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Last Updated on Tuesday, 19 February 2008 03:08 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 19 February 2008 11:58
Want to see the video of Jim Hood’s interview with WLBT – click here. This is not a good news day for Mr. Hood – this is the second time this story has gotten credible attention from the main stream press. This little story out of quaint Jackson is going to be on the national news soon – and names like Andrew Cuomo, Buddy Caldwell, Jerry Brown, Dustin McDaniel, and Jack Conway (to name a few) will be all over the story.
In our 3 on Your Side investigation, we revealed $400,000 donated by indicted trial lawyers Dickie Scruggs and Joey Langston last September to the Democratic Attorneys General Association — a PAC. That political action group sent $550,000 to help Jim Hood win re-election in 2007.Hood says our report was unfair. “Had I known they were going to have these legal problems, I certainly would not have accepted anything directly, any direct contribution. We never told them to give any money there, and secondly, the Democratic Attorneys General are my colleagues.”
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