In a gloriously magnificent upset electoral victory, Democratic candidate Gary Anderson defeated George Dale51-49% to become Mississippi's first African American Democratic nominee for Insurance Commissioner. Anderson's pro-consumer position resonated throughout the state sending George Dale packing after 32 years in office.

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by Ana Maria

Today's a big day in Mississippi. While there are plenty of contested local races throughout the state--particularly on the Republican side, the insurance commissioner is the most important statewide race because it impacts every individual, family, community, and every form of government inside the state.

Here on the coast, electing Gary Anderson as the Democratic nominee and booting out George Dale from office would clearly send more than a few ripples of joy throughout the Katrina-ravaged region. You see, the insurance crisis impacts so many things that most of us--myself included--just don't think about until it is pointed out.

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From the Mississippi Gulf Coast to the Mid-West to California, insurance companies routinely low ball claims estimates at a time when policyholders are most vulnerable. Bloomberg News recently published Home Insurers' Secret Tactics Cheat Fire Victims, Hike Profits, a riveting and insightful article that disclosed the industry's dirty, unknown secrets.

''Fighting an insurance company is like staring down the wrong end of a cannon,'' Dr. Bennett said after fighting his insurance company.

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by Ana Maria

Once again, Mr. Foot-in-Mouth Diseased Insurance Commissioner of the State of Mississippi--George Dale--has implied that the majority of Americans ought to move. That's right, George Dale thinks that the 55% of Americans whom the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency reported live within 50 miles of our nation's gloriously beautiful coastlines should move from our homes, families, communities, places of worship, jobs, and friends . . . and that if we don't, then--by George--we get what we deserve from the worst of Mother Nature.

Oh, George, you are such a horse's patoot!  

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by Ana Maria

Recently, a man got four years in prison for burglarizing a neighbor's home to loot it right after Katrina. What kind of jail time will the insurance industries' corporate cronies get for deliberately contriving to steal the claims money from policyholders in the Katrina-ravaged areas that crossed three states: Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama?

Here in Mississippi, we have two state officials responsible for holding these corporate crooks accountable to the people. We have State Attorney General Jim Hood who is doing his job to bring justice to the people of Mississippi, and we're grateful to him for his strength and fortitude in the face of tremendous pressure to go along to get along--a position of weakness, for sure.

We also have State Insurance Commissioner George Dale, whose idea of justice is more of an insurance insiders "Just Us" mentality.

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