Tonight we attended the DEC meeting to watch their certification of candidates for the upcoming Primary Election on 2 Aug 2011. Another reason for our attendance was that the Transparency Committee had sent a letter voicing our concern about candidates not living at the address they declare on their qualifying statements. (A copy of that letter was posted to this site earlier.)
Actually, we didn't learn anything we didn't already know about this residency problem that seems so prevelant in Mississippi. I personally thought it was sort of amusing when one of the committee members said something like...well someone can have more then one house. This statement was following a discussion about it being common knowledge that the Superintendent of Education doesn't live in the state of MS.
So, here is my light bulb moment. How sad and shame on us. Not only is it common knowledge that this Superintendent doesn't live here...we keep electing him and we have a low performing school system. Our children deserve better.
Don't we have enough faith in ourselves to elect people who live here full time? Are these elected officials so arrogant that they think they are the only people who can be elected to office? I think we can find enough good people who want to live here full time to help make Tunica County a better place to live and work for all and not just the few.
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