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To the People of Marshall, Benton & Tippah Counties: For the last nearly six years, I have been honored to serve as the mayor of my hometown. I know the issues that face our local leaders on a daily basis. The most important level of government is your local government. Mayors and aldermen and County Supervisors are where the governmental “rubber meets the road.” I know first hand how important the State Legislature is in providing resources to keep our towns and counties running. Over the course of this campaign, you’ll find that my democratic opponents and I have basically the same message. We’re all for fully funding education every year. We’re all for cutting the sales tax on groceries. We’re all for protecting our most vulnerable citizens from Medicaid cuts and doing what we can on a state level to solve this nation’s biggest crisis, healthcare. And we’re all against shifting the state’s financial responsibility to cities and counties through unfunded mandates. I dare say you won’t find anything we disagree on. It’s up to you to decide which one of the four of us is best suited to be your voice at the state capitol. During my time as Mayor of Ashland, we’ve paved streets, replaced our antiquated bookkeeping with a state-of-the art computerized system. We also replaced aging and added new equipment to better serve our people, all without raising taxes. We applied for and got grants to build a new fire station, extend town water to rural areas of our county, buy a chipper to dispose of our brush and purchase land for and do prep work on a new town park. I am most proud of my record of representing our town on a regional and a statewide level. I have served on the Board of Directors of the Mississippi Municipal League since 2003, the first Ashland Mayor to do so. I serve on the Board of Commissioners of the Municipal Gas Authority of Mississippi, which manages natural gas supplies for more than 20 municipal gas systems around the state and though representing one of the three smallest members of MGAM, I serve as Vice-Chairman of this organization. I am currently serving as chairman of the North Mississippi Mayors’ Association. I also represent Benton County on the Board of Directors of the Commission on the future of Northeast Mississippi, the Mississippi Partnership workforce investment area board of directors and serve on the UCAC Board of Directors. I didn’t inherit any of these positions from my predecessor and while one or two of them are appointed, most of them I was elected to by my peers. They weren’t political rewards for voting right or being on the right side of the aisle, I earned them by working hard for the people of Ashland and that’s the way I’ll represent you as your state senator. Today, I ask for your trust and your vote to become your state senator. I believe that we send our legislators to Jackson to look out for our interests, not big business and their lobbyists. Send me to the State Capitol and I’ll never forget who sent me. I sincerely ask for your vote and support on August 7th in the Democratic Primary. |
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