In the year of the Mayoralship of Charles Tillman (I)
Didn't see this one coming. Dilday, Precious, and Brand busted and all of them pointing their fingers at each other. I would be lying if I said I didn't find this quite amusing. Everyone knows about the attack ads levied at Yarber. Chokwe Octavian Augustus Lumumba (I went ahead and Caesarized him) denounced the ads. The Clarion-Ledger suffered from an outbreak of serious reporting:
The Jackson mayoral campaign turned ugly over the weekend with a series of negative ads against one candidate running under the name of a political action committee that, as of Monday afternoon, doesn’t exist on paper.
The PAC, Citizens for Decency, has not filed organizational papers with the city clerk’s office, a requirement under state law for any organization that spends or collects more than $200 for the purpose of campaigning.
The PAC has been running ads on television and radio calling attention to City Councilman Tony Yarber’s comments about how girls take selfies at night clubs. The ads also have been used for fliers left on countless windshields across the city over the weekend.
Opponent Chokwe Antar Lumumba, son of the late mayor, has denied any involvement in the negative ads, pointing back to the pledge he and Yarber both reaffirmed on April 9 to abstain from negative campaigning during the course of the election.
“I understand a cease and desist letter has already been provided to all media outlets,” Lumumba said in a Facebook post on Saturday. “I urge all media outlets to honor that request and cease all viewing of this advertisement.
“This ad and ads like it are not only deplorable and disrespectful, but they cause division and dissension among voters.”
William Dilday, owner of Kerimax Communications, confirmed his advertising agency was the one that placed the ads on television and radio.
Dilday said he was contacted by Jackson attorney Precious Martin about placing the ads.
Martin answered his phone on Monday but said he couldn’t speak at the time because he was in court.
As of press time, he had not returned the phone call.
“I want to make a point,” said Dilday. “My placing those ads is the same thing the people are doing who are placing ads for (Sen.) Thad Cochran and Chris McDaniel,” he added, referring to the current Senate campaign that has included several rounds of attack ads.
The municipal election requires any individual or political action group to file appropriate paperwork with the Jackson city clerk’s office 10 days after receiving or spending funds totaling $200 or more.
Mississippi law states failing to do so is a misdemeanor and can result in a fine up to $3,000 and up to six months in jail. Rest of article
It was William Dilday who admitted on this website he posted the "Rankin County Republican" ads last year that attacked Jonothan Lee:
I resent you linking my name with the people who put out these attack papers. I own an advertising agency, Kerimax Communications, LLC. Due to my long media buying experience I was hired to place the "Rankin County Republicans" commercials. I had NOTHING to do with the creation or content of the commercials. To blame me for the content of the commercials is to blame the messenger. I am sure the commercials for and against Thad Cochran and Chris McDaniel were placed by advertising agencies who probably had no input in the creation and content of the commercials. There is no difference between what these agencies are doing and what I did last year. We all are business people providing a service to a client.
Told you guys all along Precious Martin was involved. However, there is just one problem. The paperwork at WLBT for the ad placement has another name on it.
Well, that set off a round of serious reporting at the Jackson Free Press as Donna Ladd emerged from emeritus status and published a pretty good story on these campaign hijinks:
Then, on Saturday, William Dilday told the Jackson Free Press that he is the middleman who facilitated placement of a controversial anti-Tony Yarber mayoral campaign ad that started running on local television stations yesterday—without the knowledge of Yarber's opponent, Chokwe Antar Lumumba.
Dilday, a long-time Jackson television executive, is now owner of Kerimax Communications LLC. He told the Jackson Free Press Saturday that attorney Precious Martin came to him with the campaign ad on behalf of a political PAC called Citizens for Decency, which Dilday said is chaired by political operative Greg Brand.
Reached by phone, Greg Brand flatly denied any involvement either with Citizens for Decency or the video. "I have no idea whatsoever why Mr. Dilday would say that. ... No, I don't work with Precious. I haven't seen Precious in years," Brand said.
Brand added that he supported Regina Quinn in last year's mayoral election and voted for a different candidate earlier this month but plans to vote for Lumumba in next week's runoff. Brand, whose name has been associated with negative campaigning in the past, said that he told journalist Bill Minor one time, "I'll be dead and buried, and they'll still throw my name around."
Reached a second time, Dilday seemed puzzled by Brand's denial and reiterated what he said in the first interview Saturday: that he dealt directly with attorney Precious Martin, not Brand, but was told it was "Greg Brand's group" behind the ads. "I was hired to buy time for the company that produced the ad," Dilday said in the first Saturday interview with the Jackson Free Press. "I placed it on all four TV stations (WLBT, WAPT, WJTV and WBBD/FOX) and on Comcast." He confirmed that the TV ad was tagged "Paid for by Citizens for Decency."
A phone message left at Martin's office Saturday and again today for comment has not yet been returned. Link to story
Ms. Ladd, take it from me, Precious will probably not return your phone call. The problem in this story is.... who does one believe? Dilday? Precious? Brand? That is the question. What is interesting is how the ads ran on tv all last night despite Mr. Lumumba's urging this group to stop running these ads. That brings up one question: What kind of control does Mr. Lumumba have over his supporters? Will his supporters go rogue in the future? A question worth asking.
It would have been nice if Ms. Ladd asked these players if any of them had anything to do with the Klan flyers that were distributed in the District 2 Supervisor race last fall. There is one thing all of these ads and dirty flyers have in common: They are all aimed at the opponents of whoever Bennie or Precious supports. No one is accusing them of guilt by association but it is an interesting coincidence.
It also gives one a hint of what their polls probably show.
23 comments:
There is no reason for Precious to return her call. She's a nobody with a narrow teeny tiny readership. Precious and Bennie could give a shit what Donna Ladd thinks or writes. She can stomp her feet and have all the tantrums she likes but she can't move the needle. That's all that matters.
I hope you are right about this being a reaction to bad polling for their candidate.
I wonder if the Secretary of State can do anything about this? I would hope that failing to file the PAC paperwork would mean they can be busted for something, either criminally or administratively. I would really like to see people called out who do this kind of thing, whichever side it is on.
I agree this portends how easily Jr. would be pushed around by his handlers.
ROFLMAO
Donner still hasn't figured it out.
In the grand scheme of Jackustan politics DonnerKay, you are a knat.
Dilday? Precious? Brand?
Sounds like it could be one of those late night sex ads.....
{girl in a very sexy voice}
"What is the Brand of your Precious Dilday?"
Guess you good folks trust Jr at his word. If he's a real politician, then he's talking out of both sides of his mouth. Telling the media one thing and his handlers another.
Octavian bagged too many appearances opting instead to send his Pop's executive secretary to campaign on his behalf. He's not all-in on the effort and that should give everyone pause about who will exactly be running the show should he win. Some may find Yarber crude but with Yarber Jackson won't run the risk of having the Mayor pushed around by a bunch of Kush ideologues who have already screwed up elsewhere. The "People's Assembly" is nothing but a smokescreen to place a group of lunatic thugs Chokwe stupidly hired, not all that different than our locally produced psychos like Kenneth Stokes, Robert Graham and David Archie, in charge of the levers of Jackson's government.
When Chokwe was alive he was the big dog. Anyone who believes these Republic of New Afrika kooks are now going to follow Chokwe's young pup are naive fools.
She did her job on asking those questions. I seriously doubt they will return any more phone calls from any reporter.
Junior wins
run fast and hard til you can not run any more
Neither one of you all know him personally including Kingfish so you can't say if he will be pushed around or not. Now what I do know is Kingfish is Yarber's "BOY" and it is funny how he posted CAL negativity but didn't post anything negative on Yarber. How was it possible that Yarber donated 20K to his campaign but didn't pay his property taxes until April 16th. Be Honest with yourselves
"What is the Brand of your Precious Dilday?"
FTW
"knat"? JPS?
KF, refresh memory on Greg Brand, please. And the POB on that WLBT form is the mailing address for Kerimax.
FWIW, here's a link to a document with what appears to be Greg Brand's actual signature - which looks nothing like the handwriting on the document you posted. Maybe you can post them side by side (after confirming this is the same Greg Brand).
https://business.sos.state.ms.us/imaging/26479604.pdf
Don't tell my kids about this or I'm sure they'll tease and I know how that'll end up
@ 4:15 - good catch on the P.O. box belonging to Dildo's company. Here's another link to a document from the Secretary of State, this one signed by Dildo himself. Note the similarity in the way Dildo prints the letter "a" to the letter "a" in the "Brand." Not that I'm an expert in this stuff. I just don't know anyone who prints the letter "a" like that. Just a weird coincidence, I'm sure.
https://business.sos.state.ms.us/imaging/26692135.pdf
No doubt about it. That is Dilday's writing on the WLBT form.
I am still chuckling about 2:04's comment. Best laugh of the day.
FWIW I got a robocall at home (in Madison, not Jackson) at 3:00 pm today from "Citizens for Decency".
For the first time in quite some time the City of Jackson told Bennie, Stokes, and Precious to shut the eff up. Maybe, just maybe, the people are finally wondering why every single one of the promises these "leaders" have given them have come up empty. Regardless of how Tony Yarber ends up being as Mayor, its a good start when the people helping to hold the Capitol city back are told to take a seat.
We have a duly elected mayor again and not campaigns. It is now time for work. Let's give The Mayor a chance (3 years) and vote again on his abilities and accomplishments. The bills being stuck under wipers at McDades along with the insulting TV ads Lumumba ran were low and appealed to fools. The Lumumba 1 supporters did not vote. They did not care as long as the new mayor was black. And Precious et al, you know what you did and it is criminal. Stick your heads in the Pearl River or Justice will see your kind with the Minors of this state.
Hold On! Don't count your eggs jess yet. Gangstas don't give up this easily. They is more funeralizin' to come.
Poor M.A.S.E.-C.W.A. local 3057 franchise owner Brenda Scott (no not one of the sistah's) will not get that city job lil anturd promised. You think Yarbor will let her take $$$$ from the 94 employees she still has fooled?
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