Posted on 01/15/2008 8:19:49 AM PST by libstripper
LOL!
Just because you are paranoid doesn’t
mean they aren’t out to get you. ;o)
I think Trent realized he needed to get out and make some money. He lost his home in the hurricane, and that was a large part of his net worth. He's going into business with John Breaux, and after next year, he'll be able to do some lobbying. If he'd waited until 2008 to retire, he'd have had to wait two years before doing any lobbying.
Don't you wonder how Dickie might have arranged this...???
If Dickie made an attempt to talk Trent into the DeLaughter nomination, it didn’t work. Trent recommended someone else. Dickie has a lot more influence among RAT circles, in case you hadn’t noticed.
Do we know whether or not he could actually DO that, or was he just trying to impress Mr. Langston?
a. Assuming Scruggs had a reason for saying it. That, yes, he actually believed he could effect such an appointment.
b. Speculating that the reason why Scruggs so believed was his relationship with Lott.
There is no proof, as yet, that Lott was involved. However, the timing of his resignation remains very suspicious (and I'm familiar with the lobbying restriction).
I'm not ready to give him a pass on this. Not yet.
Funny thing. I was trying to remember where I had heard of Bobby DeLaughter before, so I asked hubby. I thought it was from the movie about Medgar Evers’ murder, but my memory was sketchy. I just looked him up, and he graduated from my high school. (some years before me, I must say) I don’t know much about his politics though I read that Fordice appointed him to a judgeship in Hinds County.
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