Posts Tagged ‘Mississippi’
MS: Editorial – Dem AG’s Donors do well with State Contracts
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 03:16 Written by rslcpol Monday, 15 February 2010 02:03
From the Greenwood Commonwealth:
Maybe it’s just a coincidence that some of Attorney General Jim Hood’s largest campaign supporters also happen to get a big slice of the state’s litigation business he farms out to private attorneys.
The appearance, though, is not good. The system needs to change either to bring more competition to how these contracts are awarded, or to prohibit the attorney general from receiving campaign donations from those who do business with his office.
Hood defends the system he uses. He claims that the contracts, worth potentially millions of dollars in contingency fees, are awarded on a first-come, first-serve basis. Whoever comes to the attorney general first with a novel idea for suing on the state’s behalf gets the business. If it’s an out-of-state firm, Hood says, he leaves it to the lawyers to pick the Mississippi firm with which they associate. The contract is then put out for anyone to examine its details.
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MS: GOP Has the Names to Get Voter ID on the Ballot
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 03:17 Written by rslcpol Friday, 12 February 2010 03:00
From NEMS360.com:
Mississippi Republicans say they have enough signatures to put a voter ID initiative on the November 2011 ballot.
State GOP Chairman Brad White told The Associated Press on Wednesday that the party will submit the certified names to the secretary of state’s office on Thursday. That’s the deadline for the party to end a one-year effort to get registered voters to sign petitions.
White said the party has roughly 120,000 signatures certified by local circuit clerks. That’s more than the minimum 17,857 needed.
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