The Republic of Florida and Queen of Denial: Marjorie Taylor Greene

 The Michigan fugitive task force has issued a “be on the lookout” for the parents of Michigan school shooter Ethan Crumbley after they failed to surrender yesterday by 4 pm and are now presumed to be on the run evading authorities. The fugitive apprehension squad arrested the parents hours after they went on the run to evade arrest.

     Only question the GOP has about the Omicron Variant is: How can we make it sound socialist?😳
     

Marjorie Taylor Greene is Queen of Denial.
A quote from MT Greene yesterday: “I have been the most attacked freshman Member of Congress probably in US history. The media has defamed me. They smeared my character. Call me names and labeled me horrible things, none of which I am.”  I see a martyr complex.
    

 Unlike State Sen. Brice Wiggins, Congressman Steven Palazzo, the six term South Mississippi Republican, has no intention of entertaining the notion of decriminalizing marijuana, saying it will put children in jeopardy. I am pretty sure guns are putting children in far more jeopardy than marijuana

Ron DeSantis now wants to recreate the Florida State Guard, a paramilitary force discontinued in 1947.
The Florida State Guard will report directly to him, no one else.
This is the stuff of dictators. The fascist country called The Republic Of Florida??
The "Militia" and the child and the podium, Reminiscent of past dictators in third world countries
    

 I keep hearing that their is too much confusing information out there about Covid. I personally do not think there is too much of the accurate information out there. Go to the source CDC or your state health dept. The misinformation problem that I see is that people are confusing cross talk conversations as news. The news media talking heads are NOT experts. When they report what officials say...that is the end of the news. Everything after that is usually cross talk bloviating. If we had the internet and dozens of news choices in 1918..more people would have died and ended terribly....and a lot of people who are alive now would not be because their ancestry would have stopped at 1918 or thereabouts.

Mississippi News Notes: Week Ending 03.05.16

The Mississippi Senate passed Senate Bill 2306 which reinforces that local police officers follow federal immigration laws.

It passed 33-14 Thursday and will now be considered in the House.

The bill requires officers to contact federal agencies if they believe someone who is committing a crime or has committed one is an illegal immigrant. They are allowed to make these arrests only if they have probably cause and immediately transfer them to federal custody. See more at: http://www.newsms.fm/senate-passes-...

An attorney is making additional arguments in a federal lawsuit that seeks to remove the Confederate battle emblem from the Mississippi flag.

In papers filed Thursday, Carlos Moore says the emblem violates the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which outlawed slavery. He says the emblem used by some Confederate troops during the Civil War is a “vestige” of slavery.

Moore filed his lawsuit against Republican Gov. Phil Bryant on Monday, saying the flag violates equal protection guaranteed by the 14th Amendment. http://msbusiness.com/2016/03/updat...

The Jackson Municipal Airport Authority has hired Phelps Dunbar lawyer Fred Banks Jr. to handle litigation that could arise over a possible state takeover of governance of Jackson’s airports, state Sen. John Horhn says.

Neither Banks nor the Airport Authority would confirm the hiring. Horhn said the Airport Authority has retained the former Mississippi Supreme Court justice specifically to challenge a state takeover. “The airport has already enlisted” his services, Horhn said a day after the state Senate voted 29-18 to hand policy-making control of Jackson Medgar-Wiley Evers International Airport and Hawkins Field to a state-created governing board. Under the proposal, the governor would appoint nine representatives from the metro region, including two nominees from Jackson. http://msbusiness.com/2016/03/horhn...

 

 

Mississippi's attorney general says he will defend the Confederate-themed state flag against a lawsuit that seeks to remove the banner, even though he thinks the flag hurts the state and should change.

Democrat Jim Hood said Wednesday that his opinion about state laws won't prevent him from fulfilling his oath to defend them. Carlos Moore, an attorney from Grenada, Mississippi, filed a federal lawsuit Monday that says the Confederate X on the flag puts him and other African-Americans in danger. He cited the slayings of black worshipers at a church in South Carolina last summer. The white suspect in that case had previously posed for photos with a rebel flag. http://www.wlox.com/story/31371458/...

Biloxi Sun Herald editorial Board says: One more time! BP money is for the Mississippi Coast

We knew this was coming. And the unwarranted raid on money from the BP settlement has begun. The House passed by a wide margin a plan to spend $50 million of the BP money to repay bonds on statewide projects such as the repair of the state's highways and bridges.

That's a terrible idea.

Just ask Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves, who opposes the bill and has the power to kill it in the Senate. We suggest he kill it three times, then bury it just to be sure.

Read more here: http://www.sunherald.com/opinion/ed...

Sixty-one percent of Mississippi’s Republican voters want the state’s flag left alone, an automated telephone poll of 995 “likely” GOP voters shows.

The poll conducted Monday by Magellan Strategies BR for the right-leaning political website Y’allPolitics said 609 of respondents oppose removing the Confederate battle flag from the state’s flag design. Another 198 survey respondents wanted a new design.

White voters made up a huge number of the GOP voters polled. The poll included 909 people identified as white and 51 black, five Hispanic and 19 “other” racial origins. http://msbusiness.com/2016/03/poll-...

 

 

The bills in state Senate passed Wednesday includes:

• Senate Bill 2495 that combines districts of Montgomery County, which has 273 students; Carroll County, which has 1,035 students; and Winona, which has 1,123 students.
• Senate Bill 2497 that consolidates Houston School District, which has 1,781 students, and Okolona Separate School District, which has 690 students, into the Chickasaw County School District, which has 512 students.
• Senate Bill 2500 that dissolves Lumberton Public School District, which has 585 students, and merges it with neighboring Poplarville and Lamar County districts, which have 1,927 and 9,996 students, respectively.

A group of bills that would consolidate nine school districts in Mississippi is one step closer to passing, and one of those would impact the Lumberton School District. “The Mississippi Senate consolidated the administration of nine school districts, allowing the newly formed entities to eliminate duplicate services and direct more tax dollars into the classroom,” Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves said Wednesday in a press release.

The bill is now headed to the House for consideration. http://www.wdam.com/story/31369646/...

The Mississippi House has voted to consolidate the Holmes County and Durant school districts. Representatives passed House Bill 926 on Tuesday.

The bill passed 75-46 mostly along party lines, with Republicans in support and Democrats in opposition.

It was held for the possibility of more debate before it can go to the Senate. http://www.wapt.com/news/central-mi...

Rep. Steven Palazzo was one of nine Republicans who voted Tuesday against naming a post office after the late author, poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou.

“He just felt that it was too controversial,” said Jill Duckworth, a spokeswoman for Palazzo.

The House voted 371-9 to pass the measure naming a post office in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, the “Maya Angelou Memorial Post Office.” One lawmaker voted “present.”

Angelou, who died in 2014, is best known for her debut memoir, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.” She also was a singer, actress and poet. Angelou was invited to read a poem at President Bill Clinton’s inauguration in 1993, and she was awarded the 2010 Medal of Freedom by President Obama. She also is one of the few African-American women to be commemorated on a stamp.

Palazzo said some GOP colleagues had expressed concerns about Angelou’s support of Cuban President Fidel Castro, according to Duckworth. She noted that the House also voted 381-0 to name a post office in Camp Pendleton, California, the “Camp Pendleton Medal of Honor Post Office.” http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/...

Rep Steve Palazzo has introduced a resolution to censure President Barack Obama.

Mississippi Rep Steve Palazzo: Impeach Obama? Hell yes I would.

From FaceBook

Impeach Obama? Hell yes I would.

A lot of my constituents want me to impeach the President, and I agree with them completely. Time and again this President has failed to execute the law as required by the Constitution and has far overreached his authority as President. He is neither a dictator nor a king. Congress is an equal branch of government.
If impeachment were viable in the least, I would introduce it myself, today. But, impeachment requires 67 votes in the Senate and we only have 54, on a good day. The House would vote to impeach, but it would die in the Senate and only serve to rile up this President’s base.

There is no feasible method available to impeach this President with the current Senate. Introducing impeachment papers might make us all feel good, but it’s a losing proposition from the start. That’s why no conservative scholars are calling for impeachment. No conservative groups are calling for impeachment.
To get rid of this President, vote him and his party out in November so we can reverse his dangerous policies. All of them.

Rep Steve Palazzo Responds to the President's National Security Speech

Mark Tullos Should Concede or MSGOP Should Fund the Special Election for Contested House Race

The House race between Democrat Bo Eaton and Republican Mark Tullos was a tie and was then supposed to be decided by drawing straws. There is actually a state law that requires that tied elections be decided that way.

The story from Mississippi Business Journal:

• A Mississippi House committee meets Tuesday to start discussing a contested race that went to a drawing of straws for a tiebreaker. House Speaker Philip Gunn appointed a panel of four Republicans and one Democrat to hear the petition filed by Republican challenger Mark Tullos of Raleigh.
  Tullos and five-term Democratic Rep. Bo Eaton of Taylorsville each received 4,589 votes in the Nov. 3 election in Smith and Jasper counties, and Eaton won a drawing of straws Nov. 20.
  Tullos is asking the Republican-majority House to seat him as the District 79 representative for the four-year term that begins in January. In his petition, Tullos says the Smith County election commission improperly met in secret on Nov. 9 to discuss some affidavit ballots, then held a public meeting the next day to count those ballots.
  If Tullos is eventually declared the winner, Republicans would hold a three-fifths supermajority in the House. That would mean Republicans, voting together, could pass tax and revenue bills without seeking help from Democrats.

Tullos and Eaton both showed up to draw straws. Tullos lost. Now the contest goes to the state House.

• According to House rules, the committee could make one of three recommendations to the full House after the session begins: Declare Eaton the winner, declare Tullos the winner or declare that the seat is open, which would lead to a special election.

Republicans need Tullos to help them get a super majority. But I cannot side with them on this. The rules were established beforehand and both candidates seemed to agree to the terms of the election process. Tullos should have conceded. At best, now, the right thing would be for the House to call for another election. That's more expense and time, but rather then appointing a winner it would be more equitable and fair. Under the circumstance, I would bill the Mississippi Republican Party for the extra expense. 

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MEME REPORT:
THIS IS ABOUT TERRORISM

Rep Steve Palazzo: Obama should be implementing a strategy that kills terrorist leaders, cuts off terrorist funding, and destroys ISIS once and for all.

From FaceBook: 

President Obama says that his climate change conference in Paris will be a "powerful rebuke" to the terrorists, equating the killing of innocent civilians by ISIS with rising greenhouse gas emissions.
You know what would be a powerful rebuke to the terrorists?
Actually implementing a strategy that kills terrorist leaders, cuts off terrorist funding, and destroys ISIS once and for all.  

Rep Steven Palazzo: Paris is a cold reminder that terrorism is real and can strike anywhere.

From facebook:

More than two years ago, I directly opposed Secretary Kerry arming Syrian rebels, and today I am calling on him to put a halt to the Syrian refugee program.
Last month I also co-sponsored a bill that would completely prevent the admittance of Syrian refugees.
Paris is a cold reminder that terrorism is real and can strike anywhere.
As your Congressman, I will always put Mississippians and their families first. Refugees from the Middle East should be resettled in the Middle East, not here in America.

Rep Steve Palazzo Urges Protection of Religious Freedom on House Floor

Cong Steven Palazzo Suggests Marsha Blackburn for Speaker of the House #mississippi

From FaceBook:

The American people want a Speaker who is a proven conservative, will fight the President at every turn, and will stand up to the establishment.

Who better than Mississippi native Marsha Blackburn?

She would be a historic, conservative Speaker that would take on Obama and be willing to lead. #Blackburn4Speaker

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MEME REPORT:
HOW TO GET DEMOCRATS TO AGREE THAT GUN OWNERSHIP IS A RIGHT