Jackson Jambalaya

Glad to hear the MS Treasury is thus enriched by her mental block. Now if someone can just remove her from the Senate.

This woman is a total idiot. Who in their right mind would wait so long to pay 500 bucks and risk all the negative publicity?

I guess we'll find out where the $500 came from once she late files her next mandatory contribution report.

Why is Kingfish on this woman's ass? Big deal. Just goes to show, after all, Kingfish is in Cochran's pocket, deep and solid.

Damn 9:42. Its KF's fault that a State Senator did not feel she had to follow the state law that the other 171 legislators all followed? How is it Cochran's issue that Melanie did not follow the law? Same way that it was Cochran's fault that three folks broke into the Hinds County Courthouse? Of into a nursing home? Melanie herself, on her on accord decided that she didn't want to comply with the finance reporting requirements. Melanie herself, on her on accord, decided not to file it late, even after receiving multiple notices that she had not complied.

Now it's KF's fault that it is reported that this state lawmaker decided to finally comply. Damn - you must be an Obama supporter. Everything you don't like is somebody else's fault.

... that a State Senator did not feel she had to follow the state law that the other 171 legislators all followed?

Actually nimrod Sojourner has followed the state law. She paid the fine.

Try to keep up 12:38. None of your garbled post makes sense. The point is, KF will (and has) do anything to jump this woman's case. Been that way since way back during Nursing-Home-Gate. She's a non-issue and always was. Just another way for KF to punch anybody remotely associated with Cochran's opponent.

Blast from KF in 3..2..1..

6:31, odd comment to imply that Sojourner was only remotely associated with McDaniel since she was his campaign manager. And yes, her conduct as a state senator and lack of compliance with state law is newsworthy. Saying she complied with the law because she paid a fine is like saying someone complied with the law when he paid a speeding ticket. Sort of a peculiar way of looking at it. One pays a fine because one violated the law in the first place. She violated the law, acted like no one else complied with the law (a lie), makes lame excuses, and finally pays a fine so she can get her state paycheck. And you don't think that kind of behavior by a public official is worthy of notice. Says a lot about you, don't you think?

12:38 is right. 6:31, 9:42 and probably 6:22 are just posting distractions to divert attention away from her failure to follow the rules everyone else is expected to follow.

MS dodged a bullet after that Republican primary. We could have ended up being represented by a fool like Akins or Christine O'Donnell, or Childers. Fortunately, once people realized that was a distinct possibility sensible people mobilized themselves to vote in the runoff.

I hope the good people of Natchez are embarrassed enough by this clownette to vote her out of office when they get the chance in 2015. Reelecting her would be inexcusable.

... to divert attention away from her failure to follow the rules everyone else is expected to follow.

She followed the rules. She paid the fine.

I would have paid if she had come to my house and asked for it!!!!

Get a clue, 11:37. Obviously you are one of the zealots that think you only have to follow the rules that 'you like' while ignoring the rest.

The "rule" is that an elected official has to file their campaign finance report by January 31 of each non-election year. Despite your repeated claim to the opposite, she did not do that. Said in simple terms for you - she did not follow the rules. She did not follow the law. Thus, she was fined.

Glad she finally decided to pay the fine - something she also did not do timely.

I think 2:38 is hot for Melanie.

Fallacy Alert. Fallacy Alert. None of this means jack shit and diverts attention away from Barbour's puppettering of Cochran. You slugs, including the blog admin, are solidly in the pocket of these rich thugs and may not even know it.

Maybe this is the final nail in the coffin for those tea party Hicks. Thank God the Democrats helped us elect Thad Cochran.

Cochran's clear mind, famous work ethic, and youthful energy will surely stop the President's ilegal immigrant amnesty decree and unlawful implementation of ObamaCare.

I support 9:51's post for Hoot Of The Month. Cochran's clear mind? It took six axe handles and a Sears wrench to get the man to appear at the tail end of his election. He had to be led onto the stage.

Famous work ethic? You're more right than you know. He's famously famous for dodging and darting and coming down either neutral or to the left of conservative on most of his votes.

He'll stop the president's illegal amnesty? Where has he been on this issue for the past twenty years? The past ten? Last month? I'll tell you....nowhere. He crosses the aisle on these issues more often than dead folks cross over Jordan.

Bless your hearts. This is "news", whether you like it or not. I do think less of a senator if they are given every opportunity in the world to do their job, and they only come up with an excuse. You people excusing her are even worse. That's laziness and incompetence.

She deserved every bit of her penalty and I'm glad to hear she paid it, even if it was late (which does not go un-noted). No excuses.

(From someone that is female and does not profit one bit from Cochran being our Senator. That "excuse" is just laughable; some of you will try anything to deflect proper responsibility, which says it all.)

There's nothing the least bit conservative about an elected official thinking he or she is above the law, that the rules don't apply to them and they can abide by regulations at their own discretion and on their own timetable.

If anyone of us were to take our sweet time providing paperwork required by our government and/or paying fines for failure to comply, we'd get nailed for it.

But I admit it *is* pretty funny that the campaign manager for a candidate who claimed their imaginary regulations for a whites only Republican primary weren't strictly followed to the letter of their imaginary law is so loosey-goosey about following regulations which are *not* imaginary.