Vicksburg residents, is this your new mayor ?
On Wednesday, Vicksburg tourism officials called a news conference to “shine a good light” on a city that can’t seem to shake the bad publicity
Then on Friday, we reported that a Vicksburg mayoral candidate once owned a legal brothel in Nevada, according to documents kept by the Nevada secretary of state.
I guess we missed the good publicity memo.
The candidate and former brothel entrepreneur is Linda Fondren of Shape Up Mississippi fame. On the strength of her anti-obesity campaign, Fondren was once voted a finalist for the CNN Hero of the Year award.
Meanwhile, presumably on the strength of its working girls, the Sagebrush Ranch (formerly the Sagebrush Red-Light Ranch) was once voted “Best in Nevada,” according to its website. Best “what,” it doesn’t say; nor does it explain who is voting in these brothel award contests.