Items by IamTHEresponder

• Federal judge calls out Jim Hood on "slash and burn" litigation, "an abuse of the legal process"

  —Respond Mississippi

  Judge Jack Weinstein, Senior U.S. District Judge in New York, handed Mississippi Attorney General a legal defeat yesterday, accompanied with a side of smack down.
  
  In his decision, Judge Weinstein granted Eli Lilly & Company's motion for summary judgment except on one issue still before the Second Circuit [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 1:25pm EST
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• Gingrich: Town Hall in Jackson

  —Respond Mississippi

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  Newt Gingrich will be holding a town hall in Jackson on December 3. From a Gingrich email:We will be holding a town hall event where members of the audience can ask me questions and share ideas about how we can provide small businesses and entrepreneurs with the right incentives [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 4:19pm EST
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• MSGOP: "Mr. Franks presents no ideas, no vision, and no solution to Mississippi’s budget challenges"

  —Respond Mississippi

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  Mississippi Republican Party Chairman Brad White put the smackdown on Jamie Franks. As we mentioned yesterday, the Mississippi Democratic Party's reaction to Governor Haley Barbour's budget proposal was essentially: "No". Rather than suggest ideas, they only attacked.
  
  GOP Chairman Brad White responded (ht Y'all):“Jamie Franks shows us' [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 4:09pm EST
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• MS Dems become the Party of No

  —Respond Mississippi

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  Chairman Jamie Franks responded to Governor Haley Barbour's budget recommendation. What is his vision for Mississippi? "NO"
  
  He doesn't present any ideas on how to solve the budget crisis. All he does is attack the Governor. He says the Governor should cut his own staff. If he had' [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 10:18am EST
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• Jackson Municipal Judge urges residents to file contingency fee lawsuits

  —Respond Mississippi

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  Dickie Scruggs once had this to say about "magic jurisdictions" where judges favored lawsuits and defendants didn't have much of a chance.[W]hat I call the “magic jurisdiction,”...[is] where the judiciary is elected with verdict money. The trial lawyers have established relationships with the judges that are elected; they’re State' [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 7:06am EST
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• US Attorney Hopeful Would Never Protest Fellow Democrats

  —Respond Mississippi

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  If this were a Republican nominee for U.S. Attorney, the left would be going nuts.Northern District U.S. Attorney hopeful Christi McCoy, among those at the fundraiser, said she may not always support Childers, but she would never protest a fellow Democrat.
  
  "It shows public discord within my party," [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 3:33pm EST
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• Jim Hood and Brandon Presley's Political Roadshows

  —Respond Mississippi

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  It isn't unusual for politicians to do tours of their districts. Heck, that is part of the power of incumbency, you get to go out and meet the voters in your official capacity. We noticed two incumbents launched tours last week: Attorney General Jim Hood and Northern District Public' [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 7:17am EST
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• ObamaCare is Uncool

  —Respond Mississippi

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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 10:00am EST
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• Despite pictures and audio clips of corporate sponsorship, House Dems may exonerate Bennie Thompson's travel

  —Respond Mississippi

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  The National Legal and Policy Center comments on a Roll Call report that the House Ethics Committee may clear Bennie Thompson and others who attended a carribean junket with corporate sponsors in violation of House Ethics rules.If this is true, we are not surprised. When we provided photographs and [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 8:35am EST
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• Emmerich: Leglislature should end Hood's contingency practices

  —Respond Mississippi

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  Wyatt Emmerich says its time the legislature reign in the practice of Attorney General Jim Hood in awarding contracts to his campaign contributors.
  
  The Wall Street Journal has been highly critical of Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood. America’s most powerful newspaper has made Hood the target of at [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 3:32pm EST
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• Obama, Childers...I want my money back

  —Respond Mississippi

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  The Obama Administration said if Congress passed the $787 billion stimulus package, that unemployment would peak at 8 percent. Travis Childers listened and voted to spend that nearly one trillion dollars. Unemployment has reached 10.2 percent.
  
  I want my money back.
  
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 8:49am EST
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• Simpson County News: Dems switch to GOP; Diaz out in December

  —Respond Mississippi

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  Not to get lost in the news from Simpson County that a number of local elected officials - including the sheriff and the district attorney of a four county district (Simpson, Covington, Jasper, Smith) - are switching from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party comes another little piece of [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 6:57am EST
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• Denny Crain: Bring It On

  —Respond Mississippi

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  Everyone should be able to enjoy this one.
  
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 8:21am EST
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• More discussion on Jim Hood's fundraising from Bernstein Litowitz

  —Respond Mississippi

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  As a follow-up to yesterday's post on the relationship between Bernstein Litowitz and Jim Hood, two names from that firm were mentioned specifically. It should be noted both also specifically contributed to Jim Hood.
  
  Max Berger, Senior Founding Partner (pictured with Hood below) contributed $5000 to Hood's [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 7:08am EST
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• Jim Hood's relationship with Bernstein Litowitz

  —Respond Mississippi

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  Saturday's Wall Street Journal was critical of Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood.Pay-to-Play Torts
  Pension middlemen get investigated; lawyers get a pass
  
  Pay-to-play schemes involving public officials and the pension funds they oversee are finally getting the hard look they deserve. Some 36 states are investigating how' [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 7:32am EST
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• Ethics scrutiny into Bennie Thompson's travel continues

  —Respond Mississippi

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  The Washington Post reported that a leaked report on ethics investigations in the U.S. House of Representatives indicates the probe into the travel of Reps. Charles B. Rangel (N.Y.), Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick (Mich.), Donald M. Payne (N.J.) and Bennie Thompson (Miss.), and Del. Donna M. Christian-Christensen (U.S. Virgin Islands) [...]
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  Posted: October 30, 2009, 1:38pm EDT
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• Milton Friedman on Capitalism

  —Respond Mississippi

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  Posted: October 30, 2009, 6:24am EDT
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• Thompson Wants to Protect Power

  —Respond Mississippi

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  We're usually critical of U.S. Representative Bennie Thompson, but last week in a column for the Washington, D.C. newspaper Roll Call, he made some good points. He said:Electric power is not only America’s economic lifeblood, but an essential element of our nation’s security. Businesses, chemical plants, banks, refineries, hospitals,' [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2009, 6:32am EDT
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• Malcolm Harrison's About Face: "I don't think it's important that you choose an African American"

  —Respond Mississippi

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  It's funny how things change. Consider Malcolm Harrison attacking Governor Haley Barbour on his judicial appointments eight months ago."He has not appointed any African Americans for judge in any of his 20 appointments. It’s sad that he cannot believe an African American could do the job. African Americans are more'" [...]
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  Posted: October 28, 2009, 11:18am EDT
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• Jerry Mitchell on Colbert Report

  —Respond Mississippi

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  The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30cJerry Mitchellwww.colbertnation.comColbert Report Full EpisodesPolitical HumorMichael Moore [...]
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  Posted: October 16, 2009, 10:31am EDT
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• Obama Takes Credit For Katrina Recovery

  —Respond Mississippi

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  We suspect the Nobel Peace Prize has gone to his head, because now the Obama Administration is taking credit for Mississippi's Hurricane Katrina Recovery. The Associated Press has this quote from White House spokeswoman Gannet Tseggai:President Obama’s commitment to Mississippi’s recovery is demonstrated by his tireless work to cut' [...]
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  Posted: October 15, 2009, 10:03am EDT
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• Bill Luckett? Mississippi Don't Believe It

  —Respond Mississippi

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  With friends like this....we're big fans of Morgan Freeman - Unforgiven, Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, even Deep Impact and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. He is a great actor and entertainer. Today, he brought his entertainment to Mississippi politics.
  
  Right of Mississippi has been following Bill' [...]
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  Posted: October 13, 2009, 6:44pm EDT
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• Democrats want to discuss Scruggs, Langston, DAGA money and Jim Hood

  —Respond Mississippi

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  Louisiana Democrats are upset because Haley Barbour's PAC contributed $5000 to Louisiana Senator David Vitter's PAC. Later on, Chip Pickering's PAC contributed $5000 to Haley Pickering's PAC. The Democrats claim this was Pickering trying to secretly give to Vitter.
  
  The problem with this is the FEC, which governs these [...]
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  Posted: October 13, 2009, 10:47am EDT
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• MDOT puts new light on Open Meetings law

  —Respond Mississippi

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  No to belabor the issue we've discussed extensively already, but here are a few reports from around the state on the latest involving Democrat MDOT Commissioners Wayne Brown and Bill Minor and their violation of Mississippi's Open Meetings Law.
  
  The Greenwood Commonwealth: Dinner not exempt from sunshine lawWhen [...]
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  Posted: October 08, 2009, 5:51pm EDT
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• Butch Brown wants to hike your taxes

  —Respond Mississippi

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  Butch Brown - the executive director of the Mississippi Department of Transportation through the support of MDOT Commissoners Wayne Brown and Bill Minor, both Democrats - wants to hike your gasoline taxes.
  
  Charlie Mitchell writes about it.An average Mississippi family may start shelling out that much more per [...]
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  Posted: October 07, 2009, 10:17am EDT
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• Ledger: Abolish Elected MDOT

  —Respond Mississippi

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  Marshall Ramsey pokes fun at the MDOT Open Meeting case. Actually, the cartoon was likely the best thing coming out this matter from the perspective of Wayne Brown, Bill Minor and Butch Brown. We expect they'll have it on the their office walls.
  
  But the Clarion Ledger' [...]
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  Posted: October 06, 2009, 8:47am EDT
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• Energyville

  —Respond Mississippi

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  Chevron and The Economist Group have teamed up to create an online game called Energyville where you can choose energy sources to power your own city and look at the results.
  
  Basically, the key is to follow the Barbour energy policy: "all of the above." Solar, [...]
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  Posted: October 06, 2009, 6:24am EDT
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• Ethics Commission reports Minor, Brown violated Open Meetings Act

  —Respond Mississippi

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  The Clarion Ledger reported that FridayEthics Commission Director Tom Hood recommends the commission find that Southern District Commissioner Wayne Brown and Northern District Commissioner Bill Minor "knowingly and willingly" violated open-meetings laws by discussing the Reunion Parkway interchange with Madison County Supervisor Tim Johnson, county engineer Rudy Warnock and [...]
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  Posted: October 05, 2009, 6:31am EDT
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• Mississippi Democratic Party leader complains of Ledger's coverage on Kemper Coal

  —Respond Mississippi

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  Last time we checked, electric power was nonpartisan. But Mississippi Democratic Party Executive Director Sam Hall seems to take issue with the Clarion Ledger's coverage of Mississippi Power.
  
  
  
  Mississippi Power contributes to both Republicans and Democrats. We won't list the Republicans because they haven't [...]
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  Posted: October 01, 2009, 2:26pm EDT
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• Dude, Where's My Grant?

  —Respond Mississippi

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  Medications Development for Cannabis-Related Disorders [...]
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  Posted: September 30, 2009, 4:34pm EDT
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• Jim Hood: Who needs Jerry Mitchell?

  —Respond Mississippi

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  Jerry Mitchell received a great honor for his work at the Clarion Ledger unearthing new facts about cold-case civil rights crimes. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation awarded him a "genius grant" of a $500,000 fellowship over five years which he will use to continue his investigative journalism [...]
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  Posted: September 29, 2009, 3:21pm EDT
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• Biden and Pelosi on History and Jobs

  —Respond Mississippi

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  Some old quotes that deserve attention again."When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed, he said, 'Look, here's what happened.'" - Joe Biden Other than the fact that Franklin Roosevelt was not president when the stock market' [...]
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  Posted: September 29, 2009, 10:44am EDT
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• Political Populism not Partisanship Divides PSC

  —Respond Mississippi

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  I guess we could increase the alliteration to say "Presley's Political Populism not Partisanship or Posey Divides PSC."
  
  Brandon Presley (D) is at it again. It seems every month the Northern District Public Service Commissioner not only disagrees with his colleagues, but feels he must be disagreeable. It isn't' [...]
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  Posted: September 29, 2009, 7:42am EDT
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• NRA stands up to opponents of the Wicker Amendment

  —Respond Mississippi

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  The National Rifle Association responds that the usual liberals are attacking Senator Roger Wicker's efforts to protect the Second Amendment rights of Amtrack users.Last week, we reported on the Wicker amendment—a NRA-backed amendment to H.R. 3288 (the FY 2010 Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development appropriations bill) that would [...]
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  Posted: September 28, 2009, 7:07am EDT
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• Hattiesburg American on MDOT Secret Meeting: "how many other times have they violated it?"

  —Respond Mississippi

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  The Hattiesburg American has chimed in with criticism of the alleged violation of Mississippi's Open Meetings Law by MDOT Commissioners Wayne Brown and Bill Minor.[T]he Mississippi Ethics Commission has been asked to investigate. There was a quorum with two of the three commissioners at this dinner/meeting and they were [...]
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  Posted: September 18, 2009, 1:00pm EDT
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• Greenwood, Cleveland papers support 27% gas tax hike

  —Respond Mississippi

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  As we've discussed, Butch Brown at the Mississippi Department of Transportation is advocating a 27% gas tax hike. Lieutenant Governor Phil Bryant is opposed to it. And the Clarion Ledger has editoiralized agains it.
  
  But the Greenwood Commonwealth and the Bolivar Commercial newspapers have both come out' [...]
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  Posted: September 18, 2009, 12:38pm EDT
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• MDOTer Minor admits quorum discussed business at dinner meeting

  —Respond Mississippi

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  Last week Bobby Harrison wrote about Dick Hall's accusation that his fellow MDOT Commissioners violated the open meetings act. Now the Madison County Journal reports that Commissioner Bill Minor's response to Hall effectively admits the meeting violated the law.Minor responded to Hall's complaint in a letter to the [...]
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  Posted: September 18, 2009, 5:50am EDT
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• Happy Constitution Day

  —Respond Mississippi

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  Happy Constitution Day
  
  
  
  We couldn't blog without it.' [...]
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  Posted: September 17, 2009, 6:00am EDT
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• Fight the Gas Tax Hike

  —Respond Mississippi

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  As we mentioned earlier this week, Butch Brown, Director of the Mississippi Department of Tourism Transportation, wants to hike gas taxes by 27%. People are tired of higher taxes and taxing gas is not a wise move in this economy.
  
  Lieutenant Governor Phil Bryant went on the record [...]
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  Posted: September 16, 2009, 1:07pm EDT
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• Obamacare and Planned Parenthood

  —Respond Mississippi

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  As we mentioned earlier, some Democrats (like Bennie Thompson) claim Obamacare will not impact abortions, but other Democrats (like Travis Childers) claim they won't vote for Obamacare because it does not protect the rights of the unborn.
  
  Here is another item about Obamacare and abortion. The legislation could' [...]
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  Posted: September 15, 2009, 7:19am EDT
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• NRA License Plates

  —Respond Mississippi

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  From my latest NRA-ILA Alert:Support your NRA by purchasing a specialized tag today! NRA license plates are now available through your county tax collector's office. The cost is $31, with $24 of that going to the NRA Foundation State Account to promote firearms training, youth hunter education, shooting range development [...]
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  Posted: September 14, 2009, 9:56am EDT
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• Butch Brown calls for 27% hike in gas tax

  —Respond Mississippi

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  MDOT Executive Director Butch Brown, who used taxpayer dollars for trips to Puerto Rico, Brussels, Budapest and Vienna, now wants to hike gas taxes by 27% because he says MDOT is running out of money. On one hand, he says MDOT will soon be a maintenance-only department and on [...]
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  Posted: September 13, 2009, 12:21pm EDT
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• Remember

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  Posted: September 11, 2009, 7:45am EDT
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• Did MDOTers violate Open Meetings Act?

  —Respond Mississippi

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  Bobby Harrison at the Tupelo Daily Journal catches the Brown Boys in an alleged violation of the Open Meetings Act.Central District Transportation Commissioner Dick Hall said Northern District Commissioner Bill Minor, Southern District Commissioner Wayne Brown and Transportation Department Executive Director Larry “Butch” Brown met at a Jackson restaurant [...]
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  Posted: September 10, 2009, 5:23pm EDT
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• No American Should Have to Choose Between Health Insurance and Getting Drunk

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  Posted: September 10, 2009, 3:44pm EDT
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• Obama: Healthcare or More People Will Die

  —Respond Mississippi

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  Our favorite part of President Barack Hussein Obama's speech was when he said if Congress does not pass healthcare reform that more people will die. Seriously Obama. More people will die? And you accuse Republicans of scare tactics. Pass my bill or people will die. Hell, that's almost a threat.
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  Posted: September 10, 2009, 10:23am EDT
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• NOW Democrats condemn dissent?

  —Respond Mississippi

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  The Democrats need a thicker skin. Yesterday we shared how the Democrats flipped out when parents criticized President Barack H. Obama's speech to school children...even though when President George H.W. Bush did the same thing the Democrats ordered an investigation and hearings over the matter.
  
  It is really [...]
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  Posted: September 10, 2009, 10:13am EDT
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• When Bush spoke to schools, Dems ordered investigation, hearings

  —Respond Mississippi

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  Excuse us if we show little pitty to Democrats who whine and sob about how President Obama is being treated unfairly and how those big, bad parents object to his speech to school children.
  
  Memo to Democrats: This is the big league. Step up.
  
  As Majority in [...]
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  Posted: September 09, 2009, 8:50am EDT
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• Obama's Change: Record Teenage Unemployment

  —Respond Mississippi

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  The teenage unemployment rate is at 25.5 percent, its highest level since the Bureau of Labor Statistics began tracking the data in 1948. (Economix - New York Times)
  
  Young people voted for change with Obama, we've certainly gotten it.' [...]
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  Posted: September 07, 2009, 8:58am EDT
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• The Irony of Tax Increases

  —Respond Mississippi

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  Posted: September 06, 2009, 11:08am EDT
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