Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Canton heats up today.

The action today is at Canton City Hall. The Clarion-Ledger reports:

"Whether Don Bates wins the Ward 2 alderman seat or meets Edward Thompson in a runoff March 27 will be settled when affidavit votes are counted today.

Three votes going Bates' way will bring him victory. To avoid a runoff, the top candidate must garner a majority of more than half the votes.

Bates was the top vote-getter with 271 after absentee votes were counted Tuesday night. Thompson garnered 102 votes after the unofficial tallies.

Others in the race were Johnny Lee Burse Jr. with 23 votes; Cal Bland Sr. with 10, and Natwassie Truly with 63.

Elections commission chairman Johnnie Rogers said the 78 affidavit ballots will be counted and certified this morning at Canton City Hall..." Article

Now for the rest of the story. Mr. Bates is the only white candidate in the race. It being Canton, Mayor Truly turned City Hall into a circus yesterday. He had Bates thrown out of City Hall. The District Attorney sent an investigator and the Secretary of State sent an employee to observe in the middle of the afternoon. The Attorney General sent a SID employee as well. Several sources said people who were not poll-workers and not caucasian were going through the poll books, writing down names, taking them out to the parking lot, and handing them off to people who would then leave. Its a pretty good guess they were not working for the Bates campaign.

Then there was the field trip from Canton Manor. Several sources said "care-givers" were bringing folks over from the nursing home who were clearly not in their right minds. The "care-givers" would vote for them, oops I meant assist them. What will be interesting today is the counting of the affidavit ballots. "Well you see, I now live here but I ussssssed to live over there". Yeah. The Mayor's wife needs to gain over forty votes to get into the runoff. This will be fun.

Posted by Kingfish at 8:42 AM

18 comments:

Anonymous said...

We're not supposed to ask questions and we don't need none of that voter ID stuff either...

March 14, 2012 at 9:31 AM
bob mc alister said...

yeah...no ID ...just like the good ol days , cept the tables are turned. Life truly works in cycles. Good ol Mississippi pollitics..

March 14, 2012 at 9:59 AM
Anonymous said...

I think the population of Canton has come to realize that the town will not survive under the guidance of Richard Truly and his band of thugs. I also think Ed and Barbra Blackmon may be coming to grips with the same thing. Now that Ed does not have the amout of power he once had as representative he can no longer throw his weight around like hes been accustomed to.

March 14, 2012 at 12:20 PM
Ironghost said...

Voter ID won't help Canton. It's really too far gone to help.

March 14, 2012 at 12:25 PM
Anonymous said...

This is unbelievable. My mouth fell open at the running outside with names part. Then I got to the care giver votes. Just blows my mind. Hope SoS does something about this and hope its not just a press relesae. He should prosecute anyone found doing this kind of stuff.

March 14, 2012 at 1:12 PM
Anonymous said...

The New Black Panthers come to Canton!!

March 14, 2012 at 2:41 PM
Shadowfax said...

What has Dilbert/Delbert/Dogbert ever really done but issue press releases and appear on Gallo?

March 14, 2012 at 5:32 PM
Micah Gober said...

Life in Canton is drinking Malt Liquor, and waiting on the gov'ment check. Yo Yo Yo hommie Yo....pop a cap in someones azz...Hey..Hey...Hey...

March 14, 2012 at 5:44 PM
Anonymous said...

As a business owner on the square, it is frustrating to see my property value keep going down. So many of us thought Nissan was going to be the golden goose for Canton. Its amazing how bad truly et al screwed up this gift. One would have to try really hard to screw up something as good as nissan could have been.

March 14, 2012 at 6:00 PM
Shadowfax said...

That's a pretty broad generalization Mr. Gober. Not everyone in Canton is cut out of that cloth. Many are, agreed, but not all.

March 14, 2012 at 6:32 PM
Anonymous said...

Absolutely no mention of this on WLBT 5 o'clock news. Almost as bad as Clarion-Ledger. IMHO, it should have been the lead story.

March 14, 2012 at 6:35 PM
Anonymous said...

Shadowfoxes - Delbert is very good at making campaign commercials under the guise of public service announcements. You forgot this.

March 14, 2012 at 8:23 PM
Micah Gober said...

I know Shadowfax, I use to live in Canton, but the shooting, and stuff being stolen force my family to move to Madison in 1996. I still have other family members, and friends up there. I know they are upset with the city.

March 14, 2012 at 8:32 PM
Anonymous said...

Who would bring this bs to light if there was no kingfish or Kim wade... All hail

March 14, 2012 at 9:01 PM
KaptKangaroo said...

Where the hell is Pelosi's daughter when we need her? She is right, we are backwards down here in Mississippi. Lulz.

March 14, 2012 at 9:30 PM
Anonymous said...

Kingfish, please stand on this in canton, i would hate to see this die down and them then get away this

March 15, 2012 at 11:04 AM
Anonymous said...

Still smiling in Rankin, and just think yah are worried about Pearl?

March 15, 2012 at 5:43 PM
Anonymous said...

A Big TEN -FOUR 5:43 .

Give me a single wide ( with year round Christmas lights ) in the middle of Pearl any day over Canton.

March 15, 2012 at 8:08 PM

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