Governor Reeves takes aim at Mayor Shelton

The Governor was responding to a question about communicating with Mayor's on Monday.

During his news briefing today - governor reeves took aim at tupelo mayor jason shelton - after he was asked about how his office was communicating with city leaders during the pandemic..

Take a listen to what the governor said..

Play the blame game."

"we've worked very very hard to communicate weekly, early on and pretty regularly with mayors... ...mayors like the one in tupelo who has decided he'd rather play politics in the middle of this pandemic than focus on what's right for his constituents and that's certainly his prerogative.

He certainly wants to attack attack attack and play the blame game."

We reached out to mayor shelton for his response on the governor's comment... he said in part quote i am glad to see the governor finally taking covid-19 seriously, but it is unfortunate that he continues with a nonsensical hodgepodge approach.

We need uniform and consistent statewide mandates.

" mayor shelton went on to say --- quote --- we need to get partisan politics out of the equation and follow the guidance from our health care professionals..

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