REQUIRED READING.  I am speechless, but I am going to rant anyway.

Hood says pursuing state charges for bribery would be like “prosecuting a relative” asserting that he’s just “too close” to them.

He then pawned prosecution on state charges off to a DA.  But where do you prosecute?  Booneville (Langston country)?  Hinds County (Judge DeLaughter country)?  Oxford (Scruggs/Lackey country)?  The Coast (Rigsby country)?

Where exactly does this happen?  I know if it was done in Hinds County, a trial wouldn’t happen for three years, unless you somehow magically got Frank Melton involved.  In that case, it’d only take 59 days from beginning to end.

Even with all that I know about Jim Hood, which could fill volumes, I am still 100% absolutely utterly in shock after reading this article, that he actually made these statements.

Maybe Courtney Schloemer could prosecute for him that way he wouldn’t ever really “know” about it…

Hood has hit rock bottom and is now using a trachoe because a shovel is now apparently fast enough.

He then assails the Clarion Ledger to hire a “Democratic writer” to counteract Salter who is apparently a “Republican writer”.  I guess Sid didn’t get the memo on the Republican opposition to the cig/grocery tax swap.  Better luck next time.

Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel.

This came on the heels of Madame Deladd attacking bloggers Friday. Didn’t name any mind you, just attacked them in general.

Given her defense of Hood, one must ask if this the beginnings of a coordinated media attack by AG.

Someone made a very good point to me.  Suppose that you are Jim Hood and you are getting very regular advice from Dickie Scruggs, Joey Langston and Mike Moore about how to run things . . . what’s happened to those guys lately?  Could it be that Hood actually has the keys to the AG’s office for the first time ever and he’s taking that puppy out for a spin?

It is hard to give any other explanation for this PR assault with apparently no real message.  Couple that with picking a fight with State Farm in federal court that left him settling hours after he took the stand . . . I’m grasping at straws here.  There really is no plausible explanation unless I am missing some ulterior motive.

Sid Salter posted:  “There were C-L reporters in the meeting. I suspect you’ll see an account of this meeting in the print edition tomorrow. I may write a print column on it as well. Amazing choice of words...”

Maybe pressure for the CL to turn on Hood is heating up.

Hood has got to be a magnetic force of creative genius. I never would have thought to say such stuff. Why, I would have probably said something like........."Look fellas, just for the record, I screwed the pooch on this one. I wish I had someone I could give the V-Pac money to and flush this mess. Really, somebody oughta be kickin my glutmax to the curb. I have redefined ‘sorry’.”

The State’s voters would rather hear this than what he caughed up.

Gen. Hood is going to have to do much better than blaming it on the “right wing” Clarion Ledger. What a joke!

If a sitting AG fails to prosecute criminals from multi jurisdictions, what are the folks to do.  There has to be something that can be done besides ranting on blogs.  It’s time for the hood to go....

<blockquote>Hood says pursuing state charges for bribery would be like “prosecuting a relative” asserting that he’s just “too close” to them. <blockquote>

Sort of like the MS Ethics Commission

Stop digging, AG Hood.  The “thing” speaks for itself.  That tired political playbook wont work. 
BTW, I voted for Hood, much to my regret.  It’s the same way I feel about Mayor Melton.  Who are these people?

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Who are these people?

DEMOCRATS!

Seriously, folks, it looks as though Mr. Hood is cracking up.  Maybe the pressure has gotten to him.  I can’t believe his editorial today, and now this.  The only thing that makes sense is that he’s having some sort of breakdown or something.

wow, i’ve never seen such tough investigative reporters asking probing questions here and there to expose the obvious.  prize-winning coverage, i’d say.

I just can’t help but think that Hood could turn this absolute turkey of an argument and make a huge positive out of it.  If he either mans up and prosecutes or steps aside and lets an independent person prosecute, he’s a hero.  I don’t get how he’s missing that.  My sense is that Langston and Balducci could sell him down the river anyway before this is all over with.  They will be highly motivated to say what they need to say.

He might as well get the jump on him.

One more very troubling aspect to this.  Suppose . . . just suppose, that this bribery investigation ensnares a Republican or two.  It’s possible, though we have seen no evidence of it yet.  Then what for Hood?  He couldn’t possibly prosecute them.  In fact, if he wades in and prosecutes someone who disagrees with him the rest of his term, he will have set the precedent that he prosecutes only his enemies, but not his friends (as defined by his campaign report).

This is a very slippery slope.

Don’t you think that one of, if not The Most prevailing reason that Hood isn’t pursuing anything at all---or allowing Courtney to---is that he’s hoping against hope that if he leaves the beehive alone, it won’t sting him---that they will leave him out of this if he just shuts up.  It’s a whole lot easier to fight a public PR campaign than to fight the Feds as a defendant.

Hood’s surreal commentary before the Ledger’s editorial board leaves me gasping for words.

If what Sid writes is only partially verbatim, then Jim Hood is a complete moron of immense proportion.

Alan: Thus far he hasn’t shown a lick of good sense and definitely not one of “common sense” in anything surrounding this issue, so he’ll fall in that trap right quick. Bless his heart...he’s made his bed and now he’s gonna have to sleep in it.

There’s also a video clip of this meeting up on The CL website.  Very funny to watch Hood crap himself.  I wish they would post the entire video.

Terrific.  I must admit that it never occurred to me that I, and other voters, should have to pose the question to the guy running for the CHIEF LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER of the state, if he’d have a problem prosecuting a friend.  Great.

But, alas, I didn’t vote for him for the more blatent reasons, anyway.

"blatant.” I’m so ticked....

OK, Hood’s gonna sit on his thumbs and hope the felons dont rat him out.  Now, does anyone know if our State Constitution allows for the appointment of a special prosecutor by the Governor or Supreme Court?  That would be nice..

Hood’s freefall is breathtaking to watch.  Alan do you think Brentwood has a rehab program for blog addiction?  I can’t get enough of this saga.......

Let’s just Thank GOD, Hood wasn’t “friends” with Edgar Ray Killen......

Has anyone ever received a reply/answer from asking a question thru the AG’s website? 
(I’m 0-9 and looking to make it 0-10 today...just curious if there are a select few out there to receive a response)

Did you make a campaign donation?  If not, I wouldn’t hold my breath, ccvz

Aaaah...The Donation.  And to think, I could have been part of the family.

Try this

Funny comment this morning under this post at Salter’s blog:

forhim1981:  Bellesouth, I generally try to show everyone respect; even those with whom I ardently disagree. In your case, I will suspend my own civility and call it like I see it: you’re a moron. I only pray that you aren’t married to coastal cowboy. Such a pairing would be catastrophic for Mississippi’s already tarnished educational image. In a famous opinion, Oliver Wendell Holmes said, “three generations of imbeciles is enough.” In your case, one generation will do.

Well, sounds like Bellllleeeesouth must have violated someone’s “no call list” with some ‘down home’ Bellesouth ‘original recipe’ Chit Chatter. You know, that girl could ‘vent’ some stomp down bodacious phlegm for someone of the ‘gentle’ gender.

I would click over and read it but, I’m just too lazy and already ‘kinda/sorta know the toxic spew it contains.