Henry Sanders has become the target of serial eggers.
They hit his home at 805 Linden Ave. Wednesday for what he said was the eighth or ninth time.
Gooey yellow yolks dripped down a window on his car. Shells sat on his roof. Splatter could be seen on his carport walls. He said he later discovered more eggs on his south side of his home and over a bedroom window.
Sanders, 67, said he’s tired of the vandalism, which he said has a clear cause: his political support of Preston Ratliff.
Sanders said the first egging came in July when he was campaigning for Ratliff’s re-election bid for District 3 Leflore County supervisor. Ratliff’s opponent in the Democratic primary, Anjuan Brown, lives next door at 807 Linden Ave.
“That’s why. It’s motivated by the Preston Ratliff and Anjuan Brown campaign,” he said.
The race was extremely contentious. Brown won the Aug. 2 primary, but a judge later ordered a new election after finding Brown’s workers recruited people to cast absentee ballots who had no legitimate reason to do so. Brown won the special election and is currently serving as supervisor.
Brown said he’s aware of the eggings but doesn’t know who’s doing it. He said he has been targeted himself, having signs torn down at his house.
“It’s ridiculous. Whoever’s doing it, I wish it would stop. We haven’t had that type of problem since I’ve lived here,” he said.
Brown said there are other Ratliff supporters in the neighborhood, but they haven’t been egged.
Sanders said he’s been told who the eggers are but hasn’t spotted them in the act.
“I’m going to have to sleep all day and stay up all night,” he said.
He said he also intends to put up surveillance cameras.
Sanders, who describes himself as a “full-blooded Democrat,” said he’s lived in the home for 20 years and never caused trouble. His political advocacy goes back more than three decades to when he campaigned for his first cousin, attorney Alix Sanders, when he was first elected supervisor in 1979.
“I guess they think they can run me off. I’m not going nowhere,” Henry Sanders said.
• Contact Charlie Smith at 581-7235 or csmith@gwcommonwealth.com.
