Jackson Jambalaya

I really don't understand Minor's reference to Lynch. What the hell does that have to do with the rest of the article? Is he just trying to make the connection so he can say that Republicans are using "intimidation and trickery" this time like they did 140 years ago.

Also wondering whether he is relying on the history books for that info. Hell, he was probably there.

Mr. Minor, there does come a time when enough is enough. Your back porch and rocking chair are calling.

Your headline spells it 'Denney' but the spelling is 'Denny'. FYI.

Bill Denny is active and coherent for an 80-year old. He makes more sense than Bill Minor. I would rather have an 80-year old that votes right than a 40-year old that doesnt.

Yes Denny is the bell cow of a one man "Party of NO".

Yes Denny is the bell cow of a one man "Party of NO".

Really? Name the legislation.

Ahh, Bill...how can someone so old hate so fervently?

Rep. Denny's age won't be a factor. He's still active and sharp, and he knows the ropes as well as anyone at the Capitol. At least he's courageous enough to which party he's in. It's hard for me to take Mr. Carson's candidacy very seriously when he's working so hard to hide the fact that he's running as a Democrat. Bill Billingsley

Thank goodness that Bill Denny takes an actual stand.

Dorsey Carson won't commit to anything beyond raising taxes to fully fund a taxpayer unfriendly MAEP formula that is an unreachable budget buster even in the flush years.

Wake up folks! Dorsey Carson is a TRIAL LAWYER. He is a DEMOCRAT. He is in the same group with DuPree, Obama, and Billy McCoy. He is trying to fool everyone into voting for him because he's such a nice guy.
Dorsey is a nice guy, but that's not the point. Do you really want the Speaker of the House to continue to be a Democrat, so that we can't get any good conservative legislation passed? NO.
Vote "NO" to the Democrat. Vote for Bill Denny.

Let's see.

Bill Minor wants Democrat Carson.

'Independent' Ladd (yeah, right) will endorse Democrat Carson because Denny (smartly) doesn't worship at the JFP altar.

Harpy Hampton will likely push the C-L endorsement to Democrat Carson because our big talkin' gaggle of former one-term Dem Guvs thinks he is a swell guy ... though ol' Davey never wants to turn out long serving incumbent Dems with Denny's level of experience and seniority.

Yup, put a fork in Democrat Carson. He's cooked.

35% BVAP fellas.

11:18 is a LIAR. Carson is not a trial lawyer. He works at a big law firm with 200 lawyers that represents insurance companies and big business.

I support Denny. Want a reason to vote against Carson? He's a liberal democrat. That's enough in itself. There's no need to lie. We're Republicans--we're better than that.

Bill Denny knocked on my door and introduced himself. I have seen him quite a few evenings doing the same in my NE Jax neighborhood.

I have never seen the democratic Carson fella....but I do see a ton of democrats up and down old canton rd.

Rollingwood homeowner since '95. Bill Denny has personally knocked on our front door to chat and say hello every year since we moved in. Not just election years. Never seen that from any other politician ever. He knows our names. He can see you at the grocery he walks up and says hello. Call him on the phone he calls you back. Joe Nosef spent double than Bill Denny and didn't win. Hard to see how Mr. Carson does it.

Trial lawyer Shane Langston has a Carson sign in front of his office.

Me hears Rudy Warnock has kicked in some hefty dinero to the Carson camp. That should set off alarms.

35% BVAP fellas.

Good Lord save us from this BVAP crap again. It isn't just Donkeys but that Majority in Mississippi guy too. BVAP, BVAP, BVAP, blah, blah, blah. Do you even have a clue Cottonberger about Ridgeland-3? Well do you? Brett Kittredge do you even know where it is?

Ridgeland-3 is home to 25% of the HD64 BVAP. That is one-fourth for the statistically challenged. 1880 BVAPeoples in 2010. But, but, but the precinct is notoriously reliable for low turnout on election day.

Why? The precinct is home to a gazillion apartments including the Baymeadows dump. Turnover, churn, people always moving in and out means low rates of voter registration and even fewer folks trekking to the polls on election day. Not just this year but also historically. Take out Ridgeland-3 and the district BVAP shrinks to 26%.

12:19, you are 'partly' right, but not quite as whole as you want to claim. Dorsey is the lawyer for the disgruntled employee at Parkway - suing for being fired. Don't think that fits in your description of Dorsey. Yes, he does represent some corporate clients and insurance companies. But he does have a streak on the other side. Agree that there are plenty of other reasons to be against him, and I wouldn't put him in the "trial lawyer" camp as one of those reasons. But, he's not pure on that quality either.

Given a chance to dilute or eliminate tort reforms already enacted Carson will enthusiastically vote 'Yes'. Take that to the bank.

Yes Denny is the bell cow of a one man "Party of NO".

Well, here is what they meant when they said to put on the thick skin! What I know very well is that the neighborhood that I grew up in is part of the highest teenage pregnancy rate in the nation and a 40% dropout rate, which equates into teenagers breaking into our home (twice) and stealing our stuff. If caught (these weren't), then our taxes then go to pay for incarcerating these absent teenage fathers while another fatherless generation comes through the same "schoolhouse to jailhouse" system. I frankly have not found a politician who seems to care enough about those facts (or even understands their existence) to try to do something about it. By his own words, the only reason that my opponent is running again is to elect a Repubican Speaker. Perhaps that is what some of you think is the most important thing, too, but neither the election of a Democrat or Republican Speaker is going to solve these problems. I can't correct all the inaccuracies here, but here are a few: I will not vote to raise taxes to fully fund MAEP. We don't have to. I will not take away the protections from tort reform (all passed under a Dem House). I have raised about $10k from doctors, and my opponent's statements that I am against doctors is blatantly false. Rudy gave me $500, out of $80,000 raised. I don't even qualify to join the trial lawyers association, and have never represented a personal injury plaintiff (the last personal injury case I defended was with Rep. Phillip Gunn as co-defense counsel--who is also not a "trial lawyer" the way that term is understood). I'm not ashamed of being a Dem, but I am ashamed of the lack of leadership and partisanship in both parties. Partisanship can't and won't solve Jackson's problems. Maybe my election won't either, but I have fought battles that seemed much more lopsided than this one, and I believe our community is ready for somebody who has the energy and enthusiasm to work across the political aisle for positive change. This will be my only post on this, so let me put on my thick skin now while y'all fire away!

Good for you Dorsey. Bill Denny has claimed for years that "this will be my last term", but his cantankerous, grouchy, still in the 60's, non-visionary old ass runs time and again. God we need new blood.

Typical for you no name pussies. As is always the case, the man himself comes on and your embarrassed ass bravado dissappears. Fucking do nothing, are nothing jokes.

Issues? Dude this is Mississippi. The only issues that matter are banning race-mixing, giving fetuses the right to vote, and putting Jesus's picture on the 100 dollar bill.

GOD FORBID that Bill Minor ever write a column supporting me for dog catcher!

Good for you, Dorsey!

Way to give 'em hell Dorsey! Facts hurt don't they "good old boys"! Oh and for your info ...I am a defense attorney and a republican and will vote for Dorsey because he cares about the issues!

The blind hatred will tear down our system. White people on this blog hate democrats. Why? Lawyers. Ed and Barbara Blackmon drive $200,000 cars from fees from lawsuits....Shane and Rebecca are worth 100 million plus dollars....from silly lawsuits....Scruggs...Nutt....Minor....Sweet...Freis....Schwartz..and the list goes on from there.

White republican solution is tort reform....again. We still have lawyers post tort reform... Must need more!

White republican zealots will not stop until lawsuits are totally done away with...loser pays...more caps....

The only way to stop Shane and Rebecca is to put republicans in....

Good intentioned candidates get left aside.

Reason fails where hatred and jealousy loom so large.

Be very careful what you ask for because once you swing that hammer....there's no way to put this thing back together.....

Typical for you no name pussies. As is always the case, the man himself comes on and your embarrassed ass bravado dissappears. Fucking do nothing, are nothing jokes.

Says so anonymous.

I will not vote to raise taxes to fully fund MAEP. We don't have to.

Then tell us Mr. Budget how MAEP has only been fully funded TWICE in its history if it is so easy. Give us specifics not spin. Please, enlighten us Mr. Budget. Where would you find the money and which Peter would you rob to pay the bill? Great soundbites and all but zero specifics. Looked on your website for something, anything to validate your claim. Found ZILCH.

Thanks for playing.

Parents Campaign:
For Fiscal Year 2012, the MAEP appropriation is underfunded by $237,386,693. Assuming no more than 2% inflation, the formula would likely require about $2,365,180,600 for Fiscal Year 2014 (to be decided in the 2013 Legislative Session), about $392-million more than was appropriated for Fiscal Year 2012. Would you support getting to this full funding level in two legislative sessions?

Dorsey Carson:
I would support fully funding MAEP within two legislative sessions. Monetary support towards proven and promising educational strategies whether through reallocation or new funding must be considered.

Which Peter gets robbed, er, reallocated Carson? As for "new funding" I think most conservative voters understand that tax-and-spend Democrat-speak by now. But please share with us all your budgetary wizardry.

Hey Cecil, Dorsey calling. Ring, ring.

Bill Denny has claimed for years that "this will be my last term", but his cantankerous, grouchy, still in the 60's, non-visionary old ass runs time and again. God we need new blood.

Your ageism is so refreshing. No telling what other -isms form the bedrock of your belief system.

I think Mr. Carson is the only person that has posted something about an actual issue that needs to be addressed in order to help his district in the future.

What specifics did he provide Shaun? The "schoolhouse to jailhouse" meme is long in the tooth while JPS, for example, only delivers lower results with each budget increase. Give us something new and fresh because all we have is Democratic spin in Carson's only post and his website is equally bereft on details to substantiate his campaign sloganeering.

Facts hurt don't they "good old boys"!

C'mon, put up. Show us the facts.

Yeah, we don't like the blackmons because they have money. Maybe its because they are amoral thieves who plunder the taxpayers at every chance possible, whose word means nothing as evidenced by their votes for the Nissan plant, who oppose bills to save the lives of schoolchildren, who park in handicapped spots meant for the disabled but think they are above the rest of us, and whose names are quickly becoming synonymous with corruption. And just to make sure you know who he is, Ed has his name sewn on his cuffs so he doesn't have to trouble himself to give you a business card.

WOW!
This thread is very instructive if people can step back from their biases.
We start with Denny urging voters to elect " The FIRST Republican Speaker".
Minor uses that historical error to point out what he feels are Denny's short comings. So the escalation begins...
We get those who actually believe that name recall, friendliness and " coming by" are indications of actual interest in the voters and competency on the issues when they are really nothing more than political skills and tactics.
Then we get the continued joke that there are actually more than a handful of real " liberals" in MS , none of which hold office. Please find me ONE politician who has run on a pro-abortion,pro-gay rights,pro-tax platform and who didn't mention his church activities in his or her literature.
Then the ignorant weigh in who don't know that Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts is a member of The College of Trial Lawyers.
Trial Lawyers are those who appear in court and argue the case. It's personal injury/tort lawyers you are suppose to hate, but the political strategists knew you were too dumb to know the difference and decided just hating all lawyers would do.
Then we have to have the racial comments. " Seeing democrats on Old Canton Rd" and throwing in Black politicians that hardly anyone of good sense ( even of their own party) admires. Whatever are you folks going to do if Cain gets the GOP nomination? Is he your OJ?
I appreciate Carson coming to the site. You are living proof that Republicans and doctors don't hate lawyers when they need competent legal advice as many of your clients are GOP conservatives. That some of the bloggers missed your points entirely just speaks to the success of political strategists' these days in inflaming the passions and turning off the brains of the public. We've become a Nation of ill-informed dupes.
And, KF, I love you ,man. You do much good in informing the public but your personal dislikes for some...be it the Blackmons,Minor or Ladd... are more effective when you just slam them on facts . You really don't want to invite fashion/lifestyle choice critiques of conservatives you like.This would be like asking who is more ostentatiously grotesque, the Housewives of Beverly Hills or the Housewices of New Jersey!
These blogs discussions would be far more useful if we could focus on issues ,find solutions we hope would work and think how to restore accountability into the systems rather than talking about who or what we hate all the time!

What solutions did you just present?

Let me see, I referenced the school bus bill, the parking in handicapped spots, the nissan lawsuits, and the elections in Canton. Where did I not slame them on facts?

Ok, correction.....Dorsey is a personal injury lawyer

Here are some facts:

JPS Enrollment =
SY2005-2006 = 32,403 students
SY2011-2012 = 29,800 students
** Down -8.03% since 2005. **

JPS Budget =
SY2011-2012 = $205,409,919.00

JPS Graduation Rate =
SY2009-2010 = 68.8%
SY2010-2011 = 63.6%
** That is a DECREASE **

Now for comparison purposes the ENTIRE (... for Carson backers that means the whole thing ...) FY2011-2012 Appropriation for the Mississippi Department of Corrections is $331,737,289. So where does the money come from Carson? How much and from where do you plan to make your budget reallocations? (... which is a ruse... ) Give us specifics and not the same bullshit soundbites we've heard ad nauseam from the Democrats backing you in the House. (... any of your big talking backers are free to jump in here anytime to try and save your butt ...)

MAEP is an unworkable and inflexible formula that by design hardcodes budgetary growth regardless of national/state economic conditions, the ability of the tax base to shoulder the annual increases and with no consideration of any other statewide budgetary need or requirement. MAEP is a perfect example of broken legislation that operates in a vacuum and creates a budget busting unfunded mandate each and every fiscal year. (... and as an ardent Obama backer you probably think the idea of a hardwired and increasing budgetary requirement beyond the will of voters is a good thing ...)

In 2002 under a Democratic Governor and Democratic majorities in the House and Senate the PEER committee identified that the formula represents significant challenges because it doesn't account for school district inefficiencies nor produces an accountability mechanism for targeted spending at the school district level.

The formula is so unworkable it has only been fully funded twice and only once during Democrat Musgrove's four years of legislative Democratic majorities. Tell us why that is Carson? Because instead of demonstrating some intellectual curiosity and a desire to get to the bottom as to why the formula only produces annual funding shortfalls that we are always chasing you simply fall in line with your fully fund backers who, despite your protests otherwise, have repeatedly voiced full-throated enthusiasm for a general tax increase in this state.

Show us something beyond the overused societal ill tropes being recycled by your campaign about fatherless children and teenage pregnancies. MAEP makes for great political theater but the fully fund mantra your chanting is simply not based in reality.

I am surprised that Minor would highlight 1) just how far back and deep the Democrats bad treatment of black folks goes; and 2) that in the early days after emancipation, how the Black folks had joined the party they KNEW had been responsible for their emancipation (hint: it wasn't the Democrats).

PS - And who says Herman Cain is insulting black people when he suggests that some in the community are brainwashed?

10:06 "Ok, correction.....Dorsey is a personal injury lawyer"

Well you did get the terminology correct, but it's still a lie. As someone stated earlier, stop lying. Dorsey Carson is not a personal injury lawyer. Check out his firm, as well as his practice profile, at burr.com (and please spare me the 1 example out of 1000 cases he's handled where he represented an evil injured person).

If you are going to lie, at least come up with something that isn't so easily proven false. (Example: "Dorsey kicks his dog and hates Jesus." There's a good non-verifiable lie you can use. You're welcome.)

I can count on one hand the number of democrats I've voted for in my lifetime. But regardless of one's political persuasion, the lying needs to stop.

10:33 that is one of the best rebuttals I've read. This sentence could not be more spot on. "MAEP is a perfect example of broken legislation that operates in a vacuum and creates a budget busting unfunded mandate each and every fiscal year." MAEP doesn't work. Well intentioned honorable people serving our great state on both sides of the aisle care about children and public education. They want it to work but it doesn't. It didn't work in good times and is worse in bad. Fifteen years later it has become a wedge issue that one side won't acknowledge desperately needs reform because now they have an election season bludgeon and pathway to the political power of campaign contributions. Then there is Obamacare. If it isn't repealed we're facing another $125 million dollar minimum unfunded state spending requirement courtesy of the Federal government. Those aren't my numbers. That is DFA's forecast of new mandatory average yearly spending every year to 2020. Where is that money coming from? Where are we going to find another $500 million or more in FY2014 to fully fund education and pay for Obamacare? Its not going to happen and a tax increase big enough to cover would fatally cripple our struggling economy. Education or health care. If MAEP isn't reformed we can't do one. We will never be able to afford both.

Good Lord. Your house gets ripped off twice. Perps weren't caught. But somehow you know the thieves were teenage children of dropout teenagers. Sorry Dorsey but association is not causation. You'd have to be a contortionist to make that stretch.

#1 Dorsey Carson is a douchebag Democrat. Know how I knew he was a Democrat when I met him? Because his push card had NO REFERENCE to his party affiliation. That's the sign of a Democrat in the South.

#2 Know what's funny about Bill Minor? His corrupt, judge-bribing lawyer of a son is ROTTING IN EFFING JAIL!

Nothing will change that, Bill. You can inveigh against conservatives all you want and raise the spectre of Jim Crow.

But you're a bitter liberal Democrat and your liberal Democrat son is rotting in jail.

Choke on it, Minor. Is it yummy?

Dorsey:

Why is partisanship a bad thing? You're proud of being a Democrat; you must be proud of the election of Tyrone Lewis, right?

Surely you're proud of the way the Democrat Party in the South has abdictated its power to the NAACP?

And Dorsey: Why, if you're proud to be a Democrat, did you not put your party affiliation on your push card? When my girlfriend and I met you last summer -- you gave her your card -- she said, "What party is he in?"

"It doesn't say on the card," I asked?

"No."

"Then," I said, "He's a Democrat."

"How do you know?"

"The only white people ashamed of their party are Democrats," I said.

Because it's true.

Your party became full-socialist 25 years ago. That makes you a socialist, Darcy.

Marshand Crisler has signs east of I55 in Jackson and other areas where conservatives live that say nothing of party affiliation. He also has some large signs west of I55 in Jackson with 'DEMOCRAT' blazoned in capital letters across the top. After being the darling of Republicans when running for Mayor against Harvey Johnson he must have confused the Democrats in Jackson about his loyalties.

J.Kev the word Democrat is not to be found on 5 of the 6 pages @ Carson campaign website. Funny too how he bathes his campaign in the color red. Another cynical Democrat who thinks he can fool the people.

Yes Denny is the bell cow of a one man "Party of NO".

What is Strom Denny going to do? Reintroduce his brainchild legislation known as "The Can You Hear Me Now Act," eliminating the sales tax on hearing aids? That is an actual bill Strom Denny wrote. Rearranging deck chairs.

Or my favorite the 10th Amendment Sovereignty Commission Act to investigate the US Congress. Another actual bill he introduced.

Strom Denny wastes much time writing bills commemorating more people than Kenny stokes.

Strom Denny. Useless old fool.

So you are the meat behind the Carson campaign? LMAO

White Democrats are Marxists.

Dorsy Carson is a white Democrat.

Dorsy Carson is a Marxist.

Anything else?

New Rule .... write if you actually have a degree ....that would help. Eduation is key and some of these folks might not have made it past high school. Knowledge is key people!

Dorsey above tilts at a number of windmills that nobody here has brought up.

Shaun the only cowboy I see here with a big ass burr in their saddle about tort reform looks to be you.

Kevin Broughton is a flagrant racist.

Kevin Broughton would rather black people not exist.

Kevin Broughton is a Republican.

Ergo all Republicans are racists who would rather see black people not exist.

Anything else?

The hypothetical teens that Dorsey thinks broke into his house -- but doesn't know -- weren't caught.

Per Dorsey taxes go up to pay for incarcerating teens that are caught.

Therefore Dorsey's premise that the hypothetical teens that weren't caught breaking into his house increase taxes is a straw man fallacy.

Thus Dorsey is grasping at straws by making up shit.

Yes Denny is the bell cow of a one man "Party of NO".

10:04 I didn't present solutions as this thread isn't about anything other than a Minor/Denny cat fight and I'm not running for office.

But, yeah, I can come up with lots of solutions for issues I've studied. And, I'll piss off both sides of the aisle. Where you want to start?

Let me see....

no to beef plants. No to spending the entire rainy day fund in one year. No to raising retirement benefits when we don't have a permanent way of paying for them. No to using revenue projections of 3.5% growth in the middle of a recession. No to blowing through the tobacco trust fund. I can think of plenty of things to say no to.

Knock yourself out 10:27. Give the rest of us ill-informed dupes your best EllaF.

the difference between a republican bell cow and a democrat one is the republican cow will actually produce something while the democrat bell cow will eat and eat and eat then complain that it can't produce milk because it hasn't yet been given enough to eat!

What has Bill Denny produced other than a ton of empty-headed bills that died in committee? Go read the garbage he introduces over-and-over again. Denny is the Republican version of Erik Fleming.

In all the dogging of Dorsey Carson, there is one thing conspicuously absent: any discussion of what Bill Denny has accomplished or intends to accomplish.

Someone please let us know what Octo-Rep intends to get done in his twilight term.

Why don't you provide us with some links 1:30 to any Republican introduced legislation by any Republican legislator that saw the light of day under the control freak McCoy regime of the last 8 years.

" teenagers breaking into our home (twice)
and stealing our stuff. "

Well, ...as a native Jacksonian who had enough
common sense to get out before I was also a victim
of the teenage thugs, I question the cognative
reasoning of anyone that remained in Jack Town
after the first break-in. Much less two home
buglaries.

Thank's for sharing .

This liberal goofy ass "white Guilt"
doctrine stinks more than McCoy's beef plant .

Donation now goes to Bill Denny.

Dorsey - come on over to the republican party. The democrats in this state will never let you make a difference. You are a bright guy that could make a difference with a couple of change along the way, including party affiliation. A lot of what you talk about appeals to the Repubs, and they would back you. In the Democratic party in Mississippi, your only hope is to try to broke deals across the aisle and those opportunities will be few and far between. You are holding yourself back by trying to be a Democrat. The democratic party in this state is simply not much of a viable option for anyone who is fiscally and morally responsible.

Dorsey - come on over to the republican party.

That would be the only way you would ever get my vote.

9:08 PM and 7:43 AM...I wish there was a "like" button on this site....thats the wisest advice I've seen given in some time. Thanks.

6:07 It's "cognitive",

People with guts stay to fight and win. They don't tuck tail and run.

It use to be the American way to stand strong. We WERE a people who fought Indians , foreign troops, marauders and even each other to protect our homes and communities.

But, you...

You're afraid of teenagers and I guess black people? Geez...I hope this country is never invaded by oh..Somalia. With guys like you, we'd just hand them the keys to the city!

Should the next Speaker of the Mississippi House be a Democrat;

Should voters in House District #64 lose their minds and elect Dorsey Carson;

Should a vote to increase taxes come up on the House floor;

Should the whip count be tight and should the Democrat Speaker need Representative Dorsey Carson's vote;

Dorsey Carson will vote YES to increase taxes;

No matter how loud and long he argues otherwise in this campaign;

Dorsey Carson will carry a tax increase for House Democrats if asked to do so;

A vote for Dorsey Carson is a vote that will support legislation in the Mississippi House to increase taxes;

Every time. Guaranteed.

ALL THE PROOF YOU NEED OF A DEMOCRAT WHO DUPED AND HOODWINKED A CONSERVATIVE DISTRICT INTO ELECTING THEM BUT ONCE IN THE HOUSE BECAME ONE OF THE MOST PARTISAN DEMOCRATS IN THAT BODY AND VOTED LOCK, STOCK AND BARREL WITH MCCOY AND THE DEMOCRATS EACH AND EVERY TIME.

THAT PERSON IS BRANDON JONES.

Don't make the same mistake by voting for the fake conservative Democrat Dorsey Carson. Don't make the same mistake.

Asking Dorsey to come to the Republican party is silly and pointless. He isn't a conservative that is on the fence.....he is a LIBERAL DEMOCRAT.