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“I think Mississippi has led on social and cultural issues for years,” says [Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves], and he plans to keep that lead. Though he declin
by aaronbrethorst 4y ago
“I think Mississippi has led on social and cultural issues for years,” says [Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves], and he plans to keep that lead. Though he declines to say which policies he and the Mississippi legislature will target next, “there will certainly be opportunities for us to do [more].”
Meanwhile, one area that Reeves and co is most definitely not leading on is making sure that the capitol city of his state, with a population of almost 200,000 people, has potable, running water. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/01/us/mississippi-water-climate-change.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/01/us/mississippi-water-clim...
- metacritic12 4y agoJust observing neutrally: The lead that Tate Reeves is talking about is definitely in the opposite direction of what your implicit political stance's definition of taking the lead is. It's not the classic left definitions like minimum wage increase, or potable water, or expected age, or access to a public defender. I'm guessing it's things like having strict abortion control (or he would term it life preservation), or gun rights, or ability to reverse the Trump election results. Or, perhaps shockingly to the left view, "leading" in pushing laws so towns don't have the obligation to give potable water (and can avoid getting sued for doing so)!
- Ferrotin 4y agoIs the state responsible for the municipal government? Or would that be Jackson, MS’s voters?
- bequanna 4y agoBingo. Jackson’s inept local government failed to fix a known issue because they didn’t want to raise taxes to risk re-election. Now Federal taxpayers will be on the hook to bail them out. So… I guess mission succeeded?
- aaronbrethorst 4y agoInteresting way of spelling "white flight" there. https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a41043065/jackson-mississippi-white-flight/ https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a41043065/jac...
- drewcoo 4y agoFlint, MI, may still be ahead on that issue now, but MS will eventually out-lead them! Lead in everything!