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Certainly, since the Reagan years at least, what the right thinks and what the right does are two vastly different things. This divergence has increased over time until we now have a GOP that has fallen and can't get up. It has totally lost its bearings and, instead, clings to the personality cult of DJT. Their actions speak louder than the worn-out words. Stagnation and status quo are the last refuges of safety in places controlled by the GOP. Mississippi is only one example.
Thanks for the laughs.
And hmmm........Texas? We haven't had a democrat elected to statewide office in nearly 30 years (1994). And over that span the state has been on an amazing economic run and population boom.
Truth is the overwhelming majority of faltering states and cities are and have been run by democrats.
The water situation is a result of the dearth of state funding. As in AL, states whose legislature push low taxes, shift the burden of income-producing to fines and high state fees for services, effectively putting more of the tax burden on the poor. While supposedly making a low tax state, what they got was a poor infrastructure state.
MS gets 12% of its annual revenue from real estate taxes. NJ gets 29%. The poor lose out.
So all right, this ideal Democrat city is dependent on a Republican state government. What's that about? At the very least Jackson should be one of the best places live in MS, if not the country. I don't think that's the case.
The state still has the highest rate in the nation as of 2022 at 19.7% but it only applies to 1 Democratic Mayor and a wide swath of rural counties according to you. What about the responsibility of the Republican Governor and the Republican lead state Legislature have in this, where are they investing in things like Public Utilities, new business, education and improving the quality of life for all their citizens?
So all right, this ideal Democrat city is dependent on a Republican state government. What's that about? At the very least Jackson should be one of the best places live in MS, if not the country. I don't think that's the case.
Why?
I mean, you're right. Jackson is a thriving mess. No one in their right mind would want to live there. But why should it be a great place to live?....... Because it's the capital? You mean like Dover, Delaware, with a crime index of 4 (100 is best) ?
The state still has the highest rate in the nation as of 2022 at 19.7% but it only applies to 1 Democratic Mayor and a wide swath of rural counties according to you. ....................
That's not according to me. I attached a link to a map showing you that was the case.
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Originally Posted by lhpartridge
Mississippi elected Republican governor Kirk Fordice who served from 1992-2000. He was followed by the only Democrat to be elected since, a one-term governor Ronnie Musgrove, 2000-2004. So except for that four-year period, Mississippi has been led by Republicans for three decades. So. Aside from 26 years, Mississippi has had a Democrat governor ever since 1876.
Absolutely. The governor's office went Republican in 1992, before backsliding for a term. It has been reliably Republican since.
Former two-term Republican governor Phil Bryant is currently under investigation for his role in diverting millions of dollars intended to help the poor ...........[restored]You can draw your own conclusions about how he viewed the poor and the money provided to assist them. Not true at all. Rep Bennie Thompson, (D)MS, has asked Merrick Garland to investigate. To date, no one is "under investigation" at all.
I was referring to the investigations by reporter Anna Wolfe from Mississippi Today and State Auditor Shad White.
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Originally Posted by Listener2307
So there ya go. You have been duped by the press and lefty zealots again. You are busy declaring your outrage and offering support to starving children and tearing your hair out about a letter than had been written.
Let us know when someone is charged.
My post was unemotional and I see no outrage declared in it, even after restoring the sentence you elided. My asking people to draw their own conclusions does not support your contention that I have been duped by the press, nor that I have been influenced by lefty zealots.
By your standards, having spent the majority of my career teaching in inner-city Jackson would probably qualify me as a lefty zealot. And the support that I have given to hungry children has most often been in the form of immediate food.
I don't even know what letter that had been written to which you refer. My hair is just fine, thank you. Falling out a bit due to old age, but that is to be expected. I'm not interested in hastening its exit!
I reserve my outrage for the funding of public schools based on their local property taxes while the Mississippi Adequate Education Program is perennially disregarded. But still no hair-pulling.
If anyone is charged, I will be truly surprised.
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