AP Analysis: Miss. Gov. Bryant focuses on unity in inaugural speech
Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant’s inaugural speech Tuesday combined poetic flourishes with recognition of the state’s most intractable issues — a lagging education system, a struggling economy and one of the nation’s highest teenage pregnancy rates.
In a state deeply affected in recent years by Hurricane Katrina and Mississippi River flooding, the 57-year-old Republican used “rising together” as his inaugural theme and said “rising water forced us to higher ground” and made the state stronger.
While he didn’t get lost in a thicket of policy proposals, Bryant said every resident should have the chance to be gainfully employed, every person should have access to a good education, every child should be born into a “mature, two-parent family” and every person should know that tax dollars are properly spent.
AP
1/10/12
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