Mississippi Mess And Why I Hate Republicans #3,296
That old scheme – take from the poor and give to the rich.
Six fancy pants people were arrested in Mississippi for scamming what is suspected to be multi millions of dollars from state programs intended to help the poorest among us.
Two of those arrested were embezzling taxpayers’ money to give it to Republican politicians.
Dr. Nancy New, owner and Director of the Mississippi Community Education Center (MCEC) and New Learning, Inc. and her son Zach New, Assistant Executive Director of MCEC, were helping Republicans run for the House and the Senate.
Some of the money they stole went to —
Nancy’s son, Zach, works at …. New Summit Schools.
Two others stole money from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families fund to send a third one to a high falutin’ drug rehab center in California. They said he was teaching a drug rehab program for youth in Mississippi while he was actually in California soaking up the sunshine at his own rehab center.
They took other millions for their personal use and the use of their personal businesses.
The newly elected Hinds County District Attorney Jody Owens said …
“The Hinds County District Attorney’s Office looks forward to working with the State Auditor Shad White and his dedicated team to end public corruption in Mississippi,” said Owens. “The misuse of government funds designed for families in need will not be tolerated by our office and those who break the law will be prosecuted to the fullest extent possible.”
Owens worked at the Southern Poverty Law Center before being elected DA so I suspect he’s fully prepared to go hunting for bear.
Honey, these entitled people stole so much money that authorities are still tracking it all down.
Thanks to Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen for the heads up.
Such a shock, not, Cindy Hyde Smith among the illicit recipients. Hope DA Jody Owens is of a mind that those who have the most deserve the most prison time. Chiseling quislings would only be warming up to the topic of Republicons, so won’t enter the swamp waters of what Republicons really are.
Mississippi, you have choices like Mike Espy. Please don’t settle for Cindy Hyde Smith, yet another Republicon crook.
1Using same logic that thuglicans used to acquit their tin god the mississippi supreme court will over throw any possible convictions since they felt they were doing this for the good of the state.
2After all if poor people don’t learn their place how can society function?
Nothing to see here, move along…
3Take from the poor, give to the rich. The worst adaptation of Robin Hood ever. I guess it would only work as a reality show on Fox News.
4Mostly off-topic, but related to official corruption:
https://www.core77.com/posts/93769/Explaining-the-Executive-Order-Proposing-to-Hand-Design-Authority-Over-to-President-Trump
The article addresses the design and taste motive involved. But I’m sure most of us who hang out at JJ’s salon suspect it has far more to do with steering money into the grubby hands and his family.
5These are the folks that wanted to test “welfare” recipients for drugs to make sure public welfare funds weren’t being wasted.
6The Surly Professor:
7A hard prediction.
Before it’s over, donald f**king will be calling for the construction of a monument to himself that’s twice as significant as the Lincoln Memorial.
Wait and see.
PP – I thought he was already building a monument to himself – The Wall.
8The truly repugnant thing about it will be when fox bullshit connesuirs will believe the standard trope about false equivalency.
9Lincoln freed the slaves to get the most badass memorial.
Washington just wanted to have the biggest phallic symbol in the world built and dedicated to himself. So he kicked Cornwallis’ ass.
Maybe it’s a stretch.
But I don’t think so
Retired:
10Good point. Coming down the escalator, the wall was a beacon of hope for nationalists worldwide.
Because he was a long shot.
Now he’s the leader of the free world. And just beat the rap on egregious-as-hell abuse of power charges. Nothing is beyond his grasp.
Just ask him. He’ll tell you.
And if you don’t believe him, his justice dept will convince you.
They no longer work for the American people. They work for the American president. Your President.
Well, that’s just the way things are done hereabouts, ain’t gonna change!
11Is Butthead asking for a commission to pardon them ?
12I could be very happy if every one of these people went to the devil at the same time in a cloud of black, sulfurous, evil smoke.
13One thing I wonder, because I couldn’t watch the senator’s speeches explaining their votes. How many repugnantcans condoned or refuted the final argument by Dershowitz that anything F**king trump does is legal as long as “he believes” it’s good for the country. I never took the S.A.T., much less went to law school. But I’ve read some. And the concept of precedent in our legal system is extraordinary. “Takeover” by Charlie Savage seems to me to imply that many times INACTION by some judicial or legislative body can have as much precedent as action. Blew my mind.
14Sidestep for a bit. “Dershowitz’s defense” is the most outrageous argument ever seriously presented in a …. anything American. IMHO.
F**king trump’s team knew for a FACT that they had the votes to aquit. To me, there were only two reasons to introduce this concept.
1. Push like hell the idea that the executive branch is above the other two.
2. And here’s the rub. Get every single repugnantcan SENATOR (you know, the ones who’re supposed to be more deliberative than their fickled colleagues in the House) to toe the tumparty line, so they’d be on the hook as well. They didn’t just vote to aquit. Dershowitz made sure he got the record of one of the most important constitutional decisions of our time to reflect that a majority of United States Senators voted to demote themselves, and who knows how many other members of our government. Cause it ain’t over.
It’s just getting started.
This is a common occurrence in many single party states. In South Dakota we have had many of these cases resulting in strange deaths always covered up by the same officials.
Richard Benda while “hunting” died at a scene where there was no blood from the shotgun blast he somehow set off using a 5 foot branch after someone blamed him, making millions of EB-5 money disappear.
When $60 million went missing this happened: In rural Platte, S.D. a South Dakota couple who died in a 2015 “murder-suicide” stole hundreds of thousands of dollars that were intended to be used to help improve Native Americans’ college readiness, among other things, state Attorney General Marty Jackley said.
Investigators believe the total amount that Scott and Nicole Westerhuis stole exceeded $1 million, based on a review of financial records. They spent at least part of the money on home improvement projects, Jackley said at a news conference in Platte.
Three other people associated with the Mid-Central Educational Cooperative and the GEAR UP college-readiness grant program are also facing felony charges stemming from the investigation launched after Scott Westerhuis shot his wife and their four children before setting fire to their house near Platte and killing himself.
The same South Dakota state investigators have used psychics, stopped investigations and created stories to create evidence in order to have cases dismissed or prosecuted. Well connected South Dakota business and government leaders are always linked but never investigated in these abuses.
Look into these corruptions and others to see how similar yours are to the South Dakota thefts and deaths. BTW, we in South Dakota always use Mississippi and your part of the country for examples of similarity.
Good Luck
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