| align=center|November 9, 2017
| align=center|515
| align=center|± 4.3%
| align=center| 41%
|  align=center| 44%
| align=center| 12%
| align=center| 1%
| align=center| 2%

with Luther Strange on ballot
{| class="wikitable"
|- valign= bottom
! style="width:120px;"| Poll source
! style="width:140px;"| Date(s)administered
! Samplesize
! Margin
! style="width:100px;"| LutherStrange (R)
! style="width:100px;"| DougJones (D)
! Other
! Undecided
|-
| rowspan=2| Fox News
| align=center rowspan=2| November 13–15, 2017
| align=center| 649 LV
| align=center| ± 3.5%
| align=center| 38%
|  align=center| 48%
| align=center| 3%
| align=center| 5%
|-
| align=center| 823 RV
| align=center| ± 3.0%
| align=center| 39%
|  align=center| 46%
| align=center| 3%
| align=center| 6%
|-
| Emerson College
| align=center| September 21–23, 2017
| align=center| 519
| align=center| ± 4.3%
|  align=center| 49%
| align=center| 36%
| align=center| –
| align=center| 15%
|-
| Emerson College
| align=center| September 8–9, 2017
| align=center| 416
| align=center| ± 4.8%
|  align=center| 43%
| align=center| 40%
| align=center| –
| align=center| 17%

with generic Republican/Democrat

Results

Doug Jones defeated Roy Moore by a margin of 21,924 votes. Voter turnout was 40.54% of Alabama's 3,326,812 registered voters.

Jones won primarily by running up huge margins in the state's major cities. The state's four largest counties—Jefferson (home to the state's largest city of Birmingham), Mobile (home to Mobile), Madison (home to Huntsville), and Montgomery (home to the state capital of Montgomery)—all gave Jones 56 percent or more of the vote. He carried Jefferson by over 83,800 votes, and Montgomery by almost 30,500 votes; either county would have been more than enough to give him the victory. Jones also dominated the Black Belt. Jones took 61% of votes from voters under 45. He also took over 96 percent of the Black vote. While Moore dominated the state's rural areas outside of the Black Belt, he significantly underperformed Trump's totals in those areas, as well as the suburbs such as traditional GOP fortress Shelby County, which Moore won narrowly.

As of December 15, Moore demanded a recount and refused to concede the race, despite being urged by Trump, Bannon, and others to concede. In Alabama, if the final margin of victory is less than 0.5%, then a recount is automatically triggered. If not, then either candidate can request a recount at their own expense. However, Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill estimated that a recount could cost anywhere from $1 million to $1.5 million, an amount that would have had to be paid in full when the request is made. Moore had only $636,046 on hand by the time the campaign ended. A number of right-leaning websites pushed conspiracy theories about voter fraud providing the margin for Jones. Merrill noted on December 20 that the only outstanding ballots were 366 military ballots and 4,967 provisional ballots; even if all those votes were for Moore, it would not have been enough to trigger an automatic recount.

Because the number of write-in votes was larger than Jones' margin of victory, the names written in were both counted and listed. Luther Strange, who lost the Republican primary to Moore, received the most write-in votes, followed by former White House aide Lee Busby, U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks, who also ran in the Republican Senate primary, Libertarian write-in candidate Ron Bishop, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Nick Saban, Alabama's head coach, finished in seventh with more than 250 votes.

After the election, Moore filed a lawsuit attempting to block the state from certifying the election and calling for an investigation into voter fraud. On December 28, 2017, a judge dismissed this lawsuit and state officials certified the election results, officially declaring Doug Jones the winner. Jones was sworn into office on January 3, 2018, by Vice President Mike Pence. Jones became the first Democrat to win a statewide race in Alabama since former Lieutenant Governor Lucy Baxley was elected president of the Alabama Public Service Commission in 2008 over Republican Twinkle Andress Cavanaugh. Prior to that, Democrat Jim Folsom Jr. was elected Lieutenant Governor of Alabama in 2006 over Republican Luther Strange. The last Democrat to win a federal statewide election in Alabama was Richard Shelby in 1992, who switched to the Republican Party in late 1994.

By congressional district
Despite his statewide win, Jones only won one district.

Results by county

Voter demographics

See also
 2010 United States Senate special election in Massachusetts
 2016 United States Senate elections

References

External links
Official campaign websites
 Lee Busby (R) for Senate
 Ron Bishop (L) for Senate
 Jeff Coggin (I) for Senate
 Chanda Mills Crutcher (I) for Senate
 Doug Jones (D) for Senate
 Arlester McBride (I) for Senate
 Roy Moore (R) for Senate
 Mac Watson (R) for Senate
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The massive austerity programme translates into less income, decreased services, and reduced health care for many of Canada's most vulnerable people. It appears that more than four million Canadians – mainly the poor, the unemployed/underemployed and the under-privileged – are struggling.
Even though they had a budget surplus when they took over the government, Harper and Flaherty claimed there was a desperate need to cut back. They launched cuts that were a broadside attack on the government's ability to finance many of its activities, including these much-needed employment and social support programmes.
The examples are numerous. Claiming it was concerned that some people don't have enough incentive to work, Harper-Flaherty toughened up the Employment Insurance rules. They took millions of dollars away from mostly seasonal workers, leaving them vulnerable.
Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC), the government department that provides the most hands-on support for the poor, is being cut more than any other department. It will lose 5,700 positions – one-quarter of its workforce by 2016. Drilling down to the programme level, the largest proportional cut by far is to the Social Development programme supporting homelessness initiatives, which suffers a 62 percent cut. The largest cut in absolute terms is to the Citizen-Centered Services Program, which helps Canadians access government services by phone and online.
Harper also cut funding to the National Aboriginal Health Organization (NAHO) and to a number of Aboriginal women's health organisations – crucial programmes on suicide prevention, women's health, and diabetes. They also cut the Women's Health Contribution Program, which funds six women's health organisations across the country.
There are staggering disparities in life expectancy based on the amount of education a person receives and their amount of education. On average, people living in rich neighbourhoods live an average of 86.3 years, while those living in a poor neighbourhood live only 65.5 years – a difference of 21 years. Children are not spared from the suffering. According to UNICEF's most recent report, Canada is 21st out of 29 top countries for relative child poverty, and 27th for the percentage that were overweight.
The attacks on the vulnerable began soon after the Conservatives came to power in 2006. Even though they had a budget surplus when they took over the government, Harper and Flaherty claimed there was a desperate need to cut back. They launched cuts that were a broadside attack on the government's ability to finance many of its activities, including these much-needed employment and social support programmes.
A two percent cut in the Goods and Service Tax income in Flaherty's first two budgets cost the government a staggering $10bn to $12bn annually in revenues that had been used to help support government services.
In addition, Flaherty has cut $60bn in corporate taxes since the Conservatives took power in 2006 – needlessly reducing the country's corporate tax rate to the lowest among G8 countries.
Flaherty pushes ahead
Throughout the Conservatives' seven years in office, independent economists argued that the austerity programme was not achieving its stated goal of preparing the country for an economic recovery, but Flaherty refused to budge.
Then in April, the world was shocked when the austerity experiment, which destroyed the lives of millions in Europe, was totally discredited. Thomas Herndon, a young University of Massachusetts Amherst graduate student in economics, discovered that an influential paper endorsing austerity practices as a way of rebuilding beleaguered economies was incorrect because of spreadsheet coding errors and selective data.
Amazingly, Flaherty continued with the austerity experiment. "What I worry about is those that suggest that austerity should be abandoned," he noted. "I think that's the road to ruin quite frankly."
So more cuts that will affect the poor the most are on the way. Harper and Flaherty will chop another $11.8bn from government spending by 2014-15; job losses in both the public and private sectors will be 90,000 by 2014-15; and there will be 1.4-million unemployed workers in the country in 2015.
If Harper and Flaherty really wanted to balance the budget and look after people at the margins, they could work harder to collect the $29bn the government is owned by the rich and corporations in unpaid taxes.
They also could try harder to find the $3.1bn that was given to the anti-terrorism programme but that cannot be accounted for.
The Council of Canadians says that if Harper and Flaherty really wanted to get the country out of its economic doldrums, they could continue to stimulate job growth through needed infrastructure projects (water, transit, green energy, roads, etc), and reverse corporate tax cuts. And not by suffocating those at the very bottom of the pyramid.
Nick Fillmore is a Toronto-based freelance journalist and social activist. His work at the CBC over more than 30 years included the broadcast of several investigative documentaries, some concerning key environmental issues. He was a member of the editorial board of THIS magazine and was a founder of the Canadian Association of Journalists. He blogs at nickfillmore.blogspot.com. Feedback is welcome at fillmore0274@rogers.com.
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Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith ignored advice to rehab her image. Now she's struggling to raise cash in 2020.
by Daniel Newhauser October 27, 2020 May 10, 2021
UNITED STATES - JUNE 04: Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., arrives for the Senate Republican luncheon in Hart Building on Thursday, June 4, 2020. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Images)
WASHINGTON — After her closer-than-expected victory over Democrat Mike Espy in a 2018 special election runoff, Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith's political advisors repeatedly recommended she embark on what would amount to an apology tour to publicly and privately rehab her image.
The idea, according to a source active in Mississippi Republican politics who asked for anonymity in order to speak candidly about the campaign, was that she visit every major media market in the state and subject herself to a sit-down interview. Her advisors wanted her to clear the air about a jarring comment she made at a November 2018 campaign event in Tupelo, when she praised a local cattle rancher by saying, "If he invited me to a public hanging, I'd be on the front row."
The comment — made by an appointed U.S. senator who represented the Blackest state in the nation, a state where more people were lynched than any other in the nation — garnered national headlines and nearly tanked her campaign. High-profile donors fled from Hyde-Smith, and several international corporations publicly demanded she return previous contributions.
The proposed rehab tour also meant doing some discreet behind-closed-doors clean-up work: Smoothing over her relationships with major corporate financial supporters, like Walmart, Pfizer, Leidos, Google, and Facebook — all companies that asked for tens of thousands of dollars combined in campaign donations back.
The recommendations from her advisors, like the refund requests from her donors, went ignored, the source said. Now two years later, those donors have not returned to the senator, who in turn has posted a historically poor fundraising performance in a 2020 U.S. Senate rematch with Espy, a high-profile and well-funded Democratic challenger.
Defenders of Hyde-Smith, whose campaign did not respond to multiple requests for comment for this article, say her atrocious fundraising means little, and that a Republican will never lose in Mississippi, especially with President Donald Trump on the ballot.
Yet others acknowledge privately that the race is much closer than it should be, and it is precisely because Hyde-Smith has not put behind her the national controversy that erupted after her 2018 comments about being front and center at a "public hanging."
"She is sort of sleepwalking through this campaign," said Stuart Stevens, a Mississippi native who managed Republican Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign, is a senior adviser to the anti-Trump Lincoln Project, and is supporting Espy. "An incumbent senator can raise a lot of money if they want to. This is just a case where she doesn't want to and isn't investing the time to do it. I don't think it's complicated, I just don't think she's putting in the work."
Historically low fundraising
Whether the reason is inattentiveness to her donors or ostracization from the Washington donor class, the numbers themselves are indisputable: Hyde-Smith is one of the worst incumbent senatorial fundraisers in modern history.
Hyde-Smith's campaign has raised less than $3 million through the beginning of October, which amounts to less money raised during the 2020 campaign cycle than any sitting U.S. senator who isn't retiring. The only senators who raised less have one foot out the door: Retiring Sens. Lamar Alexander, R-Tennessee, Mike Enzi, R-Wyoming, Pat Roberts, R-Kansas, and Tom Udall, D-New Mexico.
One would have to travel back to the 1990s to find an incumbent senator who was in an even semi-competitive race who raised such a small amount of money, with the possible exception of Sen. John Walsh, D-Montana, who was appointed to the Senate in February 2014 but dropped out of that race after the Army War College revoked his Master's degree following a plagiarism controversy. He had raised about as much money in his six months of campaigning as Hyde-Smith has raised through October of this year.
Though the companies that rebuked Hyde-Smith in 2018 have not made the same public displays of their disdain for her this year, their absence from her fundraising ledger is striking. So is the absence of key donors who kept quiet during the controversy, but have spoken out about racial justice since, particularly after the killing of George Floyd, according to a Mississippi Today analysis of Hyde-Smith's campaign fundraising records filed with the Federal Election Commission.
The lack of investment from those companies is made even more conspicuous by the fact that they have hardly turned off the cash spigot to other candidates. Though none of the corporations who initially supported but then publicly denounced Hyde-Smith in 2018 took the extraordinary step of backing Espy over the sitting senator who is still considered the favorite, they have continued to infuse the state with political money elsewhere.
For instance, Walmart's political action committee gave $4,000 to Hyde-Smith's campaign in 2018, but hasn't given a cent to her since the company replied to a tweet by actress Debra Messing that Hyde-Smith's 2018 comments "do not reflect the values of our company and associates."
Meanwhile, the mega-corporation's PAC has donated to several other candidates in Mississippi this cycle. That includes $5,000 to the only Democratic congressman in the state, Rep. Bennie Thompson; $5,000 to Republican Gov. Tate Reeves, who is not up for reelection until 2023; and, even though he's not up for reelection until 2024, a few thousand to Sen. Roger Wicker's political action committee, Responsibility and Freedom Work PAC, or RFW PAC.
Walmart, the largest private employer in Mississippi, gave more money to a slew of local candidates ranging from Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann and Attorney General Lynn Fitch to several state senators and representatives including Sen. Walter Michel, a Republican, and Democrats such as Sen. Angela Turner-Ford and Rep. Abe Marshall Hudson Jr.
The same goes for scientific research company Leidos, which gave the maximum donation of $10,000 to Hyde-Smith in 2018, before calling Hyde-Smith's comments "offensive and an affront to everything we stand for as a company." Leidos, which has a major research and development hub on the Gulf Coast, has not given to her this year, however it has given thousands of dollars through its PAC to every other Mississippian in Congress this election cycle. Wicker took in $2,000 to his campaign committee designated for his 2024 primary and another $2,500 for his PAC. The company gave $10,000 to GOP Reps. Steven Palazzo and Trent Kelly as well as Thompson, and another $5,000 to Palazzo's Patriot Political Action Committee.
Union Pacific also maxxed out to Hyde-Smith in 2018, but gave zilch for her 2020 reelection race. They gave $10,000 to Wicker's PAC instead. The railroad company also gave $5,000 to Thompson and smaller amounts to Palazzo and Kelly.
Telecommunications giant AT&T gave $5,000 to Hyde-Smith last time, but has sat on the sidelines during this race. They gave the maximum $10,000 donation to Wicker's PAC this year, and another $5,000 to his campaign committee.
The PAC representing the global professional services firm Ernst & Young gave the maximum donation to Hyde-Smith in 2018, but nothing this year. They gave the maximum to Palazzo this year and also donated to GOP Rep. Michael Guest and Thompson.
The pharmaceutical giant Pfizer also donated nothing to Hyde-Smith this year after having given $5,000 last time. Same goes for biotechnology company Amgen, which gave a few thousand last year. Both companies donated to Thompson this year, but have not donated to any other candidates in the state.
Facebook asked for its $2,500 PAC donation back from Hyde-Smith in 2018. This year it has only given $2,500 to Wicker's campaign committee. Google's PAC gave Hyde-Smith $5,000 last cycle. This year it has only donated to Wicker and Thompson. Major League Baseball's PAC gave $5,000 to Hyde-Smith in 2018 and the manufacturer Boston Scientific gave $2,500. This year, neither company has donated to any candidates in Mississippi.
Individual donors also stopped giving
Marvin P. King, Jr., a political science professor at the University of Mississippi, agreed that her 2018 comment is still casting a long shadow — along with another controversy surrounding a photo she posted on Facebook in 2014 wearing a Confederate soldier's hat and calling the Biloxi-based Jefferson Davis Home and Presidential Library, "Mississippi history at its best!"
Donations to Hyde-Smith may seem out of step with companies' public statements in support of ending racial inequality in the wake of the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. That killing reverberated so widely that it lent momentum in Mississippi to a push to remove the Confederate battle emblem from the state flag. Some of those companies were instrumental in pushing the state Legislature to finally make a change, like Walmart, which announced it would stop selling Mississippi-flag branded merchandise under pressure from their consumers and stockholders.
The companies "might be trying to make a point, and I'm sure she will receive that point loud and clear," King said. "They asked for their money back, she didn't give the money back. But then this time around, some of those big companies are like, 'All right, money that we would have given to Cindy Hyde-Smith, we're going to give to another campaign this year.'"
Other high-profile individual donors who emptied their pockets to Hyde-Smith in 2018 have not given again this year, despite not having disavowed Hyde-Smith for her comments at the time, but having later expressed support for the movement to end racial inequality.
That includes John Hairston, the President and CEO of Gulfport-based Hancock Whitney bank, who has been a vocal proponent of changing the state flag. He gave the maximum allowable personal donation to Hyde-Smith in 2018, but has given nothing this year. He declined a request for comment through a spokesman.
The list also includes GOP mega-donor Steve Schwarzman, CEO of the Manhattan private equity firm, the Blackstone Group. He donated to Hyde-Smith in 2018, including a donation made just days after the "public hanging" comments became public.
But despite giving millions of dollars this cycle to other Republican candidates and political action committees, he has not donated to Hyde-Smith. In June, after the Floyd killing, Scwarzman put out a statement noting "zero tolerance for racism of any kind" at his firm. He did not respond to a request for comment through a company spokesman.
BGR Group, the lobbying and communications firm founded by former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, gave more than $7,000 through its PAC to Hyde-Smith last election. This year, the PAC has not donated to her, although Barbour himself has donated individually, as have several members of his politically active family.
But Barbour, in an interview, said that had nothing to do with her comments.
"It's more because we haven't been asked," Barbour said. "I just don't think they have pushed as hard to raise money."
Will fundraising even matter?
Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith smiles as she is congratulated by supporters after winning the Senate runoff election against Mike Espy on Nov. 27, 2018. Credit: Eric J. Shelton, Mississippi Today/ Report for America
Ultimately it may be that simple: Perhaps Hyde-Smith's team believes she'll win the race no matter what, so fundraising isn't a priority. Although Barbour acknowledged Espy is running an admirable race, he said he still thinks Hyde-Smith is a shoo-in because no amount of money could convince conservative Mississippi to elect a Democrat statewide.
That hasn't stopped Espy from trying. He has outspent Hyde-Smith 5-to-1 in the state, outraised her 3-to-1 overall, and outraised her a stunning 45-to-1 during the final stretch, when he raised almost $4 million to her less than $85,000 over the first two weeks of October. At the end of the last FEC filing period, Hyde-Smith had less than $400,000 in the bank, while Espy had nearly $4 million.
Still, some of the fundraising shortfall might owe to the fact that national Republicans are playing defense in many more states than they were in 2018, when Hyde-Smith first beat Espy in a 2018 special election and then a runoff after she was appointed to the seat earlier that year following the retirement of longtime Sen. Thad Cochran. Put short, there is just less money to go around for the GOP.
In the Southeast alone, the party is trying to win back a seat in Alabama and is defending two competitive seats in Georgia, another in South Carolina and one more in North Carolina. That's not to speak of the nailbiter races incumbent Republican senators are in danger of losing from Arizona to Maine.
On the other hand, the party just might not think Mississippi is a state it will ever lose. Hyde-Smith's top funder in 2018 was the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which gave her close to $50,000 and spent upwards of $2 million in independent expenditures either supporting Hyde-Smith or slamming Espy. This year, the national party has not given her anything, and has only spent less than $3,000 on her behalf.
And Hyde-Smith has deliberately forgone events that could typically line a candidate's pocket, like a debate, town halls or other campaign soirees. Although Trump endorsed her, he's too busy campaigning in other must-win states to set foot in GOP-friendly Mississippi. Still, there are some signs Hyde-Smith is watching her back: The campaign has gone on the offensive over the last few weeks of the campaign, dropping advertisements tying Espy to national Democratic Party leaders.
Hyde-Smith also had the support of a well-funded Super PAC last year, not just defending her against Espy but attacking the other Republican, state Sen. Chris McDaniel, who ran in the four-way jungle primary that preceded the runoff.
The Mississippi Victory Fund alone raised close to half as much as Hyde-Smith has raised this cycle. Big donors included casino magnate and GOP mega-donor Steve Wynn, Boston Celtics part owner Rob Hale, Home Depot founder Bernard Marcus, and Facebook founder Sean Parker, who gave $250,000 alone. But this year, only a single donor who gave more than $25,000 to the Super PAC in 2018 has given any money to Hyde-Smith's 2020 campaign: John Nau, CEO of the beer merchandiser, Silver Eagle Distributors.
Henry Barbour, Haley Barbour's nephew and the Republican National Committee representative from Mississippi, helped manage the Super PAC. Though he personally donated to Hyde-Smith's campaign this cycle, he said he decided there wasn't much need for his fundraising services this time around. As for all the donors giving to Espy, he's happy they're taking a diversion in the South.
"I just really figured there's no reason to even set up a Super PAC this time, you know. She should be fine," he said. "I hate to tell all those liberal donors, but you know, they just wasted their money. They're gonna lose. But I mean, I'd rather they spend it in Mississippi than Wisconsin or North Carolina or Pennsylvania."
Daniel Newhauser is a freelance journalist based in Washington, D.C. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Daily Beast, National Journal, Politico, Roll Call, VICE News and several other publications. He can be found on Twitter @dnewhauser.
by Daniel Newhauser, Mississippi Today

Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith ignored advice to rehab her image. Now she's struggling to raise cash in 2020.

by Daniel Newhauser, Mississippi Today
October 27, 2020

WASHINGTON — After her closer-than-expected victory over Democrat Mike Espy in a 2018 special election runoff, Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith's political advisors repeatedly recommended she embark on what would amount to an apology tour to publicly and privately rehab her image.

The idea, according to a source active in Mississippi Republican politics who asked for anonymity in order to speak candidly about the campaign, was that she visit every major media market in the state and subject herself to a sit-down interview. Her advisors wanted her to clear the air about a jarring comment she made at a November 2018 campaign event in Tupelo, when she praised a local cattle rancher by saying, "If he invited me to a public hanging, I'd be on the front row."

The comment — made by an appointed U.S. senator who represented the Blackest state in the nation, a state where more people were lynched than any other in the nation — garnered national headlines and nearly tanked her campaign. High-profile donors fled from Hyde-Smith, and several international corporations publicly demanded she return previous contributions.

The proposed rehab tour also meant doing some discreet behind-closed-doors clean-up work: Smoothing over her relationships with major corporate financial supporters, like Walmart, Pfizer, Leidos, Google, and Facebook — all companies that asked for tens of thousands of dollars combined in campaign donations back.

The recommendations from her advisors, like the refund requests from her donors, went ignored, the source said. Now two years later, those donors have not returned to the senator, who in turn has posted a historically poor fundraising performance in a 2020 U.S. Senate rematch with Espy, a high-profile and well-funded Democratic challenger.

Defenders of Hyde-Smith, whose campaign did not respond to multiple requests for comment for this article, say her atrocious fundraising means little, and that a Republican will never lose in Mississippi, especially with President Donald Trump on the ballot.

Yet others acknowledge privately that the race is much closer than it should be, and it is precisely because Hyde-Smith has not put behind her the national controversy that erupted after her 2018 comments about being front and center at a "public hanging."

"She is sort of sleepwalking through this campaign," said Stuart Stevens, a Mississippi native who managed Republican Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign, is a senior adviser to the anti-Trump Lincoln Project, and is supporting Espy. "An incumbent senator can raise a lot of money if they want to. This is just a case where she doesn't want to and isn't investing the time to do it. I don't think it's complicated, I just don't think she's putting in the work."

Historically low fundraising

Whether the reason is inattentiveness to her donors or ostracization from the Washington donor class, the numbers themselves are indisputable: Hyde-Smith is one of the worst incumbent senatorial fundraisers in modern history.

Hyde-Smith's campaign has raised less than $3 million through the beginning of October, which amounts to less money raised during the 2020 campaign cycle than any sitting U.S. senator who isn't retiring. The only senators who raised less have one foot out the door: Retiring Sens. Lamar Alexander, R-Tennessee, Mike Enzi, R-Wyoming, Pat Roberts, R-Kansas, and Tom Udall, D-New Mexico.

One would have to travel back to the 1990s to find an incumbent senator who was in an even semi-competitive race who raised such a small amount of money, with the possible exception of Sen. John Walsh, D-Montana, who was appointed to the Senate in February 2014 but dropped out of that race after the Army War College revoked his Master's degree following a plagiarism controversy. He had raised about as much money in his six months of campaigning as Hyde-Smith has raised through October of this year.

Though the companies that rebuked Hyde-Smith in 2018 have not made the same public displays of their disdain for her this year, their absence from her fundraising ledger is striking. So is the absence of key donors who kept quiet during the controversy, but have spoken out about racial justice since, particularly after the killing of George Floyd, according to a Mississippi Today analysis of Hyde-Smith's campaign fundraising records filed with the Federal Election Commission.

The lack of investment from those companies is made even more conspicuous by the fact that they have hardly turned off the cash spigot to other candidates. Though none of the corporations who initially supported but then publicly denounced Hyde-Smith in 2018 took the extraordinary step of backing Espy over the sitting senator who is still considered the favorite, they have continued to infuse the state with political money elsewhere.

For instance, Walmart's political action committee gave $4,000 to Hyde-Smith's campaign in 2018, but hasn't given a cent to her since the company replied to a tweet by actress Debra Messing that Hyde-Smith's 2018 comments "do not reflect the values of our company and associates."

Meanwhile, the mega-corporation's PAC has donated to several other candidates in Mississippi this cycle. That includes $5,000 to the only Democratic congressman in the state, Rep. Bennie Thompson; $5,000 to Republican Gov. Tate Reeves, who is not up for reelection until 2023; and, even though he's not up for reelection until 2024, a few thousand to Sen. Roger Wicker's political action committee, Responsibility and Freedom Work PAC, or RFW PAC.

Walmart, the largest private employer in Mississippi, gave more money to a slew of local candidates ranging from Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann and Attorney General Lynn Fitch to several state senators and representatives including Sen. Walter Michel, a Republican, and Democrats such as Sen. Angela Turner-Ford and Rep. Abe Marshall Hudson Jr.

The same goes for scientific research company Leidos, which gave the maximum donation of $10,000 to Hyde-Smith in 2018, before calling Hyde-Smith's comments "offensive and an affront to everything we stand for as a company." Leidos, which has a major research and development hub on the Gulf Coast, has not given to her this year, however it has given thousands of dollars through its PAC to every other Mississippian in Congress this election cycle. Wicker took in $2,000 to his campaign committee designated for his 2024 primary and another $2,500 for his PAC. The company gave $10,000 to GOP Reps. Steven Palazzo and Trent Kelly as well as Thompson, and another $5,000 to Palazzo's Patriot Political Action Committee.

Union Pacific also maxxed out to Hyde-Smith in 2018, but gave zilch for her 2020 reelection race. They gave $10,000 to Wicker's PAC instead. The railroad company also gave $5,000 to Thompson and smaller amounts to Palazzo and Kelly.

Telecommunications giant AT&T gave $5,000 to Hyde-Smith last time, but has sat on the sidelines during this race. They gave the maximum $10,000 donation to Wicker's PAC this year, and another $5,000 to his campaign committee.

The PAC representing the global professional services firm Ernst & Young gave the maximum donation to Hyde-Smith in 2018, but nothing this year. They gave the maximum to Palazzo this year and also donated to GOP Rep. Michael Guest and Thompson.

The pharmaceutical giant Pfizer also donated nothing to Hyde-Smith this year after having given $5,000 last time. Same goes for biotechnology company Amgen, which gave a few thousand last year. Both companies donated to Thompson this year, but have not donated to any other candidates in the state.

Facebook asked for its $2,500 PAC donation back from Hyde-Smith in 2018. This year it has only given $2,500 to Wicker's campaign committee. Google's PAC gave Hyde-Smith $5,000 last cycle. This year it has only donated to Wicker and Thompson. Major League Baseball's PAC gave $5,000 to Hyde-Smith in 2018 and the manufacturer Boston Scientific gave $2,500. This year, neither company has donated to any candidates in Mississippi.

Individual donors also stopped giving

Marvin P. King, Jr., a political science professor at the University of Mississippi, agreed that her 2018 comment is still casting a long shadow — along with another controversy surrounding a photo she posted on Facebook in 2014 wearing a Confederate soldier's hat and calling the Biloxi-based Jefferson Davis Home and Presidential Library, "Mississippi history at its best!"

Donations to Hyde-Smith may seem out of step with companies' public statements in support of ending racial inequality in the wake of the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. That killing reverberated so widely that it lent momentum in Mississippi to a push to remove the Confederate battle emblem from the state flag. Some of those companies were instrumental in pushing the state Legislature to finally make a change, like Walmart, which announced it would stop selling Mississippi-flag branded merchandise under pressure from their consumers and stockholders.

The companies "might be trying to make a point, and I'm sure she will receive that point loud and clear," King said. "They asked for their money back, she didn't give the money back. But then this time around, some of those big companies are like, 'All right, money that we would have given to Cindy Hyde-Smith, we're going to give to another campaign this year.'"

Other high-profile individual donors who emptied their pockets to Hyde-Smith in 2018 have not given again this year, despite not having disavowed Hyde-Smith for her comments at the time, but having later expressed support for the movement to end racial inequality.

That includes John Hairston, the President and CEO of Gulfport-based Hancock Whitney bank, who has been a vocal proponent of changing the state flag. He gave the maximum allowable personal donation to Hyde-Smith in 2018, but has given nothing this year. He declined a request for comment through a spokesman.

The list also includes GOP mega-donor Steve Schwarzman, CEO of the Manhattan private equity firm, the Blackstone Group. He donated to Hyde-Smith in 2018, including a donation made just days after the "public hanging" comments became public.

But despite giving millions of dollars this cycle to other Republican candidates and political action committees, he has not donated to Hyde-Smith. In June, after the Floyd killing, Scwarzman put out a statement noting "zero tolerance for racism of any kind" at his firm. He did not respond to a request for comment through a company spokesman.

BGR Group, the lobbying and communications firm founded by former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, gave more than $7,000 through its PAC to Hyde-Smith last election. This year, the PAC has not donated to her, although Barbour himself has donated individually, as have several members of his politically active family.

But Barbour, in an interview, said that had nothing to do with her comments.

"It's more because we haven't been asked," Barbour said. "I just don't think they have pushed as hard to raise money."

Will fundraising even matter?

Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith smiles as she is congratulated by supporters after winning the Senate runoff election against Mike Espy on Nov. 27, 2018.

Ultimately it may be that simple: Perhaps Hyde-Smith's team believes she'll win the race no matter what, so fundraising isn't a priority. Although Barbour acknowledged Espy is running an admirable race, he said he still thinks Hyde-Smith is a shoo-in because no amount of money could convince conservative Mississippi to elect a Democrat statewide.

That hasn't stopped Espy from trying. He has outspent Hyde-Smith 5-to-1 in the state, outraised her 3-to-1 overall, and outraised her a stunning 45-to-1 during the final stretch, when he raised almost $4 million to her less than $85,000 over the first two weeks of October. At the end of the last FEC filing period, Hyde-Smith had less than $400,000 in the bank, while Espy had nearly $4 million.

Still, some of the fundraising shortfall might owe to the fact that national Republicans are playing defense in many more states than they were in 2018, when Hyde-Smith first beat Espy in a 2018 special election and then a runoff after she was appointed to the seat earlier that year following the retirement of longtime Sen. Thad Cochran. Put short, there is just less money to go around for the GOP.

In the Southeast alone, the party is trying to win back a seat in Alabama and is defending two competitive seats in Georgia, another in South Carolina and one more in North Carolina. That's not to speak of the nailbiter races incumbent Republican senators are in danger of losing from Arizona to Maine.

On the other hand, the party just might not think Mississippi is a state it will ever lose. Hyde-Smith's top funder in 2018 was the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which gave her close to $50,000 and spent upwards of $2 million in independent expenditures either supporting Hyde-Smith or slamming Espy. This year, the national party has not given her anything, and has only spent less than $3,000 on her behalf.

And Hyde-Smith has deliberately forgone events that could typically line a candidate's pocket, like a debate, town halls or other campaign soirees. Although Trump endorsed her, he's too busy campaigning in other must-win states to set foot in GOP-friendly Mississippi. Still, there are some signs Hyde-Smith is watching her back: The campaign has gone on the offensive over the last few weeks of the campaign, dropping advertisements tying Espy to national Democratic Party leaders.

Hyde-Smith also had the support of a well-funded Super PAC last year, not just defending her against Espy but attacking the other Republican, state Sen. Chris McDaniel, who ran in the four-way jungle primary that preceded the runoff.

The Mississippi Victory Fund alone raised close to half as much as Hyde-Smith has raised this cycle. Big donors included casino magnate and GOP mega-donor Steve Wynn, Boston Celtics part owner Rob Hale, Home Depot founder Bernard Marcus, and Facebook founder Sean Parker, who gave $250,000 alone. But this year, only a single donor who gave more than $25,000 to the Super PAC in 2018 has given any money to Hyde-Smith's 2020 campaign: John Nau, CEO of the beer merchandiser, Silver Eagle Distributors.

Henry Barbour, Haley Barbour's nephew and the Republican National Committee representative from Mississippi, helped manage the Super PAC. Though he personally donated to Hyde-Smith's campaign this cycle, he said he decided there wasn't much need for his fundraising services this time around. As for all the donors giving to Espy, he's happy they're taking a diversion in the South.

"I just really figured there's no reason to even set up a Super PAC this time, you know. She should be fine," he said. "I hate to tell all those liberal donors, but you know, they just wasted their money. They're gonna lose. But I mean, I'd rather they spend it in Mississippi than Wisconsin or North Carolina or Pennsylvania."

Daniel Newhauser is a freelance journalist based in Washington, D.C. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Daily Beast, National Journal, Politico, Roll Call, VICE News and several other publications. He can be found on Twitter @dnewhauser.

This article first appeared on Mississippi Today and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.
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Four physicians from Alliance Spine and Pain Centers —the largest interventional pain management company in the Southeast— rank among metro Atlanta's Top Doctors in Atlanta magazine's July issue.
Drs. David Gale, Allen Hord, and David Rosenfeld appear in the pain medicine category, while Dr. Michael Schaufele appears in the physical medicine and rehabilitation category. All four of these physicians have been awarded the Top Doctors recognition in previous years.
Atlanta magazine uses a database of top doctors compiled by Castle Connolly Medical Ltd., an established healthcare research company based in New York, to assist in its annual effort. Doctors are nominated for consideration through both a nationwide survey and a peer nomination process. Castle Connolly's physician-led team of researchers then select the Top Doctors through a rigorous screening process that includes an evaluation of educational and professional experience. This year the publication honors physicians representing the following counties: DeKalb, Fulton, Cobb, Clayton, Gwinnett, Carroll, Cherokee, Coweta, Douglas, Fayette, Forsyth, Hall, Henry, and Rockdale.
Stephen Rosenbaum, CEO of Alliance Spine and Pain Centers, says this recognition reflects the practice's dedication to its overall mission.
"Every member of the Alliance medical staff is committed to providing relief to those in pain," says Rosenbaum. "They are not only thought leaders in their field, but they enhance the quality of life for patients every day."
Dr. David Gale practices at the Marietta and Cartersville locations. Dr. Gale received his medical degree at Ohio State University. He completed his anesthesiology residency while serving in the US Air Force and his pain management fellowship at University of Texas at San Antonio. Dr. Gale is board certified in both anesthesiology and pain management, and he holds an ABA subspecialty certificate in pain management. Dr. Gale is a thought leader in Georgia. He has been instrumental in assisting to craft Georgia state legislation regarding pain management, while serving as past president and current executive director of the Georgia Society of Interventional Pain Physicians. Practicing in the Atlanta area since 1997, Dr. Gale has a passion for pain management. He has been a previous Atlanta magazine Top Doctor honoree for the past six years.
Dr. Allen H. Hord practices at the Atlanta and Brookhaven locations. He has more than 30 years of pain management experience in the Atlanta area. Dr. Hord is a pioneer in the interventional pain management field, recognized by peers and patients as a chronic pain expert, educator, researcher, administrator, and philanthropist. He's an expert in treatments including epidural injections, facet and medial branch blocks, radiofrequency ablation, sympathetic blocks, and spinal cord stimulation. He's board certified in anesthesiology and was one of the first doctors in the U.S. to become board certified in pain medicine. Dr. Hord was Alliance Spine and Pain Centers' chief medical officer from 2013-2018, and he's currently chief medical officer for the practice. His philanthropy includes serving a decade on the board of directors of Flying Doctors America, organizing medical missions in Asia, South America, and Haiti. Since 2010, Dr. Hord has been recognized annually as a Top Doctor.
Dr. David J. Rosenfeld practices at the Atlanta and Covington locations. He has more than 25 years of expertise and innovation in pain management. He is recognized as a pioneer in Georgia for interventional pain procedures. He received his medical degree from the University of Wisconsin. Dr. Rosenfeld is fellowship trained, and board certified in both anesthesiology and pain medicine. He has published several studies on pain medicine and anesthesiology. Dr. Rosenfeld belongs to the following associations: American Society of Anesthesiologists; American Academy of Pain Medicine; and American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians. Since 2010, Dr. Rosenfeld has been recognized annually as a Top Doctor.
Dr. Michael K. Schaufele practices at the Marietta and Woodstock locations. He has more than 25 years of experience in non-surgical spine care and pain management. He was involved as an investigator in several pivotal clinical trials for spinal cord stimulation, vertebral augmentation, basivertebral nerve ablation, and various spinal injection procedures. Dr. Schaufele implements the wide spectrum of interventional pain procedures, including regenerative medicine injections to decrease his patients' pain, improve function, and minimize dependence on opioids. He received his doctor of medicine degree from the Goethe-University in Frankfurt, Germany. Dr. Schaufele completed his physical medicine and rehabilitation residency at Harvard Medical School, and fellowship training at the Spine Center in Munich, Germany. As a former associate professor at Emory University, he served as residency program director and helped train numerous residents and fellows in physical medicine and rehabilitation, and pain medicine. Dr. Schaufele is a certified physician executive and served as chief medical officer for Alliance Spine and Pain Centers from 2018-2020. Dr. Schaufele is a commercially rated pilot and FAA aviation medical examiner, who flies medical missions for patients in need of medical transportation for Angel Flight. Since 2012, Dr. Schaufele has been recognized annually as an Atlanta Top Doctor.
Alliance Spine and Pain Centers is the future of pain relief. With innovative interventional pain management and judicious use of pain medicines, our best-in-class physicians are bringing new hope and real relief to people in pain. We help our patients live fuller, more functional, and fulfilling lives. To learn more about the future of pain relief or to schedule an appointment, visit us or call 770-929-9033.
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Q: Alternating zeta function equation for powers greater than $1$. Playing around with wolfram alpha, I'm noticing that for an $s$ greater than $1$:
$$\sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \frac{(-1)^{n-1}}{n^s}=\frac{4^{\frac{1}{2}(s-1)}-1}{4^{\frac{1}{2}(s-1)}} \zeta(s)$$
For all my tries so far. How can I derive this/prove this?

A: $$\sum_n(-1)^{n-1}\frac 1 {n^s}=-\sum_{n}\frac 1{(2n)^s}\color{green}{-\sum_{n}\frac 1{(2n)^s}}\color{red}{+\sum_{n}\frac 1{(2n)^s}}+\sum_n\frac1{(2n+1)^s}$$
$$=-\frac 2{2^s}\sum_n\frac 1{n^s}+\sum_n\frac 1{n^s}=\zeta(s)\left(1-\frac1{4^{\frac 12(s-1)}}\right)$$
$$=\left(\frac{4^{\frac 12(s-1)}-1}{4^{\frac 12(s-1)}}\right)\zeta(s)$$

A: Assume $s>1$. By the absolute convergence, one may write
$$
\sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \frac{(-1)^n}{n^s}=\sum_{k=1}^{\infty} \frac1{(2k)^s}+\sum_{k=1}^{\infty} \frac{-1}{(2k-1)^s}=\frac1{2^s}\zeta(s)-\zeta(s)\left(1-\frac1{2^s}\right)
$$ that is
$$
\sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \frac{(-1)^n}{n^s}=(2^{1-s}-1)\zeta(s)
$$ as you have observed.

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Q: SVD for Seam Carving Could SVD be used for Seam Carving ? I am making a small program for a uni course and I'm looking for different ways to calculate pixel energy; which made me come across SVD.
Among others, I have read this link and this one and it makes me wonder if SVD could be used as a good energy function.
I still have trouble understanding how I could make sense of the matrices in that regard. Any advice ?

A: I doubt heavily about it, for Seam Carving you need to find an energy function that hints you about the different structures in the image, these are well represented by contours (thats why one of the best energy functions is gradient magnitude).
In SVD you decompose the matrix as a sum of rank 1 matrices, with their respective singular values
$ A = \sum \sigma_i u_i v_i^t $
So you are decomposing the image $A$ in $rank(A)$ ammount of images, and from them you would like to construct this energy function. Problem is that these rank 1 matrices look terrible for Seam Carving, as there are no contours from each of them individually (take for example the first image obtained in the first link you provided, that is a typical rank 1 matrix).
You could test this super fast (if you have matlab), here you have a code to see it:
% Get any image
I = double(imread('cameraman.tif'));
% Obtain the SVD decomposition
[U,S,V]=svd(I);
% Define J, an image composed of stacking up the rank 1 matrices
J=zeros(size(I));
% Here you start adding up all the matrices, this setting adds all matrices up
 but modifiying "a" and "b" you can get subsets of the SVD
a=0;
b=0;
for i=1+b:rank(I)-a
J = J + S(i,i)*U(:,i)*V(:,i)';
%S(i,i) are the singular values, and U(:,i)*V(:,i)' are the rank 1 matrices.
end
imshow(J/max(max(J)))


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