Posted on 01/12/2012 7:35:11 AM PST by george76
A Mississippi judge has temporarily blocked the release of 21 inmates who'd been given pardons or medical release by Republican Haley Barbour in one of his final acts as governor.
Circuit Judge Tomie Green issued an injunction late Wednesday at the request of Democratic Attorney General Jim Hood.
Hood said he believes Barbour might've violated the state constitution by pardoning some inmates who failed to give sufficient public notice that they were seeking to have their records cleared.
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
This should show everyone that the people can take their states back if they really want to. Take your states back and you can take the Federal Government back.
First time I can recall where I sided with Democrat against a Republican, good on Mr. Hood.
This looks to me to be a stunning example of the disconnect between the ruling elite, and the rest of us.
I’m sure Mr. Barber is cashing in big on the way out, but doing some “favors”.
In the meantime, he’s saying, screw the people, screw the legal system, I’m getting mine. As if he’s not going to retire in luxury already.
Those people that run for office, on both sides of the aisle, are not our friends, and their not our public servants. They are a class of royalty and they care about America and it’s people about as much as I care about an ant colony in a field in Montana.
“Circuit Judge Tomie Green issued an injunction late Wednesday at the request of Democratic Attorney General Jim Hood.”
“Barbour, a former Republican National Committee chairman, considered running for president this year but announced last April that he would skip the race because he didn’t have the “fire in the belly.” The 64-year-old is now on the paid speakers’ circuit and is also working for a Jackson-area law firm and for BGR, the Washington lobbying firm he founded two decades ago.”
There is a whole lot of irony in this.
Pinging you, onyx. Local fun and games.
He was a good conservative, a good RNC chairman and he did a good job for his state in the Katrina aftermath.
He doesn't care anymore, he says he will never seek elective office again.....and without so much as a fair-thee-well he has skulked over to the dark side.
His pardons for the killers have angered most of his conservative admirers both in his state and across the fruited plain. What a stupid, dangerous, in-your-face move!
Now he's going to use his political afterlife to clean up monetarily as a law firm mouthpiece/rainmaker, a DC lobbyist and a big-bucks speaker on the rubber-chicken circuit.
One by one our idols are revealing their feet of clay. It's sickening.
Leni
Well-to-do politicians who no longer have to live among the rest of us consider average, everyday working folks expendable. So, if they have to unchain a few violent miscreants to prey upon the public in order to make themselves feel noble, well, what the heck? No harm done. You may recall that Huckabee pulled this same sick stunt.
“So, if they have to unchain a few violent miscreants to prey upon the public in order to make themselves feel noble, well, what the heck?”
Follow the money. There will be no trail, no way to prove it, but I’d bet a dollar to a doughnut that Mr. Barber made some serious cash over these pardons.
Nothing will change until/unless we do two things:
#1 - Retirement from political office should not be an endless gravy train.
#2 - Politicians need to really fear the electorate.
Haley Barbour has been handing out unusual pardons to violent felons (including murderers) for years. I not sure who has less respect for the rule of law and the safety of innocent people, Barbour or Mike Huckabee. They are both disgraceful and no decent, law-abiding American should even speak to either of these individuals. They are promoters of evil.
Yep
The disillusionment keeps on coming
Talk about depressing
“Haley Barbour has betrayed his legacy” What “legacy” Bob Dole and the Clustered*&^ed 1996 Republican “Convention” are his “legacy”! Haley Barbor is a Karl Rove “quality” FIRST CLASS POS!
Like it or not, I thought a Governor’s ability to issue pardons was beyond question. I do not understand how a court can intervene.
I don’t know the legality of it but Governors in their last six months/year should be barred from issuing pardons - that or at least have the pardons OKd by the legislature.
I wish people would do the research the media hasn’t or doesn’t want you to do.
189 of these pardons were for people who already completed their sentences, some as far back as the 60’s. These people have obviously grown up and moved past their foolish youth and just want their criminal record expunged for personal or professional reasons.
The media is creating a sh*t storm to tar the Republican brand with and every one just falls for it. If a Dem had done this, they’d be lionizing him for his “progressive” views on rehabilitation and the power of change, blah, blah, blah.
Grow the hell up people.
I’m a resident of Mississippi and a supporter of Governor Barbour who has been an excellant Governor. I don’t have a problem with his excerising his power to pardon those who have completed their sentence, paid their debt to society and have therefore been released into society, based on whatever criteria he decided with the exception of for payment in goods, services, or money and I have faith in him that this is NOT the case. This group makes up the large majority of those pardoned, some of these were released 40 plus years ago.
I am disturbed by the release and pardon of the 21 who have served their time and without knowing the facts would still say I’m against their pardon and release but I do NOT believe it is in exchange for money, goods, or services.
The State Attorney Jim Hood is the only statewide elected democrat and he has a past record of working to turn things to his own and the democrats political advantage and to me he doesn’t have any credibility and is just doing what he does best, attack Republicans and help his friends.
As much as I dislike this on the face of it I will reserve judgement on Governor Barbour until I know more about it but will relish in another opportunity to tell the truth about Jim Hood.
For Barbour is an honorable man, so are they all, all honorable men!
I voted for John Silber against Bill Weld. And I would vote that way twice, if I could, again.
Thank you. The media achieved what they set out to.
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