Ricky Caldwell for a Conservative Mississippi

05/18/2024

Would love to have folks come out and join us at the meeting and talk about the future of the Lafayette County Republican Parry! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

03/29/2024

Good morning, hope everyone has a Good Friday, I’m so thankful for salvation through those words when Jesus said “It is finished!”

03/11/2024

Tomorrow is the Republican Primary in Mississippi, these primary votes are extremely important directing who we want representing us as the Conservative Party. Wicker has sided with the democrats way too often and is influenced by the lobby group and expects us all just to follow along.

Change can happen though and it IS time, he has two great primary opponents in Ghannon Burton and Dan Eubanks, I ask you take a minute to research these challengers’ platforms and let’s send a message tomorrow to the establishment that WE Mississippians are paying attention and care about our conservative values and state.

GO VOTE TOMORROW 3-12!

12/26/2023

Weird how this works, our legislature passed Medicaid expansion to “save the hospitals” instead of letting free markets absorb these burdens and make them more efficient. Anyone paying half attention knew what this meant and would just INCREASE our taxes, too many people drink the koolaid and think free stuff still exists!!! “Draw more federal money” means WE the working class have to pay for it and the hospitals will be taxed more to get it, which means their rates on everything increases to offset that increase. 🤯

I read this on page 6 of the Forrest City, AR paper. Why am I not it seeing it in any local news???

Got to hide these facts of tax increases so no one gets angry at our politicians! 😡

12/18/2023

Just getting time to write some takeaways from the meeting in Marks last week about the Arkabutla Dam situation:

1. They have proposed 9 different options as fixes for the dam problem.

2. They are just now about to start the Environmental Impact Study to have guidance on which of the 9 options is the best. This study won’t be completed until summer 2025. Then it may take as long as 5-12 years to complete the project.

3. It takes about a 12-15” rain event to go from winter pool to over the emergency spillway. (We’ve certainly had some of those in the last five years)

4. They want public input on what impacts private property have endured historically at certain river gauge levels, specifically the Marks gauge on the Coldwater River.

5. It took 4 years in the mid-1940’s to build and complete the entire project start to finish.

6. Because of this event, more detailed inspections have been performed on the other 3 big Lakes, Sardis, Enid and Grenada. Those inspections grade the dams 1-5 with 5 being the best and 1 the worst or most likely to have a failure. Through these inspections Sardis was downgraded from a 4 to a 2.

7. They don’t yet know where the money to fix Arkabutla will come from or because of the long process how much it will take.

My thoughts:

They have sat on their hands this entire time since the Arkabutla dam issue surfaced literally while we’ve had one of the driest years and record low river levels in a long time.

Why do we need an EIS for an existing project? Especially since people have built their lives and homes around this watershed system working for the last 80+ years. What would the “Human impact” be if we have another really wet year like has been normal lately until this year seems to be a more important question to ask.

How could a fix take 5-12 years to complete with the modern equipment and engineering capabilities we have available now when it only took 4 years with 1/2 yard dirt pans and some mule teams in the 40’s?

They are taking a huge chance with people’s lives and livelihoods with all this government bureaucracy, not to mention the farm and food supply impacts it could create.

This is no situation and there’s no time for normal gov process to proceed, they should fast track this BEFORE it becomes a disaster.

If Sardis is at a level 2, the fixes to address this issue need to be fast tracked as well before the same situation (or worse case scenario at summer pool) develops.

Contact your Senators and Representatives, Wicker, Hyde-Smith and Thompson had proxies from their offices at the meeting.

12/07/2023

A day that should never be forgotten, it changed the trajectory of our nation and our families forever. 🇺🇸🙏

December 7, 2021 marks the 80th anniversary of the island of Oahu, Hawaii being bombed by Japanese planes. The bombing of Pearl Harbor would lead the United ...

11/23/2023

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone, there is so much to be thankful for always, THANKS to God for our blessings, our savior Jesus Christ for our salvation and being born in a free country— USA!! 🙏🇺🇸🦃

11/11/2023

Happy Veterans Day to all who have served to protect and defend our great nation, SALUTE and thank you !! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

11/07/2023

Good luck to all the Candidates for office today who seek positions for public service, not self interests! 🇺🇸

11/06/2023

During my senate campaign this year I was often asked “Why?”, I’m not a groomed politician or even a political scholar. I am though, a concerned American and Mississippi native, a conservative in life not just defined by being a Republican.

Running against my opponent was all I could do besides GO VOTE to try and change things I didn’t agree with. I feel very fortunate from the experience gained and new friends I made during that time.

All that said, tomorrow (11-7) is the general election in Mississippi, an opportunity for us all to have our voices heard, if you think it doesn’t matter, then what does matter to you? I’ve voted all of my adult life mostly because of the lessons I learned listening to my Papa (a decorated WW2 veteran) telling of the stories of lives and friends he personally lost, the sacrifices in blood and treasure our country has paid for that right to vote. It mattered enough for them so it does to me too! Shouldn’t it for all of us?

Go make your voice heard so you can legitimately complain when those you elected don’t act right by their constituency or to cheer them on when they do.

GO VOTE! Love y’all 🙏🇺🇸🙏🇺🇸

10/16/2023

This should be good if any one is interested and can go 🇺🇸