“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.
I’m a resident of Mississippi and a supporter of Governor Barbour who has been an excellant Governor. I don’t have a problem with his excerising his power to pardon those who have completed their sentence, paid their debt to society and have therefore been released into society, based on whatever criteria he decided with the exception of for payment in goods, services, or money and I have faith in him that this is NOT the case. This group makes up the large majority of those pardoned, some of these were released 40 plus years ago.
I am disturbed by the release and pardon of the 21 who have served their time and without knowing the facts would still say I’m against their pardon and release but I do NOT believe it is in exchange for money, goods, or services.
The State Attorney Jim Hood is the only statewide elected democrat and he has a past record of working to turn things to his own and the democrats political advantage and to me he doesn’t have any credibility and is just doing what he does best, attack Republicans and help his friends.
As much as I dislike this on the face of it I will reserve judgement on Governor Barbour until I know more about it but will relish in another opportunity to tell the truth about Jim Hood.