Candidates for governor go head to head – WAPT Jackson

Reeves and Hood clash on teacher pay, roads, health care

Candidates for governor went head to head Thursday

Updated: 7:39 AM CDT Oct 11, 2019

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GOVERNOR - GOING HEAD TO HEAD IN A DEBATE. DEMOCRAT JIM HOOD AND REPUBLICAN TATE REEVES FACED OFF TONIGHT AT SOUTHERN MISS IN HATTIESBURG. AND IF YOU WANT A LIBERAL TO RUN MISSISSIPPI, HE'S YOUR GUY. APPLAUSE FIREWORKS AND FINGER-POINTING BETWEEN THE TWO CANDIDATES THURSDAY NIGHT. JIM HOOD AND TATE REEVES - SPARRING OVER A VARIETY OF ISSUES...FROM THE STATE FLAG. THAT WOULD BE UP TO THE STATE LEGISLATURE TO VOTE ON THAT. IF YOU'RE GOING TO RECIEVE PUBLIC FUNDS, YOU OUGHT TO FLY THE STATE FLAG. TO MEDICAL MARIJUANA. :35:47 BUT I'VE SEEN A FEW STUDIES THAT IT MAY HELP PEOLE GET OFF OF OPIOIDS. THERE MAY BE SOME USES FOR MARIJUANA. I JUST DON'T WANT TO SEE IT GET INTO THE HANDS OF KIDS. :35:52 36:48 I'M PERSONALLY OPPOSED TO IT AND I WILL NOT VOTE FOR IT NEXT YEAR. THE TWO CANDIDATES - ALSO DISAGREEING OVER WHETHER OR NOT TEACHER PAYCHECKS HAVE GROWN. REEVES: 8:58 OVER THE LAST FIVE YEARS WE'VE INCREASED TEACHER PAY IN 2014, WE INCRERASED IT AGAIN IN 2015,WE INCREASED IT AGAIN IN 2019. ALL TOLD, THAT WAS ABOUT FOUR THOUSAND DOLLARS.9:08 10:18 HOOD: FROM 2012 TO TODAY, THEY'RE MAKING 900 DOLLARS LESS, NOT EIGHT THOUSAND MORE. 10:24 HOOD AND REEVES ALSO WEIGHING IN ON THE NATIONAL DEBATE OVER GUN CONTROL. HOOD - FAVORING BACKGROUND CHECKS FOR ALL FIREARM SALES. REEVES - OPPOSED. 32:45 I AM A STRONG SUPPORTER OF THE SECOND AMMENDMENT AND I DON'T BLIEVE EVERYBODY SHOULD HAVE A BACKGROUND CHECK ON EVERY SINGLE FIREARM THAT IS PURCHASED.32:51 32:59 IF YOU GO IN A STORE, YOU GET A BACKGROUND CHECK. IT'S JUST THAT THE LOOPHOLES ARE WHEN THERE'S A GUNSHOW AND THAT'S WHERE THE CRIMINALS GO. FINALLY, THE CANDIDATES WERE ASKED WHAT THEY ADMIRE ABOUT THEIR OPPONENT. 51:18 AND SO I RESPECT THE FACT THAT HE HAS CHOSEN A LIFE OF PUBLIC SERVICE DURING A TIME WHEN HE WAS RAISING HIS KIDS. :51:53 WHAT I RESPECT MOST ABOUT HIM, HE SURE KNOWS HOW TO RAISE A LOT OF CAMPAIGN MONEY. LAUGHTER CAMPAIGN FINANCE REPORTS SHOW REEVES HAS THREE POINT THREE MILLION DOLLARS ON HAND, COMPARED TO HOOD WITH ONE POINT THREE MILLION.

Reeves and Hood clash on teacher pay, roads, health care

Candidates for governor went head to head Thursday

Updated: 7:39 AM CDT Oct 11, 2019

Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves and Attorney General Jim Hood met Thursday at the University of Southern Mississippi in a debate. Mississippi's Republican lieutenant governor and Democratic attorney general are debating teacher pay raise plans, road building and health care as they clash for the first time in the governor's race. Hood argued Reeves had his chance to make improvements during his eight years as lieutenant governor and that voters shouldn't let him stay in office. Reeves said he's pushing feasible plans and Hood wants to raise taxes.The two traded charges over an aborted plan to build a road to Reeves' Flowood subdivision. Hood said evidence shows Reeves pushed the road, while Reeves says Hood abused his office to investigate his political opponent.

Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves and Attorney General Jim Hood met Thursday at the University of Southern Mississippi in a debate.

Mississippi's Republican lieutenant governor and Democratic attorney general are debating teacher pay raise plans, road building and health care as they clash for the first time in the governor's race.

Hood argued Reeves had his chance to make improvements during his eight years as lieutenant governor and that voters shouldn't let him stay in office. Reeves said he's pushing feasible plans and Hood wants to raise taxes.

The two traded charges over an aborted plan to build a road to Reeves' Flowood subdivision. Hood said evidence shows Reeves pushed the road, while Reeves says Hood abused his office to investigate his political opponent.

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