42...Strangely, Not the Answer to Everything

I'm perplexed that it's even come to this.

It's pretty obvious to anyone who's watched the 42 debate that the main purpose of the initiative is not to fund schools (with no budget cuts or tax increases, y'all!!!!) but to fund the Ronnie Musgrove Betterment Fund, and the Trial Lawyers.  At least to anyone who isn't a 42 supporter or a Clarion-Ledger writer-but I repeat myself.

Seriously, when Sid Salter is writing articles BEGGING people not to vote on 42, how much more of a red flag do you need?  I could go into all his reasons, but he puts it really well.  It is a straight up violation of the separation of powers, and creating an education czar (as if we don't have enough!) in the Hinds County courts.

Vote against 42.  Both 42s.

Rassmussen Puts Wicker Up 11

This is your positive, encouraging update on the Senate race. 60 is much, much harder to get to if-and hopefully, if the poll is good, when-Monty loses.

We Are Not A Wing of the Democratic Party

Recently I drove by the state headquarters of the Mississippi Association of Educators. In the windows were huge Ronnie Musgrove signs. When I say huge, I mean that they covered most of the window.

People should keep that in mind when they hear of an MAE endorsement or read MAE propaganda. Members should know that their dues don't go entirely to teachers, but in large piles of cash to the Democratic party. They are in effect an organ of the Democratic party.

So Monty, A Question...

Is a pay raise more important than declaring a state of emergency so that you could get a new ottoman for the Governor's Mansion?

Since the JFP wants to complain...

The lack of a partisan marker on the ballots for Senate, perhaps they'd like to read this little nugget about a special election on the coast.

Yes, that's right: Special elections in Mississippi come with no partisan label. At least until our Intrepid Attorney General decides that they need one. They didn't have a problem with no ID on them for Snidely. Why now?

http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080924/NEWS04/80924012/1002/newsfrnt

Monty Goes Back to the Playbook

Monty Rushgrove has apparently gone back to the standard Dem playbook, and has decided that the way to win is to demonize free trade. Its actually not dumb politics, considering how the furniture industry in North Mississippi has contracted. Of course, he forgets to mention that the president who shepherded NAFTA into law was one Bill Clinton, a Democrat.

It isn't smart, however, since one of the big critics of NAFTA is the union establishment-those beacons of integrity-and Wicker has hit him on union ties, and card-check legislation. Mississippi being a very proud right-to-work state, it's a huge gamble.

Every 30-40 years in North Mississippi the economy is going to change. It's a fact of life. We started out as the poorest of the poor in the US, back when rural life was a symbol of poverty. In the 1930s we started our way out, and developed the dairy industry. By the 1960s the economy had shifted toward manufacturing. Its shifting again, now to more heavy manufacturing like Toyota. This inevitably causes pains for those caught in the change, and Monty is hoping to cash in on that in November.

It should be noted that the saving grace of North Mississippi is our Community College system and its non-traditional education programs. In the early 2000s, the JuCo system was wracked by cuts due to the perilous financial straits the state found itself in. Those cuts were made by one Ronnie Musgrove, Governor. This in spite of the fact that his cheif of staff was a Community College president!

So Let Me Get This Straight, Left-Wing Media

Ronnie Musgrove getting heaps and heaps of cash from the Beef Plant guys? No big deal.

Jim Greenlee giving $200 to Roger Wicker six years ago? There must be a conspiracy.

My Friends at YP...

You should not be surprised that Hampton, the Daily Urinal, et al, are rushing to the defense of Monty.

They've been sitting on a number of things that are...shall we say...less than flattering to the state's Democratic officials. And they've done it for a long time. You'd be amazed at the articles that have been killed by the Daily Journal alone in the last five years.

Surely They Didn't...

http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080812/NEWS/80811034/1001

You know, there are some days that you just want to lay in bed sucking a toe. I mean, your thumb.

Ooooh...Burn.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EmRzuYAW78

That's gonna sting. You might wanna put a steak on that black eye. Who told him that would be a good idea?

Shamelessly pulled from OneNewsNow.

Oh, Man, This Is Too Much

http://yallpolitics.com/index.php/yp/post/9839/#37969

Kudos to you, ma'am.

Oh Sidney

Why does one press release have to be labeled "according to the Wicker campaign" and the other just simply posted in your blog without comment?

It's sad that Samson thinks you're a Republican. Really, I almost feel sorry for the folicled one.

Law? Dems. Dems? Law.

Courtesy RedState, the DSCC violates the law by coordinating with Monty Rushgrove.

http://www.redstate.com/diaries/redstate/2008/jul/17/ms-sen-dscc-violates-coordination-laws-to-he/

Dickie, Joey, and Paul would be ashamed.

YEAAARRRHHHH!

The Screamer, that good friend of Monty Rushgrove, will be stumping for Obama in Hattiesburg and Jackson soon, according to YP.

Will Monty and Snidely show up? Or will they avoid their party's chairman like the plague?

If they're so ashamed to be Democrats, and disagree with a man who is so vehemently pro-abortion, pro-government, pro-tax, the question is...why are you Democrats in the first place?

There's an Old Adage

It starts out, "You can cheat on your wife, you can cheat on your taxes," and then goes on to describe something that you can't cheat.

I'll pass on the first one as it regards to Monty Rushgrove, but the second one is too funny. It seems that he didn't pay his campaign's payroll taxes during the 2003 Gubernatorial campaign.

Every time he opens his mouth about fiscal responsibility on Gallo, I chuckle a little to myself. After leaving us in a $700 million hole, he managed to be a tax cheat. The next thing you know he'll talk about how frugal that $14 million flag vote was, or how cheap the commission he put together was.

In Other News, They Want A Recount

http://www.wlbt.com/Global/story.asp?S=8613653&nav=menu119_2

Isn't it wonderful how the Chairman doesn't have a name? And how the visit was on "Ruesday" (I can hear the Stones singing "Good Bye, Ruby Ruesday" even now, can't you?). Did they want the President to drive around without security? And did they know people lined the streets to wave at him?

Will Monty and Snidely be paying for Barry Messiah's walk on water, I mean, visits later in the campaign? Oh, that's right-they've never heard of the guy.

Over at Salter's Blog

He has a gripe with GWB about the traffic flow in Rankin County during the Presidential visit. Fair enough. He's wondering whether or not this could tip the election to Musgrove.

I wonder what Sid had to say a couple of years ago during the Saints/Colts preseason game at VMS, where traffic in downtown Jackson was an absolute disaster. How many people swore they'd never go to a Saints game again? Was Sid one of them?

Absurd, Sid. You can do better than that.

Does Not Compute

For someone who apparently has never heard of Barack Obama, Monty Rushgrove sure does campaign like him.

Recently (a hat tip to my guys over at Mississippi Dish) he termed President Bush's visit to Mississippi for a Wicker fundraiser a 'distraction.' Yeah, because it might distract people to the fact that two guys who put approximately $250,000 in your coffers are in jail.

Is there anything inconvenient that isn't a distraction to you guys? Heck, the next thing you know, an election is going to be inconvenient.

I Had Forgotten This...

..but it's just a reminder as to how the Governor's Mansion was run during the Rushgrove administration. You remember that one-the one where we ended up in a huge debt.

A big hat-tip to JDBerry of YP.

An emergency declaration made by Gov. Ronnie Musgrove to speed the furnishing of his new office is being questioned by two state agencies.

“It’s our position that the purchase of furniture does not constitute the definition of emergency under the statute,” said Jonathan Compretta, special assistant attorney general. Compretta said he wasn’t sure if any action will be taken against the governor’s office.

State Auditor Phil Bryant said the matter remains under review.

“We are trying to be thorough in looking at it,” Bryant said.

David Cole, Musgrove’s then chief of staff, sent a letter dated Sept. 27 to the state’s top financial adviser, Gary Anderson, declaring a state of emergency“ for the purpose of purchasing furniture for the Governor’s Office.”

When asked Friday about the emergency declaration, Musgrove said the word emergency can mean “a wide range of needs.”

Of course it can, Monty. Of course it can. One wonders if you would have gotten 30% of the vote in any state other than Mississippi or perhaps Louisiana.

All The News Not Fit to Mention

The Beef Plant Fiasco is back...again. But you'd never know it reading articles by our alleged pre-eminent editorial writers. Hampton wants to dwell on how magical Barry Messiah is, or how the governor and his 'minions' are out to get us all. For all I know Sid Salter has an article in the works but right now all he wants to talk about is Medicaid and the death of George Carlin, with an occasional Samson reference thrown in because somebody sent a mean e-mail. Others talk of a conspiracy between the GOP and Big Tobacco to destroy southern Democrats (funny, since most of them tend to be able to screw things up on their own without any help from others)

(And as an aside, how come nobody ever writes an article about how the Democrats and Big Hollywood have teamed up to make propaganda films for the last seven years or so? And has anyone noticed that almost all of them are box office bombs? It was so bad that when Lions for Lambs came to DVD, the tv trailer suddenly went from 'anti-war conspiracy film' to 'leave no man behind.')

Yet none of them are writing about Monty Rushgrove taking money from the Beef Plant Braintrust. Maybe they think it's old news, but fresh indictments in the case demand that the issue be covered, and questions be asked, especially the new 'money pit' revelation. But hey, it's a Democratic year-who are they to interfere in the political process?

It took two months on this blog last year for anyone in the state media to bring up one of the most shameful acts of political retribution in recent memory to be brought up by Salter-the Jeremy Martin railroading was brought up on his blog, one time, almost as a throwaway. Instead of asking tough questions to Samson and the Golden Boy-and maybe asking a few people who sat near Mr. Franks in the House exactly what was said in a couple of early-January 2004 telephone calls-there was one blog post. The Beef Plant is just as bad and it continues to get worse as more and more figures go down. I guess when you're mourning George Carlin, though, it's tough to get around to that kind of thing.