NESHOBA COUNTY– “An idle mind is the devil’s play place,” is a saying you’ve heard time and again, but for Addie Green, it’s the cornerstone of her campaign for office.
Green is running on the democratic ticket for commissioner of agriculture and commerce. Green kept referring back to old school ways, saying that too much emphasis is going to solar and nuclear projects and not to teaching kids the value of hard work and making things with their hands.
The most entertaining speech of the afternoon, Green, donned in a red, white and blue hat with matching drape around her shoulders, told the crowd that “kids need to learn to use a hoe,” before adding “and this is the kinda hoe I mean,” and flashing a garden hoe to the crowd.
Green said the key to getting kids off the streets and out of jails was teaching them to make things with their hands, like in the days of old. She even presented a cotton sack that she claimed to have made by hand.
Green stood for community gardens, church gardens, and old fashioned work.
“I want a new, Green day in Mississippi,” Green says, “I want to bring Mississippi back.”
