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Sen. Wicker Gets Toxic Letter
Congressional mail authorities have confirmed that a letter sent to Mississippi's junior U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker contained ricin, a bean-based poison, POLITICO reports. POLITICO reports that U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri indicated the letter came from someone who frequently writes to lawmakers, but McCaskill would not name the person. …
Jackson Announces 2013 Summer Youth Camp & Safety Expo
Expo is slated for May 11 at Metrocenter Mall.
The Big-Money GOP Donors at Gunn's Private Party
There were some high-dollar contributors at a private meeting Speaker Philip Gunn had in his office last night. An unusual amount of activity at the Capitol yesterday evening led a TV news crew and a print reporter to investigate, but the journalists were turned away by Capitol security, wrote Clarion-Ledger …
I'm Tired of These Mothaflippin Snakes (and Exorbitant Copy Fees) in This Mothaflippin Clerk's Office!!!
I was just at the Hinds County Circuit Clerk's doing research for a story , and a couple of employees were talking about a mini-plague of serpents in the basement office. This week, employees have stumbled across five earth snakes in the file room, Circuit Clerk Barbara Dunn said. Earth …
Stats Show Crime Continues To Drop
Looks like both property and violent crime rates continue to drop across the city, according to the latest COMSTAT numbers released by the Jackson Police Department. The report for April 15-21, which you can read here, details how, across the board, property crime is down 18.5 percent year-to-date and violent …
"Ghosts of Hinds County" to Debut Soon
I will soon launch our first eBook in a new "Ghosts of Hinds County" series. The first will focus on the juvenile-detention scandal of the 1990s. If you want to hear about it right away, please subscribe (free) to jfpdaily.com. We will announce it to the daily list as soon …
Sam Begley Sparring with 20/20 PAC re Jonathan Lee + New Lawsuit Revealed
My email today is absolutely filled with city politics. I just came out of a meeting and discovered that the Jackson 20/20 PAC that we wrote about in this earlier story has now endorsed candidates other than Jonathan Lee (when we wrote the story, all the money had gone to …
Clarion-Ledger Disputes Jonathan Lee's Account
Jonathan Lee supporters are using a Clarion-Ledger article to defend a controversy he's mired in—but it actually helps build the case that he was dishonest about his position at the company.
The Strange Case of the JPOA Endorsement
In a week that can't get any better, not even an story on an endorsement can be lame. The Jackson Police Officers Association announced yesterday their endorsement of mayoral candidate and former south Jackson business owner Jonathan Lee. Lee was hailed by that group's president, Earnest Perry, as a "visionary" …
Mississippi Denies Manning's Death Appeal
The state of Mississippi is moving closer to carrying out the first execution of 2013. The Mississippi State Supreme Court denied today Willie Jerome Manning's requests for a rehearing and a stay of execution. Manning wants DNA tests that were not available at the time of his conviction in the …
Chokwe Lumumba Talks about the 'Jackson-Kush' Plan on 'Solidarity' Site
Doing some research just now, I ran into this interview from last week with mayoral candidate Chokwe Lumumba that I think many of you will find interesting. In it, he discusses the "Jackson-Kush Plan" and where it fits into his organization's plan "for self-determination and economic democracy From the plan: …
Lee and Johnson At It Again
You knew we weren't going to make it through two days in a row without more sniping between Jackson's incumbent mayor Harvey Johnson, Jr. and challenger Jonathan Lee. On Wednesday, the Lee campaign circulated an e-mail declaring Jonathan the "hands-down winner" of Tuesday's night's debate, then made these charges against …
Allow Me to Rant About This Campaign for a Minute ...
The turn this mayoral campaign has taken is extremely frustrating, especially between the Harvey Johnson and Jonathan Lee campaigns. And from where we sit, trying to get out as much accurate information as possible, we see it all. It is one thing to get good, solid public information from a …
Is Miss. About to 'Lynch' an Innocent Man?
Willie Jerome Manning, convicted of the 1992 murders of two Mississippi State students, is scheduled to be executed on Tuesday May 7. Manning has always said he did not commit the crime; in fact, he says he was at a club on the night of the murders. For years, he's …
Fact Checking the Lee Email, Part 2: The Grants
We're trying to find the context of the $294,000/grant accusation in the email the Lee campaign sent out, but wouldn't document. We found the 2008 Clarion-Ledger story that the Lee campaign cited, as well as stories in the JFP. First, the Ledger story. It was about then-Mayor Melton's abysmal financial …
Lumumba, 20/20 PAC End Week in Campaign Reporting Hall of Shame
Who hasn't bothered to file campaign-finance reports for the primaries?
FACTCHECK/UPDATED: Jonathan Lee Backers Gave More Than $1.2 Million to Republicans
Note: This story has been updated with a total donation figure that Lee's backers gave to federal Republican candidates since 2008. The new paragraph is bolded down below. In the WAPT-Clarion-Ledger debate, Mayor Harvey Johnson Jr. alluded to the fact that he is a real Democrat when he unloaded on …
Procedure Set for Hinds Dist. 2 Special Election
The Hinds County Board of Supervisors established the procedure for replacing District 2 Supervisor Doug Anderson, who died recently. To replace Anderson on a temporary basis, board President Robert Graham said the board would accept resumes through County Administrator Carmen Davis' office until the end of May or early June. …
Partially Filled Out Ballots Will Be Counted
Voters do not have to vote in every race on the ballot for their votes to count.