Below is the editorial from South Mississippi's newspaper, The Sun Herald.
Link: http://www.sunherald.com/editorials/story/423814.html
Mississippi matters today, but what about tomorrow?
That's because all three - Hillary Clinton, John McCain and Barack Obama - still occupy seats in the United States Senate and it is in that upper house of Congress that Rep. Gene Taylor's multi-peril insurance legislation is stalled.
These three senators could - with the national media attention constantly focused on them - instantly focus the nation's attention on the insurance crisis that is overtaking more and more American homeowners.
If the private sector will not or cannot offer homeowners affordable and accountable protection for their property, then the federal government must.
This deplorable situation is not limited to Mississippi. It affects residents of Massachusetts and Connecticut. Of New York and Maryland. Of Virginia and the Carolinas. Of Florida, Alabama, Louisiana and Texas.
We usually encourage voter turnout on an election day. But today we encourage the candidates themselves - those running for president as well as those hoping to fill Mississippi's seats in Congress - to dedicate themselves to helping solve this problem before other coastal communities, and even communities far inland, are as overwhelmed as our communities have been by an insurance industry exempt from anti-trust legislation and more interested in profits than people.
