Another story, in a different publication reporting the Hood/DAGA/Scruggs/Langston Nexis.  What’s really interesting about this is Hood is fighting for his political life here.  He’s taken to blaming everybody but the parties responsible for everything that’s going on.  Heck, he’s even blaming a vast right wing conspiracy led by members of the Mississippi press corps.  Click on the last link and check out the chatter that this story is generating on just one website.

If a case is brought by the state against attorneys involved in the recent judicial bribery scandal, it should be a district attorney that does it, Attorney General Jim Hood told The Clarion-Ledger editorial board Monday.

 

His friendships forged with some of the troubled lawyers through years of working together on cases and their financial support on the campaign trail have created the “appearance of impropriety,” he said.”The average guy is going to say, ‘If he’s that close to somebody, he doesn’t need to be prosecuting the case,'” he said. “It would be like prosecuting relatives.”

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