Wednesday, January 3, 2024

Long May He Reign

On January 2, 2024 and the first day of the new year’s Legislative Session, the Mississippi House of Representatives elected Jason White as the state’s 62nd Speaker of the House. In a unanimous vote, 122 members showed their support for the incoming Speaker.

Speaker White has served as the Representative for District 48 which covers Attala, Carroll, Holmes, and Leake counties since 2012. In 2019, he was elected Speaker Pro Tempore alongside Speaker Philip Gunn. On December 5, 2023, the Republican Caucus, who have two-thirds majority in the chamber, selected Jason White as their nominee for Speaker of the House.

Upon acceptance, Speaker White addressed the Chamber sharing his policy initiatives for the upcoming Legislative Term specifically addressing education, healthcare, and the State’s retirement program. He acknowledged the tremendous strides Mississippi has made in education over the last twelve years but says there is more work to be done. Speaker White will ask the House to consider legislation to reform both the funding formula and accountability model for K-12 education. Also in regards to education, he will be asking the members to consider School Choice – legislation that would give parents the ability to choose a school that will best fit their child’s needs,especially in underperforming districts. Working Mississippians lacking healthcare coverage is another priority for Speaker White. He shared the need to find more ways to insure our state’s workforce without a government handout but with provider-led solutions. Lastly, the Speaker spoke to the viability and sustainability of the Public Employees Retirement System (PERS) as well as the state’s spending and future tax cuts.

Recognizing Speaker White will be encouraging challenging conversations and an ambitious Session, he shares, “Our most rewarding days here for our State and her people, are when we are involved in those tough votes, the ones that really make you examine your core political philosophies as you weigh what’s best for Mississippi. Let’s lean into an even newer, better Mississippi than we might ever hope for or imagine.”

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

He will do well!

Anonymous said...

Will this be the year of the Certificate of Need?

Anonymous said...

They going to get any work done with bomb threats? Already have someone pissed off it appears.

Anonymous said...

@10:16. hell no. Nobody knows what that is except the big hospitals, who try to shut down any talk of it.

Anonymous said...

10:16 - What are CON laws actually preventing from coming to Mississippi?

Anonymous said...

@12:21, looks like the hospitals found this post lol

Anonymous said...

January 3, 2024 at 12:21 PM
Thanks for the laugh.

Anonymous said...

Who will be his chief lieutenants?

Anonymous said...

Was this before or after the bomb scare

Anonymous said...

Bomb scares were at capitals all across the country. We didn't stand out by ourselves on this one.

But yes, 4:06, this was Tuesday; bomb scares were today.

Anonymous said...

FBI report bomb threat was from bad actors outside the country. However, with today unrest they need to take everything serious.

Anonymous said...

Gallo had a stand-in today, the chair or Mississippi's republican party. He interviewed White. I must say I was not at all impressed with White's stumbling and stammering trying to compose sentences. I'm sure it's only temporary stage-fright and he'll improve, however.

I'll take a little stuttering and stammering any day over the supreme arrogance of Speaker Gunn. And so will everybody else. Pray we've heard the last of him.


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