TLDR:

• I tried to move the Major Richard Star Act quietly through Wicker’s staff and Mississippi channels and they did nothing.
• Wicker blocked the bill that would restore retirement pay for 54,000 combat injured, medically retired veterans.
• Wicker is politically vulnerable and in his last primary he lost almost 40 percent of the vote to an unfunded challenger.
• Reeves has stayed off the record on the Major Richard Star Act while millions in public money went to his former trainer and his sister in law’s firm.
• Pennsylvania and California are already on record telling Congress to pass the Major Richard Star Act and Mississippi is still silent.

The Strategy: Wherever you live, I need you to send two emails today using the templates below. Do not change the To, CC, or BCC lines. Every email turns Wicker’s quiet block into a noisy liability and forces Reeves to see that his silence is now part of a multi state pressure campaign. 

Copy and Paste Emails: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1SJFvsVOGdU3P4uzsFiIKgYuXhC9E5BV8?usp=drive_link

HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT: 

One of the goals I set for this petition is already locked in. A partial petition win is now on the board and I will tell you which due out was just met later this week.

Thank you for signing https://change.org/54kveterans, and to everyone who donated to keep this alive. You are the reason this did not disappear.

Before I published anything, I tried to go through Sen Roger Wicker’s office and through Mississippi government to move the Major Richard Star Act without turning this into a public fight.

They did nothing.

So this update gives you what their offices would not say out loud and asks you for one simple thing:

Send two emails today, exactly as written, so they have to see your name in their inbox.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1SJFvsVOGdU3P4uzsFiIKgYuXhC9E5BV8?usp=drive_link

If someone forwarded this to you and you have not signed yet, you can add your name here:

https://change.org/54kveterans

The bigger picture is in the article

I pulled everything together in one investigation so you can see the full pattern for yourself:

Title: The Mississippi Cartel? How State Capture Turns Veterans and the Poor Into the State’s Piggy Bank: 

Link: https://medium.com/@MajorStarAct/mississippi-state-capture-exposed-wicker-and-reeves-fe7bbd426fe9?postPublishedType=initial

The article connects four things:

1. a 14.1 billion dollar Pentagon drone contract in Mississippi
2. Wicker’s floor speech calling Major Star a “double benefit we cannot afford”
3. millions in public money for people in Reeves’s own circle
4. and the fact that Mississippi is still silent while other states are on record backing the Major Richard Star Act

Read it when you can. Right now I need you to act.

What you need to know in one paragraph: 

Sen Roger Wicker helped bring a 14.1 billion dollar Pentagon drone contract to a Mississippi weapons plant and then blocked the Major Richard Star Act, the bill that would end the wounded veteran tax for 54,000 combat injured, medically retired veterans. Gov Tate Reeves has found more than 2.3 million dollars in public money for his former trainer and his sister in law’s firm but has never pushed for a simple Mississippi resolution backing Major Star, even while Pennsylvania and California are already on record telling Congress to pass it.

That is the core of it. Here is what I need you to do next.

Stop reading and send these now

If you only skimmed that TLDR, here is the bottom line:

I am asking you to stop reading for two minutes, open your email, and send both templates exactly as written. Those two sends matter more than anything else in this update.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1SJFvsVOGdU3P4uzsFiIKgYuXhC9E5BV8

Immediate action needed

Before you close this update, I am asking you to do two things.

For both emails, do not change the To, CC, or BCC fields in the templates. The routing is already set up. Copy, paste, sign and send.

1. Send the email to Gov Reeves

This is the state level pressure. It tells Mississippi to stop hiding while other states back the Major Richard Star Act.

1. Open this email template for Gov Reeves:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/130i1zAzJfqEsAwfOS4z70UdFP98X_QQofliTM2An2LM/edit?usp=drive_link

2. Copy and paste the entire email, including the To line, into your email program.

3. Add your name and state at the bottom.

4. Hit send. Do not change the To, CC, or BCC lines.

2. Send the email to Sen Wicker

This is the federal pressure. It puts his block on Major Star and his last primary result in the same frame.

1. Open this email template for Sen Wicker:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zas6B5SK98a3X9DpOPDEkZLZQsT-GXny6eRVZWR3zHA/edit?usp=drive_link

2. Copy and paste the entire email, including the To line, into your email program.

3. Add your name and state at the bottom.

4. Hit send. Do not change the To, CC, or BCC lines.

If you do nothing else today, send these two emails exactly as written. Your name on those two messages matters more than any like, share or comment I will ever get.

Please do not keep this update to yourself.

Petition: https://change.org/54kveterans

Article: https://medium.com/@MajorStarAct/mississippi-state-capture-exposed-wicker-and-reeves-fe7bbd426fe9?postPublishedType=initial

Your signatures, from Mississippi and from all over the country, are the only reason I was able to connect these pieces and put them in one place.

If enough people send these emails and enough staff see your names, then for Wicker and Reeves, doing nothing on the Major Richard Star Act stops being safe and starts being dangerous. 

Can't wait to give you the update on which due out was achieved!!!