MORE TRENT LOTT FALLOUT:

State Sen. Burton Switches To Mississippi GOP: Former Newton Mayor First Elected To Senate In 1991 (The Associated Press, December 30, 2002)

Veteran state Sen. Terry Burton, of Newton, is now a Republican.

Burton said Monday that he reached his decision independent of Lt. Gov. Amy Tuck's much publicized switch.

Burton was elected to the Senate three times as a Democrat.

Boy, that racial politics is just killing the GOP, huh? Posted by Orrin Judd at December 31, 2002 5:57 PM