Mayoral race
Regarding the article “Perkins: No decision on mayoral run” (Mar. 2):
The mark of a true leader is the ability to get things done, even against all odds. That’s why Sheriel Perkins didn’t win her last two elections. The people gave her three years to do something, and she didn’t produce, so the people gave someone else a shot.
Carolyn McAdams has proven to be a leader for all of Greenwood. Her improvement projects have covered the whole town, from street paving, to the new public swimming pool, to the new Rail Spike Park, to the new police station, to the new sidewalks downtown. Her success is why she was re-elected four years ago, and that’s why she will be hard to beat this year.
Shun Pearson’s admission of his own ineffectiveness is exactly why people shouldn’t vote for him either. We don’t need another ineffective mayor whom nobody will embrace or listen to. We already had one in Perkins, and it didn’t work out well for the people of Greenwood — black or white.
Kudzu King
Medicaid expansion
Mississippi is the poorest state in the nation. Mississippi, more than any other state, had the most to gain from Medicaid expansion in terms of state revenue and humanitarian aid to its rural poverty areas.
Instead of accepting millions in federal health-care dollars, Mississippi “bowed up” against Obamacare and created its own budget suicide. Mississippi should have ridden the tide, accepted the money and waited for Republicans to repeal Obamacare at the federal level.
Mississippi’s refusal of Medicaid expansion is causing the closing of clinics around the state. Accessible health care in rural areas and health care for the poor are on a slippery slope. The situation has not only created job losses but precluded potential job growth that the federal revenues would have brought.
Hoping to recover losses of its own making, the Legislature seeks to tax internet purchases by forcing change to federal law. Why go making demands and whining to the feds now? The Legislature wants state’s rights only when convenient.
Take it off my back
‘Drain the swamp’
Regarding Wyatt Emmerich’s op-ed column “Jackson has another mayoral disaster” (Feb. 20):
This is a good example of what our President Trump meant when he wants to “drain the swamp.” How far have we sunk in the mire since Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) wrote, “The greatest virtue is a correct opinion before the fact”?
Good examples: Bush’s Iraq War and Hillary’s email server.
A 96-Year-Old Concerned Citizen
