Mississippi Today newspaper: on Social Security

Jim Hood: Let public employees run for office & still draw pensions

Some education supporters envisioned that the ruling would result in more pro-education retired teachers running and winning legislative seats.

Of Gunn's prediction that the opinion would be changed, Hood said, "The PERS Board voted overwhelmingly to move forward with adopting regulations effective at the start of the 2020 legislative session that would allow state retirees to serve in the Legislature without forfeiting their hard-earned retirement. This won't change with a new AG. I support everyone's right to run, and I think people who have worked as public servants for the state would make great lawmakers."