Ronnie Musgrove Continues To Call For Fiscal Responsibility

Former Governor Ronnie Musgrove recently sat down with the Greenwood Commonwealth for an interview.  Here is some of what he had to say:

“We made good choices and smart choices by bringing 52,000 new jobs and $14 billion in investments into the state. We passed a teacher pay raise and we had a new funding formula for our schools,” he said.

It’s different in Washington, Musgrove said.

“We see out-of-control spending that has taken a $200 billion surplus and turned it into a $200 billion in-the-hole budget deficit. We’re borrowing over $30 billion from China, Japan, India and Saudi Arabia every month and yet Washington tells us our economy is good,” Musgrove said.

Ronnie Musgrove has been a very underrated governor. He did a good job and there's no reason to believe he couldn't do the same in Washington.

Regarding the mayors, who face crumbling infrastructure and who need help from Washington to address their problems, Musgrove said he already has provided leadership in that capacity as governor.

“What you have to have is creative ideas that will help,” he said, mentioning the state’s Small Municipality Grant Program, which provides up to $250,000 for infrastructure improvements.

“We put that in place. We did it without raising taxes. We did it where we could help communities. That’s the kind of bipartisan work we need in Washington,” Musgrove said.

We need innovation which former Governor Musgrove has shown and conservative fiscal and social beliefs in our senator which Governor Musgrove clearly hold.

Musgrove noted that Wicker, as a 13-year veteran of the U.S. House of Representatives, has voted eight times against raising the minimum wage.

Wicker, he said, had voted to spend $400 million for the infamous “Bridge to Nowhere” in Alaska, as well as appropriations for a mule packer’s museum in California and a prisoner museum in Kansas.

“I don’t know about you, but I think he’s wrong in his priorities for America,” Musgrove said.

Some Republicans have expressed disingenuous shock that Musgrove has begun to lay out contrasts with Roger Wicker. Do these people not think Wicker will attack Ronnie Musgrove when the election draws near. When you start behind moneywise you have to get your message out early and often. The candidates have differences and Ronnie Musgrove is doing his part to point them out to voters. That's a service, not a vice.