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Musgrove touts record as governor, labels Wicker's attacks falsehoods
By Emily Wagster Pettus, The Clarion-Ledger 8/5/08
Democratic Senate candidate Ronnie Musgrove says Republican Roger Wicker is making false attacks on him and his record.
Musgrove was governor from January 2000 to January 2004.
At a press luncheon Monday in Jackson, Musgrove said Wicker is wrong to claim there was a budget deficit when Musgrove left the governor's office. Musgrove says he balanced the state budget every year as required by law and got legislators to enact the largest teacher pay raise in state history.