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David Olds: Welcome to this edition of Mississippi Happenings. My name is David Olds and I'm your co host. And joining me is my friend and co host, Mr. Jim Newman. Jim, how are you, buddy?
jim newman: Hey, I couldn't be doing any better, 'cause I'm not up in Corinth having to listen to that guy from Washington DC,
David Olds: Mm-hmm.
jim newman: who thinks he is king of the world.
David Olds: Uh-huh. So you you wouldn't wanna be at his rally today?
jim newman: No, but if you've got a ticket, I'd be glad to give it away to somebody.
David Olds: Sounds good, yeah, whatever. joining us today, we have Mr. Jeffrey Hullum. And Jeffrey, he served 22 years in the US Army. He completed six combat tours of Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan, and he retired as a serge a sergeant major. His service was recognized with the Bronze Star Medal, the Joint Meritorious Service Medal and the Military Outstanding Service Medal. And night in 2022, voters elected Jeff to represent District 119 in the Mississippi House of Representatives, which is of course the Gulf Coast. And he is also vice chair of the Marine Resource Committee. And he's also a Deacon in the Morning Star. Baptist Church. And he is seeking he's the to represent Congress to represent the district, Congress, excuse me, Congressional District Four on the Mississippi Ghost Gulf Coast. So Mr. Holland, thank you for your service to our country and thank you for joining us today.
Jeffrey Hulum III: Thank you, Dave. Thank you, Jim, for having me. It's an honor and a pleasure to be with two other pillars of the state of Mississippi. Especially not just when it comes to politics, when it comes to, you know, telling the true facts of what actually goes on in our state.
David Olds: Thank you so much. Jim, you wanna get us started?
jim newman: Well sure. Jeffrey, there's an awful lot we could talk about what's going on in the state. But it seems like the most important thing people are concerned about right now is the economy and health care. And Let me just ask you, if you get to Congress after the election you go to Congress, of course we don't know what committees you'll get appointed to, but with those two things being so important to the people in Mississippi, What do you think we ought the Democratic Party nationally ought to be doing about the economy or and or health care? You just pick one and then we'll talk about the other.
Jeffrey Hulum III: Well we'll we'll we'll start off with the economy. In order to get our economy back on the right track for all people, because at the end of the day, Jim, the the Constitution starts with the people. In order to put the power back in the hands of the people, we must end this conflict in Iran. The conflict in Iran not only has destroyed our allies, it also destroyed our real life in the United States, but it's truly affecting us on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Than the 12 coastal counties of South Mississippi. Reason being, when inflation is through the roof, diesel prices are sky high, gas is sky high. When we normally do business with people from different countries, they come with some type of negotiation. But we're feeling the effects of these tariffs, because tariffs are taxes. No matter how they might want to cut it in slices, these tariffs are killing us. And the gas prices is killing us. The reason gas and diesel is killing us. on the coast and the 12 coastal, well not coastal, but the 12 lower Mississippi counties, is because majority of everything we get moves by ground. And when you put a premium on the ground freight, that means that that that price goes to everything that's moved by ground. So it's it's not just about the gasoline and the diesel and the truckers, it also goes to the commodities, the grocery, the utilities, anything that's have to run or operate off diesel, it's right now creating uncertain times. This is a self, a self-inflicted wound that we're causing amongst ourselves. As a career military service member, I've been to war six times. Kosovo in 99 doing eight and cleansing. Iraq three times back to back with the attack on the world trade. And Afghanistan twice. And I was a senior listed advisor in Kabul, Kabul, Afghanistan. So when I tell you, the only how we have been successful. It's more to it than praying to God and all great men and women of America. It's our coalition partners. This administration has eroded the more vibrant trust of our coalition partners. Because if we still had the coalition partners work with us from around the world, this conflict would have been over already. Because they would have stepped in and did something. But you cannot criticize them and then rub shoulders with the access of evil, which is Russia, North Korea, China, and Iran. When we know China had a visit to the United States, it was a slapping all of us who serve this country faced because they had sold to roll out the red carpet for a communist regime that this president rubbed shoulders with, knowing that China is providing imagery to Iran to attack us. And then with Russia, for Russia to be doing business with the United States by all and hurting us even more. By done being approximate for Iran, that shows you what this administration head is truly at. The head is not on their shoulders, looking out for the best interest of the American people. The head is in their pocket, looking out for the well-being of their interests, their lobbyists, and their friends. That's what's going on with that issue. When it comes to health care, we know with this one ugly bill that takes effect one January. A lot of people in Mississippi, especially rural in South Mississippi, is gonna lose the Medicaid and Medicare benefits. So many of them have already came off of it and more gonna lose it because the insurance premiums for the ones who do work, their premiums are too high. So we have working class people who have college degrees. They work every day and do everything they're supposed do right, Dave. Because
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the premiums are too high. They're picking and choosing. They're rolling the dice on not just supporting their family, but their health. And we all know if we get a great educated workforce, a healthy workforce, that's a thriving workforce. And we need to sew up the Affordable Care Act. We need to stop saying because it's attached to President Obama. It's the Affordable Care Act, which makes health care affordable. To a lot of people, especially in the state of Mississippi. Because Mississippi is a welfare state. No matter how you cut it, how you slice the Mississippi welfare state. And I would say this, and I digress for a second, but some of the most rural areas of the lower 12 counties in the fourth congressional district, they vote for the Republican Party at alarm and rate. They vote for the Republican Party on the interest and at the interest of their kids, who in some of the counties are more than 25% below the poverty rate. They vote the interest and the well-being of their elderly, who's over 17% of the poverty rate, just to say they're a part of something that's not a part of them.
jim newman: y it's one of the things you were talking about the price of fuel, particularly diesel oil on the coast. people don't think that that affects anything other than Gulf Coast and the fishing industry. most all those fishing boats operate on diesel, but it affects us. I mean, right here in Tupelo, Mississippi. And I can give you a perfect example. right one block over from where I live, we have a man who drives down to the Gulf Coast every Monday, gets fresh fish, and drives back on Tuesday morning. The price of fish has gone up tremendously. It's not because of the the the fisherman is getting more profit, it's just because It's costing more for the fishermen to have a living putting diesel in their engines so they can go fish, and then he picks up the fish and he's got to drive back to Tupelo. It it it doesn't make any sense when, like you said, people vote against their own interests. It it's just it's beyond comprehension. And one of the things that David and I have done with this. podcast is we're getting out all over Mississippi. In fact it's all over the nation, but primarily it's to educate people in rural parts of Mississippi.
Jeffrey Hulum III: Yes.
jim newman: So that they can begin to understand what is happening not only na nationally but in our legislature within the state of Mississippi. So we're excited about having you on and and and talking to you. David, do you
Jeffrey Hulum III: Jim, if if I may, if I may
David Olds: Yeah.
Jeffrey Hulum III: for one second, Jim, I want to address something when it comes to this red-dot diesel. We all know red dye diesel was illegal to drive and utilize on our state highways.
jim newman: Right.
Jeffrey Hulum III: people people understand this. But also when it comes with the red dye diesel, the people who's gonna utilize that red-dot diesel from their farm equipment to their commercial vehicles, those they gotta pay a tax at the end of the year on that. Not only do they have to pay a tax at the end of the year on that, if they have a vehicle. That they have leased or paying on involves the warranty out because that red dot diesel messes up the injectors on the vehicle. so that's why I say we're a nation of laws and policies, we can't make exceptions. Instead of them doing the right thing, which is having Congress to stop this conflict of going to go to a full war so we can get this process over with. We continue to skirt around what's right for the people. And the president of these United States went on national TV and said the people from the oil and gas industry are making record profits. And he don't give a damn how high the gas seals. He thinks it's a joke. But it's something I've been saying to Mr. Dave, my bad, you tell him, Kyle Dave. Dave,
David Olds: Yeah.
Jeffrey Hulum III: it's like only in the law. I don't know if y'all experiencing this in Tupelo, but in South Mississippi. New gas stations going up every day. We live in the food desert. We live in
jim newman: Mm.
Jeffrey Hulum III: health deserts. And we can't even find health clinics. We can't get grocery stores in our area. Like right here in the city of Goport, we haven't had a grocery store in 30 years in West Goport, the district I represent. But they're putting up new gas stations on a daily and a weekly basis.
jim newman: It's it it it is amazing.
David Olds: Jeff, you just talked about red dot diesel. What is red dot diesel? What is that?
Jeffrey Hulum III: Red dot diesel is diesel that's used in foreign equipment and diesel that's used in equipment in rural areas, not diesel that you'll typically buy and put in commercial personal vehicles because it's a color, a thing that they can, when you're using it, the highway patrolman or anybody doing it, especially they can tell if you got regular diesel. But I would refer to Jim, he know more about it personally than me. So. If you can't, Jim is playing, but red dot, this really does outside the coloration and what is actually you meant for.
jim newman: Well it's it's it's for farm equipment use exclusively and it's red dye DYE and that's where it gets its name. And it it will do what you're talking about, Jeffrey. It will mess up your engine. if you've got a Ford or Chevy or GMC pickup diesel and you use the red dye diesel fuel in it. It will mess your engine up. You will have problems. And if they catch you with it, I don't know what happens. all I know is that I got it when I had the farm, it was delivered, you know, in a in a month my Montgomery oil diesel truck and I didn't pay as much tax on it as I did on a regular diesel. so that's what it is. yeah, it's
David Olds: What's what's what's the price difference?
Jeffrey Hulum III: Well, I don't, I'm not sure that the total price difference I know on the Gulf Coast right now, diesel is running 616 a gallon. Pretty much the people who's going to come in contact with
that is something that's going to be in the rural areas, you know, but they removed a tax off. They suspended the tax off of it right now. But one thing also people got to understand in the state of Mississippi. Remember Mississippi passed their own version of house bill one over a year ago in their house bill. it added nine cents to the gasoline tax. So on top of the state tax, on top of the federal tax, Mississippi getting a double way man to gas pump because that's the test gotta be paid to the state because you reduce the income, the state income tax, you reduce certain taxes, they increase the gasoline tax in the state.
David Olds: Understood. Thank you for that.
jim newman: Yeah, the thing I noticed here, that I I've yet to be able to figure out is that Trump made his deal with Putin on the diesel, releasing I think three hundred tons. Apparently they measure fuel by tons as opposed to barrels. but even though he made that deal and it's been a week at least. The price of diesel has continued to go up.
Jeffrey Hulum III: Yes.
jim newman: In spite of his deal. So I don't know who's making well, I guess I do know who's making the money. but it's not David or you or me.
Jeffrey Hulum III: You
David Olds: It's it's going in his pocket and and his
jim newman: Yeah.
David Olds: pocket.
jim newman: How's your hospitals down there?
Jeffrey Hulum III: So the hospitals on, it's interesting you asked that question, Jim, because we have one of the largest employees in the state with Memorial Hospital Systems is doing well in the city of Guport in Biloxi. When we start thinking about the full congressional dish, our hospital systems is failing because when you started going into the rural areas and the semi-rural areas outside of Forest County, north of Pearl River County, when you go to Green County, Wayne County, Those type of areas, they have clinics in their healthcare desert because their clinics is only open at certain times. don't have, certainly don't even have overnight hospital stays in that area. So two weeks ago, I was out up in Loosdale, Mississippi talking to some family members over there, people I met. And one of the women was telling me, well, her mother was telling me she just hate that her baby catches like a fever some in the middle of the night. it'd be a travesty if they can't get, that baby to Jackson County or somewhere to seek adequate medical attention. Or if someone living over there off of one of the rural interstates, with the laws, got like a 35 mile roadway over there in the middle of rural areas. So if someone falls off a farm equipment or falls off a roof, there's nowhere they can get adequate treatment unless they can try to make it to a fire station somewhere they can do like buddy aid. first aid on, you know, that's just not right. And then when it came to the rural health care system, when it comes to the money that was sent down by the federal government, the 200 something million dollars, you know, we try to push the governor to allow us to put guardrails on the money, but he pushed back. And so now, know, Memorial Hospital, like I say, in city of Gulfport, they got a fair amount of that money, but the people in the other rural areas of this district, they're still suffering, you know, with lack of health care. And that's my issue. My issue is not how good we're doing in certain settings, it's how we're doing bad collectively. Because it's not about one individual, one set county, or one set city. If one person is hurting and it's digital, we're all hurting. And that we got to understand. When House Bill 1 from the federal level, they cut funding from Medicaid and Medicare. They're getting ready to reduce the amount of social security coming in whenever the Republicans with the super enjoy to figure things out. That's going to dramatically affect us. because the people depend on it most. Them people, go to work every day. Everybody not just sitting at home twiddling their thumb, they go to work and they're still suffering.
jim newman: I think one of the things that nobody seems to talk about, and it's in my mind it's it's it's cruel, is that these nursing homes, so many of the patients in nursing homes are on Medicare.
Jeffrey Hulum III: Mm-hmm.
jim newman: Medicaid, I'm sorry, on Medicaid. And when that gets cut, they're not going to continue to take care of them in a nursing home.
Jeffrey Hulum III: Mm-mm.
jim newman: They're going to notify them that they need to leave. and some of them don't have any place to go.
Jeffrey Hulum III: Nope.
jim newman: And we got enough homeless in this state as it is already. So cutting Medicaid is going to really hurt the individuals in this state that are not financially well off to take care of themselves. And that is most of the rural parts of the state of Mississippi.
Jeffrey Hulum III: Yes.
jim newman: Yes.
David Olds: And and also when you when you talk also part of that equation is prenatal care. And and we know that Mississippi has one of the highest rates of infant mortality. So
Jeffrey Hulum III: Yes.
David Olds: that's I know that's a lot of issue and there's a lot that you know, expanding the health care and focusing on the health care and opening more hospitals and taking the federal money would also do a could do a tremendous amount of of good for those particular things. But let me ask you this, as a as a as a congressman, how much influence would you have on say the healthcare situation in the Gulf Coast?
Jeffrey Hulum III: But you have, I can't speak at the congressional level because I'm not at the congressional level yet, but we're going to get there.
David Olds: Yes, sir.
Jeffrey Hulum III: from when I do my research and what I know about being a legislator, the congressmen have a lot of influence on his area, his or her area. They have the ability to work across party lines. They have the ability to work with different entities, organizations, and different groups to bring. up and leave at the
surface of their area. They are the ambassador for that area. They don't always have to tow party lines. Perfect example, at the state house, I worked with Mr. McGee, who was a staunch Republican out of the Forrest County area to make sure pregnant women had the necessary health care they needed because by their waiting on their benefits to be provided, they still didn't go be seen. That's what you got to do. You have to put people over party. righteousness over rhetoric and compass over chaos and work with people to get things done because just like in Mississippi, there's a lot of stuff get done behind closed doors that's good for the people. But anytime it get into the national news, a national rhetoric, we always take a step back. No one wants us to fight for ourselves. That's why I say for 22 years, I fought for this country. Now I'm fighting for South Mississippi. The reason I got to fight for South Mississippi, South Mississippi has been forgotten about. A person in rural part of North Perry County deserve the same hospital treatment that a person in the city of Guportles receives. A person that's at the Air Force Base in Meridian, Mississippi, they deserve the same type of care and quality of life that a person on Keeson Air Force Base in city of Biloxi receives. I stand by that. We cannot be a one size fit all. We cannot be so partisan. that we're not using the full side of our brain. And we have a president and people who told the water pair of this president that do not focus on South Mississippi. They don't even focus on Mississippi. They use national talker points, national reddit, stuff that's going on in California, Michigan, Washington DC, Florida, Texas, and Tennessee. We're none of them. We're built all small business owners who believe in God. Family and country. We thrive through the middle class too when it comes to our military service and public education. And we know that and the I bring that stuff up is because it's all tied together. A strong, healthy, educated workforce is a vibrant workforce. Our tourism, our tourism is based on how much we can meet the needs of the people coming here to spend their money that they have attained. through whatever means necessary to come here for the Gulf Coast. The Gulf Coast tourism booms. But if we continue to have people who lack healthcare, who lack education, meaning they are always off work, they're always sick, that hits our bottom line, which is the dollar value of the tourism. And we know that tourism is one of the major industries for the state of Mississippi, if you understand what I'm saying.
David Olds: I I I understand that and I I support that all the way and and I admire your passion. Yes
jim newman: You got him smiling.
David Olds: I love it and and that's
jim newman: What is
David Olds: it and and that's what and and it it it's so good to hear a politician, an elected official, like you just said that you're working across the aisle, you know, with the with a s as you
said, staunch Republican. And that's something that and I don't want to get on my soapbox, but yeah, that's something that I think that we we need to we need to govern and we have to govern together. We have to talk to each other.
jim newman: Yeah.
David Olds: We have to build bridges to get things done. And and I admire your and respect you for that. Now as a as a veteran, what what's your thoughts on the current situation on how we treat our our veterans in America now?
Jeffrey Hulum III: Well, I would say you coming from my father is retired Vietnam veteran did 20 plus years of service. I did 20 plus years, six shooting wars. My baby sister, she's a sophomore first class serving overseas right now in Hawaii. She got multiple combat deployments, know, plenty of other family members. But one thing the military of today is not the military I was. that I retired in 2018. And I'm going to tell you why. Right now, politics stayed out of the military for the most part. I served under Democratic presidents, Republican presidents, but no time right now where a president of these United States put a foreign adversary over the will of the American people. I'm going to put credibility to that. Jokily or unjokily, when a president of these United States, who the commander in chief when he get on live national TV and tell when our foreign air service, if you want to strike us, strike the American city by name, America state by name, that right there goes against everything about good audience that I learned. Also, when you start taking people on promotion lists, erroneously, because they don't fit your narrative to your portion of loyalty, because last time I checked, we're supposed to be loyal to the Constitution. And we have a duty. to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, both foreign and domestic. When we tried to whitewash the military by removing the Tuskegee Airmen, removing mega-evils, trying to take the name off of battleships that were forged by fire by giving to a man who gave his life to serve his country members. And not only that, I believe wholeheartedly in... Hasard Sam The man who they want to kill on national TV. I was at Fort Hood just coming off a deployment when happened. That man needed to meet his maker in hell, but he do not need to die on national TV. We are a nation of laws and policies. We are not a dictatorship, we are a democracy. And when I say they have eroded the moral fighters of our military, never in the history of America. But we went to a conflict. Not knowing how we're going to make it through with our munition. That's one of the most things. You have more munition than you have food. So how we go out there and have a stockpile less than what we're to have? I'll tell you why. Because they're playing political football with soldiers' lives. And you say it puts credibility to that. Okay, as a sergeant major, the most important thing is making sure Your troops have everything they need to win and support the mission and overcome that mission. Also protect their family members at home. When we send soldiers overseas, they should be prepared. They should know their mission, they should know the outcome of their mission and have the full weight of the American public through Congress behind them financially. When you say you're running out of rockets and stockpiles, that's a problem. When it's taken us longer than a week to destroy Iran, who's a proxy military? That's a problem. But you create those problems when you start talking about NATO. You create those problems when you refuse to serve the military yourself and you got people who want to be loyal to you, loyal to certain lobbyists, then to the country. Then we have people from the state of Mississippi and the National Guard who've been federalized in Washington, D.C., picking up trash on a police call and standing back in our states preparing for natural disasters and storms.
jim newman: Mm-hmm.
Jeffrey Hulum III: But at the same time, while they are giving their service and renting their service to this nation, their family members in food pension lines, their families over there seeking utility and rent assistance. So what did this administration do? They go over there and hurt the most vulnerable, which are the veterans already served who want to foreclosure. They counsel the program who help veterans go through foreclosure. What does Congress And what does administration do? They refuse to enact the richest star act. Say if a veteran be disabled or get injured, they gonna offset their check instead of voting for it. But what does Representative Hulham do? Representative Hulham go to the state house and by being a member of military affairs and say, we gonna do. I'm gonna help not only co-sponsor, but push that say if a veteran is over 80 something years old. their home will be tax exempt. Their spouses, if they had not been wrapped, they'll be tax exempt. Also, if a person said to the Mississippi National Guard, we know how hard it is on them to pay their insurance. The state will pay up to so much of their tri-care insurance for them so we can make sure they put more money back in the household so they can get out the food pantry line. Also, we know what the Tuskegee Airmen did in World War II to desegregate the military. Representative Hullum. And so I the whole fit that narrative and get a unanimous vote on the floor, on the House and the Senate and get the governor signed. Now Tuskegee Airmen is a recognized holiday in the state of Mississippi. That's how you use your leadership, your skill set to work with all people. Because all things that we do, we can be more better off. And I will share it to not tell you this. If you want to scare any Mississippi politician that's on the opposite side of what right look like. Tell them, create the ballot initiative. Y'all don't want certain people and certain bad fruits, bring up the ballot initiative. Y'all want to say
y'all want to do these things, bring up the ballot initiative. Y'all want to say, how,
David Olds: Yeah.
Jeffrey Hulum III: who get to vote? Let's do this gerrymandering with free dishing it through the Kelly decision, which did not say you got to read through all these maps, put it on the ballot initiative. They won't do that. Just start with school choice, because they had promises of administration, they wouldn't do school choice. When the ghost code stood up and voted school choice down. We say, okay, put it on the ballot initiative. They don't want to do that because they do not want, as they say, small government at the will of the people. If you want the will of the people, give the government back to the people. And then the state of Mississippi is by the ballot initiative. And the federal government increase minimum wage and let people have their livable wage so they can't afford health care. They can afford daycare. They can afford childcare. They can afford proper nutrition. They can afford great quality education. Until then, they blow in hot air and push the national rhetoric,
David Olds: Wow, thank you. I love that. y you've you've you've explained what the issues are, but also you've you've given us some great information as far as the solutions. and I I salute you for that. Jim?
jim newman: Yeah, I'm in a law of
Jeffrey Hulum III: Nah, come on with it. Come on with it, Mr. Jim. You got me on here, baby. Let's go on and get through this.
David Olds: Ha ha ha ha.
jim newman: It It just amazes me that we have a senator not a senator, but we have a congressman who was a general in the Mississippi Guard and I guess did some combat tours, but I'm not sure he was in the combat portion. But Needless to say he was he was a general and he did lead the Mississippi National Guard, Army National Guard, and he voted for that big beautiful bill that cut all those veterans' benefits. And the people in the first C D Don't need to to send him back to to Washington. he needs to listen to somebody like you. It's I don't know, I come from a military background to some extent in that I was in the air force in Vietnam, but Things have really changed. It's not the country that I grew up in. And you hit on something when you said it's righteousness over rhetoric. Is that right? Yep.
Jeffrey Hulum III: Yes.
David Olds: I love that. I love
jim newman: That
David Olds: it.
jim newman: that was that was spot on I I I I I just don't I just don't know where to go other than to say I wish I could vote for you.
Jeffrey Hulum III: You know what I say, Jim? You can't vote for me. How you can vote for me is pray for me. You know what I'm
jim newman: yeah.
Jeffrey Hulum III: And I'll tell you why that Because I'm not going to D.C. to get a job. I'm going to D.C. to do a job. Because for far too long, we have been allowing leaders, elected leaders in Mississippi to fail forward. And what I mean by failing forward is they vote against the Biden-Harris infrastructure bill to come home to ribbon-cutting ceremonies. They voted this month to the Department of Education, through DEI, and then they come home to put the kids on the back for the Mississippi miracle. They vote against the Affordable Care Act and then come home and really concern on us when people use their monies to build clinics in rural areas. We have to stop them. We got to bring back what's right. And what's right is putting Mississippi first. For far too long, we've been on the back burner. In address, I will never disrespect no military veteran, no general. No private, no matter what, no matter what my rank I obtained through my activities as a federal servant. What I will tell you, sometimes, Jim, people lose their way. They lose their way because instead of them focusing on the main mission, they focus on what they're obtaining personally. And that was going on with America right now. Instead of us focusing on our country, we give more resources abroad that's killing us and making us poor. How can we feed other nations when we poor? How can Mississippi, South Mississippi, with the three coastal counties, Hancock, Harrison, and Jackson, they bring up over 40%, 38 to 40 % of the state revenue to this state? How can
jim newman: Gosh.
Jeffrey Hulum III: those three coastal counties be the most poorest food insecure portion of the state of Mississippi? Ask yourself, because this is how I do, until we dredge the canal, So we can bring bigger containers in, put bigger containers out. Until we put the will of the people before the will of our pockets, the will of our lobbyists, we will always do that. But you don't know those things when you're not accessible. You don't know those things if you're not accountable. You don't know those things if you're not dependable. So if you're not out there meeting the needs of the people on a daily basis and only coming around when it's election time, you will never know that. You cannot govern from sound bites and talking points out of Washington, D.C. The men who lead this country have never went home. The man who lead this country have never been without healthcare. The man who lead this country never worry about is he can pay his rent. You know what saying? So we got
David Olds: Yeah.
Jeffrey Hulum III: to understand who are we supporting? I'm supporting the will of all people. I don't care about your nationality. I don't care about your skin color. I don't care about your religious affiliation. I don't have a heavy no hair to put you in. I just know I have the ability, I have a duty and an obligation. to liberate the surface of the people in South Mississippi. So South Mississippi go, so the United States of America, because we build ships, we support tourism, we have the largest military footprint in this state for us all VA, Veterans Care. We have Ingalls, we have NASA, we have the Naval Base, National Guard Base, we got the CB Base, and we got other entities. that builds and projects war power abroad
right here on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. But why is all people struggling? All people struggling because it's too much of a pay to play. And why is this a pay to play? No lobbyists should be putting more money into these elections than the people that they're supposed to represent. Because the lobbyists' is not in South Mississippi. Their interest is around the world. So people, it's infinite to ignore people in South Mississippi. They don't hear the hunger cries. They don't hear the hunger pains. They're so far removed from it. But I will tell you and share with you, those days are long gone because we're going to continue to beat the trees. We're going to continue to pack it on our back. We're going to continue to fight and stand with everybody who wants a better life in South Mississippi. And I tell you, we're going to win this race. And if we don't win this race, it's not because I'm Black. It's not because I'm a Democrat, it's because I didn't work hard enough. That's why we fall short. That's why I've been going to every town, every county, every school where we have, because people deserve representation. People deserve leadership and not likingship. People deserve discipline, being disciplined all the time, doing the right thing, even not being watched. And that's how you stop. And that's why this campaign has been ran off the back of the people. We have to no large donations. This campaign has been paid for by friends, family members, and my military buddies. I had the opportunity to receive a lot of donations like everybody else. But I'm saying, no, no, no, no, no. I'm trying to get a job. So I got to prove to the people I'm worthy of that job. I'm not trying to get paid to do a job. You know what saying? Get bought and sold off. Because when I say
David Olds: Mm-hmm.
Jeffrey Hulum III: what's right for Mississippi, it's what's right for Mississippi. Just how when I went against the Democratic Party, and voted with the first co-author on representing Remax up there in DeSoto County about if a person abused a child, that person will do a minimum of five years in jail. So don't tell me
David Olds: Mm-hmm.
Jeffrey Hulum III: about people in boys, girls, bathrooms when you refuse to bring up the FD5. Don't tell me about how people live their life when you're allowing people to abuse kids at a lower rate and you're not doing nothing about it. We can't pick and choose when we want to be right. Because my Bible, they all like to throw this criticism like they're the only Christians. My Bible tells me, 2 Timothy 1-7, God has not given us the spirit of fear, but a power of loving the sound mind. With a sound mind, we do the right thing. Charity starts at home. I digress.
David Olds: No, you don't. You you come on. I mean,
jim newman: You don't
David Olds: d w we could hear we could listen to that all day
jim newman: Yeah.
David Olds: and Jim and I I mean, we don't even need to ask questions because you've you've done an excellent job, you know,
talking about your platform, talking about the issues and talking about the solutions. And that's that's that's great. And and th you know, yes, Kimberly Remack is a representative up in De Soda County where I am and and and I I appreciate you bringing her up. and appreciate well, I appreciate you working with her on that important issue. Just as you talked about working with the other Republican about that issue. You know, we we have so much chaos and there's you know, there's so much people talk about what brings us, you know, what what's the issues that separate us, but there's so much more and you hit on everything, so much more that brings us together as a people and as a country and as a human race. So thank you for for bringing that up. Jim, let's go ahead and well before we do that, Jeffrey, any last words for us? Any
Jeffrey Hulum III: Yeah. I really, really appreciate you all for having me on. I appreciate what you all do. I appreciate you all standing up for what's right because that flag stands for the United States of America, not the divided states of America. The Mississippi flag has in God we trust. We believe
jim newman: Finally.
Jeffrey Hulum III: in it because one of the first bills that I pushed at the legislature was bringing prayer back in school. because prayer works. And when you go and been overseas and been to the pits of hell on a deployment in Iraq, God is real. I know what it's like to watch my mother struggle with cancer and they moved her from name brand medication to generic brand medication and watch that generic brand medication. eat her alive, not only physically, but mentally because she had to her co-pay. Thank God, me and my little sister, both of us serving in the military, so we were able to, we was able to fund that. seeing my mother pass the way she did, I never want nobody else to go through nothing like that. Or being on a deployment and getting a call saying your child is sick, just to go to the hospital and the doctor does not have the common decency to look at the records. and say, all the people can afford the treatment that this kid will need is a president, a person in the United States Army. And I tell him, say, man, I'm a staff sergeant in the United States, F in Army, fight for this country. So do whatever I have to do to save my son. If he die on the machine, it was his time to go. But nobody should be faced with those questions like that. We had to be more neighborly and more godly in America. In Mississippi, we need to be more neighborly because during storms and natural disaster, we come together. We don't ask, we don't ask your party affiliation how you voted. We say, what do you need? How can we help? When the water crisis went on in Jackson, I did not ask them who the water go to. I said, who need the water? It took 518 Willers. When the tornadoes hit Rolling Farp, I didn't ask them, but they're Democratic and Republican. I said, how can we assist from the coast? During the tornadoes and mouth spawn, when they asked, what can you do? I said, Tim, what y'all need? I'm on it. We issue these 53,000 pounds of food on a week, every weekend basis. We want to meet them at their knees so that people can be whole in their home front. So what I will ask in closing, I will ask our audience to understand this. For 22 years, I served this nation honorably. The last four years, I have served at the will of the people on the Mississippi Gulf Coast in the House District 119. I'm asking the people of the 4th congressional district. in an urban, semi-rural area to allow me to stand up and fight for you. Fight for you like I fought for this country. Fight for you like I fight for Mississippi at the State House. Now I fight for you like I know tomorrow because I'm American soldier. I'm a warrior and a member of a team. I serve the people of the United States and lead the Army values. I will always place the mission first. I will never accept defeat. I will never quit. I will never leave and follow a comrade. I am disciplined, physically and mentally tough. Training proficient in my warrior tasks and drills. I'm an expert and a professional. I stand ready to deploy, engage and destroy the enemies of the United States of America in close combat. I'm a garden of freedom and American way of life. I don't just talk that, I live that. So on November 3rd, vote Jeffrey Holden 3rd, because Mississippi won't wait and need the wire. Thank you all.
David Olds: Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Holem. Thank you. This is just it's been a pleasure to talk to you. And it's been a pleasure to hear your mission and your life. And once again, thank you for your service to our country. Jim?
jim newman: Yeah, normally at this time I would make a statement about finances for this podcast program on a statewide on a on a statewide basis. But after today's talk, I think what I would say is if you've got any extra money, we've got a soldier that's been through a lot and he's I know personally he's probably financing a lot of his campaign. through his retirement program.
Jeffrey Hulum III: Yes, sir.
jim newman: So if you've got some extra money, don't hesitate to send Jeffrey. Do you have a BackBlue account or
Jeffrey Hulum III: Yes sir, it's Jeffrey Hubner III for Congress. That's our Ag Blue account,
jim newman: Okay. Alright. so if you've got some extra money and would like to see Jeffrey sent to the United States Congress, go to Act Blue and send him some cash.
David Olds: Fantastic. Fantastic. Thanks, Jim. Thank you for that. And Jeffrey once again. Good to so good to have you with us and so good to hear your story. and it's
Jeffrey Hulum III: I think it's not slow down.
David Olds: And as usual, Jeffrey really brought this home for us, but as I say every time I close, may we never become indifferent to the suffering of others. Thanks so much.
jim newman: Amen.