Post-election story on Mississippi Insurance Commissioner George Dale

I thought this was a pretty good story from the Clarion Ledger about George Dale's defeat in the Mississippi primary last week. Dale seems like a classy guy, it's too bad he had to go out this way. An excerpt from the story:The commissioner has little power and walks a fine line in seeking to balance consumer interests with maintaining a viable insurance market. While politicians can promise low rates and rail against "Big Insurance," they cannot force companies to do business in the state, which ultimately is the only way to create competition and lower rates.Insurance commissioners don't fare well after major storms. Longtime Mississippi commissioner Walter Dale Davis quit in 1971 after going through Camille as did the commissioner after the hurricane of 1947. After Ka