This should show everyone that the people can take their states back if they really want to. Take your states back and you can take the Federal Government back.
First time I can recall where I sided with Democrat against a Republican, good on Mr. Hood.
This looks to me to be a stunning example of the disconnect between the ruling elite, and the rest of us.
I’m sure Mr. Barber is cashing in big on the way out, but doing some “favors”.
In the meantime, he’s saying, screw the people, screw the legal system, I’m getting mine. As if he’s not going to retire in luxury already.
Those people that run for office, on both sides of the aisle, are not our friends, and their not our public servants. They are a class of royalty and they care about America and it’s people about as much as I care about an ant colony in a field in Montana.
“Circuit Judge Tomie Green issued an injunction late Wednesday at the request of Democratic Attorney General Jim Hood.”
“Barbour, a former Republican National Committee chairman, considered running for president this year but announced last April that he would skip the race because he didn’t have the “fire in the belly.” The 64-year-old is now on the paid speakers’ circuit and is also working for a Jackson-area law firm and for BGR, the Washington lobbying firm he founded two decades ago.”
There is a whole lot of irony in this.
Pinging you, onyx. Local fun and games.
He was a good conservative, a good RNC chairman and he did a good job for his state in the Katrina aftermath.
He doesn't care anymore, he says he will never seek elective office again.....and without so much as a fair-thee-well he has skulked over to the dark side.
His pardons for the killers have angered most of his conservative admirers both in his state and across the fruited plain. What a stupid, dangerous, in-your-face move!
Now he's going to use his political afterlife to clean up monetarily as a law firm mouthpiece/rainmaker, a DC lobbyist and a big-bucks speaker on the rubber-chicken circuit.
One by one our idols are revealing their feet of clay. It's sickening.
Leni
Well-to-do politicians who no longer have to live among the rest of us consider average, everyday working folks expendable. So, if they have to unchain a few violent miscreants to prey upon the public in order to make themselves feel noble, well, what the heck? No harm done. You may recall that Huckabee pulled this same sick stunt.
I don’t know the legality of it but Governors in their last six months/year should be barred from issuing pardons - that or at least have the pardons OKd by the legislature.