Ex-Mississippi auditor resigns from state Veterans Affairs – WXXV News 25

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Veterans Affairs Board is being run by an interim chief as the manager director and his chief of workers are each resigning.

The company stated in information launch Friday that government director Stacey Pickering determined to retire from authorities service and chief of workers Melissa Wade “will pursue different endeavors outdoors of MSVA.”

Pickering was a Republican state senator from Jones County for one time period earlier than changing into state auditor in 2008. He resigned from that statewide elected place in 2018 to steer the Veterans Affairs Board. Pickering has served within the Mississippi Air Nationwide Guard.

The VA Board stated Pickering and Wade are each resigning as of July 11 “and can be found to help the Company throughout its transition.” By Monday, each of their pictures had been gone from the VA web site, which listed the deputy government director, Mark Smith, because the interim government director.

The VA Board final week refused to substantiate Pickering’s standing with the company. On the time, Pickering instructed the Northeast Mississippi Day by day Journal that he had not resigned.

Two days later, Home Army Affairs Chairman Lester “Bubba” Carpenter, a Republican from Burnsville, instructed the newspaper {that a} member of the VA Board knowledgeable him each Pickering and Wade had stepped down.

“The board thanks each Director Pickering and Mrs. Wade for his or her service to Mississippi’s 187,000 Veterans and their households during the last 4 and three years, respectively,” James Garner, the chairman of the veterans affairs board, stated within the company’s information launch. “We need to guarantee our veterans and their households that our mission will proceed.”