Friday, August 29, 2008

JFP Hackery...... again.

Over in Fondren, our friends at The Jackson Free Press can't help themselves as they use the excuse of an approaching hurricane to bring up some of the more questionable aspects of the Barbour administration:
"Barbour’s nephews, Henry and Austin Barbour, also received Katrina funds. They are lobbyists in Jackson’s Capitol Resources LLC, representing Government Consultants, Inc., which advises both Mississippi and Louisiana on bond issues. Government Consultants’ bond fees ran about $2.4 million in 2006, including nearly a half-million from Katrina-related issues. That same year, the company’s fee income was up 125 percent over the 2004, the year it hired Henry Barbour. Henry’s personal lobbying fees rose from $150,000 in ’04 to $379,000 in ’06.Rosemary Ramirez Barbour, owner of Alcatec LLC and wife of another nephew, Charles Barbour, was a beneficiary. Alcatec received nearly $27 million in federal contracts to manage FEMA trailers.
Earlier in 2007, The Center for Public Integrity reported that “27 percent of FEMA’s $8.4 billion in Katrina and Rita contracts were cost-plus-fixed-fee, accounting for nearly 21 percent of the EPA’s $212 million and 36 percent of the Air Force’s $167 million in contracts awarded through Jan. 31, 2007...." http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/index.php/site/comments/hurricane_green_082708/

There is clearly a problem when those close to the Governor are enriching themselves over hurricane recovery contracts through a no-bid process. However, it must be pointed out the same sleaziness took place in Louisiana under Blanco's watch, particularly where The Shaw Group was concerned. Power corrupts, regardless of party. One would think Ms. Ladd and her staff of self-proclaimed, good-government advocates, have a problem with Jim Hood's awarding of lucrative state contracts to his major campaign donors such as Scruggs, Langston, et al. However, the JFP staff sees no problem with THAT corruption as Jim Hood and his friends are part of The Cause:
"Another thing I find interesting are the efforts by political enemies of Jim Hood and Mike Moore to connect them to all this—because Scruggs game them money (and just about everyone else of both parties) and because they did work with Langston. See this comment under that Ledger article:
"I can't wait to see who's next, Hood and Moore have got to be involved somehow. Does anyone know or has anyone seen anything on the web about Lott and a young male, or did I dream that one."
OK, I'm not up to speed on every aspect of this case. Can someone tell me why Hood and Moore "have got to be involved"? Is there any evidence of that that anyone knows about? If you have something specific, please e-mail me directly so we can check it out. We will report it if it's true, but if it's just political maneuvering, that needs to be exposed, too, for what it's worth.
If the reasoning is simply because they took money from the indicted and gave them state contingency contracts—where would that leave people like Robert Smith and Frank Melton, who are so close to Ed Peters?Evidence, folks. Let's find it and provide it.
posted by
ladd on 01/14/08 at 06:30 PM" http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/index.php/site/comments/former_hinds_da_ed_peters_accused_of_1m_bribe/
or better yet in the same thread:
"I'm not naive about Hood, AGamm, or anyone else. It's just that everything I've seen about his involvement with the bribery scams is so evidence-free that it sounds like a witchhunt...."

Barbour relatives landing no-bid Katrina contracts is sleazy. Hood giving no-bid multi-multi- million dollar contracts to his largest campaign donors who are convicted of breaking the law on these cases is fine because there is "no evidence" and it "sounds like a witchhunt."

All that matters is The Cause, truth and principles be damned.

4 comments:

ELLEN OLSEN said...

Rosemary Barbour, playing low key after the Katrina contracts escandals. Now that she filled up her pockets, she is no longer as active in the Republican National Hispanic Assembly. Maybe she never really cared about Hispanics... I am just stating the facts, but the truth might hurt sometimes and that is ok.

Anonymous said...

I'm surprised Bennie hasn't hauled her before his committee since FEMA falls under its jurisdiction.

Anonymous said...

Same shit different day

Anonymous said...

Did you mean JFP hackery or JFP quackery?



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