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The Central District needs a commissioner that can work with other people. Dick Hall is not that man.

Rudy Warnock for Transportation Commissioner

Rudy Warnock for Transportation Commissioner

Rudy Warnock's Website

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He's running for the Central District position.

Warnock Proves Road Safety Is Not Always Expensive

From a Press Release (but still pretty cool):

A phone call from Transportation Commission candidate Rudy Warnock to Jackson Public School district transportation officials quite possibly saved the lives of many children.

Warnock alerted the school district to an unsafe Hinds County bridge at Cynthia Road just inside the Clinton city limits. Although the information is listed on the Mississippi Department of Transportation Web site, appropriate measures should have been taken, such as, contacting JPS and posted weight limit signs.

“I knew the Director would like to be informed of this, so I picked up my phone and called to see if school kids are being carried over that bridge. Sure enough, a school bus uses that bridge everyday. When the Director found out about the bridge, he was as concerned as I was and said buses would be rerouted.”

“All it took was a phone call to make sure our children aren’t traveling on this unsafe bridge,” Warnock said. “Why hasn’t our district commissioner made sure our schools have this information? A phone call is the cheapest way I know to save lives.”

Warnock talked about bridge safety at a news conference today on a bridge at Cynthia Road. The bridge is one of over 4000 in Mississippi that are potentially unsafe to use.

Bridge safety has taken center stage nationwide since the Interstate 35 bridge over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minn., collapsed during rush hour on Aug. 1, killing 13 people and injuring about 100.

“MDOT has a wealth of information that can make a difference in the safety of our children and anyone else traveling our state,” Warnock said. “Putting this information to use is an inexpensive way to make our roads safer.”

Warnock, a Madison County native and a Professional Engineer, is running for the Central District Transportation Commission post. Warnock meets incumbent Dick Hall in the November general election. The Central District Transportation Commissioner is one of three commissioners who are elected by voters in single-member districts and who oversee and set policy for the Mississippi Department of Transportation.

“When I’m elected, this is exactly the kind of thing I’m going to do and that I will direct MDOT staff to do. Can you think of a more effective or less expensive way to protect Mississippi lives than picking up the phone?”

School busses shouldn't be going over possibly unsafe bridges for another reason. Their weight and size can't help but further deteriorate the structures.

John Goodman Endorses Rudy Warnock

John Goodman:

Rudy Warnock is a professional civil engineer. He has his own firm, Warnock and Associates, which works with cities and counties to build roads and bridges. Today, Warnock is the county engineer for Madison County and city engineer for the City of Canton. He also works with other counties and cities across the district. Madison County and other local governments hire Warnock to design their roads and bridges. They go to him because his firm does the work timely and cost-effectively.

Rudy Warnock also knows about traffic control. It's obvious Hall doesn't. Drive east on Highway 80 from Bierdeman Road to Mary Ann Drive and you'll know exactly what I am talking about. If you hit the red light on Bierdeman, you will have to wait and wait while the westbound traffic is moving along. Then you hit the red light at Kroger and you wait and wait. You keep going and then you hit the Red Light from Hades--the red light on Pemberton. You sit and wait and wait. Then you go and hit the red light on Mary Ann Drive and wait. None of the lights are coordinated. It is a waste of gas and time to sit there and wait and wait. The traffic engineers should do the best they can to make certain there is an efficient flow of traffic. That has not happened under Dick Hall's watch.

Rudy Warnock is an engineer who'll do his best to take politics out of MDOT and do what is best for the state. It's time for a change---a big change.

Mississippi needs Rudy Warnock as MDOT-Central Commissioner.

John Goodman at PearlMississippiCPA

Exclusive Wayne Brown Video from Harrison County Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo

News Roundup

Politicking in the Park Northeast Mississipi Daily Journal

“I’ve been blind for 26 hears due a hunting accident, but I have a vision for the state of Mississippi,” he said. Several other candidates from the same race also spoke, including Joseph Jones, Marilyn Richmond and Phil Brown.

Jamie Franks of Mooreville, a candidate for lieutenant governor, lambasted high grocery taxes and the practice of fully funding education only in election years. He got a laugh when he declared, “I’m happy to be speaking where I don’t have to explain where Mooreville is.”

La., Miss. cotton acres to be about half of last year AP / Sun Herald

In Louisiana, for example, cotton acreage is expected to total 340,000 acres, down from 635,000 last year and 11 percent below farmers' intentions last spring, USDA said. In Mississippi, cotton acreage is projected to hit 680,000 acres, down from 1.2 million in 2006.

Immigration superhighway The Sun Herald

The state Department of Transportation officially says it requires all contractors to follow federal immigration laws, but the recent arrests of dozens of undocumented workers on the Coast and the words of a top-ranking MDOT official suggest otherwise.
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"We don't check for Social Security numbers. We don't check citizenship. We don't check for anything because we're not required to," Hall said.

Laws Take Effect Today The Clarion Ledger

Beginning today, dozens of new state laws will change the way some Mississippians drive, protect their credit and even buy medicine.

They include:

Paying for tuition, room and board for active military servicemen.

Requiring doctors to give sonograms to women considering abortion and offer them a chance to listen to the fetal heartbeat.

Allowing state, city and county leaders to build toll roads as long as a free alternative route exists.