Although he previously spoke to the Jones County Republican Women, Petal businessman Joe Tegerdine will return to the area Oct. 29 to formally announce his candidacy for Mississippi’s 4th Congressional District seat, currently held by Gene Taylor.
Tegerdine will visit the courthouses in Laurel and Ellisville next Thursday as part of a “whistle stop” tour of the district’s 15 counties that begins at 8:30 a.m. Monday at Relay Park in Petal. He will travel to the Gulf Coast region on Tuesday, before returning to the Pine Belt on Thursday.
Before arriving in Laurel, Tegerdine will make stops in Richton, Leakesville, Waynesboro, Quitman and Heidelberg. He is expected to be in Laurel by 6 p.m. and Ellisville at 7:15 p.m.
“Our plan is to stop in each of the major cities in each county and give people the opportunity to see what the campaign is doing,” Tegerdine said by phone Monday. “We want to show them we’re making a serious campaign out of it, not just a last minute Republican hurrah. We have a real aggressive, very strong campaign from the start.”
Tegerdine said he has been campaigning for a few months to gain some momentum for these “whistle stops.”
“This is a real back to the basics campaign, reaching at the people level,” he said. “We’re not loading up some big bus and doing the modern stop. We’re just throwing a sound system on the back of a trailer and speaking from the back of a trailer at each stop. We want to remind people of their basic fundamental voting rights and staying involved, not all of the hoopla that goes along with some of these campaigns.”
Tegerdine said each “whistle stop” will be a simple patriotic ceremony with prayer for a local pastor, the National Anthem and Pledge of Allegiance.
“It will be a quick 5 to 10 minute official announcement,” he said. “The car with the trailer will move on to the next stop, and I’ll stay another 15 to 20 minutes to say hi and meet the people. Then, I’ll hop into the car and head to the next stop.”
Tegerdine said he has two stops planned in Jones County because it’s one of the core counties of his campaign.
“Where our strength is, we’ll make a few stops,” he said. “Overall, we just want to build excitement. People have a meaningful choice and someone they can believe in to win and do something for them in Congress. Not someone who will continue to represent the big money machine.”
Tegerdine’s platform includes new leadership, limited government, fiscal discipline and strong national defense.
For more information, visit www.joetegerdine.com.
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