Thompson: Vote Perkins Cause God Don't Like Ugly

Bennie Thompson wants Greenwood voters to set the city free by reelecting the current incumbent. It is God's will, because "God don’t like ugly, and with prayer and good lawyers, we can work wonders, and we can even get bad folk off the ballot."

U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson said Tuesday Democrats “are one week from setting Greenwood free again” by re-electing Mayor Sheriel Perkins.

Thompson said Perkins has proven herself as a leader on the City Council and as mayor.

“I’m sure her opponent is a good person, but why would you want to change what you already know for somebody you don’t know?” he said.

Thompson said he had encouraged Perkins to go forward to make sure “you’re not going to be able to look at the streets to tell where black people live.”

“We’re going to have curbs and gutters in all of Greenwood not in certain parts of Greenwood because that’s what the American dream is all about,” he said.

Supporters of education, health care and opportunities for young people should vote for Perkins, Thompson said.

“If you think we need to fix (Greenwood) Leflore Hospital, so they don’t continue to lay people off, close wards, then it is Mayor Perkins who can help support health care in this community,” he said.

Thompson also addressed the former candidacy of independent Curressia Brown, who the Mississippi Supreme Court decided last week would not be allowed on the ballot because of residency issues. He said Brown, who is black, was running only to split the black vote.

“There was somebody else in this race,” he said, “but, you know, God don’t like ugly, and with prayer and good lawyers, we can work wonders, and we can even get bad folk off the ballot.”

A feisty Perkins also spoke, encouraged by a large crowd.

“We’re going to move forward together. I’m going to run the hell over those that’s in my way,” she said to loud applause.