This chapter of Jim Hood’s career may have achieved critical mass. He may soon be viewed with other former Democrat Attorneys General like Peg Lautenschlager (Pleads guilty to drunk driving), Charles Foti (Katrina Cases’ Backlash Hurts LA AG), and Paul Morrison (Sexual harassment and undue influence). Stay tuned.

He’s granted TV and newspaper interviews in which he dismissed suggestions that he return campaign funds donated by at least three sources who have already entered plea bargains in a federal judicial bribery probe. He suggested that it was unfair for him to be asked to return the donations because Republicans had taken political action committee donations and that: “There’s a danger in our politics, when people, corporations are able to buy offices that belong to the people.”That reference came after Hood railed about “big corporations” circumventing Mississippi laws prohibiting campaign contributions over $1,000 by making legal PAC donations exceeding that amount – which is true. But in the same breath, Hood draws a distinction between PAC donations from “big corporations” and the $400,000 in legal campaign contributions he received from the Democratic Attorneys General Association’s PAC – which is the same amount donated by Oxford attorney Dickie Scruggs and Booneville attorney Joey Langston.

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