JACKSON — Last week I wrote a column about the strengths of state Supreme Court Chief Justice Bill Waller Jr. as a gubernatorial candidate.

I did not say whether he was running. I only said that it was rumored he might run. I stand by my analysis that he would be a strong general election candidate and that it made more sense on many levels for him to run as a Democrat.

But I mistakenly said he had never run in a partisan election so it is not clear whether he would run as a Republican or Democrat. Since then I have learned that a young Waller ran unsuccessfully for chancery judge in 1983 as a Democrat. Since then judicial elections have become non-partisan.