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Updated · The Washington Post · Nov 15

Scott Colom Urges Democrats to Invest in Mississippi After 1st Senate Win Since 1989

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Updated · The Washington Post · Nov 15

Scott Colom Urges Democrats to Invest in Mississippi After 1st Senate Win Since 1989

Q: With the Fountain of Grace finally unveiled, what secret elements of the planned Survivors' Garden remain to be completed?

The remaining piece is the Survivors’ Garden itself, which has not yet been built. Reporting on the memorial says the next phase will add a separate garden on the other side of Mother Emanuel to honor the five people who survived the 2015 attack. What is known about that unfinished phase is fairly specific: the garden is planned to include five trees and six stone benches. The five trees are meant to represent the five survivors, while the six benches are intended to honor both the survivors and the wider congregation’s endurance. Organizers have described the garden as the memorial’s next major component, following the opening of the Fountain of Grace, the Cross of Hope and the Fellowship Benches. Foundation leaders said work on the garden was expected to begin in the coming months, with fundraising and long-term memorial support still part of the effort.

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Scott Colom said Democrats should put more money and organizing into Mississippi after his upset Senate victory over Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith, arguing the state can become competitive every cycle.
Minimal national Democratic spending forced his campaign to “do more with less,” Colom said, contrasting Mississippi with better-funded battlegrounds such as Texas and Michigan.
Rural voters are central to that strategy, he said, urging Democrats to show they care about communities often overlooked in Southern states.
Colom’s win will make him Mississippi’s first Democratic U.S. senator since John C. Stennis retired in 1989, giving Democrats a fresh argument for expanding the map in the South.