RAY HOWZE: Mississippi should have voted for progress, education

I am 69 years old, and I am not disappointed at the election returns.

However, I am disappointed that the citizens of Mississippi don't care more about their children's education.

I am also disappointed in the Public Service Commission race. You re-elected the same man who supported the $6 billion-plus power plant that you have to pay for and not the man fighting against it and got you a refund.

You continually want to live in the past and to be so easily led down the wrong path. You don't care if there is progress in this state.

I have given up on you. For those who would say, "If you don't like it here, move," I am too old to pull up stakes, but if I were not, I would let you all have this wasteland of tired, dead ideas. You seem to fear and hate progress, new ideas and the modern world.

RAY HOWZE

Gulfport

This story was originally published November 5, 2015 at 6:24 PM with the headline "RAY HOWZE: Mississippi should have voted for progress, education ."