Palin Sets North Mississippi Stop
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is speaking at a Christian women’s gathering this weekend in Mississippi.
The speech by the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee is set for 3 p.m. Saturday. It’s part of the Extraordinary Women Conference at the BancorpSouth Arena in Tupelo.
Michael Stewart, the conference’s vice president for event development, tells the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal that Tupelo is one of only four stops on the Extraordinary Women tour at which Palin will speak.
He says organizers “looked for markets where her appearance demographically made sense.” Stewart says the presence of the Tupelo-based American Family Association is among the reasons Palin chose to speak in the city.
Palin announced earlier this month that she would not seek the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.
