Why We Need To Replace Bennie?

The answer to the question of why we need to replace Congressman Bennie Thompson is very sad one.  Seventeen years ago the people of Mississippi 2nd Congressional District were looking for a leader that would move the district into the 21st century.  Unfortunately,  Bennie has lead the people of the district back into the 30s, 40s, and 50s.  Instead of completing  Rev. Martin Luther King's dream of a people who were only "Judge the by content of their character and not the color of their skin."  Bennie Thompson has led us back to racism. 

It does not matter if racism is white on black or black on white, the end results is that our children suffer.  In 17 years Bennie Thompson has presided over one of the poorest districts in America.  Most of the schools in the district are failing by any standard.  Private sector jobs go any place but the Delta.  This alone is enough to demand a change.  I often quote from my grandfather who said "if your keep during what you are doing, you are going to get what you got."

What Bennie Thompson has been successful in doing is bringing welfare and promoting more poverty.  In Bennie's world  job creation is the the building of more jails or prisons.  Currently, thousand of men and woman sit around jobless waiting for another welfare check.  Before the recession the 2nd District was in a ecomonic depression.  Ten percent unemployment hide another fifteen percent or more of people who had given up on looking for jobs and destined to be one of the permanent underclass. 

Under Bennie Thompson we don't have a plan to succeed but only to get  more of what we already have. 

The race is on.

Well it's 60 days before the Republican Primary.  This race is about who is the best candidate to defeat Bennie Thompson.  Of course I am a little bias in thinking that Bill Marcy is the best candidate.  Would you expect me to say differently.

But the real reason I think my republican friends should vote for me is that I am the most experienced candidate.  In the last 2 years I have been involved in two elections.  The first in the 3rd District congressional district where my purpose was to become involved in the debate.  I must have said something interesting during that election because I was encouraged to run for Ms House 82.  In that election I was supported by the Governor, Lt Governor and all the 7 elected statewide republicans.  

In that special election I was opposed by 4 democrats.  I made the run off election but all the democrats teamed up against me.  Like a wise man once said,  "What doesn't kill you just makes me stronger.  "   Well folks I am very strong.

The race to defeat Bennie Thompson is very similar to the House 82 race.  The big difference is when I was running in the 82 race there had been a death by a elderly representative.   Now what I have learned is that you can't run against a dead man or his record.  But my advantage here is that Bennie is alive a well.  So let the fight begin.