Empower Mississippi's Grant Callen sits down with former Mississippi House Speaker Philip Gunn to trace his journey from Clinton’s small-town roots to state leadership. Gunn shares how a personal tragedy at Ole Miss Law upended his life, yet God’s faithfulness sustained him, strengthened his faith, and taught him resilience. From his 2003 House race to winning the Speaker’s gavel, he reveals lessons from the political trenches. They dive into his proudest wins: helping overturn Roe v. Wade, driving education reform, and changing Mississippi’s flag. Is a 2027 gubernatorial run next? Tune in for his answer and a vision for a thriving Mississippi where everyone can rise
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14 comments:
We changed the flag and we changed the Speakah.
Yep. What a disaster.
Waiting for somebody under 80 years old to make a comment....
To the comment I didn't approve: You confused him with Mike Gunn.
Gunn is solid ! He always had solid leadership.
Three men decided to change the flag, set about that mission and were successful. The voice of 'the people' was mute, or rather unheard. I don't really want to piss on Kingfish's parade here, but this man is the most arrogant politician I have ever encountered.
Phillip Gunn is the most selfless public servant I have ever met. Truly the type of guy we need in office.
Changed the Speaker? When he didn't run again? That's like saying you changed day to night.
Yeah, another Beacon of Democracy, a true Voice of the People. Right.
He was a disaster as a Speaker of the House and will be a disaster as Governor if he runs. Hope we find a true conservative to run against him. He is nothing but a closet liberal.
Wow, the idiots in these comments. You are free to drape yourself in your flags of the losing side and keep wishing for the days when you could talk openly about keeping them folks in their place. Speaker Gunn was smart enough to see that idiots like you were holding us back and we moved on. He was only one of 3 or 4 in leadership and a whole bunch more supporting the change.
He is a really sharp guy and I can't imagine going through the tragedy he did with his family. I wish he hadn't left the Speaker's position, since I don't think there are any other good positions he wants and that he can get elected to in Mississippi politics.
11:03 AM ,
this is one of the "idiots". It always helps to insult anyone who disagrees with you, doesn't it?
Tell me one specific thing that has improved since Gunn's genius turn at the Speaker's position. I have lived here all my life and I can't see anything that's better with a new flag or with any of the other accomplishments listed.
11:44
Amazon and Marshall county deals and multiple economic development deals in the golden triangle were started right after the flag . All could and would have moved on without the flag change .
Most selfless? This is the same guy who put Mississippi 10+ years behind on Breweries and always killed the bills to have higher percentage alcohol beer in the 2010s. It wasn't until someone ran a story on how he backdoor worked for the City of Clinton to have resort status and yet hypocritically kept the rest of the state behind that he stopped killing beer-related legislation.
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