Sunday, April 17, 2011

Hinds County BOS FOOD FIGHT!!!



Cheryl Lasseter reports on WLBT that State Auditor Stacey Pickering is looking at contracts between Hinds County and Airwave, LLC. There are some good quotes in the story and I'm not going to spoil it for you. ;-). JJ reported two weeks ago the Hinds County Board of Supervisors voted to approve a $4 million contract for radio maintenance with Airwave, LLC on November 3, 2008 and signed it on December 2, 2008. The problem is Airwave, LLC did not become a company until January 28, 2009. Earlier post and coverage of Hinds County and radio controversy.

Mrs. Lasseter's story covers the Airwave contract for radio maintenance and a separate one for early warning sirens. Mr. Graham responded by calling WLBT late Thursday night:

"Graham called our newsroom Thursday night to give a statement on the issue. He told our Maggie Wade he is in New Hampshire conducting training. Graham said, " I stand by the work that was done by the Hinds County Board of Supervisors in repairing all of the warning sirens. When there were only 12 sirens working, no one was complaining. But now that all of them are working, it seems that Mr. Fisher is the only one who is complaining. Mr. Fisher's statements are completely politically motivated because I was successfully able to do things that he was never able to do. Mr. Fisher apparently has a problem remembering that he voted for the same contract."


Notice how Mr. Graham did not make any reference to awarding contracts to non-existing companies. However, Graham was not through:

"Graham added, "This is an apparent attempt to smear my name by the only Republican on the Board."


Really Mr. Graham? YOU were the one who made a motion to give a $4 million contract with a non-existent company. YOU were the one who snuck onto the agenda a $40,000 contract with Derrick Johnson and moved to approve a contract with him even though he is NOT an attorney and violated the law. YOU were the one who recently forced Byram to buy EF Johnson radios from Nathan Hargrove that will be useless in two years when Byram has to switch to the MSWIN system. YOU were the one who justified it by lying about there only being one MSWIN tower in Hinds County (there are three). YOU are the one who has pushed contracts with Stacy Stowers and Nathan Hargrove worth millions of dollars. If anyone has smeared you, it is you with your own actions. Nice try.

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

I love it .

This is what they wanted, this what they got.

" They " being the residents of Hinds County and Jackson, Mississippi .

Anonymous said...

Just like the dirty wotten scoundrels in Madison County. I love how Stacey Pickering emphasizes that it is not illegal to waste money. Too bad it is not. Elvis would have been in the pokey along time ago.

Anonymous said...

OK children,

Let's get back to work !

Maw Maw Ladd is getting pissed that her lil' interns are
absorbed with JJ rather than blowing on the bugle
for " Fondren " .

Kingfish said...

Actually it is legal for a board to waste money. However, I consider the contract non-existent and thus the Board should have to repay the money spent already.

What is she getting mad about?

Anonymous said...

Very simple.

She's mad because Ed and Bab's Blackmon are mad .

Anonymous said...

LOL. Know somebody who was in their office couple months back. She said she saw JJ up on one of the screens.

Anonymous said...

I hope Stacey follows through. These bunch of idiots, save Phil and sometimes Peggy, have been doing things like this for years, with no recourse.

Graham has been dissappointing beyond words.

Doug, Smith and he are poster children fo term limits.

Anonymous said...

JJ should be required reading for all of the Bugleonians.....

Anonymous said...

The more this story unfolds, the more it smells.



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