Monday, May 18, 2009

Sanders Speaks!!!

The Jackson Free Press is currently covering a story about a PAC mailing anti-Harvey Johnson circulars in Northeast Jackson. One member of the PAC, David Sanders (No relation to Enoch) wrote a column defending the committee, to be published in the next edition of the Northside Sun (due out Thursday). As the column will appear after the election, Mr. Sanders, with the Sun's permission, has provided me with a copy of his column. It should also be noted Projack wrote a post Friday on JJ denouncing the mailer. Below are excerpts from the column:

"Of particular local interest is the claim that raising the subject of crime is really only a covert way of raising the subject of race in an inflammatory fashion. In fact, the left increasingly identifies any subject it does not want examined as a surrogate for racial animus.....
Thus it unfolded that, when some of us who support Marshand Crisler in the current race for mayor formed a PAC (Political Action Committee) to campaign in support of our candidate, in part by pointing out the shortcomings of his opponent during the latter’s previous sojourn in office, we inevitably ran afoul of the local keepers of the mantra that any mention of crime constitutes an attack on black people in general. Chief among the local keepers of the leftist orthodoxy is a tabloid and on-line publication called the Jackson Free Press. Our PAC sent a mailer to parts of the city where crime is a salient issue, pointing out that our opponent failed to hire a police chief for fifteen months, while crime ran rampant in our city. The mailer also cited quotes from the Clarion Ledger referencing a study by an outfit called Morgan Quitno that ranked Jackson as one of the country’s most dangerous cities during that period when our opponent was mayor.
A commonly employed device at the JFP is to attack any document or publication it does not like by obsessively chanting that it is “taken out of context” or “misused,” without ever disproving any of its substantive conclusions. Thus, the Morgan Quitno study is definitively dismissed as “discredited,” much in the same way that the global warming hypothesis is enshrined as a “scientific consensus” even while thousands of scientists dispute it. Further proof – as if it were needed – that our PAC is contaminated by conspiratorial malice is that it includes one of the JFP’s leading bĂȘte noires, local lawyer Wilson Carroll, who had the effrontery to run for District Attorney against (Gasp!) a black woman supported by the JFP. The JFP “discovered” and trumpeted this damning connection between Carroll and our PAC, as if some attempt had been made to conceal it.
the folks at the JFP seem to think they have made some decisive, game-changing point merely by “revealing” that white people in northeast Jackson are talking about crime. From my eighteen years as president of our neighborhood association, I have first-hand knowledge that crime is the single issue most on the minds of people in northeast Jackson. It is not an irrational fixation: one of my neighbors on his daily pre-dawn walk recently had a car stop beside him, from which alit a young entrepreneur of crime who pressed a pistol to my neighbor’s temple and demanded valuables. My neighbor considers himself fortunate that he was not shot for failure to maintain on his person at all times an amount of money sufficient to relieve the financial distress of an indigent criminal....
So, after the high drama of the Melton years, we thought that the memory of the good ol’ Harvey Johnson days may have faded somewhat. So we set about to remind folks of that halcyon time, when we had a police chief who spent most of his time and energy arguing that the people he was selected to protect had overblown “perceptions” of crime and should just chill. And yes, we sent the mailer to areas where we thought that the message would resonate. (Our deviousness knows no bounds!) By election day (I am writing this on Sunday before the election) we will have also dispatched “robo-calls,” recorded messages urging recipients to go vote for our candidate. And, get this: we will run radio spots on Monday and Tuesday urging people to get out and vote. (The horror!) But that’s not all – we will run these spots on stations that we think will be heard by more people likely to vote for our candidate than for his opponent. (The inhumanity!)
And if it hadn’t been for the dastardly Jackson Free Press, we would have gotten away with all of this scandalous behavior right under everyone’s noses. How could we anticipate that they had such advanced skills as using the Internet to check an address? Curses!.......
Jackson, in my view, has a better racial climate than most other places. This arises in part from the division of political and economic power. Blacks have virtually all of the political power in Jackson and Hinds County, while whites still have a disproportionate share of the economic power. Each wants some of what the other has, which leads to trade-offs and bargaining, which leads to real relationships. Just as trade among nations generally produces peace and prosperity, so it is among groups of people. Jackson will probably have black mayors for as long as anyone can see into the future, or until such time as race truly no longer matters. That does not mean that white voters do not have a stake in matters or that their voice should not be heard. The JFP can indulge in all the flatulence its readers can stand about the “creative class” and other leftist fantasies. The people Wilson and I represent have equally legitimate political and social objectives. This is our city, too. Deal with it.

R. David Sanders

May 17, 2009"

19 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wilson Carroll faxes the PAC paperwork to Weill's office and now Weill isn't returning calls.

Yup, looks like an upgrade to me.

Anonymous said...

"David Sanders (no relation to Enoch)"

line of the week! thanks

Anonymous said...

Did Sanders apply the egg to his face before he wrote this or does he plan to do so afterwards?

Thanks for running this KF. In light of what is getting exposed at the JFP about this Keystone Kops "PAC" Sanders plays the spokesfool quite well.

Kingfish said...

I don't think Sanders really did anything wrong. What I think is going on is Carrol was very sloppy. I mean, he gave out Weill's phone number. Did he not think anyone would check it?

Actually this is a tempest in a teapot though and in 48 hours won't really mean anything. Not many people know who these players are anyway.

Anonymous said...

Are you saying they should not be held accountable for breaking election law?

Kingfish said...

How long have you been reading this blog?

What do you think?

If laws were broken and there is blame to be placed, I'd place it on the lawyer as it is his job to follow the law.

Wilson H. Carroll said...

My two-cents worth:

1. Donna Ladd printed a demonstrable lie last night when she said I faxed the Better Jackson PAC paperwork to Jeff Weill. She had the fax cover sheet sitting in front of her, showing the exact number where the paperwork was sent, and knows it did not go to Jeff. It DID inadvertently go to Councilman Tillman's office, but that really doesn't support Donna's narrative, so she just substituted Weill for Tillman. I handed the fax to a clerk in my office, and she substituted and "8" for a "3" when she dialed the number. I saw a fax confirmation sheet and assumed everything was hunky dory.

My bad -- I accept full responsibility. Now let's see if Ladd accepts responsibility and retracts her preposterous lie saying that I sent it Jeff Weill.

2. The original post on this non-issue asked, "How is this different from the Southern Strategy"? For starters, we're trying to elect a black man. Duh.

3. Like any good propagandist, Ladd is the master of the big lie. In this particular case, her big lie is that the Morgan Quitno rankings have been thoroughly debunked and anyone citing them is, ipso facto, a liar. She turns reality on its head. The MQ rankings are based squarely on FBI Uniform Crime Reports and the only people who ever bitch about the methodology live in cities that get tagged as "more dangerous" than others. That's why Ladd gets most of her intellectual support on this issue from people who live in East St. Louis.

Kingfish said...

Care if I move this up to the top?

Notice I let both sides go here. Projack criticizes it, which its his right to do and I got permission from Sanders to publish excerpts from his column defending it.

As I've stated, outside of a few people, I doubt anyone even really knows who you are but she will go off on a tirade all day about this when the average person in the street or voter couldn't care less about it. I'm watching the whole fracas with a quiet amusement.

David Sanders said...

What is your authority for claiming Enoch and I are not related?

Anonymous said...

I would pay a handsome price for one of those Enoch rug hats!

Anonymous said...

Keep digging Wilson. You look like a bigger fool than ever.

The Eagle Speaks said...

Wilson,

What do you and your PAC have to hide about the people who are part of the organization? I'm not accusing your or anyone in Better Jackson of dastardly deeds, but why be so secretive?

Wilson H. Carroll said...

There's nothing secretive at all about a Political Action Committee. The finance report is being filed today, which is within the 10-day grace period allowed by statute. State law allows you to set PAC's up and promote whatever causes or candidates you want to promote. Ladd's decision to keep banging the "secrecy" drum is just another aspect of her selective outrage -- She did not make even one little peep about the fact that Harvey's campaign had failed to file its own finance report during the same time we had not filed ours.

The simple fact is, Harvey wanted to run a campaign based on his "experience" in office without any mention of the fact that he failed miserably in the single most important aspect of the job -- keeping us safe. It's not hard to document that failure either, just look at the statistics. (BTW, we haven't even discussed the pathetic .7% conviction rate for auto theft during Harv's last term).

Crime is like kryptonite to Harvey, so Ladd and her gang will go through hell or high water to prevent any mention of it. They regularly engage in character assination and accuse Harvey's critics of the basest motives. Look at what Other Cain says. Look at what Jim Evans says. Hell, look at what Harvey Johnson says. But people like ME are deemed racists because we dare bring up the issue of crime.

Anonymous said...

Another lame response Wilson. Your PAC wasn't registered, you've missed the first finance filing deadline including the grace period and then you trot out this 'Harvey did it too' bullshit.

Y'all make conservatives and Crisler look stupid with your incompetence. Keep posting and keep talking because no one can make you look like an idiot as well as you are doing it yourself.

Anonymous said...

@11:54 = lame.

Anonymous said...

@1:17 = dumbass

Anonymous said...

@1:17=no witty=dumbass.

Anonymous said...

David, love you, and column was great until that global warming stuff about scientists got thrown in...kinda like saying Justice Scalia and Don Evans are both lawyers...

Anonymous said...

11:54 at least Wilson is brave enough to post his name, unlike you and me.


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