Saturday, October 6, 2012

Speaker's Idea Tour starts Monday in Jackson

Speaker of the House Philip Gunn begins his Idea Tour Monday at the state capital in Jackson. The Speaker's press release stated:

Suggestions Rolling in for Speaker Gunn’s Ideas Tour

Jackson, MS—Ideas ranging from healthcare to education reform have already been streaming in to the Speaker of the House Philip Gunn’s office in anticipation of Mississippi Solutions—an Ideas Tour. The circuit of meetings kicks off Monday, October 8, at the State Capitol in Jackson.

As a non-partisan town hall style series of meetings, Mississippi Solutions—an Ideas Tour is a forum for all Legislators, citizens and the press to attend. People are encouraged to bring suggestions they may have on issues they would like to see addressed in future sessions. Ideas may also be submitted through the Speaker’s website, Facebook page and Twitter account.

“We are pleased with the response we have had so far to Mississippi Solutions,” said Gunn. “Mississippians are vested in their state and its future. The goal of these stops is to incorporate Mississippians’ voices into the solutions we lawmakers work on each session.”

Through bipartisan committee chair appointments, Speaker Gunn created a functional House of Representatives in his first session as Speaker. The House Redistricting map was approved by the U.S. Department of Justice. Business-friendly legislation was passed, along with many other laws that focused on education, healthcare and keeping Mississippi within its budgetary means. Legislators finished the 2012 Legislative Session 10 days early, saving Mississippians more than $350,000.

Each meeting will last one hour and 15 minutes.

Monday, October 8

9:00 a.m.—Jackson, Capitol, Rm. 113
1:00 p.m.—Greenwood, Downtown, City Council Room
4:30 p.m.—Hernando, City Courtroom

Tuesday, October 9

9:00 a.m.—Tupelo, Tupelo City Hall, City Council Chambers, Second Floor
1:30 p.m.—Columbus, City Hall, Main Street
5:00 p.m.—Meridian, City Hall, Third Floor

Thursday, October 11

9:00 a.m.—Hattiesburg, Cultural Center, Main Street
1:30 p.m.—Biloxi, City Hall

Friday, October 12

10:00 a.m.—Brookhaven, State Room, State Bank and Trust

To submit your ideas for Mississippi Solutions—an Ideas tour, please visit www.philipgunn.org, Facebook @PhilipGunnMS and Twitter @PhilipGunnMS.

Posted by Kingfish at 1:00 PM

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

Idea no. 1. Admit that power of Speaker's office was used to benefit a contributor versus what is good for State and move the tax commission downtown.

October 6, 2012 at 4:29 PM
Anonymous said...

Recommendation was to lease NOT PURCHASE. Purchasing not in best interest of the State.

October 6, 2012 at 4:52 PM
Anonymous said...

KF --- check the press release again. Looks like Monday is at the State CAPITAL, not the Capital Club.

October 6, 2012 at 8:34 PM
Anonymous said...

Here is an IDEA...lets elect someone for Speaker that people in their own party dont laugh at cause he has no idea what he is doing...

October 7, 2012 at 5:38 AM
Anonymous said...

is he promoting the house of rep. or is this an unofficial campaign tour-a way to get his name out to the public.

October 7, 2012 at 9:13 AM
ScatterFax said...

I had two robo-calls from him over the weekend. I'm sure he's scatter-gunning the phone book. I had wanted to be special.

October 7, 2012 at 2:39 PM
Anonymous said...

Would someone tell Hardy @ MouthOff that Gunn would be an idiot to leave the Speaker's office to run for Governor? I guess living in Michigan, he may not pick-up on the peculiarities of our constitutional structure.

October 7, 2012 at 9:45 PM
Anonymous said...

Speaker Gunn wants to hear directly from citizens since he presides over the People's House. I took advantage of the opportunity since McCoy, Newman, Sillers & c never gave us that opportunity. We had a well-behaved crowd with only a 16 section plaintiff and one Mr. Aldridge of the Independent Business Association hogging the microphone.

October 9, 2012 at 8:16 AM
Anonymous said...

huh? what is "a 16 section plaintiff"?

October 9, 2012 at 10:27 AM
Anonymous said...

This guy as Governor is a far fetched idea. We can't have another good ol' boy who prides himself on how country he is and can barely read and write.......we've got Phil.

October 10, 2012 at 1:02 PM

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