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This week saw Haley Barbour in hot water over pardons he granted to some Mississippi prison inmates. Haley Barbour left the Mississippi's governor's office on Jan. 10, 2012, after Mississippi's term limits law prevent Barbour from seeking another term. As one of his final acts, he granted full pardons or early release to some 200 Mississippi inmates. This action has drawn a strongl...
DailyKos (Mississippi) - Jan 24 - 4 clicks 
For background on this tornado outbreak, please see my diary from earlier today. The SPC has issued a "Particularly Dangerous Situation" Tornado Watch for parts of Mississippi, Arkansas, and Tennessee until midnight CST as a line of storms continues to build up and move east across Arkansas. "Particularly Dangerous Situation" is enhanced wording added to a tornado watch to indicate the highe...
DailyKos (Mississippi) - Jan 22
When Haley Barbour issued his now-infamous raft of pardons in his waning hours as governor of Mississippi, he pardoned five convicted murderers and several sex offenders. However, he couldn't be bothered to pardon Jamie and Gladys Scott, who presently are suffering through one of the worst miscarriages of justice in American history. But now there's a chance to rectify it--which is w...
DailyKos (Mississippi) - Jan 19
When Haley Barbour issued his now-infamous raft of pardons in his waning hours as governor of Mississippi, he pardoned five convicted murderers and several sex offenders. However, he couldn't be bothered to pardon Jamie and Gladys Scott, who presently are suffering through one of the worst miscarriages of justice in American history. For those who don't know, the Scott sisters wer...
DailyKos (Mississippi) - Jan 18 - 8 clicks
For any who may be reading this series for the first time : this is a thought experiment where I try to see what would happen if the size of the House of Representatives were doubled to 870 members from 435. And yes, I know Republicans have the trifecta in both of these states. This entire series is theoretical to begin with, gimme a break. Louisiana and Mississippi are both states with siz...
DailyKos (Mississippi) - Jan 17 - 9 clicks
Well, that didn't take long. The outrage in Mississippi and the nation over former governor Haley Barbour's possibly unconstitutional decision to pardon over 200 criminals--including five convicted murderers serving as trusties in the Governor's Mansion--has already resulted in a drive to amend the state constitution in order to restrict the governor's power of pardon. And Barbour's ...
DailyKos (Mississippi) - Jan 15
In the waning hours before he was due to hand Mississippi's governorship to Phil Bryant, Haley Barbour issued 203 pardons. On that list were several sex offenders, child rapists, and five convicted murderers. One problem--it seems that at least some of those pardons violated public-notice requirements in the state constitution. State attorney general Jim Hood sought to have the...
DailyKos (Mississippi) - Jan 15
If we were not currently in the middle of a competitive Republican presidential primary, we’d be actively talking about outgoing Mississippi governor Haley Barbour. Earlier this week, Barbour pardoned 215 prisoners, including 17 who had been convicted of murder. The controversy his decision produced was immediate and also unsurprising. Families of victims have been outraged and...
DailyKos (Mississippi) - Jan 14
Late yesterday, Haley Barbour made his first public comments since issuing a raft of pardons in the waning hours of his term as governor of Mississippi. Among those pardons were several convicted murderers--and at least some of them didn't notify the public of their requests. Yesterday, from his new job as a lawyer with a Jackson-area firm, he made his first public comments since i...
DailyKos (Mississippi) - Jan 14
In his waning days as governor of Mississippi, Haley Barbour showed just how warped his sense of justice really is. He pardoned 14 convicted murderers --including one of the most cold-blooded murderers I've ever read about, anywhere. "I feel like my safety is in jeopardy," Randy Walker, who was shot and wounded by convicted killer David Gatlin, said Wednesday. "I wonder if he's going to...
DailyKos (Mississippi) - Jan 11
The more things change the more they stay the same. From Canada's premier national daily newspaper, the Globe and Mail . Greg Davis, the Republican mayor of Southaven, Miss. was caught when state auditors requested receipts to explain 170 K in unaccounted expenses. The public only found out after 'The Commercial Appeal' (a Memphis TN newspaper) filed FOIA requests. According to The Commer...
DailyKos (Mississippi) - Dec 19
However , a review by The CA shows that Davis spent thousands of dollars at the Mesquite Chop House in Southaven and thousands more at local liquor stores. Also included in the receipts is a charge for $67 at Priape , a store in Toronto that is described by its website as "Canada's premiere gay lifestyle store and sex shop." NSFW link. You were warned. ...
DailyKos (Mississippi) - Dec 16
Another Republican hypocrite has been forced out of the closet. But this one did it to his damn self. Southaven, Mississippi, mayor Greg Davis was elected in 1997 on a conservative "family values" platform. He even ran for Congress in 2008 on a similar platform. If Davis sounds familiar to you, you may remember him as the guy who wanted to construct a statue of the KKK fou...
DailyKos (Mississippi) - Dec 16
With the release of election data for Alabama, and Mississippi for Dave's Redistricting Application. I figured I would try to get some districts made more favorable for Democrats. Needless to say the prospects are dim as we all could guess. Mississippi has the highest African American percentage of population at 37%. This as some 2011 Mississippi Gubernatorial election diaries have men...
DailyKos (Mississippi) - Nov 14
Mississippi’s measure seeking to grant a fertilized egg the status of “person” was defeated at the ballot box last week. Unfortunately, personhood advocates still plan to put the matter up for vote in five more states. Perhaps the next step should be granting women personhood. Because as it is, personhood advocates feel that fertilized eggs, embryos and fetuses should have more rights than ...
DailyKos (Mississippi) - Nov 14
Less than a week ago, Republicans in Mississippi won the House (now 64-58 after Dem Rep. Donnie Bell switched parties on Friday), giving them control of government for the first time since Reconstruction. And because redistricting was not completed before this election, Republicans will be free to run wild and draw themselves very favorable maps. The Congressional map will be straightfor...
DailyKos (Mississippi) - Nov 13
Not much new in this fight, just the victims. Thanks to everyone who helped Protect Maine Votes to victory on Tuesday. A People's Veto overturned the Republican legislature and governor's ban on same-day voter registration. Protect Maine Votes had this to say : "Same-day registration has worked for almost 40 years, helping Maine to be a national leader in voter participation," said Barba...
DailyKos (Mississippi) - Nov 12
Having trouble understanding what the Mississippi definition of a "person" is? Walter Brasch gives the most logical explanation. ...
DailyKos (Mississippi) - Nov 11
Like in so many other American home-places, black and white Mississippians see things differently, and, consequently, vote differently. As Mississippians proved last night, when things get really, really bad, together, we get our act together; we overcome. Now we all need to keep working to overcome exclusionary voter ID laws. Written by Rebecca Sive for RH Reality Check . This diary is c...
DailyKos (Mississippi) - Nov 10
In a decisive and resounding victory in one of the most conservative states in the country, Mississippi voters defeated--by a margin of 57 percent to 43 percent as of this writing--the dangerous Initiative 26, which would have defined a fertilized egg as a person with full human rights. Written by Editor-in-Chief Jodi Jacobson for RH Reality Check . This diary is cross-posted; commenters ...
DailyKos (Mississippi) - Nov 9
The defeat of Mississippi Initiative 26 and the gains for reproductive choice today in Mississippi--while critical--may in the long run be seen as pyrrhic victories given the ominous implications of Initiative 27, the exclusionary voter ID initiative that will disenfranchise thousands of African Americans, immigrants, married women, transgendered people, and Native Americans. Written by Lore...
DailyKos (Mississippi) - Nov 9
Mississippi says this is not a person. A fun note on yesterday's defeat of the "personhood" initiative in Mississippi: Mississippi seemed the natural place to go—the most conservative state in the nation, which also elected Phil Bryant, the Republican lieutenant governor and co-chair of the Yes on 26 campaign, to succeed Haley Barbour as governor. This would be the man who Monday evo...
DailyKos (Mississippi) - Nov 9
Last night the Right got its nose smacked with a rolled up news paper by the voters in several states. While we had some electoral victories as Democrats I think that it is the initiatives that told the real story. Personhood in Mississippi failed. That is really good news as this was the state that was most likely to pass such a thing according the Conventional Wisdom. This is not the f...
DailyKos (Mississippi) - Nov 9
If ever there was an anti-research, anti-freedom, anti-woman law in the making, Mississippi's Initiative 26 was it. But last night, Mississippi voters took matters into their own hands. ...
DailyKos (Mississippi) - Nov 9
[bumped - Barbara Morrill] Mississippi voters agree: This is not a person Suck it , forced birthers. Despite a poll earlier this week showing Mississippi voters split on the Personhood Amendment, voters decided to reject "biological ignorance." So for now, pregnant women won't be cruising in the carpool lanes. This is a stunning defeat for the forced birthers who were tryin...
DailyKos (Mississippi) - Nov 8
"Personhood" is on the table tonight in Mississippi. Amendment 26 - being voted on even now, for a few final hours - will potentially define a "person" under the laws of the state as any fertilized human embryo from the moment of conception . Leave aside, for the moment, the idea that any birth control method that prevented implantation (i.e., "the pill") might be rendered illegal - or the im...
DailyKos (Mississippi) - Nov 8
8 November 2011 Dear Mississippi, I was born ten minutes from the bathtub-warm brackish and silty Mississippi Sound. Before I said “Momma,” before I said “Daddy,” or “dog,” or “cat,” I said “Pascagoula.” No matter how long I live away from your moonlight and magnolias, your Mardi Gras and tamales at Christmas, your fig trees and fresh seafood, I will always fall into a deeper sou...
DailyKos (Mississippi) - Nov 8
While there doesn't seem to have been a lot of mainstream media coverage of Initiative 26 in Mississippi , it could potentially rewrite the rules of engagement for sexual activity in this country. David Atkins over at Digby's was discussing the futility of trying to debate the backers of this bill on rational grounds. So let's look at this irrationally. IF a person is what you have the mome...
DailyKos (Mississippi) - Nov 8
The Personhood Amendment in Mississippi intrigues me as to the legal ramifications of such an Amendment. So, I compiled a list in honor of the 23 pairs of chromosomes these future people have of such questions. 1. If an entire family dies, and their only heirs are the embryos left in a cryogenic lab, does all their money go to their heir embryo into keeping it alive? 2. ...
DailyKos (Mississippi) - Nov 7
Mother Jones reports: So how are supporters getting out the vote? By blasting out emails promoting a film that equates support for reproductive rights with support for the Holocaust. 180 is a documentary by Australian filmmaker Ray Comfort, and features graphic images from concentration camps. Per a press release, Personhood USA has sent out a link to the film to 600,000 eligible voters in Mis...
DailyKos (Mississippi) - Nov 7
Mississippi voters will be determining more than the direct rights of women in Mississippi when they vote on a personhood amendment on Tuesday. The vote will also measure how far the Christian right's misogyny will go. Written by Amanda Marcotte for RH Reality Check . This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post ...
DailyKos (Mississippi) - Nov 7
I know, I know, not a diary, but... Now that Mississippi voters are considering defining a fertilized egg as a person, I think we should consider the matter philosophically. If an unfertilized egg isn't a person and a fertilized egg is a person, does that mean that the egg gets a soul as soon as it has 26 chromosomes? What are the implications? Given that most zygotes don't becom...
DailyKos (Mississippi) - Nov 7
Does this look like a person to you? A new poll from Public Policy Polling shows voters are split on the Personhood Amendment appearing on tomorrow's ballot in Mississippi: It looks like the race to watch in Mississippi on Tuesday night will be the state's proposed 'Personhood Amendment,' which would make the state's laws regarding abortion and birth control the strictest of any sta...
DailyKos (Mississippi) - Nov 7
( We Are Ohio ) Off-year elections often get a bad rap for being boring affairs. On paper, 2011 would seem to justify the charge. After all, only three governorships are up this year, and one of those (Louisiana) got decided in the October primaries. The other two (Kentucky and Mississippi) are exceedingly unlikely to be any closer than 15 points. But true election junkies know that there...
DailyKos (Mississippi) - Nov 6
N ovember 8th, Mississippi voters will will either support or defeat a proposition that would give a fertilized human egg the same legal rights and protections under the State’s Constitution that apply to living breathing people. Few voters in Mississippi would bother to turn out to support particulars of defining the legal status of the fusion of two haploid gametes. Most folks might ...
The iHandbill - Oct 30
Mississippi voters do not register by Party. When they vote in Primaries, they may choose to vote in either Party Primary. Most white candidates for local races run as Democrats - otherwise they will get no black votes. Black Mississippi voters will just not vote for a Republican - nor do I blame them. As Republicans have tried to take over our state, they have rarely had Republican Primaries. Th...
Natchez Mississippi - Jul 21 - 4 clicks
