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• Gingrich: Town Hall in Jackson

  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"

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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
  by IamTHEresponder

• ObamaCare is Uncool

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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  Everyone should be able to enjoy this one.
  
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 8:21am EST
  by IamTHEresponder

• More discussion on Jim Hood's fundraising from Bernstein Litowitz

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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

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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
  by IamTHEresponder