Jackson Jambalaya

... lawmakers were able to keep the state from a financial deficit because of $32 million that the attorney general’s office brought them from various lawsuit settlements.

Factually incorrect.

Can’t wait to vote for this guy. Will be my first d pull in 20 years of voting.

Whew! Thank goodness that Jim "I Only Work From Chickasaw County" Hood was there to deliver $32 million to the state's coffers.

It's unbelievable (literally) that Hood and these $32 million in settlements were the only things standing between a balanced $6.5 billion state budget and a deficit.

How's the weather in Houston (MS) today, Jim?

Gotdamn, Jim. Were you drunk when you approved this press release? Having providers responsible for cutting checks to themselves is hardly the answer to reining in Medicaid costs. Never mind the fact that those providers are paying some out of state company to handle the operations. I hope that campaign contribution from MS Hospital Association was worth it.

I think a dough boy is about to learn there are some things money can’t buy. Hood 2019.

“The Senate successfully killed a proposal that would have allowed our own in-state hospitals to compete with the three managed care companies for the $3 billion Medicaid contracts.” In state hospitals already did compete— and lost. Mr. Hood, your attorneys at Medicaid oversaw that competition process— or are you not aware of what your attorneys do in Jackson way off in your satellite office?

9:14 am
Subtract 321 million in revenues Feb of 2017 from 317 million in revenues Feb 2018. Looks to me that our revenues are down. I get -4 million. On Feb 21, the AG's office sent 3.9 million of the $32 to the state coffers which, when not rounding off the numbers, just does cover the short fall.

Of course, with your spin attempt to dismiss the value of 32 million in revenue by objecting , you, as expected, ignored the other points made.

I know the budget is presented in such a way as to make relevant comparisons clear. You can be excused if you plead ignorance and will object to the lack of clarity in the way citizens are given budget information. Or did you know and are part of the problem?

Me too 9:20. The only Democrat I have voted for in 42 years of voting is Malcolm. That will change this next election, should Jim Hood run against Tate Reeves.

So, the press permits him to allege, unchallenged, that campaign contributions dictated policy. And they don't ever ask any questions about the established practice he has of handing out easily settled state tort cases to his campaign contributors AND him using said contributions to fund his personal expenses. Give lots of ink to the unsubstantiated allegation. Look over the factual corruption.

Hood won't be able to run away from the national Democratic Party and their new defacto Marxist gun confiscation teen media whiner David Hogg. Lottery will get passed next session as will legislation to fix infrastructure. People in Mississippi don't give a shit about Kansas, Louisiana, West Virginia nor, outside of a few square miles, Fondren. Hood's shakedown of Entergy doesn't register nor do the "I'm-voting-for-Hood-this-time" JJ trolls.

One thing to run for AG, quite another to run for Governor.

@10:14 your hackneyed napkin analysis doesn't support Hood's boast of keeping the state "from a financial deficit". You can be excused for having fallen for Hood's dupe.

Electing Hood would just about finish off Mississippi.Take dumb over liberal anytime.

Isn't Hood the one who refused to prosecute crooked trial attorneys be ause they were his friends? Has he ever prosecuted crooked politicians?

They're all a bunch of spineless marshmallows. But Hood is a far better choice for Governor than Reeves, who is a spineless, gutless, brainless puppet of Haley Barbour.

10:43 pm Do share with us your facts to prove me wrong. A three year old can engage in making weak insults.
You are ignoring the timeline. The first money arrived last month. It applies to current budgeting, not last years.