Husband to Nicole, Father of Reagan & Political Director for Mississippi District UPC
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Joined March 2010
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“Too often we honor swagger and bluster and wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others.” - Robert Kennedy
“Grief, I've learned, is really just love. It's all the love you want to give, but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go.” ~ Jamie Anderson
“Every time you hesitate, someone less talented takes your spot. The world rewards audacity, not potential.”
“In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.” - Mark Twain
“Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in, to prevent them from leaving us.” - John F. Kennedy
"A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen. " - Winston Churchill
"The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history." - George Orwell
"The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it." - George Orwell
“God is looking for those with whom He can do the impossible — what a pity that we plan only the things that we can do by ourselves.” — AW Tozer
Ron Matis retweeted
Under the leadership of Gov. @tatereeves, the Magnolia State has blazed a trail toward expanding opportunities for all Mississippians.
Reforming food stamps to encourage healthier options—prohibiting soda and other junk food—is a win for families, children, and taxpayers!
Welfare benefits are a hand-up for those in desperate, temporary need. And when taxpayers fund these things, they do so strategically. They're trying to help their neighbors into a better life – a more fulfilling one. That means a job you can be proud of, and a lifestyle that is healthy: on a physical and spiritual level.
In a nation that is printing money daily just to make our debt payments, it doesn't make sense to throw your tax money at anything other than the true necessities. So it makes no sense at all to fund sugar instead of hearty nutritious meals. I love a soda or candy bar – who doesn't? But it's a treat on a hard day. And it's best enjoyed with money earned from work, not your neighbor's taxes.
That's why we're amending our food stamp rules to allow good sustaining food like rotisserie chickens and disallow sugary candy and drinks. If the first ingredient is sugar or corn syrup, it won't be available with taxpayer money any more.
This has been approved by the Trump Administration in 12 states, and I expect Mississippi to be the next. It's just common sense.
“If you start worrying about the people in the stands, before too long you're in the stands with them.” - Tommy Lasorda
“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.” ~Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Ron Matis retweeted
It's disgusting to see the hate spewing out across universities in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination. A father was killed. Two kids are waking up without their dad, and a wife without her husband. They deserve our prayers. To say otherwise is shameful. Period.
