Shad White officially announces his candidacy for Mississippi Governor
COLUMBUS, Miss. – Yesterday Shad White officially announced his campaign for governor.
For the past 8 years, shad white has served as a state auditor and now joins the race to become the republican primary for the 2027 Mississippi governor elections. joining Andy Gibson, Lynn Finch, and Philip Gunn. Also a captain in the Mississippi army national guard, one of his biggest commitments in his campaign turns focus to taxpayers and says with how high prices are that he wants to freeze property taxes, cut car tag fees, as well as cut grocery taxes.
“Over the past few years, we have uncovered a record amount of fraud and corruption in our state government,” said White. “And as state auditor, there’s very little I can do to stop it after we identify it. So, I’m running for governor to finish the job, basically to go in and cut out all of the bloated contracts, all the sweetheart deals in state government. We have to get that money going back to taxpayers.”
White also wants to eliminate income taxes without raising other fees and says one of the things that makes him stand out is his courage to stand up and do difficult things. Another focal point of his campaign is the adoption of the toughest laws on violent criminals of any state in the country, as Mississippi still has the highest per capita homicide rate in the country.
“I’m also advocating for the toughest laws on politicians who steal taxpayer funds of any state in the entire country,” said White. “Far too often I’ve seen somebody in government steal some money, and then a judge slaps them on the wrist, basically, and lets them walk away. That must stop. There has to be prison time for people who steal our taxpayer funds.”
Some unfinished business white looks to peruse involves an 800-page report his team presented to politicians pointing to hundreds of millions of dollars of waste and brokenness in the government, but those officials wrote a bill banning his office from looking for the waste, stopping him from recovering taxpayer funds.
“In my time as state auditor, we have taken on powerful people, we have taken on famous people. We have taken on folks regardless of whether they were a Republican or a Democrat,” said White. “And I’m going to keep doing that as governor. We’re going to make sure that anybody who is benefiting from taxpayer dollars is following the law, and we’re going to cut out all of the waste and all of the abuse.”
Primary elections will take place next August.
