Robert Gray in State of Mississippi Archives

On Education: Supports Initiative 42 & full public school funding

Gray views full education funding also as a form of economic development. `I think the people of Mississippi already know that it's a win-win situation in passing Initiative 42,` Gray said.

On Health Care: Medicaid expansion & health-care exchanges would create jobs

Bryant has said that he does not believe the Obama administration will pay for the feds' end of Medicaid expansion and, thus, in his logic, leaving Mississippi taxpayers on the hook for the cost of providing health insurance for 300,000 people.

`By expanding Medicaid and starting the health-care exchanges in Mississippi, (it) would create jobs. It would take people off the need for government subsidies. We're losing money and making things worse by not doing anything,` Gray said.

On Technology: Invest the Rainy Day Fund on infrastructure

`Every penny from that rainy-day fund, if he invested in the state, it would make money,` Gray said. `If we spent it on infrastructure, people from the materials (industries) are going to make money, The trucking industry is going to make money because you need trucks to haul it. The food industry is going to make money. Every penny we invest in our state is going to come back to us as profit.`

Should he defeat Bryant, he said, `I can explain how it's going to help our economy and make them look better.`