How Phil Gunn came up empty on tax relief

Mississippi Today Philip Gunn over three terms as speaker of the Mississippi House had pulled off the near-impossible: He gained de facto control over what legislation lived or died in the chamber, and often even what bills could be openly discussed or amended. But in his last — by his own choice — session as speaker, Gunn’s iron-fisted grip has been cracked, by his own Republican supermajority…